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Los Angeles' hot hat: the stingy brim

By Adam Tschorn, Times Staff Writer

Stingy is in -- and it has nothing to do with the economy. The stingy brim fedora, the narrower-brimmed brother of the hat made famous by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Indiana Jones, has been gaining popularity for the last year, especially among the cool-cat actor/musician/baby-daddy set. But nothing prepared us for the hat-pidemic that is currently sweeping the Southland.

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