Frederic Maubert in Soho
A couple of years ago, I gave a clothing store gift card to my 15 year old grandson for his birthday. He bought a fedora! He has a band, and he and his friends wear them when they play for school dances. He lives in Upstate NY.
I seldom take off my hat.
Kennedy did that by refusing to wear a hat.I’ve always loved hats heh.
Translation: I am way too cool to let looking like an idiot stop me
Frederic, you are not wearing a hat, you’re wearing a pose. Grow up. Hats are portable shelter for the head. When the head is sheltered by a roof, take the hat off. I would have loved to have instructed dear Frederic about covers and Marine Corps procedures concerning there wear. BTW, don’t salute unless you are covered: wearing a hat.
His hat looks silly.
Neil Caffrey in White Collar uses his hat as a pivot point in the plot of the series. That's how he met June and scored a really neat place to live that far exceeds his allowance as a just released prisoner. USA TV. TUesday nights. 8 pm central.
When they went to pay for thier meal, they found out that an older gentlemen had paid for my nephews meals. He also stopped by thier table when he left to tell thier mother what a great pair of kids they were.
Even today, they still take thier hats off. I am thinking that they are looking for another free meal!
If men started wearing hats and women started wearing gloves in a proper way for proper occasions, I think it would help this country.
Expectations about dress tend to lead to expectations about behavior, and everyone treats each other a little better.
FTA: **The general decline in hat wearing led to the demise of proper hat racks in restaurants and bars.**
Indeed! There used to be push button clips on the backs of pews where you could hang a hat by its brim. Nowdays there is no place to rest a hat properly when it is not abiding on your head. In Texas, men are allowed to wear their Stetsons in restaurants, but not other kinds of hats.
Expect crap made in China hats to start trying to take over the market.
I am sticking with Beaver Brand made in USA hats.
And yes, they come off inside.
Rude, ignorant, raised in a barn. Part of his "look" indeed.
One of the worst things JFK did was kill off the men’s hat as a fashion accessory.
My grandfather wore hats. I like them.
I love a good fedora, something straight out of a 1940s film. Sad to say, I look strange wearing it. I can’t put my finger on it, but either the hat or my head looks like it’s the wrong size. And yes, I’ve tried many different sizes with different size brims.
As a general rule, I don’t wear a hat.
I hate ballcaps, which is the only common hat out there.
I like the look of “real” hats - a tasteful narrow-brimmed fedora is something I’ve considered.
Finding a place to purchase one (other than online) is a real challenge.
But every time I think about buying one, I think about when I would actually wear it. Good hats aren’t cheap - it doesn’t make sense to buy one and not use it.
For my daily commute - about 10 feet walking from the house to the car, and then maybe 50 feet walking from my car to the office - it seldom makes sense to bother and if it’s raining enough for a hat, an umbrella (which I generally always have stashed in the car) is a better choice and takes up less space when not in use (and can shelter another person).
Of course, people who stand outside waiting for a train or bus, or those who are outside a lot during the course of their day probably have a real use for a hat. I’m seldom outside when not working on the house/yard/car and then a ballcap or other utilitarian hat makes more sense.
So I’m still hatless.
From biography of Bum Phillips
“...Although the cowboy hat is Phillips’ trademark, he never wore one when coaching a game indoors (such as when he coach the Houston Oilers in the Astrodome or the New Orleans Saints in the Superdome). When asked about this, Phillips replied he’d been taught that it was disrespectful to wear a hat indoors....”
Good enough for me....
To begin, hat check stations have all but disappeared along with hat racks or even clothing hooks in restaurants and other semi-public places.
Second, you never want to sit anywhere your hat is out of immediate view. I know not why, but "things happen" to hats, especially expensive hats.
Three, the etiquette is all over the map. Watch old clips of Candid Camera and you will see, for example, men did NOT take off their hats in the Automat. (Remember the Automat?)
I have been admonished to remove my brimmed hat in a room filled with men wearing baseball caps. Apparently brimmed hat wearers are held to a higher standard of courtesy.
If a man aspires to wear a brimmed or fedora style hat in modern society he will need to be prepared to brave the slings and arrows of outrageous approbation of one sort or other everywhere he goes.
Overall, public opinion has never really bothered me.
Best regards,
My 13-year-old grandson loves his hats. Here he is in NYC's Chinatown last summer.