How do folks react to your hat wearing?

[Steinbockhase]

Hmmm...Ms. Esther may disagree.

No offense to the ladies ... but I wrote "Nowadays a man needs "balls" ..."
By the way ... most ladies like men with self-confidence ... and of course "balls"

 

[Zombie_61]

The way I see it:
Nowadays a man needs enough self esteem and confidence ("balls") to wear a nice dress hat in public.
The wider the brim, the taller the crown = the bigger your balls!

I agree but like Merle, I wear my own kind of hat and don't give a dam what anyone thinks.

Given a choice between "confidence" and "don't care what anyone thinks" as motivation for wearing hats, I'm definitely in the latter category. It's nice to receive complimentary remarks about a hat or other clothing items, but the only opinion I give any real consideration to is that of my wife. If she voices a negative reaction to anything I'm wearing (which has only happened once or twice during the last 37+ years) I pay attention; otherwise I wear what I like. Besides, not caring gives me the freedom to occasionally wear something that will annoy all of the right people.

 

[Winston Carter]

Given a choice between "confidence" and "don't care what anyone thinks" as motivation for wearing hats, I'm definitely in the latter category. It's nice to receive complimentary remarks about a hat or other clothing items, but the only opinion I give any real consideration to is that of my wife. If she voices a negative reaction to anything I'm wearing (which has only happened once or twice during the last 37+ years) I pay attention; otherwise I wear what I like. Besides, not caring gives me the freedom to occasionally wear something that will annoy all of the right people.

 

[Steinbockhase]

Given a choice between "confidence" and "don't care what anyone thinks" as motivation for wearing hats, I'm definitely in the latter category.

Somebody very self-confident usually doesn't give a damn what others think of his look.
Where as someone who doesn't care about what others think of his appearance, shows proof of self-confidence.
So where is the difference?
Both are just the two sides of the same coin

 

[scottyrocks]

I wear the hats I wear because I like them.

 

[Zombie_61]

I wear the hats I wear because I like them.

There ya' go; no better reason.

 

[Frunobulax]

Well, I'll say I do like the compliments, but don't live for them. They can be great conversation starters.


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[deadlyhandsome]

I wear mine because glamorous women throw themselves at me when I wear them. It’s a well-known fact that a nice fedora makes the fairer sex go weak in the knees.


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[MondoFW]

I wear mine because glamorous women throw themselves at me when I wear them. It’s a well-known fact that a nice fedora makes the fairer sex go weak in the knees.


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The air gets awfully sultry when I whip out the wind trolley.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

The air gets awfully sultry when I whip out the wind trolley.

Oooh, breaking out the big guns. Be careful, wind trolleys will make them swoon.

 

[Zombie_61]

I wear mine because glamorous women throw themselves at me when I wear them. It’s a well-known fact that a nice fedora makes the fairer sex go weak in the knees.

I wish the women around here knew that fact.

 

[Winston Carter]

It's true women do swoon over a sharp dressed man.

 

[belfastboy]

Along the lines of this hat wearing thread there is a "thing" named the F/U look. I read it first in an article about an elderly man on a cruise wearing yellow pants, orange plaid shirt and a lime green sweater. He called it his F/U look as in, "I am old enough and rich enough so that I can wear whatever the hell I want, F/U!" A month back on a beautiful summer's eve my wife and I attended a choral concert and I wore my salmon pink pants with little blue dolphins embroidered upon topped with a navy blazer.....I call it my Princeton look (purchased from our very own TweedyDon. Emerging from my dressing room my life gave me a second look and remarked....."I get it, this is your F/U look." My hat wearing is not entirely in that domain but it does fit it with this stage of my life where I really do not care.

 

[RJR]

A compliment is a compliment I guess.A man leaving a store as I was going in thought this was a beautiful Tylolean hat and asked if I bought it in Europe.I'm guessing that O'Farrell would crack up.

 

[Winston Carter]

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A compliment is a compliment I guess.A man leaving a store as I was going in thought this was a beautiful Tylolean hat and asked if I bought it in Europe.I'm guessing that O'Farrell would crack up.

Hey man it is a fine hat.

 

[hatsRme]

Hmmm...Ms. Esther may disagree.

Leave Harv outta this.

 

[Tukwila]

Harv / @1mach1 went F/U years ago... 'cuz - per @EstherWeis - "Stud Muffin."

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[Frunobulax]

Leave Harv outta this.

They call him MISTER Esther.


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[deadlyhandsome]

Along the lines of this hat wearing thread there is a "thing" named the F/U look. I read it first in an article about an elderly man on a cruise wearing yellow pants, orange plaid shirt and a lime green sweater. He called it his F/U look as in, "I am old enough and rich enough so that I can wear whatever the hell I want, F/U!" A month back on a beautiful summer's eve my wife and I attended a choral concert and I wore my salmon pink pants with little blue dolphins embroidered upon topped with a navy blazer.....I call it my Princeton look (purchased from our very own TweedyDon. Emerging from my dressing room my life gave me a second look and remarked....."I get it, this is your F/U look." My hat wearing is not entirely in that domain but it does fit it with this stage of my life where I really do not care.

The east coast preppy couture have their “go-to-hell pants” that tend to be bright and loud and some have embroidered motifs. It’s not a look for me, and I don’t like elitism in any form, but I do like people who are comfortable in their own skin and aren’t after the approval of others. As an example, I think socks with sandals looks bad, but I also admire the person who wears them because they’re comfortable and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.


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[Frunobulax]

Along the lines of this hat wearing thread there is a "thing" named the F/U look. I read it first in an article about an elderly man on a cruise wearing yellow pants, orange plaid shirt and a lime green sweater. He called it his F/U look as in, "I am old enough and rich enough so that I can wear whatever the hell I want, F/U!" A month back on a beautiful summer's eve my wife and I attended a choral concert and I wore my salmon pink pants with little blue dolphins embroidered upon topped with a navy blazer.....I call it my Princeton look (purchased from our very own TweedyDon. Emerging from my dressing room my life gave me a second look and remarked....."I get it, this is your F/U look." My hat wearing is not entirely in that domain but it does fit it with this stage of my life where I really do not care.

FU, nah. Too aggressive for me. I fall into the DGAF category.


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