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Do you sometimes wish that people still wore fancy hats in public? Are you never seen without a baseball cap covering your head? If so, leave a review of your hat-wearing statements.

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671 days ago

There's a bin full of them in my basement. I don't know where the hell they all come from! I suspect I buy them when I'm drunk.

I usually have one that I keep in the front hall closet for going out in the sun or walking the dog when my hair is a mess; and a ratty old one at the back door for working in the yard. Actually there are about 5 of those that have been worn for hiking, camping, doing building projects, gardening. They are all worn out to some degree, but don't get thrown out.

There's a couple nice felt ones that are for formal wear, but I never seem to wear one when I go someplace formal. Then there must be 25 that somehow showed up at the house and stayed - a lot of them have logos from companies I've dealt with at work, or meetings/conferences/events I've attended.

In my bedroom closet on the top shelf is a red wool one from Jackson Hole Wyoming, purchased in 1982 on a ski trip. I wore it until the seams got thin and it is a little fragile.

That's a lot of baseball hats for someone who doesn't wear them often.

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671 days ago


Having finally come to the conclusion that I don't have sufficient hair to look good without a cap, hat or wig, I opt for a baseball cap unless the occasion calls for something more formal.

Fashion and ettiquette rules seem to have evolved, and I'd rather keep my cap/hat on than expose my balding pate to the general public.

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671 days ago

The last thing I bought at the flagship downtown Winnipeg Eaton's store before it closed in 1999 was a broad brimmed brown fedora and a huge Canadian flag that used to fly over the store. The fedora is more of a late forties/early fifties vintage style than the narrow brimmed 60's era style that is popular today. When I wear it to music events I feel more like Robert Mitchum than the guy from Mad Men.

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671 days ago

Probably the only hat, that when worn as intended, makes you a douchebag.

Also douchey when worn backwards, but nothing is worse than sideways.

Except an upside down visor.

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671 days ago

My dawgs just did in my last "baseball cap". I'm using quotation marks because there wasn't any baseball logo on it, but still...

This is the first time since I was a kid that I've been without one. Not that I wore one every day, but they had their place. When I was a kid, the brim always faced forward, unless you were a catcher, were playing volleyball, or were an asshole looking for trouble. Some guys were able to put a nice, gentle curve in their brim and I always thought that was cool. Nerds didn't even try. Same with the four fingers on their baseball gloves. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to create the perfect curve in both.

If only I had, I believe that future success in life would have come easier. Now I compensate by try to perfect a Seven Layer Cake. There's still hope.

Up Date: Now that I think of it, there was this kid named Bobby and he had the coolest of curves in the brims of his hats. Last I heard from him, he was selling lumber over the counter in Detroit. Fuck that theory.

Nice curve...


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Not serious about baseball...


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Drunken curve...


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671 days ago

I'm thoroughly sick and tired of these as the ubiquitous headgear they've become.

I wear one when I coach (as identification) when I'm at a ballgame (as a sunshade and a support gesture) and when I do something like yardwork or exercise outside (sunshade). No where else.

I'm particularly irritated by people who wear them in bars and restaurants. I was brought up that it was rude to wear a hat indoors, and particularly rude to wear one while you're eating or drinking.

Like Tony Soprano I want to ask them if they “see any fucking hotdogs being served? This ain’t no ball-park – show some respect.”

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671 days ago

I never liked fedoras but I really would like to try on a Panama hat.

Panama

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671 days ago

I think I was a camp counselor, and sixteen years old, the last time I wore one.

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671 days ago

You really should shave if you're going to wear one.

bert

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671 days ago



Fedoras are the new visor. The only thing douchey-er than a leather fedora, or a regular fedora worn with a sleeveless shirt, is a...

...okay, I give up. Wrote myself into a corner there.

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