let's have an international poll

[danofarlington]

I would be interested to know which countries are most represented by the Lounge. As one of the newer Lounge lizards, I don't have a clear idea. Matter of fact I was surprised to see any international people at all, thinking that nouveau hat-wearing (I mean hat wearing post-1960s) was an American thing. I was surprised to see so much response from Australia, Germany and the U.K. Without seeing any results, my impression is that the #1 nationality behind the U.S. is Australia, followed by Britain, followed by Germany. I know there's a fellow in Mexico. I'm sure there are a lot of Canadians, but I don't think of Canada so much as a foreign country, what they're into we're also into; I sort of think of us as North America.

So if one of the survey-skilled people at the Lounge is so inclined and find it easy to set it up, I would be interested to know where the Lounge visitors live.

 

[Lokar]

An interactive Google Maps map was created quite some time ago:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...d=112730026076173716984.0004627311e901613b31e


It's probably a bit out of date, but it puts 3 Australians, 6 Brits and an astounding amount of Americans. Obviously we have more than 3 Australians (and more than 6 Brits), but I think it's right proportionally - mostly Americans, followed by Brits, followed by the rest of Europe, Australia, South America, and Asia.

I think there's also a very different proportion for the ladies - there seem to be more Europeans in the Ladies' part of the lounge.

 

[danofarlington]

An interactive Google Maps map was created quite some time ago:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...d=112730026076173716984.0004627311e901613b31e


It's probably a bit out of date, but it puts 3 Australians, 6 Brits and an astounding amount of Americans. Obviously we have more than 3 Australians (and more than 6 Brits), but I think it's right proportionally - mostly Americans, followed by Brits, followed by the rest of Europe, Australia, South America, and Asia.

I think there's also a very different proportion for the ladies - there seem to be more Europeans in the Ladies' part of the lounge.

Thanks, that answers my main question. I might have known something already existed. I think the Lounge ought to track that more regularly though--my impression is that we might have had many Australians and Brits.

What the international dispersion reveals is the extent of the spread of the fedora style elsewhere. When I traveled in Latin America, other than Western hats in Central America and bowler type hats worn by Indian people in South America, fedoras were not used, were viewed as old-fashioned; if any modern hats at all were there it would be new MTV type models. I can't say about Europe, but apart from Germany and the U.K., evidenced by this site, I would guess there's not much. What about the French and Italians? Do they wear hats? At Ground Zero of Borsalino country, I wonder if men buy the fedoras anymore. Maybe the style contagion will spread in that direction instead of vice versa, as in the past. I know Japanese people have always been into hats and are rather more daring in that regard.

 

[Nick D]

Canada seems quite well represented as well.

 

[Creeping Past]

There's people with a sense of style all over the place...USA ain't the world.

 

[Michaelshane]

There's people with a sense of style all over the place...USA ain't the world.

It's not.????

 

[Creeping Past]

It's not.????

Well, of course it is in so many ways... but still...

 

[dhermann1]

And here I thought New York was the world.

 

[Tiller]

And here I thought New York was the world.

God I hope not! We are in bad shape as it is, is was hoping their was some place to escape to.

 

[chippy]

There's people with a sense of style all over the place...USA ain't the world.

but they have the world series baseball and someone from the USA always wins it too!!

 

[danofarlington]

There's people with a sense of style all over the place...USA ain't the world.

I know, but what interests me is what their sense of style results in--what they want to wear, what they think is a good style, and whether the hat thing fits into that. So far I don't have information about it. I suspect it's not big elsewhere, so am assuming more interest here in the U.S. But, I would like to get reports from other places on that score. Maybe it is big in Europe and Australia. Someone can throw me opinions about that.

 

[LaMedicine]

I suspect it's not big elsewhere, so am assuming more interest here in the U.S.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=48580 lol lol lol
The following is a few years old, but the last post is fairly recent
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=16415

 

[zetwal]

We have almost 14.000 Lounger members. Obviously, they are not all active users.

Maybe the Site Administrators could give us a rough but accurate accounting of membership nationality?

 

[Wolfwood]

How does one add one's location into that google map?

 

[scotrace]

We do watch this stuff.

We have members in all of the British Isles, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland (and all over Eastern an Western Europe). South America (Brazil, Portugal), Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Iraq, Egypt, Canada (of course), Mexico, The Philippines...

It's one of the major things that makes The Fedora Lounge so great. And it adds immeasurably to the discussion.

 

[fenris]

We do watch this stuff.

We have members in all of the British Isles, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland (and all over Eastern an Western Europe). South America (Brazil, Portugal), Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Iraq, Egypt, Canada (of course), Mexico, The Philippines...

It's one of the major things that makes The Fedora Lounge so great. And it adds immeasurably to the discussion.

So far, I think there are two of us here in the Philippines.

 

[HungaryTom]

Google insight for searches: Fedora Lounge

This provides a 100% realistic estimate. Based upon actual google searches where IP adresses (geographic locations fromall over the world) are measurable.
If you look for searches for Fedora Lounge as keywords ad select the globe as loaction you will see that is the USA followed remotely by the UK are the first and foremost.
You can narrow the search according to regions in your continent or inside the US or UK.
This might generate another threads as to which federal state is the most loyal to FL, etc.
Which is normal: a US originated English speaking forum is mostly frequneted by the founder nation and the other nation which is separated by the Atlantic and the barrier of the common language... plus a couple of anglomaniacs and anglophiles worldwide.
You will also see that the number of searches is steadily growing since 2004 (the date whereinafter this google sampling is available). This makes it plausible why there are regular server downtimes due to the glitch in the growth (pls. don't complain - rather be happy it is a good sign. )
The reason for this popularity is obvious, read the posts, their tone, their content.The initial POSITIVE idea and opennes and the way things are handled here, have made the lounge quickly outgrow the limited friends circle which it used to be initially. Now this growth is visible and we are all happy.

Cheers:

HungaryTom

 

[150719541]

I have seen some mexicans in the lounge, although few, It does not mean like in our country a great amount are using hats. ¡¡¡

 

[MisterCairo]

Canadian born and bred, British citizenship as well. Do I count twice????!!!

 

[Tomasso]

Do I count twice????!!!

Nope, unfortunately they offset each other and therefore you don't count at all.....sorry......[huh]