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  1. Doc Smith

    need style advice

    How about this hat? That one says physicist about as loudly as any hat in history.
  2. Doc Smith

    Vintage Vestiges of Your Profession

    The math may not have changed, but the methods for doing it certainly have! Some of my colleagues have had to ban symbolic math packages like Maple or Mathematica from their exams. My exams tend toward more applied problems, so I'm not that worried about my students producing steam-driven...
  3. Doc Smith

    Does anyone wear their hats tipped back?

    Two to three fingers width above the eyebrows, level and square. Every time I try something different, my hindbrain is just waiting for the First Shirt to come along and rip me a new one....
  4. Doc Smith

    My "mission" back in time.

    Folks in the upper Midwest can sign up for flights on Yankee Lady, the resident B-17 at the Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti, MI: http://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/ My wife went in with a couple of friends on a flight for me a couple of Christmases ago. Perhaps I'll have time to cash in the...
  5. Doc Smith

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Thanks, both for the gracious welcome and the advice. I'd love to find a fedora I can wear over a blazer or a tweed sportcoat; the tan woolly thing I currently have is clearly not up to the job. I've been lurking for about a month or so, trying to learn what I can. I clearly still have a...
  6. Doc Smith

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Cheap wool felt by New York Hat Co. that I bought a couple of years ago, before discovering that there was such a thing as fur felt. Suggestions for what sort of new hat would work for me? It sounds like everybody's getting an Akubra Fed IV these days...
  7. Doc Smith

    New Ladies and Gents Step Forward

    Hello, all! My name's Tim (Dr. Smith to my students), and I'm a lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. My wife and I are fans of old movies and occasionally go swing dancing, but are otherwise new to the vintage clothing culture that seems to have sprung up while we...

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