Posted on 05/30/2013 5:58:17 PM PDT by rickmichaels
“That’s just what I was told—I’m not saying it was right.”
LOL, sometimes I think parents make stuff up. My dad told us that if we swallowed our gum that it would go down and wrap around our heart. Swallow enough and your heart would quit.
My 15yo son has a gray fedora, reminiscent of the old days. It’s the type of hat I remember my grandfather wearing. When my son wears it, he knows to remove it whenever he enters a church or a classroom. I haven’t noticed other teenage boys wearing that kind of hat, though.
So many rules to learn.
Fashions go in cycles.
I'm still waiting to be able to wear my powder blue polyester suit with the wide lapels and the platform shoes again, though. I'll need new goldfish....
/johnny
Back in the 70s my mother coerced my father into buying a powder blue leisure suit (polyester I’m sure).
His boss saw him in it once and told him, My God Andy. What are we paying you? Obviously not enough.
Needless to say that was the last time he ever wore it.
JFK killed the hat.
You sorry ass easterners keep your damn hats there and out of California!!! Only North East creaps and gangsters wear hats!
/johnny
LOL. My son looks like the pinnacle of cool with his fedora (in my eyes, anyway). ;-)
I had an Indiana Jones-type hat in the ‘80’s... It was my favorite hat; I don’t know what happened to it.
I’m a woman who wore hats and caps when I was a teenager. Then I stopped when I was an adult, until two years ago when I lost my hair to chemo, and I found a 1970-ish type of denim cap that covered my whole head. Out in public, so many people would stop to compliment me on that cap... lol.
Ditto
I like a straw snap brim pork pie ala Sam Snead, about as good as it gets. It’s lightweight, covers the ears and very retro.
"Stylish, mature and respectful"
Now, with almost no hair left up on top, I do try and cover up, but still hate the feel of a headband on my forehead. Head overheats as well, instant cooling when I take the damn thing off.
My daddy used to always wear a hat; good ones. Later in life, I started giving him those little lightweight hats (don’t know what they’re called); little informal hats. He wore them; and I think he was relieved to wear cooler, less tight fitting ones that still covered his bald head.
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