fedora
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This includes Dolan’s fronting of an embarrassing blues-rock band, often while sporting a fedora, and he inflicts his music on audiences by installing himself as the opener for acts like the Eagles.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
He launched his elementary school’s first newspaper, “The Spotlight,” and purchased a fedora to seal his fate as a journalist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
Director Spike Lee, with wife Tonya Lewis Lee, showed his distinctive style with a suit featuring a purple fedora hat and matching bow tie, and a bag made of silver cassettes.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
Kid Rock headlined in a furry white vest, cutoff shorts and a fedora, singing his late-1990s hit “Bawitdaba” to a modest crowd indoors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Seabiscuit came to the door and rubbed his face against the jockey’s fedora.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Instead of fedoras and pillboxes, hair became increasingly emphasized—and longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
That meant bringing a splash of West Side Story to the ceremony, with the singer dancing on rooftops and fire escapes with dancers dressed in 1950s-style fedoras.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
The subjects of his paintings swing rackets in tennis whites, slow dance in full skirts, play the horn in fedoras.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
He’s brought his assortment of sunhats, fedoras and visors to the festival for 10 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
As the freshmen of 1933 flailed at their oars in the first few days, Tom Bolles and Al Ulbrickson strode up and down Old Nero’s walkway in gray flannel suits and fedoras.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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