How Do You Feel When You Wear A Hat?

[Rittmeister]

Do you feel any different when you wear a hat? For example, do you feel more completely dressed? Do you feel different from others - in a good way, bad way? Does anyone agree that how we feel about our clothes - our emotional connection - is a big part of why we wear what we wear?

 

[Lefty]

To me, a hat is like a wedding ring. It feels a bit strange a first, but before long, you feel that something is wrong if you've left the house without it.

 

[warbird]

I've worn hats all my life. I wouldn't know any other way.

 

[Stan]

Yeah, what he said!

To me, a hat is like a wedding ring. It feels a bit strange a first, but before long, you feel that something is wrong if you've left the house without it.

Hi,

Mostly, I feel hotter or cooler, depending on the time of year. In the winter, a felt hat keeps heat from escaping so rapidly from my head, so I feel warmer. Without a hat, I feel much colder.

In the summer, I feel cooler as a straw hat keeps the sun from hitting my head, and with the flow through of air coupled with my very short hair (I always wear a crew cut), I feel a lot cooler. Without a hat, I feel a lot warmer.

Now, those are physical feelings. Emotionally, I feel somewhat 'naked' without a hat on actually. It's like Lefty said....if I forget my hat, I feel like I left something behind I ought not to have.....

I also feel somewhat more protected, and not just from the elements. I suspect that feeling comes from all these years I've worn helmets both as a volunteer firefighter as well as during many forms of motorsport. A helmet is a hat with the additional purpose of keeping one's head in one piece. Not that a felt or straw hat can provide even one iota of such protection, of course. Chalk that one up to habit, I think....

Later!

Stan

 

[donCarlos]

I feel like I´m something more than the others. Well, I feel like that all the time, but the hat crowns it.

 

[Not-Bogart13]

I do feel more fully dressed with a hat. If I forget it in a public setting, I have that felling you get when dreaming about being in a crowded room without your pants.

 

[shortbow]

Ditto all the above. I still wonder at the vast majority of us peeps, that folks will take so much care, and spend so much money on their wardrobes, then leave off the most important element. It's just weird.

 

[DanielJones]

I feel complete and somehow protected with a hat on outside.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[mwelch8404]

I wore hats frequently before joining the Navy at 17 right out of high school.

Time in the military (University after the Navy and then the Army) just "sealed the deal."

Hat = dressed.

No hat = undressed.

Outdoors, of course.

I very rarely wear ball caps, in fact I usually wear a Fed dlx unless it's an entire day in the desert sun (straw Stetson) or a day that I may trash a hat, then it's my old Stetson beater.

In fact, I probably commit several faux pas every week for fedora wear - I wear mine with Levi's and a T shirt, or even cargos and a polo.

I don't worry about shorts, sandles, etc. I very, very rarely wear either.

But of course I do NOT wear a Fed with swimming trunks...

 

[Roadrunner]

In a few short months I've gotten to the point where I don't feel dressed without it. Just yesterday I ran out while talking on the phone and realized once I was at the car that I had forgotten my hat! It felt strange to be walking around without it.

 

[funneman]

How do I feel?

Sometimes I think people are a little frightened of me when I'm wearing my hat. I like that. I'm only 5'7" and 150 lbs, so as you can imagine, I'm not used to people being scared of me lol , so I like it.

I had a few words with a nasty traveller at the airport in Philly one morning, until he turned around and got a good look at me in my Borsalino and all of a sudden he shut up! I liked that!

Sometimes I wear my black Lee with a black DB suit and Black pinstripe shirt and one of the ladies in the office says the outfit makes her afraid to look at me. :eusa_clap

On the other hand, some people seem to be extra polite. That's nice also.

 

[funneman]

Just yesterday I ran out while talking on the phone and realized once I was at the car that I had forgotten my hat! It felt strange to be walking around without it.

I can't even count the number of time my Dad would jump out of our car and run back in the house to get a hat.lol

 

[troy]

I only started wearing hats a few months ago, but apparently I was born to be a hat wearer. I have forgotten my hat only one time since the day I started wearing, and I felt very under dressed.

When I put my hat on, I feel I have completed my outfit. I seldom see a man who I think looks better than I do if he doesn't have a hat. I could be wearing seersucker pants, my converse allstars and a t-shirt, and as long as I have my hat on, I look better than even the finest suits on the street. "Poor guy should really get a hat."

 

[Art Fawcett]

How do I feel when wearing a hat? normal

 

[RBH]

How do I feel when wearing a hat? normal

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[kaosharper1]

Dapper, even in shorts.

 

[John in Covina]

Hats On!

It is a rare thing for me to leave the house without a hat on.

What hat I wear is based on a couple of things:
do I have a style I wish to emulate,
what to I feel like wearing,
what will complement the clothes I am wearing,
and what is it I am planning on doing.

All of these questions are interlinked and once that list is gone over , I make my selection and don the hat of choice.

It is then I feel my wardrobe is complete.

So I might be doing yard work and select a hat accordingly.
I feel like an outback adventure - Akubra Bushman.
Flashback to the forties -
ETC.

The hat helps complete a look I aspire to and puts me in a good mood.

So if I am wearing a hat I usually feel good about myself.

 

[univibe88]

I feel like a man. In the 1950s, man of the house, anchor of my family, father knows best, classic style, dresses appropriately, martinis, scotch, cigars, always drives, doesn't ask for directions, changes my own oil, cuts my own grass, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, my dad, kind of way.

Unlike most of today's metro, trendy, cries at the movies, doesn't own a suit, wears shorts to a restaurant, mannerless, dependent, loud mouthed, ummmm...men?

 

[Sefton]

"How Do You Feel When You Wear A Hat?"
By Emily Dickinson
[excerpt]
"Oh hat that rests upon my head
you are the thing without feathers (never could stand those little feathers hat makers poked into the ribbon anyway).​

 

[Sefton]

I feel like a man. In the 1950s, man of the house, anchor of my family, father knows best, classic style, dresses appropriately, martinis, scotch, cigars, always drives, doesn't ask for directions, changes my own oil, cuts my own grass, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, my dad, kind of way.

Unlike most of today's metro, trendy, cries at the movies, doesn't own a suit, wears shorts to a restaurant, mannerless, dependent, loud mouthed, ummmm...men?

When I cry at the movies I lift my hat off of my lap (well mannered) and cover my teary eyed face.