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
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.
My head overheats with any hat on. Even in winter, I only wear a headband when it is cold. Screw this.
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!
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.
JFK killed the hat.
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.
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.
And now we have the ghetto look, backwards, but not straight back, deliberately crooked.
So gehtto, so disgusting. Sorry, my boonie hat sometimes, that is it.
Hats..stupid unnecessary - and even more so for women.
I love a man wearing a hat and always take care to thank gentlemen I see in nice hats.
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