Talk:Trilby

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Most of the trilby hats were made in Denton, Greater Manchester where several mills produced hats. In bygone days a man walking through this town not wearing a hat would be verbally abused. The main advert for this trade was "if you want to get ahead . . . get a hat"

Why is half of this article a discussion of a little-known newspaperman, who has nothing to do with trilby hats? If he's important enough to write several paragraphs about, give him his own page. I'll make this change myself if no one else complains, suggests an alternative, or does it himself soon... --JdwNYC 02:18, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

--- I agree, and found that "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Trilby Ewer) William Norman Ewer (1885 - 1976) was a British journalist..." DOES have its own entry, and should be removed, (except for a link) from this entry.

I wish to add the information about Trilby, Florida, the community named for the book in 1894 in a new entry. Then link to there from here. How do I do that? rkr@yahoo.com (www.trilbyfl.com)

What's the difference between a trilby and a fedora? Someone who knows should make a mention of and link to fedora in this article. --Delirium 06:02, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Should this be merged?

Pork_pie_hat says the pork pie hat IS a trilby, and links this article. This strikes me as kind of ...dumb.-unsigned

Are they in fact the same thing? Are they distinct enough to have separate articles? If not, I think merging the actual text of the articles (as both have information the other lacks) seems appropriate. (As opposed to simply deleting one and redirecting.)-unsigned

They are slightly different shapes. A Trilby still has a slight indent on the top, whereas a pork pie hat is flat all the way around. I'll go edit the Pork Pie page to read Pork Pie hat, similer to a Trilby-unsigned
  • They are different kinds of hats and don't even look alike. Sometimes people mistakenly call hats porkpie hats when they are really Trilbies or other kinds of hats. Spylab 16:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] men/women

"a soft felt men's hat"

Are women not supposed to wear them? Njál 20:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Traditionally no, they have not worn them. No more than men wore bonnets. Whether women are not SUPPOSED to wear them is a different question than whether they are made and designed for women. --DavidShankBone 15:34, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trilby's feet?

What do Trilby's feet (in the novel) have to do with the brim of the hat? Are they shaped by having comely young women step on them, or something? The article needs some explanation for this edit, or have it removed. -- nae'blis (talk) 19:18, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

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