porkpie hat
noun
pork·pie hat
ˈpȯrk-ˌpī- 
: a hat with a low telescoped crown, flat top, and flexible brim
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Frank Lloyd Wright is known for a lot of things, among them organic architecture, porkpie hats and philandering.
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The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Top that off with Oppenheimer’s signature wide-brim porkpie hat (which was surprisingly difficult for the costume designer to source), and the look felt timeless, says Mirojnick.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
Lopez, a slight, courtly sixty-one-year-old who wears a porkpie hat and walks with a cane, relayed his story to Minogue.
—Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
So, go, get into the spirit and put on some pink or don an exaggerated porkpie hat.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
Perhaps the most important sequence shot at Ghost Ranch was the moment in which Murphy puts on Oppenheimer’s distinctive porkpie hat for the first time, an action symbolic of the physicist truly coming into his own as the leader of this massive effort.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
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The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Top that off with Oppenheimer’s signature wide-brim porkpie hat (which was surprisingly difficult for the costume designer to source), and the look felt timeless, says Mirojnick.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
Lopez, a slight, courtly sixty-one-year-old who wears a porkpie hat and walks with a cane, relayed his story to Minogue.
—Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
So, go, get into the spirit and put on some pink or don an exaggerated porkpie hat.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
Perhaps the most important sequence shot at Ghost Ranch was the moment in which Murphy puts on Oppenheimer’s distinctive porkpie hat for the first time, an action symbolic of the physicist truly coming into his own as the leader of this massive effort.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
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