Father Brown TV Series

[Kaninchen]

I like Rowan Atkinson. He is so funny. Yes the cars all look they have just been handwashed and polished!

He’s doing a rather good job in the straight rôle of Simenon’s Inspector Maigret, nice feel of what 1950’s France would have been like and not a worn-out, ill-maintained car to be seen.

My college roommate’s Mother was British. Her mother’s father was a milliner in London in the 1930’s and 1940’s and 50’s.

Today, must be a difficult to make a living, imagine the fate of hatters, once all men seem to have worn hats but it’s so rare now.

 

[7_Sorrows]

He’s doing a rather good job in the straight rôle of Simenon’s Inspector Maigret, nice feel of what 1950’s France would have been like and not a worn-out, ill-maintained car to be seen.

Today, must be a difficult to make a living, imagine the fate of hatters, once all men seem to have worn hats but it’s so rare now.

Yes, men wore hats in the 1800’s and into the early 1960’s in the U.S.
I wonder why they went out of style? I guess for the same reason many women don’t wear dresses very often anymore either.

What show is Inspector Maigret in? I wonder if it is on BBC America?

Was Mark Williams well known before the role of Father Brown?

 

[Kaninchen]

What show is Inspector Maigret in? I wonder if it is on BBC America?

It’s on one of the commercial channels (ITV) in the UK (same as Downton Abbey which we didn’t watch) but I don’t know who would show it in the US. Maigret is actually filmed in Budapest for that 1950s Paris feel!

 

[Kaninchen]

Was Mark Williams well known before the role of Father Brown?

He’s done an awful lot of film and TV stuff. Apart from Harry Potter films, in the UK he’d probably be most associated with a comedy sketch series known as the ‘Fast Show’.

 

[7_Sorrows]

He’s done an awful lot of film and TV stuff. Apart from Harry Potter films, in the UK he’d probably be most associated with a comedy sketch series known as the ‘Fast Show’.

I never watched Harry Potter films so I didn’t realize he was in those.

 

[tomarin]

Yes, men wore hats in the 1800’s and into the early 1960’s in the U.S.
I wonder why they went out of style? I guess for the same reason many women don’t wear dresses very often anymore either.

What show is Inspector Maigret in? I wonder if it is on BBC America?

Was Mark Williams well known before the role of Father Brown?

I think hat wearing declined because our environment is a lot cleaner than it used to be in the period from the Industrial Revolution up to the 1960’s, and hats were useful in protecting your hair and head from ashes, soot and particulate matter in the air due to pervasive coal burning. (In addition to expressing a sense of fashion since hats expressed the wearer’s personality the way a hairstyle does today.) Once we stopped burning coal to heat houses and workplaces, and factories were forced to make their coal burning less polluting (and/or they closed down or relocated away from city centers), it wasn’t so much of an issue. Perhaps not the only reason but one reason I’ve happened upon.

 

[7_Sorrows]

I think hat wearing declined because our environment is a lot cleaner than it used to be in the period from the Industrial Revolution up to the 1960’s, and hats were useful in protecting your hair and head from ashes, soot and particulate matter in the air due to pervasive coal burning. (In addition to expressing a sense of fashion since hats expressed the wearer’s personality the way a hairstyle does today.) Once we stopped burning coal to heat houses and workplaces, and factories were forced to make their coal burning less polluting (and/or they closed down or relocated away from city centers), it wasn’t so much of an issue. Perhaps not the only reason but one reason I’ve happened upon.

Okay. Those are good points. I always wondered how the stovepipe hat became so popular. What could have been the reason for having such a tell hat! I think Abraham Lincoln was even photographed in one and he was tall.
I had never given thought to environment outside of weather. Windy days would certainly make hat wearing a challenge.

 

[exnihilo]

Okay. Those are good points. I always wondered how the stovepipe hat became so popular. What could have been the reason for having such a tell hat! I think Abraham Lincoln was even photographed in one and he was tall.
I had never given thought to environment outside of weather. Windy days would certainly make hat wearing a challenge.

John Wayne, who was tall, wore lifts and boots.

I never liked hats because I had thick hair and a hat would give me the worst hat head. God solved that problem for me by making me bald! I’m not sure I ever actually prayed to be free form that suffering but let it be a warning to all!

 

[tomarin]

Okay. Those are good points. I always wondered how the stovepipe hat became so popular. What could have been the reason for having such a tell hat! I think Abraham Lincoln was even photographed in one and he was tall.
I had never given thought to environment outside of weather. Windy days would certainly make hat wearing a challenge.

You can never be too thin, too rich or too tall?