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What is a true classic?
A true classic is a piece of art that becomes part of our reality, part of our language, so ingrained in our
conciseness , that we forget that it was something
created in the not-so-distant past, rather
than something that has just somehow
always been there. It defines an era, a memory, an emotion, a time and place in our own lives, and in the history that surrounds us. Such a great work was written in 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new, something extraordinary, intricately patterned, beautiful and simple.” And thus the extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became “The Great Gatsby”. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies this country's most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes both a love poem and a cautionary tale about the American Dream. Besides the book, four motion pictures,
and an opera, have since been produced based upon it. Of course the “lassique grand” of them all was the 1974
Paramount Pictures movie with Robert Redford as “Gatsby”, and Mia Farrow as “Daisy” (with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola!).
Gatsby became a way of talking, of moving, of thinking, and of dressing. Among the many ingredients of this classic to become part of our lexicon was the “Gatsby Cap”. Baron Hats is proud to offer a custom “Gatsby” (great looking on men
and women!) inspired by this true
classic. These hats are made to the exact designs of the original style of the 1920’s and of the apotheosis
Robert Redford 1974 movie version.
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