How do folks react to your hat wearing?

[Frunobulax]

Odd though, I looked around the web for vintage Dapper Dan adverts, all I could find was material related to the movie, faux vintage adverts, other products by that name, and the modern product. I reckon the DD website history might be fan fiction. http://www.themovienetwork.com/content/top-10-fake-brands-movies?index=5

I'll buy that. Retconning the history makes sense.

I'm pretty sure Dapper Dan hair pomade is not real

According to this, it has never existed

Well, Amazon has it...

I'll just be sitting back here smoking a Morley...

 

[Orvil Newton]

I should have said, Dapper Dan Pomade never existed before the movie

 

[Zombie_61]

...I'll just be sitting back here smoking a Morley...

I prefer these myself.

 

[Frunobulax]

I prefer these myself.

HAH!


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[DocCasualty]

As much as I like a good hat it just isn't something worn much nowadays. Wearing a hat makes you stand out most of the time. In the Internet I've seen a very aggressive anti-fedora stance and a lot of stereotyping on anyone that wears a hat, especially on us younger men.

I haven't had any negative remarks thrown my way, but a family member told me that I was getting some looks when we went to Walmart after church on a Sunday. My friends usually say I dress like the Godfather, I mostly wear chinos with sportcoats, and I've gotten called a pachuco too. All in good fun, never really had any negative reaction from anyone. My Grandfather says my hats suit me and he wears western hats from time to time. What I read on the Internet gets to me sometimes and I become self-consensus about my hat but I still wear 'em because I like it and the weather here sometimes demands it.

My experience has been very positive. I've worn hats all of my life and was sporting a fedora in the late '70s when I was in my late teens/early twenties, as well as a variety of other hat/cap styles. I have always received lots of positive comments about my hats and can't recall ever hearing a negative one. I honestly don't understand why more men and women don't wear hats anymore, other than when the weather absolutely dictates it and even then many choose not to at their own discomfort and peril.

 

[Uhu]

The internet aggressive anti-hat stance / stereotyping referenced by the OP is still going. Mainly its directed at trilbies, made popular by pop stars who wear them while bare-chested, and the types of people who wear them in attempt to emulate said pop stars. I don't blame the writers for their ire, the trouble is they routinely misidentify the trilby as a fedora, then write as if any male wearing anything other than a baseball cap is a wannabe trying to channel hip swagger through a Walmart hat. I can't take these opinion pieces seriously, but they are amusing.

 

[tropicalbob]

My experience has been very positive. I've worn hats all of my life and was sporting a fedora in the late '70s when I was in my late teens/early twenties, as well as a variety of other hat/cap styles. I have always received lots of positive comments about my hats and can't recall ever hearing a negative one. I honestly don't understand why more men and women don't wear hats anymore, other than when the weather absolutely dictates it and even then many choose not to at their own discomfort and peril.

Not long ago I was standing on a streetcorner waiting to cross, and a guy next to me said,"Wow, man, I'm really diggin' your hat!" It was the kind of compliment that had the subtext of, "Friggin' weird!" I thanked him and crossed the street thinking, "It's noontime on a sunny day in a tropical city." I think it's probably stranger than he knew. It still disconcerts me a little when people go out of their way to comment on my attire when I feel like the outfit I'm wearing is pretty much normal: dress shoes, khakis, shirt, tie, linen jacket, and a straw hat. More and more I'm seeing exercise clothes everywhere with no sense of style or individuality. Pervasive sloppiness in dress and cliched thinking, which seem to go hand-in-hand - it seems like a kind of down-at-the-heels conformity.

 

[Captain O]

The internet aggressive anti-hat stance / stereotyping referenced by the OP is still going. Mainly its directed at trilbies, made popular by pop stars who wear them while bare-chested, and the types of people who wear them in attempt to emulate said pop stars. I don't blame the writers for their ire, the trouble is they routinely misidentify the trilby as a fedora, then write as if any male wearing anything other than a baseball cap is a wannabe trying to channel hip swagger through a Walmart hat. I can't take these opinion pieces seriously, but they are amusing.

I'll grant you that they are amusing. I anxiously await the delivery of my Christys' Bowler (I have no way of tracking it because I have no RMA number).

I wear hats because they represent a bit of panache and style that has been abandoned on the whole by the General Public. Having a bit of class and style may not make you better, but it represents a departure from the "casual" style that seems to have consumed our society since the disgusting lack of style during the 1965-1975 period of men's fashion.

Wearing a Fedora or Bowler with a sports coat and slacks sets me apart from other men and my Cold Steel Carbon Fiber Slim Stick Walking Stick. provides both style as well as protection.

It beats jeans and a ball cap.

