History Main / DashinglyDapperDerby

* Lucky the Leprechaun, the mascot for GeneralMills' Lucky Charms cereal, wears a green bowler with a shamrock stuck in it. While not evil, he is a trickster.

* Chap-hop star MrBTheGentlemanRhymer often sports a stylish derby.

* Baron von Fogel of TheLeagueOfSTEAM wears one.

* Sir WinstonChurchill

* [[SherlockHolmes Dr. Watson]] is often portrayed with a bowler hat, as the QuintessentialBritishGentleman.

* 1930s/'40s jazz singer-pianist Fats Waller had one of these as a trademark.

* Lou Costello of Creator/AbbottAndCostello.
* Alex and his droogs wear these in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.

* Bumbling look-a-like detectives Thompson and Thomson in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''

* RichieRich's butler, Cadbury, almost always wore a bowler hat in public.
* Bumbling look-a-like detectives Thompson and Thomson in ''{{Tintin}}''

* Lou Costello of ''AbbottAndCostello''

* [[LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]]

* Curly of ''TheThreeStooges'' always looked dapper in his "doiby".

* Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic from ''HarryPotter'', was often described as having a lime green bowler.

* CharlieChaplin

* Seamus [=McFly=] in ''BackToTheFuture Part 3''.

A bowler hat, or derby, is a rounded felt hat commonly worn from the 1850s to the [[TheRoaringTwenties early]]-to-[[TheFifties mid-1900s]], especially in VictorianBritain and TheWildWest. Bowler hats were once considered the national hat of England, and used to be associated with the upper-middle class there, especially with bankers, in the early half of the 20th century.

Compare NiceHat, SharpDressedMan, QuintessentialBritishGentleman, ManOfWealthAndTaste.

!!Examples:

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* Lucky the Leprechaun, the mascot for GeneralMills' Lucky Charms cereal, wears a green bowler with a shamrock stuck in it. While not evil, he is a trickster.

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* [[TheTreacheryOfImages Rene Magritte]] frequently drew men wearing bowler hats. For instance, in "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golconda_%28painting%29 Golconda]]", the sky above a city street is full of them. They appear to symbolise anonymity, which is why Magritte also wore one in RealLife.

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* Seamus [=McFly=] in ''BackToTheFuture Part 3''.

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* [[SherlockHolmes Dr. Watson]] is often portrayed with a bowler hat, as the QuintessentialBritishGentleman.
* Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic from ''HarryPotter'', was often described as having a lime green bowler.
* Sweyn embarrasses his brothers in ''TheGreatBrain Does It Again'' when he returns from high school back east wearing a derby hat along with a fancier, more grown-up, style suit than a boy his age would wear in Adenville.

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* Lord Bowler (so named for his hat) in ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' was the AntiHero to Brisco's hero.
* The Czechoslovakian character [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Tau Pan Tau]] usually wore [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Simanek a magic Bowler Hat]].

* ''[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' often used these as indicative of bankers and accountants.

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* Chap-hop star MrBTheGentlemanRhymer often sports a stylish derby.

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[[AC:RealLife]]
* Sir WinstonChurchill
* CharlieChaplin

* Homsar from ''HomestarRunner'' wears one, but he is more demented than dashing. Whenever he speaks, his bowler hat will actually fly off his head for a while until he stops talking.

* Lord Bowler (so named for his hat) in ''TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' was the AntiHero to Brisco's hero.

* Accessible as headgear in {{SSX}} 3.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/weapon_avengers_steed21_9379.jpg]]A bowler hat, or derby, is a rounded felt hat commonly worn from the 1850s to the [[TheRoaringTwenties early]]-to-[[TheFifties mid-1900s]], especially in VictorianBritain and TheWildWest. Bowler hats were once considered the national hat of England, and used to be associated with the upper-middle class there, especially with bankers, in the early half of the 20th century.

* Mr. Steed of ''[[Series.TheAvengers The Avengers]]'' is likely the TropeCodifier.

* In the TV adaptation of ''JeevesAndWooster'', Jeeves' hat of choice is bowler hat.

* The Devil in ''TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus''.

* In the TV adaptation of ''JeevesAndWooster'', Jeeves' hat of choice is bolwer hat.