Club Obi Wan

Very cool story. Thanks for posting it...I'd never heard of that tradition with them before.

It must be a culture shock when DragonCon comes to town, as there are more fedoras spread around those attendees than you can shake a stick at.

Regards! Michaelson

I guess they wear them like badges. They get their first one when they solve their first murder.

That was a great story!

Thanks,
Frank

Sweet! That is a super cool story. Elliot Ness would be proud!

Homicide detectives are a quirky bunch anyway. You have to be a little "off" to do that job. Watch "The First 48" sometime on A&E and you get a great idea of what they go through.

Of course, if non-fiction isn't your thing, try "The Wire". Fedoras definitely make an appearance in that one.

thats great. Thanks for sharing.

Great story, make you wonder how long before hats make a return to totally mainstream.

Hats aren't totally mainstream?

LJ

My prediction is that they will not be mainstream in our lifetimes. Don't hold your breath. Just wear them, look silly, and be happy. That's what I do.

That was a great story. I really enjoyed. It.

I seriously thought about being a homocide detective for a long time but decided not to becuase there is no way to not take you work home with you.

Dave

Great story. It's funny, but since I was a kid I've sort of always had a picture in my mind of detectives and reporters wearing fedoras, must be I watched too many movies!!!

DR Ulloa wrote:That was a great story. I really enjoyed. It.

I seriously thought about being a homocide detective for a long time but decided not to becuase there is no way to not take you work home with you.

Dave

I never had a problem with it. I brought a lot of things home with me, but I never brought any dead bodies home. My wife wouldn't stand for it. She yelled at me when she saw some pictures of a homicide in my car. She thought that was gross. I said, "honey, you watch CSI, you know we are supposed to take pictures".

Interesting reading. Thanks for posting!

I wish we would have had fedoras. We had a hat that looked like a milkman's hat from back in the day when there were milkmen. It was butt ugly. The only time I ever wore it was when we were required to wear it when we had our dress uniform on. How we won a best dressed police department award with that hat, I will never know.

Interesting story, great read!

Not too sure about this though:

"They want to dress like guys they admire," Linkwald says.

Anybody around here ever feel like that?

From the photo caption:

The fedora commands respect, says a retired Atlanta police lieutenant.

Imagine the respect they could command by adding a whip!

Vindy wrote:From the photo caption:

The fedora commands respect, says a retired Atlanta police lieutenant.

Imagine the respect they could command by adding a whip!

I've thought about bringing it to work with me to see how my students would react.

Dave

I wear mine to work a couple of times a week, and just about every day, I get "Hey Indy" from all the other white guys.

I'm not sure what line of work you are in, but is there a specific reason you only get that reaction from the white guys?

I have NO IDEA either. I just noticed that in my office, treatment of my hat differs along racial lines.

I work in an office that has mostly African Americans on one side of the building and mostly white people on the other.

I only get jokes and jeers from the white guys, whereas compliments only come from the black guys.

I haven't a clue why this is, but it is an interesting observation.

I can only guess that it is a cultural thing. A lot of the African Americans in my office wear a lot of bling. Big gold chains and flashy accessories. The white guys are mostly in polo shirts or button down shirts and khakis, very plain.

So I think that may be the difference.

DR Ulloa wrote:

Vindy wrote:From the photo caption:

The fedora commands respect, says a retired Atlanta police lieutenant.

Imagine the respect they could command by adding a whip!

I've thought about bringing it to work with me to see how my students would react.

Dave

We need more discipline in classrooms, and i think the whip might do that. But make sure you've got a camera going before you crack it the first time.

And I work with G-men (hope to be an agent one day), and have done little to nothing other than law enforcement in my life. Yes we're a quirky bunch and all of us have seen those movies and have to have "that" lid. They're very popular, and its probably the only reason i wear one all the time. But we think we look cool, with our fedoras and trench coats! LOL ;-)