Fedoras & facial hair: are they mortal enemies?

[Redwoodjedi]

I think I look better with facial hair, period. With or without the fedora. Otherwise, even as a middle aged guy, I would get carded for water with this baby face. Facial hair gives me swagger...

 

[Raider]

Doesn't bother me:

 

[Forrest]

The one time I grew out a full beard and wore a fedora, I felt like I was hiding my face, like some celebrity going incognito or something. It didn't work for me. I'd say do whatever works for you personally, whatever you think you carry well.

 

[St.Ignatz]

Now Fedoras made from facial hair is a whole nuther story. It would have to be at least as soft as buffalo felt.
Tom D.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I never step out of my house without my beard (goatee) and my fedora. It's worked for me for a long time and I wouldn't feel right without either. Some like it hot, some like it cold!

Amen to that Brother! Some great pics in this old thread.

It's always the guys who couldn't grow a beard if their life depended on it givin' out the dirty looks.

And on those days when you just don't want to deal with it.

I'm callin' out Moon, DD, Bob, Bowen & all the others I'm forgetting.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Huh, I don't know why I didn't reply on this thread back in 2012.

I've been a bearded hat guy since around 1973 - and I was a hat guy long before I could grow a decent beard. Of course, I reject all "fashion rules" as pretentious bushwa anyway, and wear whatever I want. Personal style is about having courage in oneself, not following of-the-moment dictates about "what looks right".

1982, straw Stetson Open Road:



2016, custom "gangster fedora" by Northwest Hats:

 

[Redfokker]

Huh, I don't know why I didn't reply on this thread back in 2012.

I've been a bearded hat guy since around 1973 - and I was a hat guy long before I could grow a decent beard. Of course, I reject all "fashion rules" as pretentious bushwa anyway, and wear whatever I want. Personal style is about having courage in oneself, not following of-the-moment dictates about "what looks right".

1982, straw Stetson Open Road:

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2016, custom "gangster fedora" by Northwest Hats:

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Hear hear! Damn the fashion police, full speed ahead. Great looking Mike Miller creation. Is that silvermist?

 

[Doctor Strange]

Yes. I actually wish the shade were a hair darker, because it reads as off-white rather than light gray in most light. Of course, in b/w, it really looks like something from 1931!

 

[nvilletele]

Yes. I actually wish the shade were a hair darker, because it reads as off-white rather than light gray in most light. Of course, in b/w, it really looks like something from 1931!

As a new member, I just wanted to say that it is comforting knowing that the Sorcerer Supreme of the Universe is a member here. And I never thought beards and fedoras were an issue. Who made up that rule anyway? Say hi to Clea for me, if you will.

 

[quikrick]

And I never thought beards and fedoras were an issue. Who made up that rule anyway?

That's exactly what I was thinking... Where did that even come from? You bearded guys look awesome!

 

[Doctor Strange]

Thanks, nvilletele! I've been Doctor Strange (or some variation of it: DoctorStrange, Dr.Strange, etc.) here and on many other forums/sites now for going on twenty years. Way before Cumberbatch made him a household name. He was always my favorite Marvel character because he studied to gain his powers, there was no radioactive spider bite, gamma ray blast, X-gene, alien birth, galactic police power ring, etc.

And I've always had an affinity for wizards and magicians, ever since I was a teenage conjurer (and pressed my sister into service as my "glamorous assistant") in the early seventies:



Required hat content: That's an old hard beaver-fur top hat I got at a thrift shop for a couple of bucks. I also got a silk collapsible one the same way. Alas, both are now too small for me and falling apart...

 

[BobHufford]

I'm callin' out Moon, DD, Bob, Bowen & all the others I'm forgetting.

Not sure if I'm an argument for or against...

 

[nvilletele]

Thanks, nvilletele! I've been Doctor Strange (or some variation of it: DoctorStrange, Dr.Strange, etc.) here and on many other forums/sites now for going on twenty years. Way before Cumberbatch made him a household name. He was always my favorite Marvel character because he studied to gain his powers, there was no radioactive spider bite, gamma ray blast, X-gene, alien birth, galactic police power ring, etc.

And I've always had an affinity for wizards and magicians, ever since I was a teenage conjurer (and pressed my sister into service as my "glamorous assistant") in the early seventies:

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Required hat content: That's an old hard beaver-fur top hat I got at a thrift shop for a couple of bucks. I also got a silk collapsible one the same way. Alas, both are now too small for me and falling apart...

Though perhaps suited for the “this or that” thread, not all would get this, so I’ll just ask you: Ditko or Brunner?

Required hat content:

 

[rjfurlan]

I feel naked without a beard and a hat. I like the way I look with both and do not really car if others like it or not.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

My employment forbids beards and my wife forbids kissing when I have a mustache. Needless to say, I’m clean shaven most of the time (I rebel on my days off).

Styles and fashions change and there are no right and wrongs. These are all personal choices that some will like, some won’t like, and most wont care one way or the other.

I think the folks here at the Lounge pull off this look with ease.


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[Doctor Strange]

Though perhaps suited for the “this or that” thread, not all would get this, so I’ll just ask you: Ditko or Brunner?

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It was Frank Brunner when I was an active comics reader in the seventies, but of course, Steve Ditko's work is even more brilliant. I treated myself to the Marvel Masterworks paperback collecting all of Ditko's Doctor Strange comics shortly before the movie came out. It takes a while for the series to hit its stride, but it's excellent, and - just like Ditko's Spider-Man - it's best just before he quit Marvel. And those early sixties Marvel comics have a more personal, you-are-there sense that was largely lost when they became a big deal . For example, I love this Lee/Ditko panel:



But my single favorite Doctor Strange story is in Marvel Premiere #3. This was when they reintroduced the character for the Brunner/Englehart run... but the first issue was written by Stan Lee (who'd pretty much retired from writing by then) and penciled by Barry Smith (who was near the end of his brilliant run on Conan the Barbarian). I use a clip of the cover for my avatar here:



Sorry, no hat content here. (Though re this thread, it may be worth noting that Doctor Strange only had a pencil moustache in the sixties/seventies - the beard came later.) Anyway, send me a PM if you want to keep up the comics dialog.

Addendum: Most unbelievable thing in the Doctor Strange film - that with those trembling hands he can handle an electric trimmer well enough for that precise little beard!

 

[moontheloon]

I'm callin' out Moon, DD, Bob, Bowen & all the others I'm forgetting.

Who me?

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[Hurricane Jack]

Who me?

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Good to "see" you!

 

[Bamaboots]

Who me?

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Need more moon and less, well..............., I'll stop right here.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Hell, to answer this question is simple.
I don’t give a s**t what anyone thinks about “my” hat or “my” beard because they are mine.
I only need to consider what i think about them. Anything else and i defeat “why” i wear either, or anything else for that matter. The rest is all fluff.
That’s my nice answer. Ha
Hope that helps.
Being well. Bowen