pork·pie· (hat) (pôrk′pī′)
noun
a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
A good friend and I were talking the other night about what he should wear to Steeplechase, a horse raise held every year in Nashville. Any who have witnessed the hat parade at the Derby- know that what you wear says everything. The previous weekend, he rocked a white linen suit, floral pocket square and a mustache that could have won him the title of "Phillip Seymore Hoffman look-alike." So, the goal was to top that. I suggested he try a porkpie hat, he suggested one of the former "vote-for button" hats- come to realize that we were both describing the same hat.
The porkpie was made popular by vaudville comedians (like Buster Keaton) and countless jazz musicians and has recently reemerged with the growing popularitiy of toppers- and being worn by trendsetters looking to have something different from the fedora or straw panama hat. You can find them locally at Heimie's Haberdashery in St. Paul.
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