Poll: Does anyone (feminist, gamer, SJW, atheist) really find Fedoras attractive/cool?
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It can work when worn with the proper outfit. No one's going to look like Sam Spade in a T-shirt and jeans. People who just add a cheap one to anything they happen to be wearing just end up looking stupid.
Honestly? Despite the fact that I'm a raging SJW I happen to think fedoras are a little bit nice looking, and I refuse to judge anyone by their headgear. Because then I'm just as bad as the people who wear fedoras.
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I recently became acquainted with a fedora when I had to wear one for a stage play I was in. It was awesome. But it was only so cool because I wore it with a trenchcoat and black slacks and shoes, and I was literally playing Humphrey Bogart.
On most people, it doesn't work. In casual attire, it takes a special person to make it work. But if you're being a classy ************, and you dress appropriately, a fedora is among the best-looking accessories out there.
On most people, it doesn't work. In casual attire, it takes a special person to make it work. But if you're being a classy ************, and you dress appropriately, a fedora is among the best-looking accessories out there.
If you give it the proper framing such a hat demands, then it's perfectly fine. Shave, suit up or consider wearing a less demanding hat.
And to be frank, I will judge you slightly by your appearance. Not in a moral sense, but the general appearance of a stranger is all you've got to go on, isn't it? Wearing a fedora/trilby with a pop t-shirt just looks lazy. It doesn't have to mean the wearer is, but that is the immediate impression with nothing else to go on. An impression can always be improved by being a good fellow, thankfully, but why do it? It's like turning up to an interview in an unwashed tracksuit.
The heart of the matter is that it is a very difficult hat style to pull off. Unless you put the work in, it will look incredibly silly. It's not magic, it only looks good because the rest of you do.
Of course, what do I know? I tend to dress as if I got kidnapped from the 1970's.
And to be frank, I will judge you slightly by your appearance. Not in a moral sense, but the general appearance of a stranger is all you've got to go on, isn't it? Wearing a fedora/trilby with a pop t-shirt just looks lazy. It doesn't have to mean the wearer is, but that is the immediate impression with nothing else to go on. An impression can always be improved by being a good fellow, thankfully, but why do it? It's like turning up to an interview in an unwashed tracksuit.
The heart of the matter is that it is a very difficult hat style to pull off. Unless you put the work in, it will look incredibly silly. It's not magic, it only looks good because the rest of you do.
Of course, what do I know? I tend to dress as if I got kidnapped from the 1970's.
It only looks good if,
-You are wearing it outdoors (hats indoors is rude, especially hats like fedoras)
-You have a hat that actually fits you (that means being sized)
-You have a face shape complimented by the hat.
-You are wearing a suit or something similar that matches.
Needless to say, stereotypical neckbeards fail on all of these.
-You are wearing it outdoors (hats indoors is rude, especially hats like fedoras)
-You have a hat that actually fits you (that means being sized)
-You have a face shape complimented by the hat.
-You are wearing a suit or something similar that matches.
Needless to say, stereotypical neckbeards fail on all of these.
Its pretty simple really. You can wear it if its appropriate to the outfit. More specifically you need a suit with a tie and either a jacket or a waistcoat. Clean shaven, slight stubble or very deliberately styled facial hair (although even this last one can be questionable based on how its styled); the facial hair absolutely cannot be scruffy.
You might just get away with not wearing a suit if you're at least wearing dark clothes (or jeans and a dark top) and a trenchcoat (this last part is important). Else you just look ridiculous. The only person I've ever seen fulfilling none of the above and still pulling off a good look with one is Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
I own both a trilby and a fedora which I bought...must be five or six years ago now. I've worn them once or twice when going out with friends in a formal suit with wingtip shoes (and once on a "gangsters" themed night out). Sometimes when going to a prohibition themed bar in town. It can be a nice look but it requires a lot of care.
Throwing one on with just any old outfit is just silly. Attention to detail and care to your appearance is important. You don't even need to be that good looking, but taking care of what you do have is important.
