Guys, we may be experiencing the dawn of a new day...

[kowalskt63]

Absolutely

I think baldness leads to wearing hats.

I totally agree. Since I'm now completely bald, the hat has become my surrogate hair. It used to be wash, brush, comb, blowdry, haircut, etc. Now its, clean, brush, steam, crease, etc, etc. I think I love my hats more than I used to love my hair. I can change styles and color daily without annoying and lengthy sit downs with a stylist. I can take it off when I go to bed and when I wake up its in the same shape. The possibilities are endless with hats. I suggest everyone shave their heads and do that hat thing instead! ;P

 

[WideBrimm]

(BTW, the link to Art of Manliness appears to be fbxrd. Maybe they're overwhelmed with hits!...oh c'mon Fletch, be real...)

Web site still seems to be down. Here's a link to the cache:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

 

[Bassman]

I think baldness leads to wearing hats.

X2, or is it x3, or x4, or...?

 

[Marlowe P.]

From the comment section of the above article:

Corbett Coburn on March 4th, 2008 8:15 am A hat is a damned nuisance. Suppose you go out to eat wearing a hat. You can’t wear the damned thing while you’re eating, but there’s no place to put it. You can’t put it on the table. You can’t put it under your chair without getting it crushed. Got to a movie & it’s the same thing.

In the 1930’s & 40’s they had the infrastructure for taking care of hats (i.e., the hatcheck girl). Hatcheck girls have largely disappeared & unless they make a comeback (and they won’t), then hats aren’t practical.

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If only some Tommy Edison type would create some sort of contraption that was off the ground and out of the way. Maybe a pole with hooky type things coming off of it... I'd call it a "Hat Rack"

But to be honest I like the idea of a hat check girl. Although, some clubs have them. I don't really go to clubs but once or twice here and there I've been to places with coat checks. NYC had quite a few of them.

ps. in response to hats becoming a "style"
TOO LATE... http://www.jcrew.com/catalog/category.jhtml?id=cat300032&navAction=jump

 

[funneman]

Gentlemen beefing about the lack of checkrooms in every corner diner need to get hip to these things called hooks and pegs. Any halfway decent place has a few.

Something in my hat-head reacts to this as if the gent in question is on the verge of puppying out. Ooo if there's no place for my hat I probably shouldn't wear one. The next step is What will people think, with Maybe they're not for me two doors down, and I guess they're just for [insert marginalized group here] down at the dim end of the hall, with the snarled carpet and the sputtering fluorescent fixture.

Your hat is not a bridal veil that is fragile and must be kept pristine. It is an extension of you, not a gift wrap or a billboard. It's part of your daily life, or should be if you want to look and feel natural in it.

Let it rain on you hat now and then. Let the bash get bashed. Treat it no better than a fine overcoat or cherished pair of shoes. Don't put the weight of the world on it. The only place a hat really needs is your head. Everything else is negotiable.

(BTW, the link to Art of Manliness appears to be fbxrd. Maybe they're overwhelmed with hits!...oh c'mon Fletch, be real...)

:eusa_clap

I've been wearing a fedora as part of my daily wardrobe for at least a couple of years now and I really don't find restaurants a problem. I have to be honest, I feel better with my lid in my lap or an adjancent chair than hanging on a hat rack right by the exit! Seems too easy for some young punk to pinch.

 

[Delthayre]

It's all right with me

I've seldom hat trouble accommodating my fedora in restaurants. I also usually set it under my chair on on an empty seat. From time to time a restaurant has a convenient hat rack, either near the entrance or mounted somewhere near the tables, and I have even been known to improvise with things that weren't designed to hold hats, but serve that purpose quite well.

I quite doubt that hats will ever even approach their former ubiquity, but it seems evident that dress hats will become appreciably commoner and more fashionable in the near future. I am afraid, however, that they will also fade away again in the not much less immediate future.

 

[metropd]

Even the young black hip hop crowd seems to really appreciate fedoras and suits. Just beacuse they dress like their on a Ghostface Killah video they seem to be full of compliments for a sharp hat and suit, at least in my experience.

 

[Dr Doran]

Nicest compliments I get are from blacks. Usually men over 30. The whites who compliment my fedoras are streetpunks and skaters. The insults are from whites about 20 years of age, males or females. Hispanics have never discussed my hats with me. Orthodox Jews say a thing or two, and I have had some pleasant conversations that way. I try to compliment people wearing nice hats. Occasionally someone will not say "thank you" but treat my compliment as though it were an insult.

I went to the restaurant Schroeders in San Francisco twice recently: once for the Art Deco Society, once for a meeting of the San Francisco Atheists. This restaurant has HUGE hat/coat hooks. I have never seen such huge ones. It also has German murals from the 1920s. Must be seen to be believed. I went into a trendy Japanese restaurant recently which sported lots of Scotch and before sitting I made a monkey-like show of trying to find a hat-hook on the pillar beside my table. They MUST have seen me because two minutes later a young woman came and offered to take my hat and coat (no charge).

Perhaps one should bring a hook, some screws, and a screwdriver to restaurants and cinemas lacking this important appurtenance, and help them with their problem.