I'm literally from Bad Homburg. Never thought I'd see my hometown on this channel 😀 Great guide, and since I'm from Bad Homburg I shall try the Homburg
Several years ago, I inherited a vintage homburg in dark blue from my late great-uncle, that I had cleaned and reblocked. This video helps me to be more confident about how and when to wear this great hat. Thank you!
Of all these, I'm a pork-pie hat man, myself. I'm a short guy, but with a slender build, I tend to go for the ones with a flat brim and shorter crown. I find it goes with all sorts of things I tend to wear, be it causal or smarter, very versatile.
Superfluous compliment: I absolutely love your glasses. They make the entire video. Sincere compliment: Helpful and informative video. Your glasses fit properly and compliment your style well. Thank you
It is interesting to note the attention a brown porkpie will get. (n fact any pork pie that is not black attracts attention. I have been thrilled to see pork pies in colours other than black. I have decided to get a brown one. I'm a retired musician that wore a black porkpie hat for years.
Fedora or Trilby for me. Love all the old noir films from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Wore a fedora often with a Pierre Cardin black wool overcoat when I live and worked in NYC. I still like a straw fedora or Trilby for summer. Even for sports teams I like this look. I just purchased an orange with black band straw Trilby and stuck a clear button logo for the Baltimore Orioles on it.
I've recently moved back up north from the tropics. Hats have become a part of my new wardrobe. My preferences are the English Flat Cap, the Diamond Pork Pie and the Round Crown Pork Pie.
Dear Preston, you have got the most clearest aacent that I have ever heard. Can you please give me tips on how to clear my accent as well and I would be grateful if you make a video on how to clear accent. God bless you and continue with your best work. Thanks.☺
Really good content Preston. I've been studying hats for a brief period of time and begun to see how stiles changed with the time, and I think some of them should come back. For me one of the greatest hats of history that loss his space on wardrobes with the centuries was the tricorne hat, an old fashion from the 18th century. I really think that bring it back to these days would be amazing. Anyway, great video and hugs from Brazil. By the way sorry if I wrote something wrong, my English is a work in progress.
I bought a burgundy homburg from Firenze few years back, and it seems to go well with black, gray and even white. Definitely makes me feel more upper classy, and seems to ask for more formal attire in order to feel good. Made me also buy a white panama hat for summer use, as it doesn't require formal wear, and goes well with lighter summer styles.
I added a fedora and a trilby to my dress wear. Tried a homburg but was to big for my face but I love them😂. Maybe if I can find one with a lower crown. Great video, thanks
I'm more of a bowler hat kind of person, and I wear flat caps on casual occasions. I do have a soft spot for homburg, too bad the one I have doesn't match my head shape. At one time in my life I did wear a fedora / trilby, but nowadays there is a stigma attached to it.
My absolute favorite is the pork pie hat!🎩 I'm obsessed 🤠😊 reminds me of Boho/Nomad style and also reminds me of the 90s specifically a 90s college based sitcom called A different world. Many of the characters were hat wearers.
I have a black Henschel pork pie hat, which I wear with the brim snapped all the way down. It was only offered in black. It's the shortest brimmed hat I own at 2 inches, with the rest of my hats being 2.5 or 3 inches. I have a long oval face, and while a pork pie may be considered short, I still like how it looks on me. Definitely more of a casual style, but stylish nonetheless. Thank you for the videos.
Happen to have a vintage trilby in olive rabbit fur that had a single top crease in it when I got it after Grandpa passed away. The brim edge was folded over and sewn. I had to resize it by a full inch. The hatter used the original sweatband, and inserted a piece of leather. I preferred the open dress crease and had dimples added to the front. The brim was abnormally short so I had the hatter un-stitch the brim and bind it in black ribbon. The original wide black ribbon band was retained along with the wind string.
Just started the collection, with an Epsom narrow band trilby, Bessemer and the other silver-grey , looking forward to the more formal Homberg in Black!
