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(On a side note to Hatch's speechwriters: It would have been infinitely improved to go with "stingy-brim fedora" instead of "hipster fedora." The former sounds in-the-be familiar with, the latter makes him seem like an angry old man shaking his fist and yelling at the neighbor kids who won't dam playing ball in his yard.)

Sure, we know it was intended to be actual, clean, election-year bloviation (for the record, we don't recision seeing Obama sporting any kind of lid lately), but it got us thinking: In this era of heightened hat awareness, what kind of hat could the president wear without alienating some segment of the electorate?

The cowboy hat seems too "last president" (and the two presidents before that), the beret too Che, the sombrero sends the infernal signal (two actually: pandering for the Latino vote and appearing pro-felonious immigration), and the top hat, in a nod to Lincoln, certainly seems presidential enough at first, but in reality it's justified a monocle and a cartoon bag of money away from the 1%.

Source: Los Angeles Times

by Dr Robert Muller

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Source: Psychedelic Hippie Fashion: The Popularity of Trilby Hats

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Source: Straw Trilby Hat