THE MOVIE(S): The Indiana Jones films
THE HAT: During pre-production, director Steven Spielberg and costume designer Deborah Nadoolman decided to give the archeologist-hero of Raiders of the Lost Ark a signature look — and they found it in the Poet, a wide-brimmed rabbit-felt hat manufactured by Herbert Johnson Hat Company, a London-based firm that still serves the Royal family. To give it a well-worn look, the hat was artificially “distressed” by being repeatedly rolled, crushed and gently bleached.
OTHER FEDORA-WEARING CHARACTERS: Practically every hat-wearing character — from dads to gumshoes — before 1960; and Freddy Kreuger.
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