You might just get away with not wearing a suit if you're at least wearing dark clothes (or jeans and a dark top) and a trenchcoat (this last part is important). Else you just look ridiculous. The only person I've ever seen fulfilling none of the above and still pulling off a good look with one is Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
I own both a trilby and a fedora which I bought...must be five or six years ago now. I've worn them once or twice when going out with friends in a formal suit with wingtip shoes (and once on a "gangsters" themed night out). Sometimes when going to a prohibition themed bar in town. It can be a nice look but it requires a lot of care.
Throwing one on with just any old outfit is just silly. Attention to detail and care to your appearance is important. You don't even need to be that good looking, but taking care of what you do have is important.
Can i just say one thing here, It's 2014, it's the internet. WHO CARES!!!!!!!!. seriously 80% of responces to this threat are the fashion "rules" for wearing and accessorizing a hat. I thought one of the great things about being a man is that you get to call fashion bullshit and just wear whatever is comfortable and you like the look of. wear a fedora with a slipknot t-shirt and god damn tu-tu if you feel like it. others may not like it but why the fuck do you care? understand that it is all just fabric and trying to make a piece of clothing part of your identity means you're not that interesting on your own. just be a person you don't have to cultivate a "look". I wear a hat sometimes, sometimes i don't, the one peice of clothing i wear always are my prescription glasses.
let me rephrase this a simpler way. if it takes you more than a minute to pick out your clothes for the day you care too much what people think and should probably just wear a neon sign that says "LOOK AT ME I"M BORING"
let me rephrase this a simpler way. if it takes you more than a minute to pick out your clothes for the day you care too much what people think and should probably just wear a neon sign that says "LOOK AT ME I"M BORING"
Back in 2003, when I was in college, I wore a fedora for roughly two years. At the time, no one was wearing them, and a buddy of mine and I decided to start sporting them because we were aspiring journalists and the hat made us stand out. Literally, I can count on one hand the number of people in our college/university (combined facilities) who wore fedoras at the time. As a fashion statement, it worked.
However; one day I realized my hat was way too ratty to wear anymore. It was full of holes and stains and just looked shitty. So I decided to forego the hat and grow my hair out instead. That was when the fedora craze among geeks started, and all these stereotypes and the use of "fedora" as a pejorative became a thing. I think I inadvertently dodged a bullet there.
As it stands now, I just don't care. It's just a hat. I still like them, though I simply don't wear hats anymore. I don't think less of anyone for wearing one (even if they wear them "incorrectly"), though I do believe certain types of assholes do tend to wear them and try to make them a part of their collective identity. Much like hipsters have tried to claim thick-rimmed glasses as their own, the asshats (heh) in question have tried to do the same with the fedora.
However; one day I realized my hat was way too ratty to wear anymore. It was full of holes and stains and just looked shitty. So I decided to forego the hat and grow my hair out instead. That was when the fedora craze among geeks started, and all these stereotypes and the use of "fedora" as a pejorative became a thing. I think I inadvertently dodged a bullet there.
As it stands now, I just don't care. It's just a hat. I still like them, though I simply don't wear hats anymore. I don't think less of anyone for wearing one (even if they wear them "incorrectly"), though I do believe certain types of assholes do tend to wear them and try to make them a part of their collective identity. Much like hipsters have tried to claim thick-rimmed glasses as their own, the asshats (heh) in question have tried to do the same with the fedora.
well besides fedoras and trilbys being mixed up, in general no. I don't find either attractive.
HOWEVER,
certain ones on certain people CAN be attractive. It really depends on the fedora or trilby and the person wearing it. I own 2 fedoras and a trilby. the trilby is a fancy dress type thing that I wear once in a blue moon (the last time was to a funeral about 3 years ago if not longer) and the fedoras well one is part of my indiana jones cosplay and the other I can use as such but usually use when I know I'm going to be out in the sun for extended periods of time and don't want the back of my neck, my face, my ears, and the top of my head to be burned and am going to be too busy to remember to consistently put sunblock on. As such I haven't worn it in 3 years. And the one for my cosplay I haven't worn for 6 years.
In general though, I don't find hats/accessories to be particularly attractive or unattractive. Nor do I see them as cool/uncool.
