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OK, we are wrapping up the Hat series today with this one. I am not sure what this style hat was called, but they were very popular. You see a lot of pictures from the 1910's where there are crowds of people, and every person in the crowd is wearing one of these hats.I find this picture a little awkward. It looks like he is seated on the armrest of the bench. But looking at the leg of the bench, and where the armrest would be, it looks like he would be falling or tipping over.
The hat style is known as a "boater."
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this series of pictures. It's a shame hats have fallen out of popularity.
When I first looked, I thought he was sitting on nothing at all!
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't the dog wearing a hat? ;-)
I thought it was called a Panama Hat.
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Maybe that is why the dog is there, to act as a counter weight.
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I would like to have been there when the dog suddenly got up and ran off, having been startled by the powder flash (if there was one).
ReplyDeleteThe Panama hat is like a straw fedora or pork-pie. They are very expensive, a good one will run upwards of $500.
ReplyDeleteThe flat straw hat, like today's is called a "boater" or a "skimmer"
In these parts it was called a "straw boater." Lightweight for summer (like seersucker suits). The boater attempted a brief comeback in the Summer of '66 on Wall Street, but only among young guys. It never "took" and the fad didn't last beyond that summer. Jim
ReplyDeleteA very dapper turnout. I like it. Instead of thinking about the man perching on the arm of the bench, think about how the portrait is composed to give the dog equal prominence. He must have been proud of his dog. There's the story.
ReplyDeleteThis picture is gorgeous.
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Cheers
Denis
The hat is called a "skimmer." Very popular at the turn of the last century.
ReplyDeleteFabulous photo - I wishe i lived in that era. Love the fashions.
The dog is gorgeous. Looks like a Llewellyn setter, or maybe an English setter?
ReplyDeleteAs for this hat, enh.
Great photos this week, fun stuff, thanks.
The pooch looks like a Brittany Spaniel, to me.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the man who made the "boater" famous was Buster Keaton.
ReplyDeleteI immediately thought "boater" as well. Did you find out exactly? These are lovely.
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