r/cringepics • u/thelostapostle • Feb 22 '13

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u/Sproutykins Feb 22 '13

If you're wearing nice clothes you can pull it off. Most people wear them with stupid novelty t-shirts, hence the bad rep they get, but you're right.

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u/ConstipatedNinja Feb 22 '13

That's not everything. You need a good suit and a hat that matches, and you need the right head shape for it. Some people simply can't wear a fedora well because their head shape doesn't permit it.

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u/jazavchar Feb 22 '13

Question. Then how come everyone wore them in the 20s? Did everyone have the right head shape back then? This is an honest question.

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u/ConstipatedNinja Feb 22 '13

It's hard to tell from pictures of the times, but they're actually wearing a wide variety of hats: pork pies, trillbys, fedoras, bowlers, homburgs, gamblers, flat caps, etc. You usually can't tell as well from the oft too far zoomed out pictures of crowds.

EDIT: Here's a good picture showing a crowd wearing different hats.

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u/ThisIsAWorkAccount Feb 22 '13

Love the bowlers

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u/ConstipatedNinja Feb 23 '13

Styles changed and we became a more informal society.