Dang, Preston! Your outfit today was very nice! Glad to see this video. I have a couple of trilbies, but I've been afraid to wear them, because here at Iowa State, nobody dresses traditionally anymore, not even professors. Even though I always try my best to wear them the right way, with collared shirts, especially when wearing sweaters over my dress shirts, and I have a strong jawline, nose, and forehead. That said, I still never felt like I have the confidence to wear them because nobody else does, and due to the stigma. I have one in all black with a black band and one in sort of a grey tweed with a black band, so they're also traditional. Great video! Thanks for letting me know I can get away with wearing them! It's great to see how you've progressed Preston! Noticeably less nervous and much more confident! Keep it up!
I tend to prefer my Fedora or a Trilby. And I'll wear a sort of Pork Pie hat when working outdoors in the summertime or on vacation in summer. Well another good video Preston, keep going, your doing a good job.
I wear a fedora on a daily basis - both on my way to and from work, and during my leisure time. In the summer I tend to wear either a white or cream Panama with a navy band, or a khaki canvas Panama with a brown leather band
Merci pour cette belle leçon , Un chapeau défini bien le caractère de celui qui le porte , avec ce coté très chic et de noblesse . Nous aimons les chapeaux en France tout comme notre histoire . Salut Hubert
1920’s newsboy hat. Every early Superman new room shot the guys wore trilby. I wore one every Sunday to church as a kid. I have grown the appreciate the larger brim of the fedora or even a more oversized brim.
Interesting video. I have never seen any of these hat styles IRL. In my neck of the woods you will most predominantly find the trucker and the baseball.
I wear a beige trilby to match a vintage London Fog gabardine for practical reasons: I cannot wear a regular toque (french Canadian tuque) made of wool in winter. Whatever hat I wear has to have an inner lining. For my Aquascutum long overcoat (I do not share Raphael's opinion on overcoats that fall well below the knees) I wear rabbit wool hard anthracite Pannizi. Here again, the intention is practical; the hat is water proof and is perfect to wear with a Barbour jacket also. So it is a good solution if you don't want to lug around an umbrella.
I have a quality hat which sits between a Homburg and a Trilby, with a notable evenly up-curled shortish brim. Think Run DMC. Wouldn't mind getting a English origin Trilby as were popular with Mods.
Preston, you could wear more elegant shoes than the boring black derbies we've seen often. Anyway, another great video, I just bought my first brimmed hat today - a navy blue trilby.
I'm going to be super honest. I didn't like Preston at all at first. He was just lacking the right tone and confidence to be on gentleman's gazette (Compared to Raphael, that is). But after watching this video, I see some awesome improvements. Please keep up the good work, Preston. It's nice to see you on GG.
I've started wearing a trilby (a cheap black one) to school and most guys make fun of me for it, but lots of girls compliment it so I guess it evens out. Also everyone calls it a fedora.
I know these hat videos are a little old now but I love hats. My daily hat is a dark grey tweed flat cap but I'm looking for something a little more unique that I can wear a lot and can serve as a semi casual hat but also a formal brimmed hat. I'm about 6.1 ft tall, slightly stocky build, with a large chest length beard and I like to wear dark jeans cuffed at the ankles. Any recommendations?
I have a 100 percent wool overcoat. That I recently had professionally dyed from navy blue to black. I want to bring it to the dry cleaners just once because during the dying process it got a tad wrinkled and weathered looking, but I'm concerned that the dry cleaning process may affect the dye in the wool and have it fade closer back to navy blue. Do you have any wisdom on this matter?
since i don't have quite as much hair as i once had, I'm thinking of starting to wear hats. Of all the hats in this video, the one i thought was by far the best was the trilby the host himself was wearing. Does anyone know the name for the shade of brown it's in? It would go well with my clothes
advice on wearing a brown fedora/trilby with black ribbon? I have a vintge Cavanagh hat (w/ edge) in these colors. traditional fashion rules were not to pair brown and black, but rules were meant to be broken (and in a hat , on a black-skinned person who is brown skinned and black haired, can't be too faux pas?) (the has on the background rack at 8:46)
There are certain styles of western crossover hats that are both cowboy and formal. The most popular and well known of these is the Stetson “Open Road” hat. This style features a brim that is more like a fedora, and a western “rancher” style crease on the crown.
