What's the difference between a bowler hat and a fedora?

Question

Just wandering what the difference is.

Answer 1

Check it out:

http://www.villagehatshop.com/media/jaxon-woolfelt-diamond-crown-fedora-main.jpg
http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/ffderby.jpg

Answer 2

Trilby Hat Vs Fedora

Answer 3

A Fedora or Fez is a small hat which is shaped like atube with a tassel on top, a Bowler hat has a rim and is a round hat i guess, Oliver Hardy wore a bowler hat in Laurel and Hardy and Tommy Cooper the comedian wore a fedora or fez.

Answer 4

A bowler hat is round on top. You see them a lot in old English movies or in the last museum scene of "The Thomas Crown Affair".
A fedora is just your typical Americam 50's hat that most men wore. It has a crease in the top. Watch an old Humphrey Bogart movie for an example.
http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/page/H/PROD/mens-hats/nyh-blk

Answer 5

a bowler hat is black round and was invented originally to stop the foreman on a building site having things dropped on his head by the workmen , and was adopted for use by the city gent, a fedora is a felt hat with a largish brim popular with gangsters in the twenties

Answer 6

I think the rim on a bowler turns upward all the way around, and the rim on a fedora is turned downwards in the front.

Answer 7

a bowler hat is like a pudding shape on the head of business men in their suits and brolly's,a fedora is a trilby which looks gorgeous on a man,in the old films gangsters use to wear them Capone,Cagney, Bogart, also gypsy men wore them with a diklo (scarf) around their neck,I prefer the trilby .

Answer 8

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Answer 9

A bowler is more oval shaped the rim is turned up all the way around and there is not indentation in the crown.
It's pretty obvious if you look at them both together.

Answer 10

a Fedora is soft and floppy like a cowboy hat.
A bowler is Hard and pre-shaped

Answer 11

Stan Laural of Laural and Hardy wears a Bolar in those shows. It looks like a bowl with a brim.

Indiana Jones wears a Fedora.

Hope this clears it up for you.