Apocalypse now Hats

“Apocalypse Now” starring Robert Duvall as Lt. Colonel Kilgore, is outfitted with different cavalry hat styles all with similar qualities. In some cases he wore the “Kilgore” with the 9th cavalry sabers, the Lt. Col. Rank insignia, and the black and gold acorn band with gold acorns, while in others he simply wore the cross-sabers pin with no rank. After the premiere of the “Apocalypse Now” movie, this Hollywood Legend made the “Kilgore hat” very popular, the 4 ⅝” high crown, 3 ½” medium brim, and the enlisted cross-sabers are recognizable nationwide. 

This hat is very popular amongst cavalry troops and their squads. Miller Hats has done extensive research and concluded with a style that we feel best fits the one worn by Lt. Colonel Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now”. 

The Apocalypse Now replica made by Miller Hats comes in a high quality 7X fur felt material.  The custom hat has a roan leather sweatband, the famous Miller Hats satin liner, grosgrain band and your choice of acorn bands.  Our final product is an elegant cavalry hat that will fit you comfortably, that will last you a long time and that gives you a unique look. 

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Open Road Straw Hat by Miller

Stetson Hat company made the open road straw hat popular.  IT was very popular in the 1950s era. They made the hat in fur felt materials and in a variety of straws. Nowadays, we make the Miller open road we are presenting in this collection of Shantung Straw.    

The Miller Open road straw hat has become popular among people who wear dress hats and also western hats. The popularity of the hat makes it a great crossover hat.  The open road hat is a combination of a dress hat and a slight western flare. Making these hats very easy to wear wherever you want to go. The trend has made this hat extremely popular among all age groups, from baby boomers to young Millennials. 

The Miller Open Road collection, designed specially for Miller Hats, is a shantung straw material and it’s customized in the USA. The brim size of the open road is 2 3/4” brim and 4” cattleman crown. It comes with a durable leather sweatband and options of leather trims.  To add ventilation to the crown, it comes with 3 optional eyelets on each side.

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Crocodile Dundee Hat by Miller Hats

Mr. Paul Hogan made the Crocodile Dundee Hat famous in his three well-known films as the crocodile wrangler. Being allegedly born in a cave in the Northern Territory of Australia and being raised by Aborigines, people indigenous to the Australian Continent, Dundee had a grand passion for the Outback and the dangers that came with it.

Crocodile Dundee portrays the Australian image through a typical bushman. Encounters with saltwater crocodiles have left him a large scar and many stories to tell. The classic Australian Outback Style inspired the Crocodile Dundee Hat. Which is well known for the genuine Crocodile teeth band. We get the genuine Crocodile teeth band from government approved farms whose excellent management helps keep these unique species alive.

Miller Hats has designed the famous Crocodile Dundee hat for you. We have done the work for you and have custom designed a line of hats made popular in this classic Australian Outback film. Every hat sold is hand shaped to perfection. Our hat experts have over 30 year’s experience. Your hat arrives at your door shaped and ready to wear.

Miller Hats takes pride in providing customers with the finest quality hats at the best price. We make our Crocodile Dundee hat with top of the line genuine fur felt material. The hat comes with a roan leather sweatband, is satin lined and made in the USA. We make the famous hat band from rattlesnake skin, not crocodile skin. Hat band comes with 15 crocodile teeth. Hat is in stock ready to ship TODAY! 

Crocodile Dundee Hat

The Great Gatsby hats by Miller Hats

The famous Miller Great Gatsby Hat collection is inspired by the 2013 romantic drama film.  The film is based on the 1925 Novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald.  The novel is set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby’s obsession to reunite with his former lover Daisy Buchanan.    

The Great Gatsby film was set in the 1920’s era.  The characters all wore 1920’s fashion, the men wore tailcoat tuxedos and underneath a white wingtip collar shirt.  To match the tuxedos they wore a top hat, a bow tie, a walking stick or a pocket watch.  The trousers were high waisted and they wore double breasted vests with a single breasted jacket.   1920’s fashionable suits were worn with Boater Hats, derby hats and wide brim fedoras.   The most informal style of hat worn at the time was the newsboy flat cap.   

