Dorfman Pacific Wool Felt Crushable Outback Hat – 103897699

Dorfman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Allen Dorfman (1923–1983), American insurance agency owner and Teamsters consultant, associate of Jimmy Hoffa, convicted on several felony counts and murdered
• Ariel Dorfman (born 1942), Chilean-American writer
• Barnaby Dorfman, American entrepreneur and business executive
• Boris Dorfman (1923–2022), Ukrainian-Jewish writer, scholar of Jewish culture, and social activist
• Dan Dorfman (1931–2012), American financial journalist, newspaper columnist and CNBC commentator
• David Dorfman (born 1993), American attorney and retired actor
• David Dorfman (choreographer) (born 1955), American dancer, choreographer, musician, activist and teacher
• David S. Dorfman, American screenwriter
• Donald Dorfman (1933–2001), American psychologist and radiologist
• Elena Dorfman (born 1965), American fine art photographer
• Elsa Dorfman (1937–2020), American portrait photographer
• Harvey Dorfman (1935–2011), American mental skills coach
• Iakov Dorfman (1898–1974), Soviet physicist
• Irvin Dorfman (1924–2006), American amateur tennis player
• Irwin Dorfman (1908–1993), Canadian lawyer and first Jewish president of the Canadian Bar Association
• Joaquin Dorfman (born 1979), American writer
• Josif Dorfman (born 1952), Ukrainian-French chess Grandmaster and chess writer
• Michael Dorfman (born 1954), Russian-Israeli author, journalist and activist
• Michel Dorfman (1913–2006), Ukrainian-born rabbi and de facto leader of Breslover Hasidim
• Ralph Dorfman (1911–1985), Jewish-American biochemist
• Rodrigo Dorfman (born 1967), Chilean-born American photographer, writer, video artist and journalist
• Stanley Dorfman (born 1927), South African-born British television producer and music video director, co-creator of Top of the Pops
• Tommy Dorfman (born 1992), American actress
• Xavier Dorfman (born 1973), French rower and Olympic champion

Felt is a textile that is produced by matting, condensing, and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood pulp–based rayon. Blended fibers are also common. Natural fiber felt has special properties that allow it to be used for a wide variety of purposes. It is "fire-retardant and self-extinguishing; it dampens vibration and absorbs sound; and it can hold large amounts of fluid without feeling wet..."^: 10

A hat is a head covering which is worn for various reasons, including protection against weather conditions, ceremonial reasons such as university graduation, religious reasons, safety, or as a fashion accessory. Hats which incorporate mechanical features, such as visors, spikes, flaps, braces or beer holders shade into the broader category of headgear.

In the past, hats were an indicator of social status. In the military, hats may denote nationality, branch of service, rank or regiment. Police typically wear distinctive hats such as peaked caps or brimmed hats, such as those worn by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Some hats have a protective function. As examples, the hard hat protects construction workers' heads from injury by falling objects, a British police Custodian helmet protects the officer's head, a sun hat shades the face and shoulders from the sun, a cowboy hat protects against sun and rain and an ushanka fur hat with fold-down earflaps keeps the head and ears warm. Some hats are worn for ceremonial purposes, such as the mortarboard, which is worn (or carried) during university graduation ceremonies. Some hats are worn by members of a certain profession, such as the Toque worn by chefs, or the mitre worn by Christian bishops. Adherents of certain religions regularly wear hats, such as the turban worn by Sikhs, or the church hat that is worn as a headcovering by Christian women during prayer and worship.

The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in the "red centre" and semi-arid and temperate climates in southerly regions. The total population is estimated at 607,000 people.

Geographically, the Outback is unified by a combination of factors, most notably a low human population density, a largely intact natural environment and, in many places, low-intensity land uses, such as pastoralism (livestock grazing) in which production is reliant on the natural environment. The Outback is deeply ingrained in Australian heritage, history and folklore. In Australian art the subject of the Outback has been vogue, particularly in the 1940s. In 2009, as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Queensland Outback was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as a "natural attraction".

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal wool.

As an animal fiber, wool consists of protein together with a small percentage of lipids. This makes it chemically quite distinct from cotton and other plant fibers, which are mainly cellulose.