Shackleton's Fedora

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Shackleton's Fedora

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I know this is off-topic for Indy, but as this is about an adventurer with a fedora, and I genuinly want to know, please don't kill me straight away... :[

While watching Brannagh's Shackleton I noticed that he wore a fedora quite a lot during the expedition.

Does anybody know if there are any pictures out there of Earnest Shackleton wearing his fedora on Antartica, and does anybody know what type of fedore he was actually wearing?

Thanks guys. :)
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You piqued my curiosity so I went hunting for you and found these
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http://photographoftheday.blogspot.com/ ... frank.html
I found no info on who the maker was though.
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You can see some more details in this one:
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It's from the Royal Geographical Society's website. http://images.rgs.org/search_.aspx?personInPhotoID=9
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He definitely has the turn, but the bash is what a modified LC? :)
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If you get your hands on the illustrated version of Alfred Lansing's "Endurance", you will find that both Shackleton and Wild wore fedoras on the expedition. You can see one of both of them in hats on page 87 and another on 93. There is one of Shackelton on pg. 141 at which point his fedora has completely lost its bash, if it is even the same hat. After Shackleton left on the James Caird, there are no more photos of him in since the photographer stayed behind on Elephant Island.

There is one more photo at the back of the book, but that photo makes be believe that it was a totally different hat than the fedora in the dog photo. I think the shot with the dog is the only photo from the expedition that shows him in that fedora.

By the way, if you haven't read the book, treat yourself. It is amazing.
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maboot38 wrote:If you get your hands on the illustrated version of Alfred Lansing's "Endurance", you will find that both Shackleton and Wild wore fedoras on the expedition. You can see one of both of them in hats on page 87 and another on 93. There is one of Shackelton on pg. 141 at which point his fedora has completely lost its bash, if it is even the same hat. After Shackleton left on the James Caird, there are no more photos of him in since the photographer stayed behind on Elephant Island.

There is one more photo at the back of the book, but that photo makes be believe that it was a totally different hat than the fedora in the dog photo. I think the shot with the dog is the only photo from the expedition that shows him in that fedora.

By the way, if you haven't read the book, treat yourself. It is amazing.
Going off on a related tangent I can recommend Ranulph Feinnes' Scott as an excellent book about Scott's expedition to the south pole, written with the insight of someone who has himself endured those hardships. it puts the denegrating armchair 'polar experts' soundly in their place.
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But did Scott bring a Fedora with him?? ;-)
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To put on his head. Sort of like why a fireman wears red braces/suspenders.

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Huh? Please reread. I didn't ask WHY he brought one, I asked IF he brought one. :)
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:oops:
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Yes, Scott brought one both times, as near as I can figure. It was a very wide brimmed hat, designed for sun protection. You can see it in a few of the Polar journey trips. It was often tied down so as to provide "blinders" of a sort for the bright, bright snow.
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I guess there is also the "is it a fedora" question, because whereas I identify the hat in the dog photo as a "fedora", the other photo (and the others I found in the book), are more like a cavalry hat, which could just be the same hat bashed differently, but I'm not sure.
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Here's an interesting link that starts out with a picture of E. Shackleton waiving his hat. It also has some recent color photos of the expedition's hut preserved in the cold.

http://www.polartrec.com/node/228
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Fantastic guys!

:)

I knew this was the right place to ask such a stupid obsessive question...

Thank you all very much!

:) :) :)

Great links!
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Us? Obsessive?
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Oh, not you Maboot.

I mean the other people....

I would never call you obsessive.... :[
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Long John Tinfoil wrote:To put on his head. Sort of like why a fireman wears red braces/suspenders.LJ :Plymouth:
I've never worn a fedora to keep my pants up.
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Yeah, they don't hold up your pants, and apparently you can only put them on your head. See this thread for details:

viewtopic.php?t=37353
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Re: Shackleton's Fedora

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Just because you didn't ask, here's something non-hat related about Shackleton. ;)

http://indygear.com/cow/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=48137
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I found a close-up of Shackleton wearing the fedora in the previous picture, pulling off the Steve Delk look quite nicely :lol: .

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Ian wrote:I found a close-up of Shackleton wearing the fedora in the previous picture, pulling off the Steve Delk look quite nicely :lol: .

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Nice one, Ian.

Thanks! :TOH:
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Re: Shackleton's Fedora

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I think he wore a Christy's and an HJ, but was on the waiting list for an ABD...
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