Homburg hat

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Winston Churchill wearing a homburg hat
Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt wearing homburg hats

A homburg is a semi-formal hat of fur felt, characterized by a single dent running down the centre of the crown (called a "gutter crown"), a wide silk grosgrain hatband ribbon, a flat brim shaped in a "pencil curl", and a ribbon-bound trim about the edge of the brim. It is traditionally offered in black or grey.

The name comes from

informal attire.[2]

As with other hats, it largely fell out of everyday use of Western dress codes for men in the 1960s.

Use

The homburg was popularised in the 1890s by the future

Edward VII after he visited Bad Homburg in Hesse, Germany, and brought back a hat of this style.[3] He was flattered when his hat style was mimicked, and at times he insisted on being copied.[4]

Anthony Eden made the black homburg so fashionable in the 1930s that it became known as "the Anthony Eden hat" on Savile Row in London.[5] At his 1953 inauguration, Dwight D. Eisenhower broke with tradition by wearing a black homburg instead of a top hat. He also wore a homburg at his second inauguration,[6] a hat that took three months to craft and was dubbed the "international homburg" by hatters, since workers from ten countries participated in its making.[7]

Like other formal Western male headgear, the homburg ceased to be as common in the 21st century as it once was.

rabbis wear black homburgs to the rekel, though this practice is also in decline. The homburg was always considered to be more traditional and distinguished than the fedora
.

It was sometimes jocularly referred to as a "hamburger", notably by actor Edward Brophy in the 1958 film The Last Hurrah.

In Italy it is known as a Lobbia, from Cristiano Lobbia [it] who famously was wearing one when he was assaulted.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kilgour, Ruth Edwards (1958). A Pageant of Hats Ancient and Modern. R. M. McBride Company.
  2. ^ "Hat Museum Bad Homburg". Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  3. ISBN 978-1-61069-063-8
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  4. ^ Donaldson, Frances (1974). Edward VIII. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 42.
  5. ISBN 978-0-393-31136-5
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  6. ^ "Eisenhower Second Inaugural Speech". CBS News. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  7. ISBN 978-0-486-31830-1
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  8. ^ Kramer, Johnny (29 August 2008). "The Courage to Wear Hats". LewRockwell.com. Retrieved 20 March 2014.

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