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[[File:Coolidge after signing indian treaty.jpg|thumb|400px|[[Calvin Coolidge|America's 30th president]] [[The Quiet One|may not have spoken much]], but he did know how to pick a [[Nice Hat]].]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130805140035/http://www.akubra.com.au/products_country.html Akubra].
* Fedora, the desktop GNU variant made by RedHat.
* [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1104 The Pope].
** [[Truth in Television]]: His Holiness has quite a few [[Nice Hat|nice hats]], from the modest [
** Most of the Catholic hierarchy in some form has a cool hat they wear, with the bishops, archbishops, and cardinals all having their own style of hat.
** The papal [
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090525154741/http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/2006/09/where_did_you_g.html Pope Benedict XVI] added a red sombrero to his myriad of hats.
**
** Speaking of the Pope, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Guard#/media/File:Swiss_guards_in_the_Vatican_City,_2010.jpg Swiss Guard] have nice hats to go with their equally-nice uniforms.
* [http://www.saint-mary.net/coptic_faith/pope/ The Coptic Pope].
* [[HM The Queen|The Queen]]. Duh. It got to the point that every time she appeared in public, everyone was most interested in what sort of new hat she had.
** The [
** Inverted by [[Queen
* As Emperor Norton, [
* The ''corno ducale'' worn by the [
* [http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=korean+traditional+hats Koreans], coupled with Nice Hairdos for women.
* [http://www.spearhead-home.com/Graphics/MP_Bootsy_portrait.jpg Funk legend Bootsy Collins]{{Dead link}}
* [http://www.flying-jacket.com/product-details.aspx?id=13 The British RAF leather helmet from the Battle of Britain]. With cool goggles.
** In fiction, worn by [[Star Wars|Anakin Skywalker]] and a member of [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|the Spanish Inquisition]], namely Cardinal Biggles.
*** The model obviously not restricted to the RAF or [[World War II]] - Snoopy as the [[World War
* And who can forget about [[Hockey Night in Canada]] commentator Don Cherry's infamous fashion statements, among them the several [[Nice Hat
** Oddly enough, while the ''hat'' may be insane, that's the most subdued ''suit'' I've ever seen him in.
* John Lennon wears a Nice Hat (a cap, really) for much of ''[[A Hard
* You should not ''ever'' mess with [[Magnificent Bastard|Napoleon]] when he's wearing with his [
** The Duke of Wellington must have had a cooler hat.
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Battle_of_Assaye.jpeg Damn straight he did.]
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* The various Chinese dynasties, being a multi-tiered bureaucracy from hell, featured funky-looking hats (and outfits) of all shapes and colors. Special mention goes to the ladies of the court, who would also wear fake hair shaped into a variety of mind-boggling shapes.
* The Akha people of Southeast Asia wear ornate headdresses nearly everywhere they go: [http://www.google.com/search?q=akha+headdresses&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=TCOLT6LIC8Ts2QXbtp2bCg&biw=1357&bih=581&sei=TyOLT7maBeiC2gWa1di9CQ photos.]
* [[Terry Pratchett]] is often pictured in the covers of his books wearing a rather nifty black hat. It is apparently a form of disguise as without it he is, in his own words, just any other bald man with a beard. Indeed [[Lovable Rogue|Moist von Lipwig]] relies on a similar technique in his [[
▲* [[Terry Pratchett]] is often pictured in the covers of his books wearing a rather nifty black hat. It is apparently a form of disguise as without it he is, in his own words, just any other bald man with a beard. Indeed [[Lovable Rogue|Moist von Lipwig]] relies on a similar technique in his [[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]] books.
* Dr. Gunther von Hagens is rarely seen without his black fedora, and has worn it while performing public dissections.
