Fedora Gallery
Kelli likes hats in general and fedoras in particular. Wide-brim from the ’40s, snap-brim from the late ’50s, straw, felt, Panamas and Borsalinos, she adds to her hat collection whenever possible, and enjoys visiting hat shops when on book tour.
If you know of a good place for hats in your town, email her—she loves to discover new sources for her favorite piece of apparel!
Below are a few fedoras (vintage and contemporary) from Kelli’s collection.
- Vintage Adam fedora interior, c. mid-to-late 1940s.
- Interior of a vintage straw Dobbs, this one in taupe.
- Vintage Dobbs interior of gray short brim (1950s-60s).
- Magnifique! A gorgeous orange sherbet-colored French fedora made in Paris, from my wonderful agent!
- Taupe in color, and a cool neutral–vintage Dobbs straw from the late 60s.
- Favorite vintage straw hat. Gorgeous fancy band, probably mid 1960s. A Dobbs.
- Great all-purpose fedora, vintage gray Dobbs. One of my favorite hats.
- Department stores and hat shops used to stamp their names on the inside brims. This one is Gildners.
- Classic Panama … made in Equador. Great summer hat!
- Where my orange, French fedora lives!
- Gray twin to the classic brown Dobbs. I wear this in my official author photo.
- Beautiful thick black Stetson, wide-brim, bought in San Francisco.
- Vintage brown straw, probably from late 1960s.
- Dobbs brown with very special vintage Brooks Brothers gray, a gift from dear friends.
- Brown hat on top of Dobbs box is a vintage Adam, probably from mid 1940s.
- Beloved first Bouchercon fedora! Plain gray felt, inexpensive.
- Another vintage Dobbs, this one black and suitable for poker games.
- Vintage light brown Borsalino (made in Italy), short brim and comfortable.
- Interior of the vintage gray Dobbs, short-brim (late 1950s).
- Contemporary but classic, plush brown Dobbs. Bought in Seattle at Bernie Utz!
- Interior of my beautiful and very special vintage Brooks Brothers gray.
- Fedora on top is a precious vintage Paramount from early 40s–wide brim.
- Hat feathers are one of the joys of wearing a fedora!























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