INDIANA JONES GLIDES BACK INTO OUR LIVES WITH THE FEDORA AS HIS SIDEKICK

Our hero is back – yes, Indiana Jones arrived at the multiplex last week and everyone is talking about it. The movie critics are assessing the characters and the plot, and hat makers and journalists are mulling over the impact of Ford’s affair with the illustrious Fedora.

I received a phone call last week from a reporter at The News & Record in Greensboro, North Carolina who wanted to talk about Hats. It seems that Robert Lopez was fascinated by the Indiana Jones factor in today’s headwear market (the article is below).

Lopez is not the only one looking into (and up to) hats. The AP Wire service interviewed Fred Belinsky of Village Hat Shop and villagehatshop.com and came up with their own theory of hat wearing.

And to make it official, Dorfman Pacific CEO Doug Highsmith, who sells official Indiana Jones headwear, rented out a theater on Thursday morning and took his entire staff to see the movie, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” They feasted on popcorn and soda for breakfast (according to the article) and enjoyed the film en mass.

The Dorfman Pacific outing was outed in print by the Stockton newspaper, The Stockton Record. Sounds pretty cool to me – and I am sure that the hatters that matter enjoyed themselves as well.

I am glad that Fire-eater and Macho man Ford has resurfaced to make the Fedora everyone’s best friend, but I am also looking forward to the latest incarnation of my sexy city pals Samantha, Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda.

In case you’ve been living in a cave and didn’t know it, “Sex and the City: The Movie” is coming to a theater near you this week. The hat that Sarah Jessica Parker wore to the London premiere of the movie got more ink than the movie (it was on the cover of the last Hat Life newsletter with the wrong caption – sorry to Chelsea Clinton and to SJP) and I am sure that this movie will influence fashion as much as it did the martini and casual sex.

The moral of the story is that Hats are making a comeback slowly but surely. I went to the Boca Raton Loehmann’s store and they had a hat emporium with hats clipped on four-way racks. I have never seen this before – but I assume it means something.

There you have it. Kudos to Indiana Jones, may he never get old and if he does I hope they find a nice fedora to complement his walker!