Is it safe to wear my hat in the rain? Is it up quality/waterproofness?

[gtdean48]

:arated:

As Alan correctly says a raincoat and a hat keep my clothes and head as dry as any umbrella.

Plus you have to have a free hand for an umbrella where a hat & raincoat free up your hands...A good lid & a slicker are more practical than hanging on to a parasol...JMHO

 

[Tomasso]

a parasol...

..........

 

[Mr. Bingley]

No bumbershoots for me.

 

[Tomasso]

Wow, never in my life would I image that using an umbrella would be cause for revocation of the man card. This place is weird......

 

[carldelo]

I can't speak for London but here in NYC I find that the combination of a good hat and a goretex jacket beats an umbrella any day of the week, year-round. The garbage cans are full of broken, inside-out umbrella husks.

If you've found a Goretex raincoat that will go over a suit, I'd like to hear about it.

Personally, with the heavy rainfall we get in the city, often coupled with high winds if you're anywhere near a river, I favor the full set of hat, raincoat and umbrella. Of course, if I needed quick access to my six-guns, then I'd probably forgo the umbrella to keep my hands free. But that's for you hombres out on the frontier - up here in the civilized areas of the Bronx and Manhattan, I like to carry an umbrella on my rainy-day strolls.

 

[Sam Craig]

Wow, never in my life would I image that using an umbrella would be cause for revocation of the man card. This place is weird......

A.C. ...

I thought it never rained in California!

Sam

 

[Tomasso]

A.C. ...

I thought it never rained in California!

Don't CA and mudslide go hand in hand?

 

[Sam Craig]

Don't CA and mudslide go hand in hand?

YIKES!

I hadn't thought of that!

Will an umbrella stop a mudslide?

No wonder they are so popular!

Everything is flat here, so the mud has to get blown by the tornadoes. No slides.

Sam

 

[Tomasso]

Will an umbrella stop a mudslide?

They're about as effective a hats are......

 

[Mr. Bingley]

If you've found a Goretex raincoat that will go over a suit, I'd like to hear about it.

Personally, with the heavy rainfall we get in the city, often coupled with high winds if you're anywhere near a river, I favor the full set of hat, raincoat and umbrella. Of course, if I needed quick access to my six-guns, then I'd probably forgo the umbrella to keep my hands free. But that's for you hombres out on the frontier - up here in the civilized areas of the Bronx and Manhattan, I like to carry an umbrella on my rainy-day strolls.

This works for me. Never had any issues covering a suit. My office is on Wall Street, fwiw, in prime Canyon Wind country, where on rainy days umbrellas scamper about like civilized tumbleweeds.

But of course YMMV.

 

[avedwards]

I don't see what all the hatred towards umbrellas is about. It's true that a trench coat and proper fedora can fulfill the same role and in some cases be more practical, but umbrellas are not a bad option either. I usually use a trench coat and fedora but if I'm wearing one of my nicer hats such as my homburg (which I don't want to get wet) I'll carry an umbrella if the forcast indicates it'll be rainy. Umbrellas do not make one more or less manly, they just have their pros and cons compared to other forms of rain protection. The wind can make carrying an umbrella awkward but fortunately modern technology has invented umbrellas which never turn inside out.

 

[Tomasso]

This works for me. Never had any issues covering a suit. My office is on Wall Street .

Is that what they wear on the Street these days...camping gear....

 

[Scotus]

is that what they wear on the street these days...camping gear....

lol

 

[Mr. Bingley]

No hatred, just as you say an evaluation of the pros and cons for my particular circumstance which come down on the side of foregoing the umbrella.

 

[1961MJS]

Wool will definitely shrink after getting soaked.
Bob

Amen, I can no longer wear my What Price Glory wool British Bush Hat. I wore it at the gun range and get it soaked. No more wool for me.

Later

 

[hubbit]

I can't speak for London but here in NYC I find that the combination of a good hat and a goretex jacket beats an umbrella any day of the week, year-round. The garbage cans are full of broken, inside-out umbrella husks.

Same here in Chicago. Lake-effect rain kills a lot of umbrellas; really, only the double-layered "doorman" style holds up for any reasonable length of time. For that, and the little pointed dinglebobbies on the end of the umbrella rods that I'm surprised haven't injured people yet, I dislike umbrellas as well.

 

[carldelo]

This works for me. Never had any issues covering a suit. My office is on Wall Street, fwiw, in prime Canyon Wind country, where on rainy days umbrellas scamper about like civilized tumbleweeds.

But of course YMMV.

What kind of hat do you wear with this coat? I like Bean products, generally, but wouldn't wear that with a suit, or a dress fedora, for that matter. I guess I'll stick with an old-fashioned, long raincoat with a zip-out lining. Although polyester, the twill texture gives it a fairly convincing appearance of being a natural fabric.

It's funny, the attitudes to umbrellas. Growing up in Seattle, the land where it can rain lightly for weeks on end, it was considered wimpy to use an umbrella. I'm not sure it's that way so much any more.

 

[Mr. Bingley]

I just wear whatever I happen to be wearing. Again, YMMV but for me the rain coat is, er, well simply there to keep me dry. Sartorialists will of course rightly recoil in well-founded horror but life's too short for me to make sure my rain gear matches the hat or plays nice with what it's protecting. The dark green is pleasing enough to my eye. Oh, and I do see I linked to the wrong jacket; I have the shorter one, not that full-length one.

 

[carldelo]

I just wear whatever I happen to be wearing. Again, YMMV but for me the rain coat is, er, well simply there to keep me dry. Sartorialists will of course rightly recoil in well-founded horror but life's too short for me to make sure my rain gear matches the hat or plays nice with what it's protecting. The dark green is pleasing enough to my eye. Oh, and I do see I linked to the wrong jacket; I have the shorter one, not that full-length one.

Fair enough - but doesn't your suit jacket stick out below the short jacket? Or maybe you don't wear a suit to work. Now that I have one, I find I really appreciate staying dry down to my calves with a full-length raincoat. And are you wearing a hat, or just using the hood?

 

[Mr. Bingley]

Yeah the suit jacket/blazer does stick out a little (the jacket is cut on the roomy side, though) when I wear them. With the way the wind usually whips around down here I frankly don't see that the folks using umbrellas are any drier from the mid-section on south than I am, even the ones who use those large golf umbrellas (which IMHO are totally obnoxious on a sidewalk). I wear the hat in lieu of the hood (the hood rolls up into the collar) most days.