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New Generation Brims With Anxiety Over Hat Etiquette
A nearby establishment posts a sign in the window: "Your pants must be this high to enter" (with diagram showing correct pants, above buttocks, and incorrect pants, worn below buttocks.) I'm sure it's intended only as humor, but it's a nice sentiment. -
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New Generation Brims With Anxiety Over Hat Etiquette
Oh, goody, a hat etiquette thread! Wearing a hat is an action, more so than with most articles of clothing. Put it on, take it off, adjust angle as Emily Post's descendant mentions - a dynamic, rather than static, phenomenon. I think someone who goes to great trouble and expense to round up... -
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
The last hat I bought at auction was described as "great wearable condition." The sweatband was already broken, out of the box, but even if it had been intact, it couldn't have held up for long. It was also too small, so I jettisoned the sweatband and liner, and now I wear it a lot - so it's... -
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
To me, it looks trashed. Old, yes, and more than a hint of what a great hat it probably was 75 years ago, but as a hat to wear ... your listing was too honest! -
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Hat Wearers: You're Just Trying to Be Don Draper. Stop It.
But now, by writing an article suggesting that I reject that article, don't you put yourself in the position of controlling me, in the event I follow your implicit advice? What a conundrum! -
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Hat Wearers: You're Just Trying to Be Don Draper. Stop It.
The lady of the house watched it with some friends a couple weeks ago (first show of the season?) As "mad men" has now become even more common in EBay hat titles than "wow", I predicted that she would see hats. But, no - if she did, she wasn't aware of it. But obviously there are hats, or... -
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Advice needed - feds/upturned brim
That looks like maybe a 2 1/2 inch brim, or a little less? Wider than usual, for that style - I think it's more commonplace, and arguably better looking, at 2 and under. I don't think you can guarantee that a hat will do this for you. The usual brim flip complements a natural distortion of... -
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First timer advise.
Thank you, Mr. Bad Example! I only vaguely remember what it was like to be young and have little or no money of my own to spend on fripperies, but I remember the hat I wore in those days. Wool! And bright red, but that's a matter of taste (or lack thereof.) I have gotten compliments on my... -
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THE STEVENS SPOTLIGHT
I think the picture's pretty accurate, but it's direct mid-day sunlight, so relatively bright. It has some faded spots, and plenty of grime. I like to talk colors. In terms of saturation, value and hue, this is indeed orange, but ... the way computer monitors vary, I suppose you might be... -
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THE STEVENS SPOTLIGHT
older fedora My only old fedora: with liner stuffed back in for photo: hard to see inscription on sweatband: XXX BEAVER TEN MellowFeel -
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What we have to put up with!
I don't know ... I read through one of the threads, and it seemed to me that on the whole they were mostly having some fun. At other people's expense, and maybe often unfairly so, but in a way it's kind of a refreshing contrast to the unfailingly supportive lounge atmosphere. The thing is, if... -
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
It's easy, but you need daylight. If there's brown in it, and you're limited to incandescent light for example, anything with brown in it will be brown.* I have a Stetson western that's much greener than this, but perfectly brown under incandescent. If I were your size I'd be envious, I like... -
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Questions Concerning Biltmore Hats
The way I read it, seed was not talking about whether the hat's dressy or not, per se, but more about a balance of proportion between the extravagant dimensions of the hat vs. rest of apparel. Just to start with, a dress jacket commonly pads out the shoulders, but more in general when you crank... -
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
After many years of bidding on various kinds of stuff, I finally signed up with a sniping service a couple weeks ago, when I saw that an item I wanted had attracted a bidding fool, and I wasn't willing to hang around to take care of it in person at the close. I'm sure that bidder was one of the... -
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
size vs. dimensions I never really understood what "a word to the wise" was about - if you're already wise, you'd seem to be less in need of this word. So, a word to the unwise: look out for descriptions where the "size" might actually be the longitudinal dimension of the interior. In my... -
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Head Shape Poll
Odd that it's independent of hat size. The antique anthropological version, cephalic index is expressed as a percent ratio of width to length. -
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Like Hell It's Your Hat!
I think he's right about that - if it's really just to inform someone he has claimed the wrong hat, the message does have the wrong tone. Ungentlemanly or just silly, I don't know, but all it takes is a prominently displayed `This hat belongs to _ _.' I'm sure some hat owners left that card in...
