If the block they find isn't a telescope, i
I was doing some nightime reading last night, one of my hat book, of course.
I found it interesting, and some info 3M$ might enjoy. This book was talking about fedoras, and it seems that even the telescope crown started out with the same block shape as a regular fedora. In fact, all of the dress styled hats, came off of the fedora style, including the short porkpie, and the taller telescoped crown hats. THey were all the same hat(from Stetson), just different creases. And if, the telescope was made back when they were doing the nice thin, unstiffened vintage hats, that telescope crease would have popped right out, with no signs of it ever being a telescope, well, almost no signs, except where the hat was creased sharply on top. But, it was the identical block shape as the fedora, and homburg, etc. Now, in all fine hat shops, the creases would have been put in by hand, as it was the preferred, and traditional way of styleing a hat. It was styled on site, to what looked the best on the customer. I guess it is possible that someone, playfully, styled one of Indy's hats into a porkpie, as they are comical hats. I can see it now. They are all sitting around, drinking, and Ford creases his hat to look like that for laughs. Then, it goes back to his regular fedora. Stranger things do happen.
Now, if you are maintaining that they pulled a porkpie off the shelf and used it for the film hat, that is just too much of a stretch. With similiarly blocked, open crown hats sitting on the shelf, that would be a rather stupid thing to do. Remember, most hats at HJ were all open crown, with the personel doing the styling, just the way it was in the old days. HJ was an old timey hat shop, back then. Fedora
......................Tell me what you think?
:junior: -IJ