Most Homburgs I've seen don't have a crease along the crown - I'm not talking about the top centre crease here - but rather a crease along the side of the crown. Everyone I've seen with a crease has a crease along the middle of the crown rather than towards the centre front. Gregory Peck, in the movie The Big Country, wears a cool looking straw Homburg with the side crease.
I'm literally from Bad Homburg. Never thought I'd see my hometown on this channel 😀
Great guide, and since I'm from Bad Homburg I shall try the Homburg
Gruß aus Offenbach :)
Gruß aus Visselhövede
Your esprit de corps is inspiring.
@@2bitrasputin793 Unser Korpsgeist ist gewaltig. :D
Just don't accidently wear a bad homburg ;)
Several years ago, I inherited a vintage homburg in dark blue from my late great-uncle, that I had cleaned and reblocked. This video helps me to be more confident about how and when to wear this great hat. Thank you!
Of all these, I'm a pork-pie hat man, myself. I'm a short guy, but with a slender build, I tend to go for the ones with a flat brim and shorter crown. I find it goes with all sorts of things I tend to wear, be it causal or smarter, very versatile.
The Homburg has always been my first choice for formal wear, appealing to the Gentleman in me! Very grateful for your guidance Sir! 🙏🏽
Superfluous compliment: I absolutely love your glasses. They make the entire video.
Sincere compliment: Helpful and informative video. Your glasses fit properly and compliment your style well. Thank you
Wearing a brown pork pie around Barcelona for the last 3 days and receiving many curious and positive looks.
It is interesting to note the attention a brown porkpie will get. (n fact any pork pie that is not black attracts attention. I have been thrilled to see pork pies in colours other than black. I have decided to get a brown one. I'm a retired musician that wore a black porkpie hat for years.
Hola
That guy is dressed for a 50’s film. He suits what he is wearing and make no mistake, that is no compliment!
Fedora or Trilby for me. Love all the old noir films from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Wore a fedora often with a Pierre Cardin black wool overcoat when I live and worked in NYC. I still like a straw fedora or Trilby for summer. Even for sports teams I like this look. I just purchased an orange with black band straw Trilby and stuck a clear button logo for the Baltimore Orioles on it.
Nice to see Preston back. Another great video.
I'm seriously considering a bowler (derby) hat. Patiently awaiting a video on these hats with advice for wearing and matching.
That jawline is so sharp I can cut wood with it
How do you think he get his suits so tailored
I love the look of a homburg...it’s classic, distinguished, and stylish. Jeremy Brett often wore one when acting as Sherlock Holmes.
I am a huge fan of the pork pie hat, and have 4 in various colors and materials.
I've recently moved back up north from the tropics. Hats have become a part of my new wardrobe. My preferences are the English Flat Cap, the Diamond Pork Pie and the Round Crown Pork Pie.
Very informative as usual, information well presented. ! 'm looking to incorporate a Fedora & Trilby soon,
Dear Preston, you have got the most clearest aacent that I have ever heard. Can you please give me tips on how to clear my accent as well and I would be grateful if you make a video on how to clear accent. God bless you and continue with your best work.
Thanks.☺
@B B I think Sean Connery had some advice on that.
Can't wait for the top hat and bolwer videos!
Stay tuned! :)
- Preston
Amen
@@gentlemansgazette Will do! I've been looking for a guide on how to pull off a bowler/derby hat.
Im thinking about a marine blue Homburg. Very daring but somehow i instantly felt drawn to it when i saw it.
Really good content Preston. I've been studying hats for a brief period of time and begun to see how stiles changed with the time, and I think some of them should come back. For me one of the greatest hats of history that loss his space on wardrobes with the centuries was the tricorne hat, an old fashion from the 18th century. I really think that bring it back to these days would be amazing.
