Take a few moments to get the jokes out of your system.


Alrighty then. Onto my point.
This bas been buzzing around in my thoughts for awhile, so I thought I'd post this and see what everyone else thought.
I was watching Raiders, checking out several scenes to look at Indy's hat. In all of them, he has a very pronounced "camel hump effect" at the apex of the front pinch. I tried this with my Adventurebilt, and once I got the humps in there, I looked at the hat from a distance, and it looked ever so slightly tapered. Just barely.
I think the reason we don't really see much taper when we're watching the movie is the way Indy wore his hat. Back farther on his head than most of us do. Because of that, I think that we tend to see taper more than he would have, had he looked at it. Also, I think a little bit of it is that over time, we've come to think that a proper Indy hat should be perfectly stovepipe, or something along those lines.
Fact is, that's impossible. Putting those camel humps into the hat is going to make it look tapered. BARELY, mind you, and only from certain angles. That doesn't mean I won't be doing that to my hat, but I just thought it was an interesting topic for discussion.
Regards,