Would an Akubra Campdraft work in big city business?

[JackieMatra]

Would a silverbelly Akubra Campdraft with a fedora bash match well with a navy blue suit, white shirt and polished black brogues in a downtown/large city environment? Thanks.

Not if you don't want to stand out,
particularly if the hat isn't black, dark blue, or gray.
Thin ribbon would also look more country than city,
or that you're just too well-off, important, or cool to care.

 

[Frunobulax]

or that you're just too well-off, important, or cool to care.

Now that's the right attitude!


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[jkingrph]

Absolutly! Here in the south a thin ribbon would be considered as dressy as a wider ribbon. I have two of the silverbelly Campdraft's, one with a center dent, the other more a fedora bash you are describing, like the one Jeff Bridges is wearing in the Seabiscuit picture. You really cannot get a more versatile color than the silverbelly.

 

[JackieMatra]

Not if you don't want to stand out,
particularly if the hat isn't black, dark blue, or gray.
Thin ribbon would also look more country than city,
or that you're just too well-off, important, or cool to care.

Jeff Bridges in the role of Charles Howard in the 2003 film "Seabiscuit" is a good example of the above.

 

[Spats McGee]

I wear a Taupe Fawn Camp Draft (teardrop bash) with khakis, a blazer and tie on a regular basis. Less often, but semi-regularly, I wear it with a tan suit of mine. It works just fine.

 

[Edward]

I bashed my Campdraft dlx like a fedora and wear it interchangeably with that type. 309% of people who aren't already on here don't notive the difference.

 

[RJR]

I bashed my Campdraft dlx like a fedora and wear it interchangeably with that type. 309% of people who aren't already on here don't notive the difference.

I agree.

 

[hatophile]

I don't think you can go wrong with a CD. Dress it up with suit and tie, or dress it down with khakis or jeans and leather jacket.

 

[Fed in a Fedora]

If in doubt, change it out. I like a mid width ribbon for my CampDraft. Bought some from a shop on Etsy and looked at some tutorials from here on the forums...

 

[Bob Roberts]

If in doubt, change it out. I like a mid width ribbon for my CampDraft. Bought some from a shop on Etsy and looked at some tutorials from here on the forums...

I like it in the mid ribbon better. I have 2 TAR's and my third I'll be converting to a middy.

 

[nidan48]

I'm a no on this. CD is not city, the brim is too big, the crown is really not shaped.
It's a great hat to abuse to perfection over a lifetime.
My CD posing next to a Borsalino makes its pedigree clear.
That being said your attitude might carry it off, but in my opinion the hat would
have to have that "been around" weathered look.
Disclaimers; I only know NYC and I do not wear/own a suit.
I rarely go in but my Como was admired and last time I wound up giving away a taupe straw
Stetson fedora, 2" brim to a longtime friend, business associate who really liked it.
Even in Manhattan there are very few hats.

 

[johnnycanuck]

Can't see why not. Spencer Tracy wore something like a campdraft in more than one occasion. No one nowadays will think twice about the combo except maybe people on the lounge.
Johnny

 

[hatband]

I wear my Blue Grass Green CD to work a lot in the cooler months and I work in an office. No one seems to look twice, I just get called the hat guy....

 

[Bolero]

Akubra of Australia has the CD listed under their Country Line of Hats....
They also have a Fashion Line that covers mostly City Hats or Business Hats...
It is not a NYC Business Hat or City Slickers Hat.......However you may wear any Hat your Personality requires as long as it makes you feel good...

To me & IMO... All dressed up in Suit & wearing a CD in NYC would indicate that you are a visitor to the City and are really a Country Gentleman and will whatever you damm well please...

 

[RJR]

Akubra of Australia has the CD listed under their Country Line of Hats....
They also have a Fashion Line that covers mostly City Hats or Business Hats...
It is not a NYC Business Hat or City Slickers Hat.......However you may wear any Hat your Personality requires as long as it makes you feel good...

To me & IMO... All dressed up in Suit & wearing a CD in NYC would indicate that you are a visitor to the City and are really a Country Gentleman and will whatever you damm well please...

Good thought!

 

[Doctor Strange]

I agree with the side of this conversation that says just wear the CD and don't worry about it. 99.999999999% of everyone you encounter will only see a nice hat, not "a country hat shaped like a fedora" or "a hat not formal enough for city wear".

Nobody but us tiny group of specialists cares about ribbon-width, brim-size, brim binding, color matching, more formal vs. less formal styles/colors, or any of the old rules and traditions that governed this stuff before the vast majority of the current population was even born.

 

[Knotten]

I agree with the side of this conversation that says just wear the CD and don't worry about it. 99.999999999% of everyone you encounter will only see a nice hat, not "a country hat shaped like a fedora" or "a hat not formal enough for city wear".

Nobody but us tiny group of specialists cares about ribbon-width, brim-size, brim binding, color matching, more formal vs. less formal styles/colors, or any of the old rules and traditions that governed this stuff before the vast majority of the current population was even born.

I absolutely agree with Dr. Strange. Do whatever makes you feel happy. I often wear a CD with a suit and tie. Granted, I don't live in NYC, but I do work in a tall building among people in suits. All I ever get are admiring comments about the hat. The old rules are generally forgotten.

 

[moontheloon]

people .... it is not 1950
unless you are wearing a 10 gallon ranch hat and a huge belt buckle with a bucking bronco on it there is no more "city and country"

I am in NYC just about every single day ... no one wears fedoras outside of young hipster guys and girls who wear little wool stingy brim heavy tapered hats that they bought at TJMaxx for $9.99... and the summer commuter with a random straw

and on the rare occasion you see a proper hat wearer he is wearing hats with all sorts of ribbon widths

no one cares whether you are wearing a hat or not let alone what width your ribbon is and if it looks country or city ... that does not exist in the city ... zero

wear what you like because you like it and never ever ever worry about whether someone will think what you have on does not "work"

hogwash !!!

 

[Frunobulax]

^^^^What he said.

I seriously don't see the point in getting wrapped around the axle about the style or if you're looking "too country." Maybe it's because I'm from the midwest and can be in the city and country in the same hour, but there is no distinction. Besides, a trip around the Non-SHorpy thread shows farmers wearing wide ribbon fedoras quite a bit. The OR and Strat were initially marketed as city/country hats.

I just make sure my hat, socks, and underwear match.

 

[BobHufford]

I just make sure my hat, socks, and underwear match.

It's that western-weight felt socks and underwear I have trouble with ...