How do folks react to your hat wearing?

[Tukwila]

If he actually thinks you need to be on a yacht or on safari to wear a hat, then he's in a for a rude awakening. I imagine he'll look more like a twat with that big hole in his face after surgery for malignant melanoma.

 

[Rmccamey]

Read this in the current History magazine regarding Beau Brummell (ie, the fashion icon of the 19th century who gave us the early version of the fitted suit we still wear today) (1778-1840). Brummell said, " To be truly elegant, one should not be noticed. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dresses, but rather too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable."

Ha, look where it got him...he died in poverty! Enjoy your hats ladies and gentlemen!!!

 

[hatsRme]

Read this in the current History magazine regarding Beau Brummell (ie, the fashion icon of the 19th century who gave us the early version of the fitted suit we still wear today) (1778-1840). Brummell said, " To be truly elegant, one should not be noticed. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dresses, but rather too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable."

Ha, look where it got him...he died in poverty! Enjoy your hats ladies and gentlemen!!!

I had a Beau Brummell necktie.

 

[GHT]

I had a Beau Brummell necktie.

And no doubt it looked as good on you as any of your hats. Did you know Brummell's trademark dark tailored coat, was always topped with a crisp, immaculately-starched cravat. Brummell spent hours dressing each day, and gave the cravat his special attention. Once, a visitor observed piles of twisted cloth on the floor of Brummell's dressing room. Asking what they were, Brummell's valet wearily observed, "Those, sir, are our failures".

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I had a Beau Brummell necktie.

They didn't wear neckties, Charlie.

 

[GHT]

They didn't wear neckties, Charlie.

Didn't they "appear" on the TV cartoon THE FLINTSTONES as "The Beau Brummelstones?"

 

[Zombie_61]

Didn't they "appear" on the TV cartoon THE FLINTSTONES as "The Beau Brummelstones?"

Now that you mention it...

 

[GHT]

Out and about today at a farmer's market. Tina and I were photographed time and again. Folks also equated our style of dress with the old car. Would we pose by the car please. The best comment came from a lady who was admiring Tina's hat. She said: "You two look like you have just stepped through a time porthole." Again I didn't think of asking someone to take a photo with my phone, so when we got back we took one of each other. Sorry for the poor quality.

 

[psklenar]

I stopped into the local Panera Bread Friday morning to pick up a bagel to eat for breakfast once I got to the office. The young lady who's usually on duty wasn't there so I was dealing with someone "new". He was quite taken with my VS! Asked all sorts of questions about it and couldn't stop complementing me on it. Actually had me about 10 minutes late in arriving to the office!

pat----

 

[Hat and Rehat]

I started reading this thread last week and was expecting to do a BUMP. I see that the conversation never ended. I've always leaned vintage without going full vintage. I infuriated my younger daughter with claims I started return to vintage trends like Wayfarers and long shorts on men, with pictures to prove I was in them before everyone else (if not anyone else) in our purview. I even had prescription lenses put in Dad's old US Navy issue translucent round frames, which were actually a bit like the crayola color 'flesh", which I'm sure they've deep-sixed by now.
It's been six years. Has reaction to hats changed? I wear one all of the time. I sometimes get called dapper, even in my carpenter jeans and work boots, but when I started wearing Clubmasters as non-sunglass specs I got got more flack than I ever did for the lids. I was sporting goatee chin whiskers, so one friend kept calling me The Colonel and asking for the chicken recipe. I think he hoped others would pile on, but they never did.

 

[Zombie_61]

I started reading this thread last week and was expecting to do a BUMP. I see that the conversation never ended...It's been six years. Has reaction to hats changed?...

In my experience, no. But it all seems to depend on the individual(s) reacting to what I'm/you're/we're wearing and their tastes. I've received favorable comments that are usually followed by something to the effect of "My dad/uncle/grandfather used to wear hats like yours", so those people were associating my hat(s) not with individual taste or fashion but with fond memories of a loved one.

On the other hand...years ago I was trying to choose a new set of eyeglass frames, and just because I could I tried on a pair of those "browline" frames (what Ray Ban calls "Clubmasters"). I didn't think they looked bad, but because my father-in-law wore them my wife immediately remarked, "You look like Dad." Not necessarily a bad thing, but she never liked the style even on him so they were immediately returned to the rack.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

In my experience, no. But it all seems to depend on the indiv I didn't think they looked bad, but because my father-in-law wore them my wife immediately remarked, "You look like Dad." Not necessarily a bad thing, but she never liked the style even on him so they were immediately returned to the rack.

The first time I shaved my head (I'm balding), my daughters said I "Looked like grandpa!". It was my late 40s and the hair came back. At 61, looking like Dad doesn't seem so bad, maybe because now I AM a grandpa!