As such I'm also somewhere between eglatarian, MRA, and feminist as all of them have some very harmful ideologies(in the way they are being preached as at least) and am not an SJW (which is coincidentally a term that gets thrown at people who dare talk about their own life and experiences on their blogs)
HOWEVER,
certain ones on certain people CAN be attractive. It really depends on the fedora or trilby and the person wearing it. I own 2 fedoras and a trilby. the trilby is a fancy dress type thing that I wear once in a blue moon (the last time was to a funeral about 3 years ago if not longer) and the fedoras well one is part of my indiana jones cosplay and the other I can use as such but usually use when I know I'm going to be out in the sun for extended periods of time and don't want the back of my neck, my face, my ears, and the top of my head to be burned and am going to be too busy to remember to consistently put sunblock on. As such I haven't worn it in 3 years. And the one for my cosplay I haven't worn for 6 years.
In general though, I don't find hats/accessories to be particularly attractive or unattractive. Nor do I see them as cool/uncool.
As such I'm also somewhere between eglatarian, MRA, and feminist as all of them have some very harmful ideologies(in the way they are being preached as at least) and am not an SJW (which is coincidentally a term that gets thrown at people who dare talk about their own life and experiences on their blogs)
It's a hat, if you can pull it off you look cool, if you don't then you don't.
If you try to wear it with jeans and a t-shirt then you're going to look stupid but same is true with a lot of formal wear.
I don't know why people insist on associating it with "people on the internet I consider losers" (whether it be nerds or whatever). Like it or not some men can pull it off without wearing an Indiana Jones costume.
Also have no idea how feminism has anything to do with this.
If you try to wear it with jeans and a t-shirt then you're going to look stupid but same is true with a lot of formal wear.
I don't know why people insist on associating it with "people on the internet I consider losers" (whether it be nerds or whatever). Like it or not some men can pull it off without wearing an Indiana Jones costume.
Also have no idea how feminism has anything to do with this.
From what I've gathered a lot of people in their 20s started wearing them to try to look cool, a lot of other people thought they looked ridiculous and then the mockery started.Frokane said:
It's never been associated with gamers or any other group. It's just become a generic insulting thing you throw at people nowadays to say that they're losers. If someone wants to associate it with gamers that's because they don't like gamers or because they do like fedoras and are hoping the better reputation of gamers will rub off on it.
Actually, Indy does wear nice clothing, nice leather jacket, shirt, trousers etc. He just looks dirty because every single item is a shade of brown, and he has stubble. He looks the way we expect him to look, like a professor who can afford good clothes but looks rough because he keeps meeting rough people.Imperioratorex Caprae said:
Apart from the all brown colour scheme, it's hard to fault they way he dresses. He looks good. Han Solo, by contrast, is a rough guy who wears rough clothes and he would look silly in a fedora.
Never said he doesn't, just pointed out that Indy is a rarity that can pull off the fedora without wearing dress clothes. Also the times I remember Dr. Jones in a suit, he wasn't wearing the trademark fedora because it was part of his adventure-hero ensemble and not his regular professorial regalia. But he's an anomaly and there are very few folks who can pull off that style without being seen as copycats (and yes I'm well aware the whole Indy get-up was basically lifted from a golden age Hollywood flick).Bad Jim said:
I have nothing against Fedoras when worn properly. However, as others have said, pretty much the entire conversation is actually about Trilbys, and the only person I've ever seen wear one of those without looking like a prat is Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.
To me, a fedora looks good on a slim, well-groomed person who is wearing fairly classy or business attire. Worn with a t-shirt, or with a ragged patchy beard, it looks like an ugly attempt to show class without having it. But that's the "fedora" that's actually a trilby. Fedoras, real fedoras made with wide brims, look cool regardless as long as they're the everyday fedoras not the dress fedoras.
It's an article of clothing which is no longer in fashion. It looks good in pictures of the 20's because it was fashionable then. Similarly, portraits of medieval kings in full noble garb look good because it looks proper given the time in which it was created. However, just as walking down the street in the style of medieval nobility would look very out of place today, so does a fedora. Fashion is not forever. If you don't care about fashion though, go ahead and wear one; no skin off my back. I barely care enough to dress myself well, much less to criticize others.