/fa/ - Fashion

>>15160469
I own both a Stetson Open Road and an Akubra Bushman. The other hats you mention are nice styles, too. My Bushman hat is styled like this picture.

>>15125243
>>15125247

Those are nice hats.

>>15040154
I like that era. For me, as I historically reenact, my range is generally much more broad, between the 1770s through 1960s. If I have to narrow it down, I think circa 1840 through 1870 has a sweet spot of the very antique options still somewhat influencing dress, with some emerging modern conventions, such as the modern style of suit coat, as opposed to only frock coats or tail coats. Hat styles were also very diverse during the middle of the 19th century, although tricorns, and even bicorns were out of ordinary street fashion by then, with the latter still getting used for military uniforms, and some very formal events. The top hat was functionally worn as a formal wear hat between the early 1800s and the middle of the 20th century, although the top hat style goes back to the 1780s, or even the 1500s or 1600s, if you include the capotain or Puritan style hats. The period between 1889 and 1914 was great; a lot of modern looking formal wear elements had started getting seen, such as the dinner jacket/black lounge/tuxedo, and even casual wear clothing was quite well-dressed looking, by our current standards, most of the time, by that point without requiring some kind of a cravat or modern looking tie or bow tie all the time, as just before that period, almost every man was seen wearing something around their neck, though I enjoy neckwear. Pic-related is a more casual fur felt hat that I wear, which fits in with clothing styles that correspond to work wear any time between around the 1840s through 1960s, until when most farmers, miners, cowboys, and ranchers probably stopped wearing hats that looked quite like this, except a minority by now. For more dressed up variation of historical 19th century through early 20th century city wear, I sometimes wear a black homburg, bowler, or a particular style of hat that is kind of wide and low-crowned, with a bowler-looking open crown and a turned-up bound brim, like an Orthodox Jewish or Mennonite/Amish hat may look.

Here is a Bushman hat, made by Akubra. It has a telescope crown, which I like for western hats. Telescope crowns are a detail that goes back to the 19th century, as well.

>>15005212
There is nothing wrong with the hat. It's strange how people stare at people, like in your example, but just ignore them. I wear hats, occasionally, especially if I am planning to spend more than fifteen minutes, outdoors. Here is a picture of a hat style that is the same as one of mine.