Fancy Fedora
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The Fancy Fedora is an unlockable headwear item for the Spy. It appears as a team-colored, felt fedora hat that sits atop the Spy's regular balaclava.
Painted variants
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Trivia
- The Fancy Fedora could be seen before it was officially announced in the icon for the Deep Undercover Spy achievement.
- Originally a women's fashion into the 20th century, the fedora came into use in about 1919 as a men's middle-class clothing accessory.
- The Fancy Fedora actually resembles a Trilby [1] more than it does a Fedora. Fedoras have wider brims and were more popular in America, while the Trilby was more popular in Europe (from where the Spy originates).
- In Hollywood movies of the 1940s, characters often wore a fedora; particularly when playing as a private detective, a gangster, or any other "tough guy" role. The fedora is also closely associated with "Film Noir" characters. Fedoras and Trilbies are also prominently used in European gangster/crime films, for example Rififi or in many of the works of Jean-Pierre Melville (such as Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur, and Le Samourai).
- 'Fedora' was the codename for Yerbas Lichi (Russian: Виктор Мечиславвич Лесовский), a K.G.B.-agent that infiltrated the United Nations during the Cold War, from where he very successfully sabotaged American intelligence agencies by supplying false information.(Wikipedia)
- The Fancy Fedora was seen in the Art Pass Contest comic being worn by the hacker, due to the red suit and black gloves, it can be asumed this is indeed The Spy.
- The hat description was written by Kenori.
- The white version of the Fancy Fedora is rather similar to Michael Jackson's hat.
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