Well, I guess I feel a whole lot better about friends thinking my felt DP outback hat looks like Indy's. It's a lot closer than Indy's fedora is to a top hat.
Truth is, I don't really pull off the fedora well, my avatar pic notwithstanding. My head's the wrong shape or something. The outback hat, now, that works. I wear it travelling, camping, just general adventuring. Never gotten a public comment, but probably because I wear it in environments when you are likely to see somewhat ... rural folk wearing hats as well. Or older folks travelling in panamas and such.
Character recognition is a @#$% shoot these days with young people, for sure. I work with a woman, 24, who honestly doesn't know who Clint Eastwood is.
Cordially,
Lord Clarence MacDonald