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TRILBY LINEN-COTTON BEIGE

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Colour: Beige

Fabric: Linen-Cotton

Size: S, M, L, XL

Price: £XXXX

Code: XXXX

 

 

 
Trilby Hat

TWEED SNAP BRIM TRILBY

Don’t leave home without one, this 100% woollen water resistant tweed snap brim Trilby is as classic as an MG. Coming in an array of colours, no two are the same. 

Colour: Various Tweed 

Fabric: Wool

Size: S, M, L, XL

Price: £50

Code: 4

 

 

 
Trilby Hat

NARROW BRIM TRILBY

A basic black narrow brim Trilby hat, in a good qulaity black felt, this hat is an enduring masterpiece and compliments many looks. 

Colour: Black

Fabric: Wool

Size: S, M, L, XL

Price: £35

Code: 9

 

 

 

 
Trilby Hat

ADVENTURER WIDE BRIM TRILBY

The Adventurer is a 100% wool, crushable, water resistant, wide brimmed Trilby hat, with leather strap and is quite literally suitable for all adventures. Wonderful quality.

Colour: Brown, Olive Green

Fabric: Wool

Sizes: M, L

Price: £60

Code: 32

 

 

 
Shylock Hat

SNAP BRIM TRILBY

This is your ‘Man about Town’ classic trilby with a 2 inc brim and a jaunty feather (removable if required!). It can be worn brim up or down. It comes in a soft wool felt.

Colour: Brown, Black, Grey

Fabric: Wool

Size: S, M, L, XL

Price: £:42

Code: 102

 

 
Stingy Brim Trilby

STINGY BRIM TRILBY

The classic Trilby with a devilishly small 1 inch brim and a jaunty feather. This can be worn brim up or down at the front.

Colour: Brown, Black, Grey

Fabric: Wool

Size: S, M, L, XL

Price: £:42

Code: 103

 

 

Trilby Hats

 

A trilby hat (or simply trilby) is a soft felt man's hat with a deeply indented crown, and a pinch at the front. The brim is narrow and often sharply upturned at the back. Traditionally it was made from rabbit fur felt (Fur felt), but is now sometimes made from other materials, including Tweed and Wool. Trilbies are softer than Homburgs, and have a flexible brim instead of a curved one. Trilbies are similar to the Fedora, which can be seen as an American version with a wider brim. The hat's name derives from the stage adaptation of George De 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'.


They were widely worn from the late 1920s onwards, initially as a casual sporting hat, primarily at the races. By the end of World War II, it had largely supplanted other hats such as the Homburg and Bowler for wear with a suit or more casual country wear, although it never replaced the Flat Cap. It continued to be commonly worn until about the mid 1960s.


The hat has been associated with Jazz, Ska and soul musicians, as well as members of the Indie, Rude Boy, Mod, Skinhead and 2 Tone subcultures as well as Brit Rock.


The Trilby was a staple of the British movie industry from 1930 onwards, worn by Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter, and was later known, in tweed incarnation, as an old geezer hat, granddad hat. It is the stereotypical hat of the British Police Inspector and of their 80’s nemesis Arthur Daley.


More recently the Trilby, in black, has been the staple headwear of Pete Doherty who has almost single handedly started a revival for the Trilby.