I wear cheap knock off specs as well as an expensive frame or two (my brother in law, an optician, used to change prescription shades three times a day ---- I had to keep up). Get some browlines from Zenni optical, and toss in some sunglasses. They get my script right, and I buy 3 or 4 pairs for the price of one pair of my 'good glasses'. Why can't we have as much fun as the people with 20/20 vision?

 

[Hat and Rehat]

It may be regional, too. In Colorado summer straw hats are extremely common, a mix of Cowboy and smaller brim looks. We've been attending the Greeley Blues Festival for years. Most of the attendees are around my age, and I believe the brims outnumber the bills significantly. I'll have to pay closer attention this year to test my impression.
My business model is to be a vendor at venues like that, cleaning, steaming and hand blocking hats while I talk to people. I may start at flea markets. There are a lot of people wearing cheap hats from China that don't even know what a better hat is like. Even the kids in the paper trilbys are bound to grow up sometime, and someone has to show them. At 61, just starting, I'll never be an Art Fawcet. But I might introduce people to the intermediate hat that leads them to the master hatter in the end. And maybe, after a while, people with trust me with a custom contract too.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Out and about today at a farmer's market. Tina and I were photographed time and again. Folks also equated our style of dress with the old car. Would we pose by the car please. The best comment came from a lady who was admiring Tina's hat. She said: "You two look like you have just stepped through a time porthole." Again I didn't think of asking someone to take a photo with my phone, so when we got back we took one of each other. Sorry for the poor quality.
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GHT, i always love your posts and your style. You truly live the look!
And your Tina has more class than a College.
Bravo to both!
Bowen

 

[GHT]

GHT, i always love your posts and your style. You truly live the look!
And your Tina has more class than a College.
Bravo to both!
Bowen

You flatter me, but I love it, thank you. I must post a better picture of Tina's hat. Originally it was a gents hat that had seen better days, but she waved a wand over it and breathed new life into it.

 

[Dm101]

What a generous compliment, thank you very much.
Is it any wonder that there is reaction to hat wearing? In Esquire magazine there's an article by Teo Van Den Broeke & Charlie Teasdale suggesting that men look stupid in hats. If you are unaware of vulgar Brit slang, the terms "Tool," "Twat," & "Pillock" shouldn't be used in public, all are derogatory remarks implying stupidity. Here's a snippet:



Here's the diatribe in full: https://www.esquire.com/uk/style/ne...a-man-wear-a-hat-without-looking-like-a-tool/

The author of that garbage is the exact type of human I dont like to deal with. Grew up with pretentious no-brainer "Follow the leader" types like that tool back home.
These days I don't deal with them.
Ugh...

 

[Dm101]

Out and about today at a farmer's market. Tina and I were photographed time and again. Folks also equated our style of dress with the old car. Would we pose by the car please. The best comment came from a lady who was admiring Tina's hat. She said: "You two look like you have just stepped through a time porthole." Again I didn't think of asking someone to take a photo with my phone, so when we got back we took one of each other. Sorry for the poor quality.
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Amazing dress! You guys look immaculate, and that car....wow.
If the photos were more similarly angled with enough of the car data available, I could photoshop them together into one picture. But alas, not enough data available for the vehicle.

 

[GHT]

The reaction here to the garbage written in Esquire magazine is reassuring, but that kind of journalism does hit home. Yesterday I wore one of the lovely Aloha shirts that my wife Tina makes me. A fellow classic car owner joked about how flamboyant the shirt was by putting his sunglasses on. "I love your shirts," he admitted. "There's plenty of websites where you can buy them." I told him. His reply made me think of those journalists. He said: "I wouldn't have the balls to wear a shirt like that." And that's how, many a man, feels about hats. One of my friends tried on one of my straws, he loved it. He then said that his doctor suggested a hat for sun protection. His skin is very fair and susceptible to sunlight, but he too doesn't have the balls to wear one. It comes to something when people think that they have to dress to please others.

 

[M Hatman]

The reaction here to the garbage written in Esquire magazine is reassuring, but that kind of journalism does hit home. Yesterday I wore one of the lovely Aloha shirts that my wife Tina makes me. A fellow classic car owner joked about how flamboyant the shirt was by putting his sunglasses on. "I love your shirts," he admitted. "There's plenty of websites where you can buy them." I told him. His reply made me think of those journalists. He said: "I wouldn't have the balls to wear a shirt like that." And that's how many a man feels about hats. One of my friends tried on one of my straws, he loved it. He then said that his doctor suggested a hat for sun protection. His skin is very fair and susceptible to sunlight, but he too doesn't have the balls to wear one. It comes to something when people think that they have to dress to please others.

AMEN!!!!!!!!!
M

 

[psklenar]

... He then said that his doctor suggested a hat for sun protection. His skin is very fair and susceptible to sunlight, but he too doesn't have the balls to wear one. ...

That's what got me back into wearing a hat religiously. If it's for my health (my mother had multiple melanomas removed before she passed away), screw what others say. My health & life is far more important.

pat----