History Main / DashinglyDapperDerby

* If you grew up with the original version of [[Chuck E. Cheese]], then you may have seen Chuck himself always donning his signature red derby on his head.

%% * Mr. Potato Head in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''.

* Creator/JackKirby's Detective Dan Turpin from the ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' books always wears his signature derby, but far from being "refined," he's a big, burly, plain-spoken old tough guy, sometimes depicted with a Brooklyn accent.

* Seamus [=McFly=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''.

* Creator/LaurelAndHardy were usually seen wearing these kinds
* Lou Costello of Creator/AbbottAndCostello often wore one of these.

* Detective Sergeant Mendel (Creator/HarryAndrews) in ''Film/TheDeadlyAffair'' (based on John Le Carre's "Call For The Dead")

* John Steed of ''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}'' is likely the TropeCodifier. His often had a steel plate built into the crown, useful for giving villains a quick clonk on the head.
* 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.]]

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' often used these as indicative of bankers and accountants.
* Probably the principal factor in the demise of the bowler hat was "Monty Python's Flying Circus"'s infamous sketch, "The Ministry Of Silly Walks", which commenced with John Cleese, in full Civil Service getup, including bowler hat, walking down Whitehall toward his office, doing an impression of a spider on a hotplate; for ever afterward, anyone foolhardy enough to venture out of doors wearing a bowler risked being accosted by idiots demanding that they do a Silly Walk.

* Jazz singer-pianist Fats Waller had one of these as a trademark.

* Calan frontman Beth Williams-Jones often wears this type of hat for live shows.

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* Worn by nearly all the men in ''Pinball/TheChampionPub''.

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* The protagonists of ''Theatre/WaitingforGodot'' wear black bowler hats, unless they need to think, with the exception of Lucky.

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* VideoGame/HenryHatsworth, a previous image source for the QuintessentialBritishGentleman page.
* Accessible as headgear in ''VideoGame/{{SSX}} 3''.

* Baron von Fogel of ''Theatre/TheLeagueOfSTEAM'' wears one.

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* Homsar from ''WebAnimation/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.

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* Mr. Potato Head in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''.

* Sir UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill
* Creator/CharlieChaplin
* [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]]
** Stymie of ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' got his trademark derby from Stan himself, who had taken a liking to him.
* Probably the best place to see large numbers of men wearing Bowler Hats is Belfast or Londonderry on the 12th of July 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 analogous 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.
* Popular amongst Main/{{Steampunk}} enthusiasts, though to a lesser extent than the top hat (which has more space to mount decorations on).

Compare NiceHat, SharpDressedMan, QuintessentialBritishGentleman, ManOfWealthAndTaste.

* Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader "Dum Dum" Dugan of the ''Comicbook/HowlingCommandos'' and ''Comicbook/{{SHIELD}}'' wears his corporal's stripes on the front of his signature bowler hat.

* Subverted with Creator/JackKirby's Detective Dan Turpin from the ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' books. He always wears his signature derby, but he's a big, burly, plain-spoken old tough guy, sometimes depicted with a Brooklyn accent.

* Creator/JackKirby's Detective Dan Turpin from the ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' books has his signature derby.

* Creator/JackKirby's Detective Dan Turpin from the ''Comicbook/{{Superman}} books has his signature derby.

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

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* Detective Sergeant Mendel (Creator/HarryAndrews) in ''Film/TheDeadlyAffair''(based on John Le Carre's "Call For The Dead")

* Detective Sergeant Mendel (Harry Andrews) in "The Deadly Affair"(based on John Le Carre's "Call For The Dead")

* The robot butler/companion Codsworth in ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout4}} Fallout 4]]'' can't (or won't) wear any equipment in the game except for one of these.

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

* Janus from WebVideo/SandersSides sports one of these to complement his 'cultured villain' aesthetic. It's common for fanders to theorize that he's hiding something under it.

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, with the small size, round shape, and harder materials being selected for their original purpose--protecting riders' heads for equestrian country sports (which frequently involved going through trees or simply falling off one's horse). 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. A lesser known fact about them (amongst non-wearers) is that they're quite hard (because of both the heavy felt and the shape), which meant that construction foremen (or businessmen visiting a construction site) would sometimes wear them instead of hard hats.

* One of the smashingly classy alternate helmets available to [[GentlemanWizard Limbo]] in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' takes the shape of a derby hat with a strange [[CyberCyclps cycloptic]] 'monocole' in the middle of its face.

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