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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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for porkpie hat
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After lunch, Gogi, who is wearing a too-small North Face baseball cap, sits in the garden beside a grandson playing on his phone.Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
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Benji paused, rubbing the edge of his baseball cap and pursing his lips.Annie Waldman, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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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
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Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
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Beyoncé is dressed head to toe in white with an enormous fur cowboy hat and a shaggy coat cascading around her.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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Donning blond braids and an all-white outfit with a matching fluffy cowboy hat, the singer poses as the cactus lights up.Caché McClay, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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Patrick wore the tux and top hat, with a white button down and white scarf.Hedy Phillips, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Kelce came out on stage wearing a top hat and a black suit tail coat.Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
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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
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And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
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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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“Porkpie hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porkpie%20hat. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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