Posted on 05/30/2013 5:58:17 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Da guy wit no hat gots hisself 2 wimmins.
Being a mostly bald guy who spends a lot of time out in the sun doing nature photography, I often wear my green felt all-weather fedora when out of doors. When I stop to get gas or run inside a convenience store to get a drink or whatever, I gotten occasional compliments on it— almost always from young ladies.
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
- P. J. O’Rourke
No worries ...
I stole his shirt.
I’m arguing with the fashion aspect. Hats are certainly functional, but, at least for me, hats are very hot indoors.
I just bought a fedora and a panama hat myself, both because of the fashion aspect and function.
Although I find the current market trends to be in poor taste, the “fashion forward” hats being marketed have too thin brims to look like anything except a hipster.
Then again, people say I’m a grumpy old man in a young man’s body.
It was my military upbringing as well...my dad always made me uncover inside, especially in a hospital.
Funny, if I go into a diner or other place to eat, I seem to be the only guy taking off my hat!
Rarely leave the house without my Stetson Open Road with monument four point crown and windblown mesa fold to the brim.
Attractive women almost always have the most flirtatious and sweet comments about it.
That’s gay? - and useless? Ok
Having grown up on a large ranch and having had Stetson’s, I can’t agree more.
I'll put my hair up in a nice braid.
/johnny
My head overheats with any hat on. Even in winter, I only wear a headband when it is cold. Screw this.
LOL...THAT picture at top certainly conveys that.
However, JRandomFreeper is right...if you wear glasses, a hat goes a long way on any day there is precipitation!
Too much of a link between male pattern baldness and the area where the brim of a hat sits, but . . . .
I do wear a Vietnamese rice paddy hat to match my wife’s when working in the yard - keeps lurkers and wannabe home invaders too uneasy to stay around . . . .
And yet, happened by an outlet mall in Oregon while down searching for rare, exotic rhododendrons in the hinterlands, and found a black leather fedora that made me look like/feel Bogart, and set my wife’s heart to fluttering.
Something about a hat, a real hat, that brings out the best in a man, or at least that makes him think it does. Maybe it’s the absinthe . . . .
Only North East creaps and gangsters wear hats!
The reason I asked my mother was because my father was losing his hair. I later realized that picking the right maternal grandfather had more to do with it.
Of course that's just another way that life is unfair--you never get to pick your grandparents.
Not every man can carry this off, but it’s nice to see: a bit of wildflowers or spring greenery in the hatband. Some years ago, one day in January or thereabouts, I saw an older gentleman with a few yellow pom-poms of acacia blossoms on his fedora. Just a few weeks ago, I saw a younger twentysomething guy with a sprig of young oak leaves on his trilby.
Both looked very dapper.
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