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a fedora that hit the gym and lost the brim it didn't need
means A soft felt hat with a narrow brim and an indented crown, sitting smaller and snugger than a fedora.
from Named after Trilby O'Ferrall, the heroine of George du Maurier's wildly popular 1894 novel 'Trilby' — the same book that gave us the sinister hypnotist Svengali. When the story was staged in London, a hat of this style was worn in the production, and the name simply stuck to the headgear.
- name origin
- Named after a novel's heroine, not a hatmaker
- stage debut
- Worn in the 1894 London play 'Trilby'
- svengali link
- Same novel gave English the word Svengali
- horse racing
- Britain's Trilby Day named for its racetrack popularity
- short brim
- Narrower brim than its bigger fedora cousin
for instance
trilby hat — british soft felt hat with a shorter brim than a fedora, popularized in the 1960s mod subculture
trilby street london — street in bloomsbury, london where the hat style was first sold by hatmakers in the 1800s