Joao Encarnado
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A testament not only to your hats but to your epic beard!
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A testament not only to your hats but to your epic beard!
I wouldn't have minded had I been wearing one of the Indy style hats of which I own a couple, but I was wearing a Whisky VS in a Bogart style crease
If they were born later than the 1950s, anything else would have made me wonder. In 2014 that's the reference most mainstream people have, when it comes to fedoras. Most fedora wearers, participating on these pages, call any cap - slightly resembling the caps, used in baseball - "a ballcap". From most nieches, outsiders are seen as "ignorants"
I'm pretty sure, they didn't have bad intentions. It was maybe just an awkward way to express appreciation ... yes, but that is not a rare thing. Next time, don't get annoyed. Approach them in a smiling and friendly manner and start a hat-chat. It may end up a lot more interesting than the rugby match
I've worn my dark brown Fed IV with my Wested Raiders jacket and never heard an Indiana Jones comment. But since I got my Tawny Fawn Fed IV last year I've had two people ask, "Is that like the one Indiana Jones wore?" while I was wearing it with a tee shirt. [huh]...I guess I was just a little put out that I only got the Indiana Jones response when I was wearing that hat and not once when I've worn an Indy style hat!
I've worn my dark brown Fed IV with my Wested Raiders jacket and never heard an Indiana Jones comment. But since I got my Tawny Fawn Fed IV last year I've had two people ask, "Is that like the one Indiana Jones wore?" while I was wearing it with a tee shirt. [huh]
I dress retro daily, but oddly, I don't get many comments. When I leave the house, I don a sport coat and fedora/panama. People do stare at me like I am from Saturn, but I couldn't care less. The only comments I that I rarely get are complements. I don't go to school, I am home schooled, thus, I don't encounter people my age much. Even if I did go to school, I wouldn't dress any different, regardless of possibly rude comments I might get. I wouldn't care what others thought of how I dressed, because after all, we have the freedom to dress however we please. I did, however, encounter my peers in a driving class. They didn't question my clothes, but the substitute teacher did when the original teacher wasn't there. It wasn't an insult, rather a complement. And after he asked if there was a special occasion, most of the class, including myself, said in unison "He always dresses like that" (but I said I instead of he).
That's what I was thinking. Because of the artificial weathering and set lighting, in the movies the hats appear to be quite a bit lighter in color than they actually are, so most people remember Indy's hat as being mid-brown (like the Tawny Fawn) rather than dark brown. Regardless, I just take any comment as a compliment as long as it isn't an obvious insult.I wonder if it actually does have something to do with the color in your case.
I was wearing my pecan VS while walking up the sidewalk that runs parallel to the street in front of my church last Sunday and noticed a car rolling slowly beside me. I looked up and a young man had rolled his window down and yelled to me "man I really like that hat!" and drove off.
The two Indian guys who run my local corner shop love that I wear hats. And tweed. They say "So many British people no longer dress the British way! Keep doing it!" Which is very sweet.
Some months back I was at our local grocery store wearing one of my Westerns when I noticed a youngster around 4 or 5 (?) staring at me while he was standing next to his mother. He looked up at his mother and said, "He's a real Cowboy". She couldn't help but laugh.