* In North America, the wearing of men's hats as not only fashion but standard business and formal attire, began to fade during the early 1960s. One of the hallmark moments often cited for this decline in the various hats' popularity is the inauguration of President [[John F. Kennedy]] in January
** The hats for women, most prevalently in [[Deep South|the South]], could get pretty wild and wacky, particularly in late 19th and 20th centuries (this tradition is kept alive to this day by some, though, as noted below). In the early days of movie theaters, one common slide you'd see where today you'd see "don't smoke, don't talk, turn cell phones off, throw trash in the receptacles, fire exits are at the sides", they'd have "Ladies, kindly remove your hats", maybe even accompanied by a cartoon of some poor sod's view being obstructed by, say, a [[Impractically Fancy Outfit|two-foot-tall pineapple-wielding monster]]. (As an aside, another common slide in that era would also remind people "Don't Spit on the Floor -- [[Flat What|Remember the Johnstown Flood]].").
* [[Banana Republic]] "El Presidente" dictators tend to sport distinctive headgear, often (but not always) as part of a [[Bling of War|garishly decorated military uniform]] when showing up for formal events.
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* The fondness of military dictators (Mussolini, Pinochet, Amin, etc.) for huge peaked caps has led to them being called "[[Commissar Cap|dictator caps]]".
** Mussolini is usually associated with a different, peak-less cap (but then he was not a ''military'' dictator and most frequently wore a fascist party uniform).
* Tennis players are often fond of using Nice Baseball Caps when playing. The one who began the trend was [
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20140416031858/http://www.urlesque.com/2009/01/21/arethas-hat-is-blowing-up
** It has become quite [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105194918/http://www.berkeleyhat.com/arfrhat.html popular], The Milliner has made replicas which sell for $179.
** African
*** In fact, a book called ''[http://www.amazon.com/Crowns-Portraits-Black-Women-Church/dp/0385500866/ Crowns]'' is all about these hats and the ladies who wear them.
* The top hat [[Hugh Jackman]] wears in the 2009 Oscars "The Musical" musical number... or just about anything he wears, actually.
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* Just try to imagine [[Abraham Lincoln]] without his hat.
** Not hard at all, but the stovepipe was still just ''so'' him.
** As [[The Simpsons (animation)|Lisa Simpson]] once described it: "America's greatest citizen summed up in one piece of clothing."
* Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando has a massive version of the Sorcerer's Hat (from the [[Fantasia]] version of ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'') over a pair of Mickey Ears.
* What very few people know is that the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100610002146/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-royal-ascot-hat-fashions-pictures,0,5405562.photogallery Royal Ascot] horse races are actually a horse racing event and not, as one might easily be mistaken, the worlds most important annual fashion convention for crazy hats.
** See also the [http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-hats-pg,0,459688.photogallery Kentucky Derby].
* Puritan men are commonly depicted with a [[Nice Hat]].
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** Or the black one, ala Billie Jean.
* Cossack Hats.
* Top Hats. [[Fred Astaire]]'s is one of the more famous examples. It got its own song in ''[[
* Zachary Quinto has a hat so well known to his fans that it has been dubbed the Fug Hat. It seems to have been replaced by a similar hat in blue, which is usually denoted as Fug Hat 2.0.
* [http://www.bookofjoe.com/2009/06/dip-hat.html
* Voice actor [[Scott McNeil]] is usually seen at conventions with a nice cowboy hat.
** Similarly, [[Chuck Huber]] and his cool white-trim fedora.
* The [
** [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Hat Well...]
* [[Osamu Tezuka]] and his beret.
* The pharaohs of [[Ancient Egypt]] had some serious hattage going on. Aside from the ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Tutmask.jpg nemes]'' (aka King Tut's head-dress), there's also the [
* Meanwhile, New York City has an [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100404/ap_on_re_us/us_easter_parade entire parade dedicated to these...]
* The [
* One entry on [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109164111/http://skippyslist.com/list/ Skippy's List] states nothing but "Take that hat off." We can only imagine, but it was certainly ''some'' kind of Superlative Hat.
* Since [[There Is No Such Thing
* Whichever Ancient British chieftain wore [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Horned_helmet.jpg this helmet] can make a claim to this trope.
** Ditto [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/2008-05-17-SuttonHoo.jpg this Anglo-Saxon warlord].
* The Medieval heraldic crest evolved out of an attempt to turn an essentially functional tin-can into a [[Nice Hat]], with the express purpose of making a knight more identifiable at tournaments.