The main characters, Jay Gatsby(Leonardo DiCaprio), Nick Caraway (Tobey Maquire) and Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton)  wore boater hats with a variety of colorful patterns.  But many of the additional characters wore fedoras in straw or felt, newsboy caps and flat caps.  The relevance of the main characters wearing hats in the 1920’s is primarily due to the fact that hats were a must.   In that time and era - men did not leave the house without  wearing a head covering.   

Miller Hats Great Gatsby hat Collection includes top of the line genuine fur felt hats and a wool hat.  If you are getting ready to attend a Great Gastby theme party or if you need 1920’s men’s hats visit our online catalog or store front.  Many styles, colors and sizes available and ready to ship.

Miller Dress Hats - Homburg Hats, Derby Hats, Fedoras

Men’s Mayser Fedora hats

Leonhard Mayser opened a millinery shop in Sterngass Street in Ulm in the 1800s. Mayser soon makes a name for itself in the production of handmade men’s felt hats. The handmade fedora hat by Mayser shows an attractive modern touch of classical elegance.  

The Atos Fedora hat by Mayser comes with a classic Euro center dent crown, snap brim and a top of the line grosgrain ribbon to give the hat plenty of character. Mayser uses 100% genuine fur felt to make this classic fedora Hat. This top of the line fur felt material contributes to making this hat a high-quality fedora.  

The Euro Fedora Hats are handmade in Europe by Mayser hats and they come with satin liners. The collection is available in beautiful colors such as black, gray, brown, cognac and blue. The classic center dent fedora hat is very popular at Miller Hats, primarily because every color is available up to size 8. Hats for big heads are hard to find. However, the Mayser brand does a great job of making this hat fit well. The sizing of the hat is accurate to a 64 (European sizing) or size 8 (American). This is one of the few fedoras available in XXXL size. 

So, if you are serious about men’s fedora hats, Miller Hats is the place to go. Most items are in stock ready to ship!

Chaplin Derby Hats

Charlie Chaplin had a very philosophical, yet practical, view of clothing. Regarding the costuming of The Tramp, he said, “I had no idea what make-up to put on… However, on the way to the wardrobe, I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat… I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on to the stage he was fully born… Gags and comedy ideas went racing through my mind.” 

Whether you’re showing off your own style or imitating a classic, like Charlie Chaplin, this Chaplin Hat is a classic. The Chaplin derby hat is available in black, gray and cognac. This derby hat has an open crown and a 2” rolled bound edge brim. Let’s not forget the 1 ¾" grosgrain bow band to top it off. This is a top-quality wool hat with a great price. Perfect to wear at any formal event, wedding, 1920’s party, Kentucky derby event, costume party, or a theater presentation. This hat is not only classic to men, but it’s also worn by many women.  If you are serious about getting a derby Chaplin Hat Miller hats is the place to go. 

Miller Fedora Hats

The Fedora is a hat with a soft material, a snap brim and indented crown.  We can shape Fedora hats in a variety of crowns, but the most typical ones being a “teardrop” or a “centerdent”. Crown heights will vary depending on the style anywhere between 4” and 4 ⅝”. Brims will run anywhere between 2 ½ to 3”. Fedora hats can have brims that have a raw edge, bound edge (trim around the edge), or underwelt or upper welt.  We can make Fedora hats of wool, cashmere, genuine fur felt, and beaver felt. The Miller Fedora hats come with satin liners, leather sweatbands, and top of the line grosgrain bands.    

The name Fedora originally came from a dramatic play written in 1882 by playwright Victorien Sardou. The play was first performed in the US in 1889. Bernhardt played Princess Fedora Romanov, the heroine of the play. In the play she wears a center dent soft brim hat. The hat was fashionable for women, and the women’s rights movement adopted it as a symbol. After Edward Prince of Wales wore them in the 1920s, it became popular among men for its stylishness and its ability to protect the wearer’s head from the wind and weather. 

By the 1920s fedoras got popular, it became a staple of men’s fashion and would be worn in public places. In the 1940s the fedora hats became a significant trend in America. Many films re-popularized the fedora hat in the 1940s, like Humphrey Bogart in the film Casablanca and many others. Movie stars, musicians, political figures would also make the classic fedora popular.    

