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ChromaticTheory
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« on: November 02, 2007, 06:40:49 am » |
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I currently sport a bowler, but have always loved top hats. Also if anyone knows of a good place around Los Angeles where one could obtain such things on a budget I would be much obliged.
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Jarod20
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2007, 06:43:03 am » |
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A top hat just doesn't look right on my head
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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2007, 06:53:15 am » |
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Hats in general is not my preferred wear, though I love them. But, alas, my large head makes it hard to find well-fitting hats.
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ChromaticTheory
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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2007, 06:56:44 am » |
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I have the opposite problem, my head is on the smallish side. A little easier to deal with since i can simply wear some extra layers inside the hat to get the fit right.
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« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2007, 09:01:33 am » |
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I love both - my husband prefers the Top Hat on his noggin. I own both a bowler and a Funeral styled Top Hat (with losts of ribon and netting veil). But the bowler would be more practical when "out-a-raiding" as the veil on the Top Hat would obscure my sight methinks!!!  |
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« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2007, 12:47:25 pm » |
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Don't forget the trilby, the boater, the fedora, the homburg, the newsboy cap, the flat cap, the wide-awake, the pork-pie, the cowboy hat...and those are just tradtionally "mens" styles!  (Leave it to the milliner to make things complicated.) |
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Professor Lidenbrock
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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2007, 01:35:55 pm » |
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Complicated it may be but La Bricoleuse speaks the truth. I currently own approximately 15 hats, only 1 of which is a Top Hat & none of which are Bowlers. I have voted Top Hat on that basis but would have appreciated more options.  |
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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2007, 01:44:18 pm » |
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Has to be a Topper....
Just the thing for riding in and draping with veils to prevent fly splat...
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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2007, 02:54:07 pm » |
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I have both, and depending upon the rest of the clothing, I choose appropriately.
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« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2007, 04:35:23 pm » |
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Top hats are the only way to go. Bowlers are worn mainly by creatures composed of feces. I am quite adamant on this subject.
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« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2007, 04:54:49 pm » |
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As fo this mighty lump of feces, I prefer the bowler. Or as we in the colonies call them, the derby.
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« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2007, 08:15:40 pm » |
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I b'aint be 'igh enough class to be wearin' a topper, zur.
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« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2007, 08:30:46 pm » |
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I am in agreement with La Bricoleuse, there are many styles of hats. As for my collection, I own somewhere in the reaches of... 25 hats? One of which is a bowler, but because quality toppers are so bloody expensive, I have yet to get myself one.
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ChromaticTheory
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« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2007, 09:27:47 pm » |
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Ah, don't mistake the question! I too have a variety of hats. It just seems that in the majority of photographs on these here forums mens hats take one of two forms, the Bowler or the Top Hat. I have seen a few others, but those two strike me as the mainstays of the Steampunk style.
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« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2007, 09:54:30 pm » |
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There's a good few pith helmets out there too |
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Edmund Sawyer
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« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2007, 10:00:04 pm » |
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I currently sport a bowler, but have always loved top hats. Also if anyone knows of a good place around Los Angeles where one could obtain such things on a budget I would be much obliged.
"around Los Angeles" is a little vague, what with the area of our city and county, but... There used to be (I believe it is still there, but it has been close to a year since I've passed it, now living in Anaheim) a /really/ excellent hat shop on Colorado, in Pasadena. Right down the street from City Hall. |
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« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2007, 12:19:06 am » |
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Yeh sees, guv, iss like Prof Brockwerf sez: I haint got veh class teh be wearin' wunna vem fancy-pants 'ats. Issa sim-pull cap on moiay 'ed t'be keepin me lookin respckable.
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ChromaticTheory
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« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2007, 07:47:02 am » |
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I live on the Westside, but for a good hat at a decent price I would put in the mileage. More searching on The Google will be needed I suppose.
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Edmund Sawyer
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« Reply #18 on: November 03, 2007, 05:16:39 pm » |
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Found them, stuffed them HERE as the link was scary looking. |
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« Reply #19 on: November 03, 2007, 06:14:42 pm » |
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Neither! I wear a floppy newsboy cap.  But let it be known that I also own both a topper and a bowler, and I do like them both muchly. I just prefer the more casual hat most days. |
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« Reply #20 on: November 06, 2007, 04:39:20 pm » |
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I am guilty of owning two top hats and a derby. One of the top hats is a cheesy prop-looking one, but the derby is fantastic. I don't often wear it, though. My husband is partial to a tophat. The shorter bowlers and derbys look rather silly on him as he is on the tall side. Unfortunately we've lost his fedora and have yet to find a suitable replacement that fits him.  Mrs. Godmother |
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« Reply #21 on: November 06, 2007, 04:42:51 pm » |
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I have a cat whose name is Derby...so that's where my loyalties lie.
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« Reply #22 on: November 06, 2007, 05:21:40 pm » |
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My husband favours newsboy caps; I have a black wool felt bowler with a crushed black velvet ribbon and rose.
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« Reply #23 on: November 06, 2007, 07:07:18 pm » |
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there's more then two steampunk hats, what about the derby, the flatcap, the flying helmet? to name but a few...
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« Reply #24 on: November 06, 2007, 07:29:57 pm » |
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I have a fedora and news boy cap, but I'm planning to get me a top hat too. I love hats! I want to have as many different ones as possible!
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