Fedora

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Indiana Jones, Freddy Krueger, Michael Jackson. These are just a few names on whose head the fedora was spotted often. This felt hat has a front edge that is wider, a dent in length and two smaller dents in front. The hat is often associated with gangsters and private detectives wearing a long pale raincoat with a cigarette in the mouth, a stereotype that was formed by the film noir from the 1940s. Although the fedora is mainly worn by men, it was a woman who introduced the hat in 1889. In the American adaptation of the play Fédora by Victorien Sardou, the French actress and enfant terrible Sarah Bernhardt was wearing a hat very similar to what would later be called the fedora. 

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