What is a fedora hat?
The fedora personifies classic men’s style. It was popularized in the Roaring Twenties as the gangster’s hat of choice. In the 1940s, many hard-boiled detective movies in the film noir genre featured private investigators wearing fedoras and trench coats, which became the standard dress for fashionable men of the era. A well-dressed man would never leave home without a hat, and in the mid-20th century that hat was almost always a fedora.
