Another is that the hat finds its place with umpteen stars, singers, actors, movie characters, series characters and so on. Johnny Depp, Indiana Jones or Leonard Cohen are known to almost everyone and all of them usually wear Fedora hats. Through countless gangster movies of the last decades, he is also much associated with Prohibition in the 20s and the Mafia. Yet the fedora was more of a compact protection from rain, rather than a symbol of gangster organizations. What started as an accessory to protect from wind and weather in the 19th century, went as a fashion trend through history until today.