(May 31, 2013 at 11:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: FWIW, the second one pictured is what I've always known as a fedora. Maybe it's an American thing. <shrug>
I know, right. Weird thing is, the trilby hat is a British thing according nto Wikipedia.
Quote:The hat's name derives from the stage adaptation of George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby; a hat of this style was worn in the first London production of the play, and promptly came to be called "a Trilby hat".
It also says it's the hat of choice for rich men, which is why I wear a fedora (using the proper names, here) It could be that the fedora just didn't catch on in the UK or when it did, the similarities to the trilby led to the fedora also being called trilby. Internet personality Yahtzee Croshaw refers to his hat as trilby when it's a fedora.
The whole thing is confusing, actually. There's liable to be a reason why the trilby is now called a fedora, it different shops and from different manufacturers. I'm sure it'a a complicated tale that boils down to "people are idiots."