 

[Captain O]

Not long ago I was standing on a streetcorner waiting to cross, and a guy next to me said,"Wow, man, I'm really diggin' your hat!" It was the kind of compliment that had the subtext of, "Friggin' weird!" I thanked him and crossed the street thinking, "It's noontime on a sunny day in a tropical city." I think it's probably stranger than he knew. It still disconcerts me a little when people go out of their way to comment on my attire when I feel like the outfit I'm wearing is pretty much normal: dress shoes, khakis, shirt, tie, linen jacket, and a straw hat. More and more I'm seeing exercise clothes everywhere with no sense of style or individuality. Pervasive sloppiness in dress and cliched thinking, which seem to go hand-in-hand - it seems like a kind of down-at-the-heels conformity.

Boy, is that "on the money"!

 

[tropicalbob]

The internet aggressive anti-hat stance / stereotyping referenced by the OP is still going. Mainly its directed at trilbies, made popular by pop stars who wear them while bare-chested, and the types of people who wear them in attempt to emulate said pop stars. I don't blame the writers for their ire, the trouble is they routinely misidentify the trilby as a fedora, then write as if any male wearing anything other than a baseball cap is a wannabe trying to channel hip swagger through a Walmart hat. I can't take these opinion pieces seriously, but they are amusing.

It's really funny to see some of the gaffes made by the clueless contributors on sites such as StyleForum. For example, I bought a pair of AE's Shelton Saddle shoes the other day, and when I Googled the same, just to look at some pictures of them, I came across a conversation about them on SF. One guy, who seemed to have been an arbiter of taste, commented that the shoes were obviously ill-made, as you could see cracks in them in certain Ebay shots. So I looked. What he was talking about, and the problem only appeared in one or two of ten or fifteen shots, were the kind of white lines made by wax polish that had accumulated in the creases on the shoes' tops, and that can be wiped off and erased in an easy reconditioning. Of course, none of his on-line pals had contradicted him. I rarely go on sites other than this one, and I've seen some decent conversations on SF and elsewhere, but an awful lot of it's drivel. That's the internet, though. Imagine what goes on with the political sites.

 

[Captain O]

Last week, I was walking across a busy boulevard and as a car turned the corner in front of me and a lady 30 years my junior called out the window saying, "you look adorable!" I shouted back, "To know me is to love me"!

True story.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Last week, I was walking across a busy boulevard and as a car turned the corner in front of me and a lady 30 years my junior called out the window saying, "you look adorable!" I shouted back, "To know me is to love me"!

True story.

I've told the story before of the attractive young woman who said to me "If I was an old lady, I'd be so into you!" (I still have not figured out if that was a complement or not.)

 

[scottyrocks]

Last weekend, I was wearing my only 2" brimmed black fedora (nice full crown but I'll be darned if I can remember the name), when the cashier at Ace, a young man, told me he really liked my hat. I thanked him, paid for my goods, and went on my merry way.

 

[Captain O]

"Anyone can wear a ball cap, but it takes a man of conviction to wear a dress hat with confidence." - Captain Obvious.

Fads come and fads go, but a well-dressed man with a jaunty hat is truly timeless. Not everyone understands this but is subconsciously aware of the fact. This is what makes men with our "penchant for panache" so different.

The defense... rests.

 

[alanfgag]

I wrote down Stephen Colbert's Mongol edict on hat wearing from a bit he did a few days ago. Put it in my signature for a smile. I think he's hit the monkey on the head in many ways.

 

[Feraud]

Working in NYC for many years I've received nothing but compliments about wearing fedoras and caps. Just this morning a guy in Queens said, "nice cap" as my wife and I walked past. FWIW, I was wearing this Monsivais cap-
http://www.monsivaisco.com/product/the-national-7-oz-crosshatch-chambray-summer-special

 

[Captain O]

I wrote down Stephen Colbert's Mongol edict on hat wearing from a bit he did a few days ago. Put it in my signature for a smile. I think he's hit the monkey on the head in many ways.

This is typical for a self-serving, arrogant, malignant sore on the derriere of humankind.

 

[alanfgag]

This is typical for a self-serving, arrogant, malignant sore on the derriere of humankind.

As I said, clearly he hit the monkey on the head.

 

[FedOregon]

I wrote down Stephen Colbert's Mongol edict on hat wearing from a bit he did a few days ago. Put it in my signature for a smile. I think he's hit the monkey on the head in many ways.

LOL. But who are "they" to whom Colbert is referring? I can be part of "they," I suppose. It appears I'm headed back to June/July 2016... when I thought it was a good idea to wear a fedora....

 

[Frunobulax]

I wrote down Stephen Colbert's Mongol edict on hat wearing from a bit he did a few days ago. Put it in my signature for a smile. I think he's hit the monkey on the head in many ways.

Well, I guess my question is, "Who is 'they'?" If "they" is the hat wearer, and that's me, then, um, this morning?

I'll fess up, I think this describes me on this one: