Posted on 08/12/2010 5:33:02 AM PDT by mattstat
That does simplify the tactical situation.
A Shady Brady mostly...I have two of them, one a battered, sweat stained, ragged edged old thing that my wife calls my "go to hell hat" as in "this is my favorite hat and I don't care what it looks like and if y'all don't like it, y'all can go to hell."
The other is my dress hat, if you can call a straw hat "dressy"...it doesn't get worn much.
I wear neither of them at the table...my momma would rise out of the grave and slap it right off my head...she didn't allow no hats at the table.
That's all the etiquette I really need...a hat is practical and I'll wear what works for me.
Don't need any stiffed necked, corn cob sportin' fella telling me what's right.
The common saying around here when faced with someone deciding things for us (and can be purchased as a bumper sticker) is "We don't care how y'all do it up north"
The rest of y'all can sort it out as to the validity of "hat etiquette" written by someone else, but I'll let conditions dictate to me, along with how I feel.
Amen! The beaver (felt) doesn’t come out until Labor Day at the earliest!
MFO
My hat doesn’t come off; especially so because I don’t sport buzz cuts.
If you do not want to remove your hat because it will expose your “messy hair,” consider a sex change operation: you will lead a happier life. Real men do not fret over their coiffes. Besides, if upon doffing your cap, you reveal a tangled mess, you probably need a bigger hat. Or a haircut.
it do
Unless, of course, it's the rally hat! Then you are allowed to look silly and wear it inside out....if you want your team to win!
I have a bad headache, and it’s making me grumpy.
That said:
I long ago had enough of fashion, dressin’ up, indeed for wearing clothes for any other purpose than to protect myself from weather and other environmental conditions, or to protect others from viewing my nudity (how my wife stands it is beyond me. I look, at best, ludicrous.).
Etiquette? Grump. Again, it is most polite of me not to show you my junk. I refuse to voluntarily spend more than $10 on shirts or pants, or $40 for a decent pair of shoes.
I’d be most pleased if society just adopted overalls or a jumpsuit (like prison garb; if it wasn’t for the concomitant inconvenience of incarceration, I would adopt that fashion like whatsername adopts African kids.).
Grump, again.
YMMV
Free investment advice:
“Buy straw hats in the winter” Russell Sage (1816-1906)
I wonder though if it didn't make the little Caligula's heart sink just a little. "Oh dear, what have I gotten myself into?"
Here’s a question: Would the Bowler look so stupid to us if Laural and Hardy hadn’t worn them?
Gunny G: That Old Slouch Hat...
I like the book, Soldiers Of The Sea, by Robert Debs Heinl, Jr., Colonel, USMC, for many reasons. I personally consider it to be the most thorough and detailed account of the Marine Corps as it was. And, I also like it, if for no other reason, the opening pages contain the photograph by Lou Lowery of the actual flag raising at Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima on 23 February 1945—not, mind you, the photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the “replacement” flag raising which occurred later that same morning. And, the scope of Heinl’s book is from 1775 thru 1962—just as well, after 1962...well, things began to change in many ways for the old Corps soon after that. In any case, this author presents a most thorough and detailed account of Corps history with information on topics of interest that I’ve seen in no other writings.
I was surprised to read that Colonel Heinl referred to the service hat, or campaign hat as it is more popularly known, as the “old slouch hat.” Prior to my reading of that I had thought of that term soley as a reference to the Australian campaign-type hat; and this caused me to look into the matter a bit further. But then I recalled that there was that old song by Hank Snow, from back in the 1950s...
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http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/slouchhat.html
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Thank you. Wow—speaks volumes.
I look ridiculous in any hat I’ve ever tried. I think that although I’m fairly slim, my head circumference is bigger than average. I look like I’m trying to dress up a bowling ball when I put one on. I envy ladies that can look stylish in them.
It depends on the man wearing it. My father wore a hat to work every day from the late 1920’s until his death in 1980. He generally wore a fedora, but would occasionally wear a bowler. In summer it was often a Panama.
He could wear a bowler because in truth the man makes the hat, not the other way around. He did it and looked good doing it because he knew how to do it.
Brokeback Mountain brought back the decrepit straw cowboy and simultaneously ruined it forever for me.
Never saw the movie, never will, so I'm not bothered, I just know working outside in a heat index of sometimes as much as 120, I'm wearing straw...since my old straw hat is in excess of 20 years old and my "dressy" one is probably ten years old, I figure it's too late to care.
Nothing hollywierd can/will produce is going to dictate how I live my life.
I don’t have one of those emo mops of hair if you’re thinking that.
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