Anyway, great video and hugs from Brazil. By the way sorry if I wrote something wrong, my English is a work in progress.
I bought a burgundy homburg from Firenze few years back, and it seems to go well with black, gray and even white. Definitely makes me feel more upper classy, and seems to ask for more formal attire in order to feel good. Made me also buy a white panama hat for summer use, as it doesn't require formal wear, and goes well with lighter summer styles.
I stand informed. Thank you.
I added a fedora and a trilby to my dress wear. Tried a homburg but was to big for my face but I love them😂. Maybe if I can find one with a lower crown. Great video, thanks
Another great presentation by Preston. A joy to watch!
I like that Preston is back for another video! For a while - it was a little weird for him to be on here, but I'm used to him being on here now!
Yep! Would feel quite odd if he now disappeared all of a sudden.
I love the channel, it really helped me on improving my style
I'm more of a bowler hat kind of person, and I wear flat caps on casual occasions. I do have a soft spot for homburg, too bad the one I have doesn't match my head shape. At one time in my life I did wear a fedora / trilby, but nowadays there is a stigma attached to it.
My absolute favorite is the pork pie hat!🎩 I'm obsessed 🤠😊 reminds me of Boho/Nomad style and also reminds me of the 90s specifically a 90s college based sitcom called A different world. Many of the characters were hat wearers.
How can people NOT love hats?! They are fun. I am a religious Jew and wear a trilby.
Released 4 years ago, and yet perfectly timed.
Preston, you look in this video is impeccable 👍🏻
I look good in Panama, Fedora, Trilby, and Flatcaps. I've yet to try a Homburg, but its next on my list!
As you see, I got one (actually two, a brown and a black Homburg) best looking hat Ive ever worn!
I have a black Henschel pork pie hat, which I wear with the brim snapped all the way down. It was only offered in black. It's the shortest brimmed hat I own at 2 inches, with the rest of my hats being 2.5 or 3 inches. I have a long oval face, and while a pork pie may be considered short, I still like how it looks on me. Definitely more of a casual style, but stylish nonetheless. Thank you for the videos.
Happen to have a vintage trilby in olive rabbit fur that had a single top crease in it when I got it after Grandpa passed away. The brim edge was folded over and sewn. I had to resize it by a full inch. The hatter used the original sweatband, and inserted a piece of leather. I preferred the open dress crease and had dimples added to the front. The brim was abnormally short so I had the hatter un-stitch the brim and bind it in black ribbon. The original wide black ribbon band was retained along with the wind string.
Can i just say how awesome preston looks in a hat
Just started the collection, with an Epsom narrow band trilby, Bessemer and the other silver-grey , looking forward to the more formal Homberg in Black!
Thanks Preston. I was so set on wearing a trilby to work (till they messed up my screening aaahh) but right now a flat cap will have to suffice 🤟🏼
Lol!
Dang, Preston! Your outfit today was very nice! Glad to see this video. I have a couple of trilbies, but I've been afraid to wear them, because here at Iowa State, nobody dresses traditionally anymore, not even professors. Even though I always try my best to wear them the right way, with collared shirts, especially when wearing sweaters over my dress shirts, and I have a strong jawline, nose, and forehead. That said, I still never felt like I have the confidence to wear them because nobody else does, and due to the stigma. I have one in all black with a black band and one in sort of a grey tweed with a black band, so they're also traditional. Great video! Thanks for letting me know I can get away with wearing them! It's great to see how you've progressed Preston! Noticeably less nervous and much more confident! Keep it up!
Go on, wear them out, gray with black, i seem to notice they're coming back in style this year
I love the look of the Homburg; glad to learn us round-faced guys can wear one.
TRILBY AND HOMBURG MY TWO FAVE!!!
I'm a fan of the straw pork pie. Great work, again, Preston!
I tend to prefer my Fedora or a Trilby. And I'll wear a sort of Pork Pie hat when working outdoors in the summertime or on vacation in summer. Well another good video Preston, keep going, your doing a good job.
