How do folks react to your hat wearing?

[Blare]

And you wear all your hats well, Joe.

Thank you Randy.

 

[glider]

I'll wager that there isn't a lot of people buying 1000 dollar hats. I don't notice any more hats than I have, beats me.

 

[alanfgag]

I've taken to wearing berets much of the time... and almost always when I travel. It is much easier to choose - just pick a few colors - and no worrying about whether a hat will fare safely through airport security or have a place to rest in a restaurant.

I've also noticed

how many more nice comments I get wearing a beret than in any other hat. Just returned from a trip to D.C. where the thumbs up were plentiful and always day brightening to an old-timer like me. ;^)

 

[DeaconKC]

As you mentioned traveling, that is why when traveling I wear a Western style Crusher hat. Stands up to the indignities and abuse of traveling better than my stiff hats. Just wish I could pull off your elegance with that beret!

 

[StoryPNW]

Normally people dont seem to notice or care about my hats, which is fine, but I went out to dinner last night with family and friends and I wore my Gannon Highwayman. As I was walking to our table a middle aged lady I was passing by said she loved my hat, it reminded her of her grandfather. She said still has his hat and that he was known as Cowboy "Bill." It was nice of her to say, and made me smile.

 

[Cuvier]

I wish I had gotten a picture of me but yesterday I wore my Fed IV in the barely above freezing rain staying dry and warm. I got a few odd gazes but then I stayed dry and heard the comment, "I need to get me a hat like that. I'm freezing!" Other that his wife I was the only one around and that store doesn't sell hats so I felt good.

 

[Rmccamey]

I got a few nice, "Wow, it's a German hat" compliments at the church Oktoberfest lunch yesterday.

 

[shopkin]

Is the "brush" used to brush debris off the felt.? It looks removable. Or, it is purely ornamental at this point in history.

 

[Blare]

Never fails…. Sitting at the edge of my driveway handing out Halloween candy to the kids. Wearing A T-shirt and sweat shorts with a brown Borsalino featherweight on my head. One of my neighbors…. Enthusiastically…. “OH WOW! Are you Indiana Jones?!?!” Well clearly! Must have been the floral Hey Dudes that gave it away!

 

[Rmccamey]

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While it is removable, and could be used to a point, it is primarily ornamental.

Is the "brush" used to brush debris off the felt.? It looks removable. Or, it is purely ornamental at this point in history.

 

[shopkin]

Thank you.

I'm going to try making a functional, removable brush for my hat. Every day when I feed the chickens it gets peppered with stuff falling from the vegetation.

 

[Trenchfriend]

The one thing, I noted:

When I'm wearing darkblue-stone type III Denim jacket plus hazelnut traveller (felt)hat, I'm of course look very different from the german perspective and people (including youngsters) really step aside, from time to time.

 

[GHT]

I got a few nice, "Wow, it's a German hat" compliments at the church Oktoberfest lunch yesterday.

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It deserves those compliments, it's an attractive hat with an unusual adornment and you have the benefit of a spare should you ever mislay your shaving brush.
Just teasing Randy, it really is a very likeable hat, and, you wear it well too. Compliments to you.

 

[harrytemp]

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While it is removable, and could be used to a point, it is primarily ornamental.


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I have something like this on order except it pulls out to be a knife.

 

[harrytemp]

As someone new to wearing hats people don’t care or at least I didn’t care what people wear. Only a cowboy hat would demand such attention. I was on the other side at one time.

Since I’ve been wearing hats there are two reactions:

-the stranger that compliments you because he genuinely likes your hat and asks questions.

-the stranger that gives you compliment because you are the only person they saw wearing such a hat that day. Lol

The compliment are usually:

Nice hat!

You are very brave.

 

[Rmccamey]

Thanks, as always. It is a playful hat, no doubt, but I will be able to carry it off nicely at celebrations during the year (Oktoberfest, for example) and when I visit areas of Texas that hold onto their Germanic heritage (Fredericksburg and Muenster in particular). Besides, what other hat does the owner get to decorate so freely with pins and ribbons and all manner of buttons and patches that would be completely unsuitable for any other style of hat? While the hat bears homage to my wife's family name (Schuman) and my maternal family (Von Gannon), I've already added a Trinity knot to keep me from drifting too far away from my own Celtic roots

Being a Mac Lacklan, it is a well-built hat that also maintains some credibility among hat collectors. And, yes, in a pinch, I now have an emergency shaving brush! More importantly, I now have another option with which to tease my grandkids. They have already deemed this one my "funny hat".

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It deserves those compliments, it's an attractive hat with an unusual adornment and you have the benefit of a spare should you ever mislay your shaving brush.
Just teasing Randy, it really is a very likeable hat, and, you wear it well too. Compliments to you.

 

[belfastboy]

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While it is removable, and could be used to a point, it is primarily ornamental.


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There is a guy on Etsy that sells legit hat brushes designed to sit under the ribbon. Have not bought one but supposedly they work to brush the hat.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

I have something like this on order except it pulls out to be a knife.

Bonus points for that!!
Weaponology is an art.
Pics pics pics

 

[steur]

Is the "brush" used to brush debris off the felt.? It looks removable. Or, it is purely ornamental at this point in history.

The Gamsbart is worn on the hat as hunting trophy and therefore as a display of manliness. They were never intended as brushes. Not always worn on the side, but often on the back as well. They can get quite prominent!

 

[GHT]

The Gamsbart is worn on the hat as hunting trophy and therefore as a display of manliness. They were never intended as brushes. Not always worn on the side, but often on the back as well. They can get quite prominent!

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Gämsbart (translates into English as: a tuft of chamois hair worn as a hat decoration,) well you live and learn Stefan. Without Google I would have translated Gämsbart as a hedgehog, a pet hedgehog!