porkpie hat

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Recent Examples of porkpie hat 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 But the wide-brim porkpie hat that was such a signature part of Oppenheimer’s look was surprisingly difficult to find. Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 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 Some sly military-industrial complex humor creeps in as Oppenheimer, clad in his signature gray waistcoat and rumpled porkpie hat, leads this massively complicated undertaking at the surly behest of Col. Leslie R. Groves (a gruffly amusing Matt Damon). Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 19 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 To Stevens, the movie critic at Slate, Keaton — with his stone face, porkpie hat and calm acrobatics — was the ultimate 20th century man. Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022 And the promise of Luke Kirby inevitably wearing a bomber jacket and a porkpie hat in the next episode has given me the strength to keep tuning in. Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
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Noun
  • Succession Alum Jeremy Strong's Golden Globes Look Includes a Bucket Hat 13 hr 17 min ago While Kendall Roy opted, mostly, for baseball caps during Succession's run, his portrayer, Jeremy Strong, apparently loves a bucket hat.
    Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The Euphoria star wore an all-black athleisure outfit with gold jewelry and a pair of On Cloud sneakers, while the Crowded Room actor was dressed in a pink graphic T-shirt, jeans, a backward blue baseball cap, and a pair of Nike sneakers.
    Whitney Perry, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
Noun
  • In the pictures, Ewers donned a tan cowboy hat, and Barnes posed in white cowgirl boots while out on a date in Austin.
    Francesca Gariano, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Pro tip: Wear a cowboy hat at the Stock Show Fair to score half-off skating and a $10 shot and beer special at the Milepost Zero bar.
    Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • The Penguin finally takes his perch – but the Batman is watching In the final scenes of the finale, Oz (with his familiar top hat and tux from the comic books) arrives at his penthouse and visits his mother, who's now in a vegetative state.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Patrick wore the tux and top hat, with a white button down and white scarf.
    Hedy Phillips, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap.
    Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Prisoners were given numbers instead of names, had a chain attached to one leg, and were dressed in smocks and stocking caps.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
  • It’s one of those ABBA songs that fools you with its mirror ball synths, a classic disco rhythm on the high hat and lush harmonizing.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Thomas Redgate shows a smiling 24-year-old, a service cap crowning his head, a tan tie and shirt underneath his dress uniform.
    Denise Coffey, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021

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