History Main / DashinglyDapperDerby

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* John Steed of ''Series/TheAvengers'' is likely the TropeCodifier. His often had a steel plate built into the crown, useful for giving villains a quick clonk on the head.

* VideoGame/HenryHatsworth, the current image source for the QuintessentialBritishGentlemen page.

* Probably the best place to see large numbers of men wearing Bowler Hats is Belfast or Londonderry on the 12th of August every year: the date is the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne in 1690; when the deposed King James II attempted to capture Londonderry, the apprentice boys shut the city gates and kept him out; now , every year, the Orange Order (an organisation analagous to the Freemasons in the rest of Britain) holds a mass procession through the city wearing full regalia of grey suit, white gloves, purple sash, and all topped off with a resplendent Bowler Hat, accompanied with flute bands and led by a massive "Lambeg" drum.

* John Steed of ''Series/TheAvengers'' is likely the TropeCodifier.

* Mr. Steed of ''Series/TheAvengers'' is likely the TropeCodifier.

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 UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain and TheWildWest. They were invented as a more compact alternative to a top hat. 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.

* 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]].

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* 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.

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. They were invented as a more compact alternative to a top hat. 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. Potato Head in ''ToyStory''.

* HenryHatsworth

* Mr Davenport, the Victorian-serial version of Dave in ''{{Narbonic}}'', wears a bowler hat, and considers himself a gentleman.

* Baron von Fogel of Theatre/TheLeagueOfSTEAM wears one.

** Styme of Film/TheLittleRascals got his trademark derby from Stan himself, who had taken a liking to him.

* The protagonists of ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' wear nice black bowler hats, as do all civil servants in the show.

** Styme of TheLittleRascals got his trademark derby from Stan himself, who had taken a liking to him.

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

* [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] GreenLantern {{sidekick}} Doiby Dickles is named after his hat.

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.

You can count on a character who wears a bowler hat to be [[ManOfWealthAndTaste refined]] (unless, say, he's a villain in a [[TheWestern western]]). In fact, he might even wear a [[HighClassGlass monocle]] to show his [[BuffySpeak culturedness]]. The bowler hat hung on in the City of London into [[TheSixties the 1960s]]. In the early 1960s, new recruits to some City law firms got an allowance for the purposes of buying a bowler.

* Snoopy of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' wears one of these in his persona as the "World Famous Attorney".