Among those who know nothing about detective literature or haberdashery the fedora is considered the hat of the hard-boiled detective. Like many public assumptions, this one is wrong. Consider Mike Hammer with his pork pie hat or Shell Scott wearing no hat at all.
The association is due to the time when the classic hard-boiled detective novels were written. In those days most men living in cities wore fedoras. The connection of the gumshoe and the fedora is tantamount with Encyclopedia Brown and trousers.
But be that as it may, the fedora is almost the perfect hat for a man. It always looks good, even when beat up. It is a serious hat. It is a hat that can reflect one's mood. It protects the wearer from sun and rain.
The best colors for the fedora are a dark gray or an olive, both with a sateen hatband. Black fedoras are favored by Chasidic Jews, so, unless one is a son of Abra and one would be better off wearing a pork pie.ham this writer would suggest that you limit one's self to gray or olive. Fedoras or primary colors are just silly
We here at Bloody Nib Manor are ever vigilant for encroachments on the rights of the citizen, and the just plan idiocy and silliness exhibited by the government and popular culture. But even we, despite gallons of coffee and pounds of No-Doze, do require relief from manning the ramparts.
Here are a couple of palate cleansers that amount to not much, but are interesting:
YouTube - DeFord Bailey - Fox ChaseYouTube - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Fox ChaseAnd filling in for your faithful correspondent and the ever-lovely Lady Nib is Andrew Klavan with some interesting comments in the present circus:
Pajamas TV - Klavan on Culture - How To Have SexPajamas TV - Klavan on Culture - FLASHBACK: Is Barack Obama Jesus Christ?
As usual, this writer is behind the curve on breaking news. But your faithful correspondent has decided to make a short notation regarding the recent arrest in Switzerland of the movie director Roman Polanski.
As those who pay attention to the news are well aware, there has been, in France and the entertainment industry, support for the man despite the fact that he raped a thirteen year old girl some thirty years ago. Excuses have been cut and rationalizations have been made for this little creep having raped, via drugs and drink, a thirteen year old girl.
And those who have made excuses for the man's criminal behaviour have stated that his behaviour is excused by his status as an artist.
This modern idea of the artist as outside the norm of civilized behavior originated with the French. Look at the French intellectuals' consideration of De Sade as a serious philosopher, Genet and Celine as a serious novelists, Mumia Abu Jamal and Jack Abbot as serious thinkers. Al the previous mentioned men were criminals, but they could write well.. Ergo, the ability to write well means that the writer's talent overrides his criminality. And the same attitude holds true for the intelligestia's support for the Polish pedophile midget.
In other words, we live by the law and they don't.
Among those who know nothing about detective literature or haberdashery the fedora is considered the hat of the hard-boiled detective. Like many public assumptions, this one is wrong. Consider Mike Hammer with his pork pie hat or Shell Scott wearing no hat at all.
