I was wearing a taupe fawn Camp Draft and a workmate said "You look like...", he paused to think. I was thinking...Indiana Jones? Dick Tracy?...No...It finally clicked with him..."Columbo!" Huh? Never saw Peter Falk wear a hat in the show.
I have a carbon grey Fed IV and it's dressy. Dressier than the Squatter or Camp Draft, IMO. If the GF doesn't feel she'd look good in the hat, she may not feel good in the hat.
I think the Stylemaster idea is good. I like the Camp Draft, but with so much pedestrian traffic in NY, seems like you could take someones eye out with that big old brim. I don't have a Stylemaster, but all the photos of Loungers I see here wearing one look great.
Believe it or not. I fought this same issue on a Squatter. I kept stretching by draping over my knee. A few years back and memory is fuzzy, but I discovered a thread sewn from the inner band to the side of the hat. I snipped the thread, stretched again and that made the difference. The...
They're just the modern day newsboy cap. They may have started out as baseball hats, but farmers have been wearing seed caps and truckers have worn them for years. They can have team or company logos or an idea you can identify with.
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