They often associated fedoras with gangsters during the prohibition era in the U.S. during the 1920s and the early 1950s. In addition, well known gangsters such as Al Capone, Charles Luciano and Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel used the fedora to create a tough-guy image. Fedoras were also an important accessory to the Zoot suit ensemble during the 1940s. As a result, this style soon spread to local jazz and blues musicians, who adopted this look and brought it to their audiences.   

The fedora hats continued to be popular through to later films such as “The Blues Brothers” with John Belushi and Dan Akroyd and, of course, the most famous Fedora of all, Indiana Jones, in the “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. With the aid of the snap brim on most Fedoras, it served the practical purpose of hiding the face of actors sufficiently to allow doubles to perform the more dangerous stunts on the sets of action movies. However, it is the Film Industry of Hollywood that brought the Fedora to the forefront of fashion.

Remember you get the look you want at Miller Hats! 

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Gambler Straw Hats by Miller

Gambler Straw hats are a fashion accessory and a necessity in certain areas of high temperature such as Houston, Texas and other southern regions of the United States. So if you are looking for a straw hat to wear to the golf court, the Miller Gambler Straw hat is the hat to buy.  

The Gambler straw hat is very popular among golfers because it keeps the sun off men’s faces and necks while also giving them a unique style. On occasions, traditional gamblers are semi western styles. The crown resembles a round telescope crown, but the brim is 3” wide brim rolled in the edges. The brim is not as wide as a cowboy hat but it gives a great deal of sun protection.  A good deal of famous golf players have adopted the straw gambler style, it is one of the best hats for golf or outdoor activities. 

Miller Hats Gambler straw hats collection is available in shantung straw, natural color.  We designed the hat for Miller Hats in the USA. It comes with a durable roan leather sweatband and a variety of fashionable bands in materials and leather.  

The Gambler Straw hat protects you from the sun because of its wide brim, but it also allows your head to breathe. This hat is a classy hat commonly worn in a golf tournament, outdoor activities, a vacation, or just going out for drinks with friends.   Remember, you get the look you want at Miller Hats.

Homburg Hats by Miller Hats

The homburg hat was popular at the beginning of the 20th Century. It comes with a center crease crown and a rolled bound-edge trim, with a double bow grosgrain hat band.  Unlike the bowler or the top hat, the Homburg was not as firm, but it was a slightly stiffened soft fur felt hat to keep its shape.  Overall, it was an elegant felt hat that was not as formal as the derby hat. But they often wore it when strolling in town or in place of a boater hat.  

Until about 1914, the Homburg hat kept its position on the hat formality scale. The repp band on the brim was sometimes light grey, while the hat band was the same color or darker. Over time, the brim curl diminished, and the crown lost some height.  After WWI, the hat became darker; black homburg hats were the most popular color, especially in the 1950s.  

Former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill wore the Homburg hat during World War II, they often saw him in London wearing a homburg with a black suit and with formal trousers.  

Dwight D. Eisenhower wore a dark grey homburg hat with a stroller suit for his inauguration on January 20, 1953.  Al Pacino made the homburg very famous by wearing it in the famous film The Godfather, for which reason the hat is often called a “Godfather”.  Many Jazz singers also wore the famous Homburg, musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Duke Ellington, and many preachers of the time.

Nowadays, the homburg hat is worn in many classic films and theatrical performances. They often wore a homburg hat in Kentucky derby events, Great Gatsby parties, or even vintage formal events.  

We carry Miller Hats Homburgs in rabbit fur.  The hat is available in black, brown, gray and it comes with a double bow grosgrain band.  We line them with the famous Miller Hats satin liners.

Although you rarely see them on the streets, there will probably always be a few distinguished men who appreciate the elegance of a good Homburg hat. If you are a hat wearer, chances are you already have a few fedora hats in your collection, so next time, instead of looking at a Trilby or a Pork Pie hat, put on a Homburg and see how it looks. I am certain you will look exceptional!

