LonesomePolecat Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 TCM VIRTUAL EASTER PARADE 2021: This is not a thread about the movie Easter Parade, but an excuse to share pictures of great movie hats! "In your Easter Bonnet With all the Frills upon it You'll be the grandest lady In the Easter Parade!" Easter is coming, so let's have our own Easter Parade with your favorite movie hats of all time! Bonnets, picture hats, top hats, turbans, cloches, gorgeous hats, ridiculous hats, large, small, whatever you want! Share your favorite movie costume hats below............. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 Let's start off with the famous Ninotchka Hat! In terms of fashion this is absolutely ridiculous and I'd never wear it outside. In terms of historical costume appeal, I'd use it in a movie or show in five seconds because I LOVE THIS HAT! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 Lots of great hats in MEET ME IN ST LOUIS, but my favorites are the ones the ladies wear to the Fair at the end: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 I'll kick off Men's Hats with one of the most famous-- Fred Astaire's Top Hat: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Apparently, the original costume sold for a pretty penny at auction. You can buy a reproduction on Etsy for $650. Where would you wear it? This reproduction-while excellent- shows the failure to copy brilliant subtleties that sets the original apart: The more interesting double stripe taffeta fabric The "cuffed" edge heavily wired to shape, more rounded, flattering Dried grasses (not 2 fern sprigs) & flower arrangement that shows movement, doesn't just lie there. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det Jim McLeod Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Doris Day in Lover Come Back (1961) 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Hmmm...gotta wonder if Richard Dreyfuss would see this hat, if he might get a sudden unconscience desire to head to Wyoming? 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrylfxanax Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 I love everything about Written on the Wind, including this hat worn by Dorothy Malone! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Nobody wore a hat as well as Myrna Loy! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SansFin Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 I have a very well-made reproduction of this hat. You do not need to know why. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsan404 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 This is one of my favorite styles, and Roy Scheider wears it perfectly well in All That Jazz. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dargo Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 2 hours ago, SansFin said: I have a very well-made reproduction of this hat. You do not need to know why. Gotta ask, Sans. Do you also occasionally use a broom for things other than sweeping? (...like say, for transportation purposes?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Dargo said: Gotta ask, Sans. Do you also occasionally use a broom for things other than sweeping? (...like say, for transportation purposes?) I use broom only for sweeping snow off my car and giving a certain little fuzzy a whack on the backside. I am for all other things a Swiffer girl. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, SansFin said: I use broom only for sweeping snow off my car and giving a certain little fuzzy a whack on the backside. I am for all other things a Swiffer girl. "Swiffer girl"? Didn't Brian Wilson once write a song about you? (...oh...wait...no...sorry) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 This style of hat I'm sure was worn by many in its day, but this gent wore it better than most. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 On 3/18/2021 at 3:20 AM, LonesomePolecat said: Let's start off with the famous Ninotchka Hat! In terms of fashion this is absolutely ridiculous and I'd never wear it outside. In terms of historical costume appeal, I'd use it in a movie or show in five seconds because I LOVE THIS HAT! Much ridicule is made about these Nuclear Power Plant shaped hats Adrian favored. In his defense, the organic shape is very flattering to a perfect face such as Garbo's: she has strong perfectly symmetrical evenly spaced features. The hat creates a triangular shape along with her hark hair on either side of her neck perfectly framing her face without effecting the proportion. Unfortunately, it's too different and comes across as silly, subconsciously reminding people of this: PS I'm a hat collector & have several of the styles pictured in this thread. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy Cronin Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Bette Davis as Regina in The Little Foxes. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Roy Cronin said: Looks like a bird crashed into her hat breaking it's neck! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 On 3/18/2021 at 4:00 AM, TikiSoo said: My Fair Lady has so many great hats! Especially in the Ascot scene. Even the chorus looks spectacular: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 On 3/18/2021 at 5:14 AM, Det Jim McLeod said: Doris Day in Lover Come Back (1961) When that movie was on TCM recently, every hat she wore met with a chuckle -- "Another crazy hat!" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 8 hours ago, sagebrush said: This style of hat I'm sure was worn by many in its day, but this gent wore it better than most. Ronald Colman! Yes!!! Nowadays they just call a fedora a "Gangster Hat" or, if you bought one at Disneyland in the 90s like I did, it was called an "Indian Jones Hat" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 1 hour ago, LonesomePolecat said: an "Indian Jones Hat" Ugh I have a marvelous Australian Wool Riding hat I no longer wear because everyone calls it an "Indiana Jones" hat. It's a weatherproof COWBOY hat: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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