Discovering Hats, a New Generation Brims With Anxiety Over Etiquette

Wall Street Journal ^ | 8-11-10 | RAY A. SMITH

[afraidfortherepublic]

I’ve always been fascinated with those top hats you sometimes see in old movies — the kind that collapse into a disc, then you sock them with your fist and they pop out into a real top hat, like magic.

[Daffynition]

Amen to that!

[numberonepal]

Unless they are in the military, gentlemen do not wear their hats indoors.

And if one must wear a hat indoors please take the dang thing off at the dinner table. Ugh!

[NucSubs]

Uh...when I was in the military we had to uncover indoors as well. Under normal circumstances you NEVER wore a cover indoor. Likewise you NEVER EVER went outside without one.

[NucSubs]

What did Emma say about Audrey?

[NucSubs]

Excellent post.

[Our man in washington]

Nothing nice:

“I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee,” a trait she [Emma Thompson] goes on to define as “whimsy without wit. Its mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite. And that’s not for me.”

Thompson also says of Hepburn: “She can’t sing and she can’t really act, I’m afraid.”

[ModelBreaker]

“Huh? I don’t take off my hat because I’m Jewish.”

Hope it’s more than a “look.”

[Jewbacca]

You’re a shmuck.

[ModelBreaker]

“You’re a shmuck.”

My wife would recommend you use “schlmiel.” It would be more accurate.

[Copernicus]

Excellent post.

Many thanks for your kind words.

Best regards,