What’s the Difference Between a Trilby Hat and a Fedora Hat ?
What’s the Difference Between a Trilby Hat and a Fedora Hat ?
How can you tell whether a hat is a trilby or a Fedora and which is the best one to buy ?
Here’s me and my day out on Monday . . .
A very pleasant day was had on Monday, needless to say it took place here in God’s Own County, the capital in fact . . . Lincoln
There was a superb temporary exhibition at The Collection featuring clothes from the 1700s
The Usher Gallery was marvellous, as it always it.
As I was in the Big City I thought I should make a Sartorial Effort, or should I say a slightly bigger effort than normal, we’re ever slaves to Sartorial Matters here at La Casa Goldeneye.
I donned a solid vintage Harris Tweed jacket, shirt, cashmere jumper and silk cravat, topped off with my newly acquired heavy wool vintage overcoat and the pièce de résistance, Aaaaargh French!, a new brown trilby hat, not to be confused with my brown Fedora !
I saw this sign on the wall and it was too good a chance to miss, so I employed the services of the iPhone Kid !
Back to the 40s!
What’s the Difference Between a Trilby Hat and a Fedora Hat ?
The way to tell the a Fedora from a Trilby is simple, it’s all down to brim size.
A gentleman’s Fedora has a broader brim, say 6 to 7cms approximately whereas the Trilby is narrower, about 4 to 5cms.
The sizes are approximate of course but it gives you an idea of ratio
Which One Should I Buy ?
Well, I suggest the Fedora is more flamboyant and the Trilby more conservative, I know an artist whose brother was a detective in the 1940s who always wore a Trilby like hat.
The artist asked me what the difference was and which to get, I suggested that his brother would have would have worn a Trilby but as an artist you’d have gone for a Fedora.
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . .
A fine sit down luncheon was devoured, along with pots of tea, at the fabulous Mode Cafe in Lincoln.
For the umpteenth time I wandered around Lincoln and enjoyed every moment of it, I never tire of Lincoln, which is just as well really, it’s a lifesaver sometimes.
I remain, as ever, fine and dandy,
Rod
Little Brother said,
January 29, 2013 @ 7:50 am
Rod,
“A dandy must live and sleep in front of the mirror”…..,
Jordan said,
January 29, 2013 @ 9:18 am
Rod
As smart as you do look….. Do you ever think that you were born in the wrong generation?
You remind me of Nicholas Lyndhurst in Goodnight Sweetheart.
Jordan
Rod said,
January 29, 2013 @ 9:23 am
LB,
I never walk by a ‘mirrored’ surface without checking my attire
Best
Rod
Rod said,
January 29, 2013 @ 9:28 am
Jordan,
there could be something in that !
I don’t pretend everything was better in times gone by but the things that interest me tend not to be modern.
I’m not interested in mobile phones, iPads, TV, celebrity drivel, eating junk food, living beyond my means etc etc
Much of modern life has ultimately made a lot of people unhappy when they could be in a happy place.
I just plough my own furrow really, I do what I like and wear what I like . . .
Regards,
Rod
Amiguru said,
January 29, 2013 @ 12:19 pm
Rod,
‘Your never too old to learn’ as the expression goes. Back in the 40’s my Dad, as well as many of his peers, had a trilby for ‘dress’ occasions. I can see it now, but, I know now that they all had fedoras - a term I certainly didn’t hear at that time and for the following several decades! Everyone referred to them as ‘trilbies’.
By cross-checking via Google etc. I accept that you are quite correct, but isn’t it strange that the misappropriation of the term was so widespread seventy years ago?
Thanks for the education.
Regards,
Neville
Amiguru said,
January 29, 2013 @ 2:25 pm
Rod,
An afterthought: I can’t see a gent dressed as you are in the picture smoking Wild Woodbines!More likely Kensitas,or dare I say it - du Maurier’s, Olivier’s, Gitanes or Gauloises!
Regards,
James I
v said,
January 29, 2013 @ 4:26 pm
Lookin’ pretty gorgeous, I must say …
Let s face it dearest. Some people will just never achieve the style and elegance that you and I do.
It’s almost a hobby with me now. MY new baby grandchild is due very soon and my daughter -in-law wants it dressed as ‘’retro baby'’. We have searched for old patterns from 1930’s thru to the the early eighties and I have been very busy, had enormous fun knitting old styles. ( The only thing I can’t find is a baby balaclava ) .
No other baby will be dressed like ours.
Rod said,
January 29, 2013 @ 6:33 pm
Neville,
I have a feeling that the Fedoras were more likely to be a foreign based idea, the trilby is more like the British Reserve at the time, quite rakish the fedora.
Best
Rod
Rod said,
January 29, 2013 @ 6:35 pm
V,
Some people will just never achieve the style and elegance that you and I do
You’ve never talked greater sense
Whether it’s wise to be allied to me in terms of dress though . . .
Best
Rod
Donald (South Australia) said,
January 30, 2013 @ 3:54 am
Hi Rod,
I loved v’s missive about the imminent “retro baby”, he he. I have a hypothesis, so far unsupported, that older parents have retro looking babies, even without the clothes. Maybe they mature more quickly because their parents are less likely to be dizzy.
My family’s babies (including moi) have endured the family 19th C pram and high chair so perhaps we have an excuse, older parents aside, for being a bit “retro”. And retro babies cry less, of course.
Waaa,
Donald.
v said,
January 30, 2013 @ 7:45 am
Hi Donald,
I just think that the fleecy cloths that baby clothes are made of here don’t look good for so long and go ‘bobbly’ and worn whereas some of the older styles and cardigans made in a fine quality wool stand the test of time .
We have some of my daughter in law ’s own baby clothes too for the grandchild and a patchwork quilt that someone made for our oldest 29 years ago . great quality stuff .
Retro baby rules. And I had a lovely silver cross pram for mine and not a ‘’buggy'’
Rod said,
January 30, 2013 @ 7:54 am
Donald,
if retro babies means bringing children up as parents once did then I’m all in favour of it
Best
Rod