The back of the brim is often left out of pics and posts of hats. How many different variations were there? ie. brim turned down, 'snapped' up, curled up (as in KotCS outside hanger scene)?
I know a lot of Raider Fedora's, specifically almost all the 'licensed' ones I've seen, have the rear of the brim turned down.
The back of the brim- how many different 'looks'?
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The back of the brim never looks quite all the way down to me, but in some scenes from Raiders, esp. the SOC scenes, it looks almost flat. It can be very hard to get a true snap brim to look that way without steaming or ironing it. Some have suggested dampening the brim and weighing it down with books until dry.
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the raiders hat had a really tiny curl at the edge of the rear brim.....from far away it looks pretty flat but i was corrected in a previous post. one thing that is quite distinctive of the hero hat is that the rear left brim is typically 'kicked' up....perhaps a result of how the hat was turned.
the waterfall hat had the flanged curl at the rear but this dies off quite quickly as brim gets to the sides. makes for quite a distinctive look that you see right when the hero is introduced.
you'll see the TOD cockpit fedora has a true snap down brim at the rear. it can be seen when indy is looking at either failing engines. i think this was a result of ford just throwing the crumpled fedora quickly onto his noggin after willie wakes him up.
now the CS has a perfect flange all the way around the back....but if you look really close.....it's a little crinkled from the costumer's distressing. it just reinforces the fact that hollywood can try to make this hat look old, but the hat will fight back
the waterfall hat had the flanged curl at the rear but this dies off quite quickly as brim gets to the sides. makes for quite a distinctive look that you see right when the hero is introduced.
you'll see the TOD cockpit fedora has a true snap down brim at the rear. it can be seen when indy is looking at either failing engines. i think this was a result of ford just throwing the crumpled fedora quickly onto his noggin after willie wakes him up.
now the CS has a perfect flange all the way around the back....but if you look really close.....it's a little crinkled from the costumer's distressing. it just reinforces the fact that hollywood can try to make this hat look old, but the hat will fight back
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