How to do a Fedora Flip (How to, tutorial)

This is a how to, tutorial, on how to do a really cool fedora flip trick. I taught myself how to do this move with a fedora, porkpie or Trilby hat. It makes for an impressive exit :)

A little History on the hat we all love so much.
The word fedora comes from the title of an 1882 play by Victorien Sardou, Fédora, written for Sarah Bernhardt. Bernhardt played Princess Fédora in the play, and wore a hat similar to what is now considered a fedora. The fedora after that became a female fashion which lasted into the early part of the 20th century, when the fedora then became a male fashion item. A fedora is a felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides. The creasing does not define the hat, however. Fedoras can be creased with teardrop crowns, diamonds, center dents, and others, and the positioning of pinches can vary. The brim goes all the way around the crown and can be left raw edge, finished with a sewn overwelt or underwelt, bound with grosgrain ribbon, or finished with a self-felted cavanagh edge. Fedoras can be found in nearly any color imaginable, but black, grey, tan, and brown are the most popular, this does not however, define them.

Interestingly enough, we also owe the TRILBY hat to literature. The Trilby hat is a soft felt men's hat with a narrow brim and a deeply indented crown. Traditionally it was made from rabbit hair felt, but now it is made from other materials, such as tweed, or wool. They are similar to fedoras, but with a narrower brim. The hat's name derives from a play based on George du Maurier's 1894 novel, Trilby. A hat of this style was worn on stage during the play's first London production.

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• Fedora
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[darkknightofrahnik]

What do you do that you wwear a suit

[HUNTERWORLDNATION]

@darkknightofrahnik I'm a magazine publisher.

[HUNTERWORLDNATION]

@leonard247popper I agree :) We are "Brothers of the Brim"

[mrppeetteerr]

wow thanks i did it on the first try...now to work on the precision thanks a lot bro!!!

[HUNTERWORLDNATION]

@MultiFedoraMan I just sent you one :)

[HUNTERWORLDNATION]

@MultiFedoraMan It's just a design that was sewn onto the hat. I bought that one in a costume shop and it is kinda unique.

[HUNTERWORLDNATION]

@MultiFedoraMan Hiya :) Thanks for the reminder, i'll make that the next video that I do... welcome to the fun btw, collecting hats is a great hobby that makes you look cool =)

[HUNTERWORLDNATION]

@MultiFedoraMan Hi, there are a lot of really great on line hat shops that I go to on a regular basis and also like to walk into Nordstrums, Tommy Bahamas, SteinMart, Macys, Saks 5th Ave and the smaller mall shops sometimes have cool unique stuff too like HotTopic. If you want, private message me and i'll send you a list of some cool on line hat stores

[HUNTERWORLDNATION]

@MultiFedoraMan Hey There, Thanks very much, glad you liked it and I hope you have fun with it.

[HUNTERWORLDNATION]

@AlexCookTheatre Thanks very much for the compliment. My collection has now grow to an embarrassing 70 hats LOL. At some point in the future i'll do an updated video of all of them :) Hope you are able to learn the move from the movie =)

[AlexCookTheatre]

I only have one main hat, but its a stetson fur felt fedora so its like, my baby! I'm trying to learn how to do the hat bounce from benny and joon, so this was not too helpful, but i like the vast collection of hats you have, tis impressive.

[MuffinPuffinFluff]

I find it cool if you tip your hat by doing the flip in reverse, then doing it normally.