AND THANK U FOR THIS LESSON I'VE FOUND IT MOST USEFUL AND INFORMATIVE
I wear a fedora on a daily basis - both on my way to and from work, and during my leisure time. In the summer I tend to wear either a white or cream Panama with a navy band, or a khaki canvas Panama with a brown leather band
Merci pour cette belle leçon ,
Un chapeau défini bien le caractère de celui qui le porte , avec ce coté très chic et de noblesse .
Nous aimons les chapeaux en France tout comme notre histoire .
Salut
Hubert
This lads pose/expression when he is trying on hats is hilarious.
I like the Homburg, I would probably get one With a little bigger brim, like 3.75” or 4”, nice pencil curl with a binding.
great video . I am shopping now for a Homburg
Where did you get the Homburg used in this video? That is the style for me.
Talk about timing; I just left a comment on another video talking about how Preston grows on you!! 😄😄
1920’s newsboy hat. Every early Superman new room shot the guys wore trilby. I wore one every Sunday to church as a kid. I have grown the appreciate the larger brim of the fedora or even a more oversized brim.
I love me a good old classic hat
Interesting video. I have never seen any of these hat styles IRL. In my neck of the woods you will most predominantly find the trucker and the baseball.
I love my dark brown homburg, but typically wear a wool felt dark gray fedora.
I love hats nice job
You guys are so close to 1M Subs!
So classy. Love it.
Unrelated but would you guys ever do a video on using an umbrella during sunny summer days? Something that you dont see often on style channels.
I LOVE THE TRILBY YOU WEAR.
Surprised that it's the higher end caps that have sewn down top and not the snaps, I would of guessed the other way around.... Another Great Video👍🏻
As a tenor saxophonist,
pork pie hats are completely necessary.
Superb comment and totally understand what you mean. I can see your silhouette as i read it. Cool!
Hat stores need to make a comeback.
Ones that sell CLASSIC mens hats, not overpriced ball caps
Village hats and thers a st luis hatter online as well
@@michaelbell3952 I mean brick and mortar stores, where one can go and try them on
Thank you, I needed this, this answered so many questions.
Trilby as the host is wearing, i wear a formal bucket/ fishing type hats as i don't wear suits but button up shirts and dress pants
I wear a beige trilby to match a vintage London Fog gabardine for practical reasons: I cannot wear a regular toque (french Canadian tuque) made of wool in winter. Whatever hat I wear has to have an inner lining. For my Aquascutum long overcoat (I do not share Raphael's opinion on overcoats that fall well below the knees) I wear rabbit wool hard anthracite Pannizi. Here again, the intention is practical; the hat is water proof and is perfect to wear with a Barbour jacket also. So it is a good solution if you don't want to lug around an umbrella.
I have a quality hat which sits between a Homburg and a Trilby, with a notable evenly up-curled shortish brim. Think Run DMC.
Wouldn't mind getting a English origin Trilby as were popular with Mods.
Preston, you could wear more elegant shoes than the boring black derbies we've seen often. Anyway, another great video, I just bought my first brimmed hat today - a navy blue trilby.
How about a pirate hat?
Do you have to have a parrot on your shoulders for that??
Mostly hats accentuate my teutonic features, and people keep showing me their papers. The hat you were wearing looked sharp.
Of the three styles in this video, I’m most a homburg fan.
Great video, very informative!
thx p - i have trilbys and fedoras and love them; i don't have the nerve to don a homburg or a porkpie yet but am working on it...
Trilby/ full fedora in mine in the future hopefully!
That black Homburg hat reminds me almost looks like Dutch Van der Linde's hat from Red Dead Redemption 2, anyway great video as usual Preston!
Wasn't dutch hat was an pork pie tho?the homburg in rdr2 look like an tribly too
@@heinzguderianbutmoreyounge9659 go watch more gentlemen gazette videos lol pork pie? the dutch van der linde hat is a western homburg!
More Preston this guy is amazing!
Great video. I love my Pork Pie Hats
Trillby is my favorite hat. Seems to be a good choice if walking or taking public transportation to work.
Fedora is the way to go, its classic and just looks great with anything.
I have trilby's, a Homburg, a pork pie & a bowler, out of these I mainly wear my trilby's....... I'm yet to wear the bowler to press.
I'm going to be super honest.
I didn't like Preston at all at first. He was just lacking the right tone and confidence to be on gentleman's gazette (Compared to Raphael, that is).
But after watching this video, I see some awesome improvements.
Please keep up the good work, Preston. It's nice to see you on GG.
yeah i was at my local hat store and i saw a trilby being refereed to as a fedora
FASTASTIC video. Many thanks!!
I've started wearing a trilby (a cheap black one) to school and most guys make fun of me for it, but lots of girls compliment it so I guess it evens out. Also everyone calls it a fedora.
Good job. Intriguing, interesting and informative. Thanks so much
I know these hat videos are a little old now but I love hats. My daily hat is a dark grey tweed flat cap but I'm looking for something a little more unique that I can wear a lot and can serve as a semi casual hat but also a formal brimmed hat. I'm about 6.1 ft tall, slightly stocky build, with a large chest length beard and I like to wear dark jeans cuffed at the ankles. Any recommendations?
I couldn't help but seeing a few celebrities and characters in movies. It would be great if you had a history of hats in American cinema.
I've occasionally worn a Triby usually with tweed.
A list of quality hat brands would be most helpful.
There are so many custom hatters out there that the list would be pretty darn long.
Christys', Stetson, Borsalino, Biltmore, Milano, Barbisio, etc.
Don't forget akubra. Absolutely brilliant hatmaker in Australia
I have a 100 percent wool overcoat. That I recently had professionally dyed from navy blue to black. I want to bring it to the dry cleaners just once because during the dying process it got a tad wrinkled and weathered looking, but I'm concerned that the dry cleaning process may affect the dye in the wool and have it fade closer back to navy blue. Do you have any wisdom on this matter?
As a bari sax player i enjoy your intro music
since i don't have quite as much hair as i once had, I'm thinking of starting to wear hats. Of all the hats in this video, the one i thought was by far the best was the trilby the host himself was wearing. Does anyone know the name for the shade of brown it's in? It would go well with my clothes
Can the hats be pulled off while wearing casual clothes, not 3 piece suits and such? Great video btw.
advice on wearing a brown fedora/trilby with black ribbon? I have a vintge Cavanagh hat (w/ edge) in these colors. traditional fashion rules were not to pair brown and black, but rules were meant to be broken (and in a hat , on a black-skinned person who is brown skinned and black haired, can't be too faux pas?)
(the has on the background rack at 8:46)
What about cowboy hat?
is it possible to wear such a hat and still look formal?
There are certain styles of western crossover hats that are both cowboy and formal. The most popular and well known of these is the Stetson “Open Road” hat. This style features a brim that is more like a fedora, and a western “rancher” style crease on the crown.
Most Homburgs I've seen don't have a crease along the crown - I'm not talking about the top centre crease here - but rather a crease along the side of the crown. Everyone I've seen with a crease has a crease along the middle of the crown rather than towards the centre front. Gregory Peck, in the movie The Big Country, wears a cool looking straw Homburg with the side crease.
Pork pie hat reminds me of Kolchak (Night Stalker) and Popeye Doyle (French Connection) and Buster Keaton who made his own.
Dude you look like a character from Mad Men! Keep it up!
I usually wear a hat for shade. From the sun. Sometimes for pretension, but not often
Yeah gentleman's gazette is back to save a shorty like me who wants to wear a hat~
I used to have the same issue, try a trilby snapped upwards or flat if possible
Please do an "Is it Worth It" about the St. James fedora from Locke and Co.
Trilby is mine. I have one with a bowler in a box from my college days in the 1980s. hhmmm!
More formal is homburg or bowler?
A bowler, due to its stiff shape. I think it's reinforced with shellac and therefore comes a close second to the equally stiff top hat.
@@iansoutryer3189 ok thx