* [[Davy Crockett]]'s coonskin cap, which became [[The Red Stapler]] after the [[Disney]] mini-series aired.
* Author Amélie Nothomb wears [
* [[Frank Sinatra]] wore a fedora most of the time to hide his thinning hair, which only added to his awesomeness.
* Regardless of what you think about [
* [[British Royal Guards]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717041740/http://www.noxenlux.com/ Noxenlux Chapeaux].
* WWI German general [https://web.archive.org/web/20140112063319/http://odkrywca.pl/forum_pics/picsforum16/mackensen2.jpg August Von Mackensen] combined a [[Nice Hat]] with a [[Badass Mustache]] ''and'' [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]].
** Is that a skull?!
*** Yup. Standard issue for Prussian Cavalry officers.
* [
** He also owned an incredibly epic [
* Boxing historian and author Bert Randolph Sugar is rarely seen without his trademark fedora (and big cigar).
* the late [
* Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson, who wants the House rules amended to allow Nice Hats on the floor.
* Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:AugustePiccardandPaulKipfer.jpg Auguste Piccard], who inspired Hergé the character of Cuthbert Calculus in the ''Tintin'' series.
* The [
* Famed [[Semper Fi|USMC]] sniper Carlos Hathcock was known as Long Tr'ang, or "White Feather", for wearing a feather on his hat. While the image itself might seem cliched, remember that this is a man who once [[Scope Snipe|shot a feared enemy sniper through his rifle's scope]], performed a non-lethal shot on a courier on a bicycle from a mile away with a machine gun, wiped out a company of North Vietnamese soldiers along with his spotter in an isolated valley, crawled through an open field patrolled by enemies to assassinate a North Vietnamese general in a heavily guarded mansion, and severely burned himself rescuing several fellow Marines from a burning APC, after an exploding mine threw him off said APC. Definitely lots of cool to go with the hat there.
* Southern Sudanese President [
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130217023335/http://www.riomate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/carmen-miranda.jpg Carmen Miranda]
* The "Smokey" Hat of military Drill Sergeants. Made famous by [[R. Lee Ermey]] in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''.
* [
* Comic Scribe [[Ed Brubaker]]'s signature fedora.
* Instead of the mortarboard hats used at graduations in a lot of English-speaking countries, Scandinavians and Finns graduate from high school wearing [
* [http://s1.jrnl.ie/media/2011/04/beatrice1-310x415.jpg Princess Beatrice] from the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. It is headgear not to be missed.
** It got nearly 20,000 fans on [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Princess-Beatrices-ridiculous-Royal-Wedding-hat/203705509669392 Facebook] within hours.
* [
* Moldavia's [[Eurovision Song Contest]] contribution in 2011... THEY MUST BE MORE THAN A METRE TALL!
* German LARP scene has developed the "Blöder-Hut-Credo" (credo of the stupid hat). The core: "A good character concept always starts with a hat which is as stupid as possible!"
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110418050507/http://www.spam.com/Shop/ProductDetail.aspx?Category=
* LSU's American Football team's head coach Les "Mad Hatter" Miles and his white caps that he wears while he's coaching.
* American Football helmets have some nice designs.
** Oh well if we're counting sporting helmets then hockey goalie helmets are never short in the awesome department.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225033001/http://altaic-wiki.wikispaces.com/Mongolic+Peoples Altaic/Mongolic] [http://m.foto.radikal.ru/0702/deb27d72a4c3.jpg peoples] such as Buryats, Mongols, and Tuvans (see Music for [[
* The Chinese People's Liberation Army Marine Corps. While their hats by themselves are just unremarkable woolen tuque caps, they always have a pair of goggles worn over their head, and never over their eyes. [http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l597/Cifyra/PLA/PLAN/PT-AL366_China__G_20090417163318.jpg\], [http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l597/Cifyra/PLA/PLAN/U135P200T1D207292F10DT20081225172132.jpg\], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130706210720/http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l597/Cifyra/PLA/PLAN/U135P200T1D207292F16DT20081225172132.jpg
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