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Kangol Baseball Caps

The traditional American baseball cap is a soft cap with a stiff visor, it is typically adjustable at the back thanks to a plastic, velcro or elastic band. They derived the style from earlier brimmed hats popular in the late 19th century, including the famous deerstalker’s cap worn by Sherlock Holmes. 

They made the earliest baseball caps in wool materials and primarily baseball players wore them in the mid too late 19th century. Baseball players were free to wear any type of brimmed hat to keep the sun out of their eyes. Many players wore soft and hard cap styles. Later, in the mid-1940s, the baseball teams provided the players with a baseball cap to wear with the team’s logo.  

Nowadays, the baseball caps are not only worn in the baseball fields. Many wear them as a fashionable statement. Many actors, films, singers and pop culture made the standard baseball cap popular. Today, they wear the baseball cap to show support for a team, as a fashion statement or to get a message across.

The Kangol 506 Wool Flexfit Baseball Cap has a closed back, fitted athletic baseball cap made from stretch twill fabric.  You can wear this cap in any climate or time of the year, the flexfit sweatband makes it easy to wear and comfortable all day.

The Kangol 505 Baseball cap has been around in the Kangol line for many years. The ventair pattern allows ventilation air to flow for ultimate comfort in spring & summer weather. This Kangol baseball cap comes in a fitted style, not adjustable.

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Miller Genuine Panama Hats

Miller Genuine Panamas Hats are “The king of all summer hats”, the panama has remained the leader of the Miller Hats line because of its unique combination of smart appearance, lightness, coolness and durability.  The Miller genuine panamas are all hand-woven of “toquilla” fiber and imported from Ecuador and South America.   

Actually, it is said that an Ecuadorian named Francisco Delgado made the first Panama hat woven in the year 1629.  Since then, the weaving of Panama bodies has remained substantially the same - performed by native families who pass their skills on down from generation to generation.  

The tough “toquilla fibers’’ come from the leaves of palm plants.  They wash the shreds before they are rolled and flattened into the form suitable for weaving.  When the shredded leaves are processed and the fibers are in the form desired for weaving, they are sorted and selected according to length, thickness and color.  The more uniform the fibers are for each body, the better the finished hat can be. The finest grade of fibers produces the highest quality hat, not only because fineness of fiber results in fine texture but also because a hat of fine fibers takes considerably more time and effort to weave than a hat of course fibers.  

Nowadays,  the Panama hat brings an elegant boost to any summer outfit. It adds a sense of proper style to those sunny days, providing not only protection from the sun’s rays, but also an additional something like a welcome eccentricity.  The new collections of panama hats are colorful and fashionable. Remember, you get the look you want at Miller Hats!  

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Derby Hats

The bowler hat, also known as the derby hat in the United States,  is a firm fur felt or wool felt hat with a rounded crown, created by the London hat-makers Thomas and William Bowler in 1849. Hat wearers have traditionally worn the derby hat with semi formal and informal attires. The classic bowler hat was popular with the British, Irish, and American working classes during the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th Century.  The derby hat became popular among the middle and upper classes in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the east cost United States.

The derby or bowler hat were also popular in the frontier, as were the wide brim hats worn by many cowboys.  Although smaller headgear was reserved for town wear, a few bank robbers like Charles Bolton, Alias Black Bart would wear it.  The Wild Bunch wore the Derby or bowler hat for formal wear, as we can see in one of their famous portraits.  Front row left to right; Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy; standing: Will Carver, alias News Carver, & Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry.

Many famous icons made the derby popular. Charlie Chaplin, who wore the hat as part of his costume, is the most distinguished one.  Nowadays, the derby is used in many classic films and theatrical performances. They often wore the hat in Kentucky derby events, Great Gatsby parties, or even formal events. 

We carry Miller Hats derbies in both wool and rabbit fur felt. The hat is available in black and it comes with a double bow grosgrain band.  We line them with the famous Miller Hats satin liners.  

So, If you are looking for a formal classic look, the derby hat is the hat to go with.  You can always pair your bowler hat with a business suit, a lounge suit or a stroller suit and wear it in formal settings.  They can also pair it with a classic overcoat.   The derby would add elegance to your outfit. 

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