How do folks react to your hat wearing?

[Windsock8e]

I was walking out the ticket gate from the Underground on my way to work and this other guy wearing a very clean, looked kind of 80's and cared for baseball cap with a prominent ganja leaf on the crown paused and said respectfully "after you". I think he was about my age but we were both checking each other's hats out (I was wearing my Dermotta fedora) and kind of smiled- nodded in acknowledgment of our respective hat thing, albeit different styles, which I thought was kind of cool.

I've had a couple of comments at work that it is a shame that men don't wear hats anymore. I told them to just wear them if they want to - who cares what others think if you are happy?

I sometimes forget I am wearing a hat so easier to be casual about it.


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[Windsock8e]

I was walking out the ticket gate from the Underground on my way to work and this other guy wearing a very clean, looked kind of 80's and cared for baseball cap with a prominent ganja leaf on the crown paused and said respectfully "after you". I think he was about my age but we were both checking each other's hats out (I was wearing my Dermotta fedora) and kind of smiled- nodded in acknowledgment of our respective hat thing, albeit different styles, which I thought was kind of cool.

I've had a couple of comments at work that it is a shame that men don't wear hats anymore. I told them to just wear them if they want to - who cares what others think if you are happy?

I sometimes forget I am wearing a hat so easier to be casual about it.


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[Windsock8e]

I don't know what happened with the multiple posts there but if there is a way to delete all but one, someone let me know


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[Bob Roberts]

Lol. Hate when that happens. Just hit delete.

 

[Hambone87]

I wear suits and hats at work. A student once told me that I looked like a detective. I have had teachers call me "Al" as in Capone, especially when wearing pinstripes, or when I wear a summer suit and a panama, "Havana Rob" but nothing negative.

 

[moontheloon]

I wear suits and hats at work. A student once told me that I looked like a detective. I have had teachers call me "Al" as in Capone, especially when wearing pinstripes, or when I wear a summer suit and a panama, "Havana Rob" but nothing negative.

somehow being called Al Capone doesn't strike me as a positive

 

[Hambone87]

somehow being called Al Capone doesn't strike me as a positive

LOL for every Capone, I get a Jimmy Stewart so it could be worse.

 

[moontheloon]

LOL for every Capone, I get a Jimmy Stewart so it could be worse.

the sliding scale of morality

 

[Hambone87]

the sliding scale of morality

Really just the sliding scale of what they know. Most of them are young teachers, so they dont know or have been exposed to many people who wear hats

 

[moontheloon]

Really just the sliding scale of what they know. Most of them are young teachers, so they dont know or have been exposed to many people who wear hats

it was a joke not relating to the remarks but to the contrast of the people mentioned in the post

nothing like having to explain a joke

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I have had teachers call me "Al" as in Capone, especially when wearing pinstripes, or when I wear a summer suit and a panama, "Havana Rob" but nothing negative.

somehow being called Al Capone doesn't strike me as a positive

As long as they don't call you Scarface it's all good!

 

[Zombie_61]

As long as they don't call you Scarface it's all good!

Hell, even Capone didn't like being called "Scarface".

 

[belfastboy]

it was a joke not relating to the remarks but to the contrast of the people mentioned in the post

nothing like having to explain a joke

I got it!

 

[Louis Steel]

Whenever im wearing a fedora, people would tell me " Nice cowboy hat" lol

 

[Knotten]

I haven't gotten comments in a long time, but suddenly I got two "detective" comments in a row last night while connecting flights in Phoenix. One was from a cashier as I was buying a sandwich for the flight. The other was from a flight attendant. Neither was negative. Both were in the context of, "I like your hat. You look like a detective." I'm guessing a warm-weather town like Phoenix might not see a lot of fur-felt fedoras in late April (It was 93 degrees outside at 8 p.m.). Saw a few straws in the airport, however.

 

[Glacierman]

Out here in Montana, cowboy hats are, as you might expect, rather common, as are baseball hats, so wearing either of those usually gets no reaction from passers by unless the cowboy hat is an unusual style--for which the reaction is positive--or in the case of baseball hats, backward for which the response is usually a rolling of the eyes and a muttered "Kids!." However, other styles of hat do sometimes get a reaction.

The reaction I get when wearing a derby is either none or a variation on, "Nice hat!" with a particularly smitten observer enquiring as to what type of hat it is and where I got it. Met a young man in the grocery store the other day who sported a rather nice tall derby in light brown. We eyed each other, mutually expressed our admiration for our lids and then I asked him about his. It was a custom job made by a hatter whose name I have already forgotten. We parted in a fog of admiration and satisfaction.

 

[GHT]

This shirt gets a lot more comments than the hat. Best comment was: "You even have a shirt that wears a hat."
I've nothing against the sombrero, but I wouldn't wear one. Young Brit guys go to Spain for a couple of weeks of sun & sangria and come back wearing some sort of pastiche of a sombrero.

 

[OC Fry]

Living in ski/ coal mining/ ranch country, and working in a western tourist town, people don't usually say much. I definitely get more looks and comments when I have a more cowboy looking hat on as opposed to the fedora. That said, the fedora works with the gray beard to get a few more "sirs"...

 

[hatsRme]

Living in ski/ coal mining/ ranch country, and working in a western tourist town, people don't usually say much. I definitely get more looks and comments when I have a more cowboy looking hat on as opposed to the fedora. That said, the fedora works with the gray beard to get a few more "sirs"...

It has been my experience to get the "sir" title frequently with a fedora, yet without a beard. Noticeable difference in how folks treat a fedora-wearer, for some reason.

 

[Frunobulax]

It has been my experience to get the "sir" title frequently with a fedora, yet without a beard. Noticeable difference in how folks treat a fedora-wearer, for some reason.

I thought I just got more 'sirs' because I was getting old.


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