Homburg (hat)

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Homburg (hat)

A homburg is a stiff felt

Felt

Felt is a non-weave cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers. While some types of felt are very soft, some are tough enough to form construction materials....
hat

Hat

A hat is a headcovering. It may be worn for protection against the elements, for religious reasons, for safety, or as a fashion accessory. In the past, hats were an indicator of social status....
characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby

Trilby

A trilby hat is a soft felt men's hat with a narrow brim, a deeply indented crown, and a pinch at the front. Traditionally it was made from rabbit hair felt, but is now sometimes made from other materials, including tweed and wool....
or fedora

Fedora (hat)

A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the Hat#Parts of a hat and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown are occasionally called fedoras....
; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is fixed.

The homburg is typically made from wool

Wool

Wool is the fiber derived from the specialized skin cells, called follicles, of animals in the Caprinae family, principally domestic sheep, but the hair of certain species of other Mammalia such as cashmere goat, llamas, rabbits and keeshonds may also be called wool....
or fur felt and has a grosgrain

Grosgrain

Grosgrain is a closely woven fabric which has fine horizontal ribs....
hatband and brim treatment with an optional feather

Feather

Feathers are one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates....
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A homburg is a stiff felt

Felt

Felt is a non-weave cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers. While some types of felt are very soft, some are tough enough to form construction materials....
hat

Hat

Trilby

Fedora (hat)

Wool

Grosgrain

Grosgrain is a closely woven fabric which has fine horizontal ribs....
hatband and brim treatment with an optional feather

Feather

Feathers are one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates....
. A variant form is the "lord's hat", which lacks the edge ribbon, and may, optionally, be pinched.

It was popularized by Edward VII

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII was Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910....
after he visited Bad Homburg

Bad Homburg

Bad Homburg vor der H?he is the main town of the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, Germany, on the southern slope of the Taunus, bordering among others Frankfurt am Main and Oberursel ....
in Hesse, Germany, and brought back a hat of this style. Like the trilby

Trilby

Fedora (hat)

A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the Hat#Parts of a hat and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown are occasionally called fedoras....
, the homburg was once quite popular and is still available in almost any color, but the most common colors are black, grey, and brown. In Britain a black homburg became widely known in the 1930s as an "Anthony Eden

Anthony Eden hat

An "Anthony Eden" hat, or simply an "Anthony Eden", was a silk-brimmed, black felt Homburg of the kind favoured in the 1930s by Anthony Eden, later 1st Earl of Avon ....
" after the Government Minister of that name.

In formality, the homburg ranks just below the top hat

Top Hat

Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
, and above hats such as the bowler

Bowler hat

File:Olga Petrova with Knox Riding Hat,1915.jpgThe bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby or billycock, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for Edward Coke, the younger brother of the Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester....
or fedora. It is appropriate (often with a topcoat) with a stroller

Stroller (style)

The stroller, also known as a Stresemann, a director, or simply black lounge is a form of men's semi-formal daytime dress comprising a single- or double-breasted, one- or two-button, peaked-lapel coat , grey striped or checked trousers, a necktie , and a waistcoat ....
, or with black tie

Black tie

Black tie is a dress code for semi-formal evening events, and is worn to many types of social functions. For a man, the major component is a jacket, known as a dinner jacket or tuxedo , which is usually black but is also seen in midnight blue....
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In American popular culture the hat is often associated with gangsters and is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "Godfather hat," due to its iconic presence in The Godfather

The Godfather

The Godfather is an Cinema of the United States crime film film based on the The Godfather by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne, who was not credited....
film series, where it is the hat of choice of Michael Corleone

Michael Corleone

Don Michael Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novels, The Godfather and The Sicilian. He is also the main character of the film trilogy that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which he was portrayed by Al Pacino....
once he becomes the don of the Corleone crime family.

It was also made famous as a trademark of British comedian Tony Hancock

Tony Hancock

Anthony John "Tony" Hancock was a popular British actor and comedian....
. Flower power

Flower power

Flower power was a slogan used by hippies during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of non-violence ideology. It is rooted in opposition to the Vietnam War....
pop group Procol Harum

Procol Harum

Procol Harum are a United Kingdom Rock music band, formed in the 1960s, which built an important foundation for what would become progressive rock, or perhaps more closely, symphonic rock....
had a hit single "Homburg" in 1967 about the hat. The biggest names in the world of hip-hop music brought it back into style in the late 1990s and is still popular with many artists of today. Many of the hats sold as "Godfather homburgs" have a wider brim than a regular homburg, with the brim rolled up more on the sides, like a bowler.