My 13-year-old grandson loves his hats. Here he is in NYC's Chinatown last summer.
Posted on 08/11/2010 11:46:39 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Old Rules Flummox Young Hipsters; 'I'm Wearing an $80 Fedora!'
Hector Ramirez sort of knows, from watching old movies, that men are supposed to take off their hats when indoors. But the 19-year-old Brown University student wears fedoras in class—with jeans—anyway.
"If I'm wearing a hat and it's part of my look, I don't think I should have to take it off," he says. On a recent trip to New York, an usher at a church had to remind him to take off his fedora. "I was wearing it all day and I guess I kind of just forgot I had it on."
Inspired by designer runway shows, celebrities such as Justin Timberlake and even, in some cases, old pictures of Frank Sinatra, more young men are going mad for hats. But the hat renaissance is creating a quandary for a generation of men and boys who grew up without learning hat-wearing etiquette from their fathers. Many are making up their own rules about when and where to take them off.
The trend may be old hat to hipsters in areas like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who started wearing fedoras, rounded derby hats and, in warmer weather, straw hats, more than two years ago. But now hats are starting to catch on among some men in suburbs, the Midwest and beyond. Gap and J. Crew say they have witnessed strong hat sales this spring and summer while department stores like Barneys New York have been expanding their assortments after years of general indifference to hats. Sales of designer-brand "blocked" hats such as fedoras and straw hats in particular "are definitely robust," says Jay Bell, a ...
It's a bittersweet turn of events for hatmakers, who witnessed their business fall off a cliff in the 1960s, when legions of men abandoned wearing hats.
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My 13-year-old grandson loves his hats. Here he is in NYC's Chinatown last summer.
I don’t know what you were trying to say, but veterans do not need to be covered to salute during the national anthem.
“I don’t know what you were trying to say, but veterans do not need to be covered to salute during the national anthem.”
Its simple, Marines do not salute unless they are covered: wearing a hat.
I have embarrassed him in public enough times, telling young kids that I don't know, to take their hats off during the playing of the National Anthem, to know that I mean business.
Casual restaurants tend to be a different story. I don't think most people care if a guy is wearing a baseball cap or not.
“If it’s part of your look? What a narcissistic jerk.”
Huh? I don’t take off my hat because I’m Jewish.
You think that all ex Marines will refuse to salute during the raising or lowering of the flag, or the playing of the national anthem because they aren’t wearing a hat?
If they choose not to salute, they can still put their hand over their heart like other civilians.
“If they choose not to salute, they can still put their hand over their heart like other civilians.”
That’s what they were taught. BTW, there are no ex-Marines.
That's a myth. Rather than being the first president to go hatless at his inauguration, he was the last to wear a traditional silk top hat. He took his hat off when he was seated on the inaugural stand, and left it on his seat when he was sworn in and delivered his address - it is visible there in some photographs. Apart from that, he wore the topper for most of the day's events.
JFK preferred to go bareheaded, but that trend had already started years earlier.
I don’t know how many ex marines there are, perhaps a couple of million, but my guess is that many of them will salute as long as they are aware that it is now legal to do so.
There are about 2.5 or 3 million ex marines, my guess is that many of them will salute the flag raising and lowering and the national anthem as long as they are aware that it is now legal to do so.
I don't like that hair with the hat or suit. AND his suit need pressing.
Any resurgence in hat wearing is due to this guy;And this guy:
He got all his clothes from a consignment shop after he got out of prison. You have to watch the series. The hat is supposed to be a designer piece which a widow (Diahnn Caroll) was placing on consignment, and he recognized it, tried it on, and she immediately invited him over and supplied the rest of his wardrobe, allowing him to move into her very desirable Park Ave. digs.
You have to have watched the series.
The hat is a prop that crops up again about every 2nd episode.
The rules of etiquette for your “hat” are a bit different ...
Boy, I did get it wrong! Thank you for catching me up!
Never trust any man that wears a hat!
It’s a delightful series, IMHO. I try to never miss it. Unfortunately, I must confess that I fell asleep in this week’s episode, so I will catch it again tonight at 10 PM Central Time. USA channel.
Caffrey plays the role of a “brilliant” scofflaw who has been let out of prison under the supervision of the FBI and an ankle bracelet to help solve crimes — embezzlement, fine arts forgery, etc. Lots of fun ensues.
Diahnn Carroll is a wealthy widow “of a certain age” (June) whose late husband was stylish and did not always operate on the right side of the law. When she spots Neil in the consignment shop there she is dropping off clothes and he expresses admiration for their style, she takes him under her wing. There is no romance between them. She is a mother figure.
Fixed it.
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