Most inconvenient places to be a hat wearer

[Historyteach24]

As I was getting ready today to go to lunch and a movie with my mother-in-law and family I was thinking about my hat choice. I decided that cap is the way to go because wearing a fedora to a movie is such a hassel. You can't wear it because of people trying to see the movie. You can't put it in a seat because of crowd. I would not want to put it on the floor for obvious reasons. So I ask what are the most inconvenient places to wear a fedora in your opinion?

 

[Fletch]

Most cars. Get in and bonk goes the hat.

Busy restaurants. Leave it on or get it sat on, lost or stolen.

 

[Historyteach24]

Luckily I drive a SUV so I can wear my hat

 

[alanfgag]

Lap? Or cap, as you say.

 

[Historyteach24]

I am wearing a flat cap sorry for confusion

 

[Lotsahats]

Airplanes and restaurants.

 

[Terry "The Hat"]

High back chairs or couches are a pain because the brim hits the back of the couch and pushes your head forward or damages your brim.

 

[bowlerman]

I'm with teach on the movie theater. Sometimes, however, in these parts they don't fill up, so I can take an extra seat and put it on my folded coat.

 

[splintercellsz]

Movie theaters are not a bother for me, as I just put it in my lap, or let my girl hold it in her lap (she likes to 'pet' the hat, because it's fluffy [huh]. Just wait till I get a long-haired hat, haha!)

For me, the most inconvenient place is the wind here. Gusts up to 60+ when you least expect is can send a hat skybound. Well that, and places where people want to touch the hat constantly... ick.

 

[Rider]

I find restaurants to be the worst. They generally make no provisions whatsoever for patrons' hats or coats. Airplanes are second worst, although since I am taller than most airplane seat backs, I simply wear the hat. I'd name cars as a close third.

 

[McGeezer]

The barber shop...my barber always complains about having to cut around it...
But, seriously, restaurants and theaters.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I would say most cars, followed by restaurants. That said, wind is frequently a hassle. I have noticed, that fedoras are a lot more wind tolerant than westerns. Could be the shape, or perhaps the softer hat provides less wind resistance?[huh]

 

[tonyb]

I don't doubt for a second that those who complain of modern cars not accommodating a proper hat atop a man's head are speaking from experience, but that just isn't my experience, and I'm at a complete loss as to why. I'm right at six feel tall, and I'm given to wearing tall-crowned hats, and I usually drive recently (like in the past 20 years or so) manufactured automobiles, and I very rarely find my hat coming into contact with the headliner or headrest or even the doorway during my entries and exits.

I'm stumped.

 

[Rogera]

Definitely restaurants. There is just no where to put it unless you leave it on your head and that is totally against all hat etiquette

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

Ironically, my wife's 2001 Nissan Pathfinder is a pain in the neck, literally, because of the high head rest and low head room. However, my 2003 VW Passat is absolutely FANTASTIC for hats!! :thumb: The seat height is adjustable, so there's plenty of head room, and the pivoting head rest is also adjustable for easy brim clearance.

 

[Chasseur]

Ben Stephens mentioned this one years ago and I tend to agree with him: formal dinners and events. Its February so we are in the middle of fund raising and award dinner season here so I experience this first hand each year. This is of course ironic because one would first think that a nice black or white tie dinner would be a perfect place to sport your hat (when else would you break out the topper or a nice homburg?) but now a days this means a couple of things: (1) most likely no hat or coat check; (2) a long period where you have to stand and eat and drink and still have to have a free hand for socializing and hand shaking; etc. In practice its quite difficult to take a hat to these events and end up holding it all evening while juggling a champagne flute, a plate of hors d'oeuvres while shaking hands and exchanges cards... So its easier to leave the hat at home.

 

[Blackthorn]

The 16 hour flight from New Delhi to Chicago is the worst. But any other flight is a nuisance, too.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I don't doubt for a second that those who complain of modern cars not accommodating a proper hat atop a man's head are speaking from experience, but that just isn't my experience, and I'm at a complete loss as to why. I'm right at six feel tall, and I'm given to wearing tall-crowned hats, and I usually drive recently (like in the past 20 years or so) manufactured automobiles, and I very rarely find my hat coming into contact with the headliner or headrest or even the doorway during my entries and exits.

I'm stumped.

I think it depends on the car. My old VW Jetta was no problem for me. The Toyota Camry - not so hat friendly! Pickup trucks are way hat friendly!

 

[Chasseur]

The 16 hour flight from New Delhi to Chicago is the worst. But any other flight is a nuisance, too.

That's what my nigh-indestructible Akubra Capricorn is for! I've taken it on several of those direct flights from Neward to Delhi and they work well. Its not the most attractive or stylish hat but they are great for warm weather travel in monsoon weather!

 

[T Rick]

That's what my nigh-indestructible Akubra Capricorn is for! I've taken it on several of those direct flights from Neward to Delhi and they work well. Its not the most attractive or stylish hat but they are great for warm weather travel in monsoon weather!

I get quite a few compliments on my Capricorn actually, and find it a very endearing (and enduring) hat. Haven't flown in awhile, that will be a challenge.

Movie theaters, if I anticipate a crowded theater, I wear a flat cap or a beret, easy to take off and set in my lap. Have done so with Fedora's too, but I prefer a seat next to me for that. Interestingly, I have a pair of (all wood) theater seats from the Michigan Theater in Detroit from eons ago, and the underside of the folded wood seat has a wire hat rack.

For restaurants, I've found that often the Cracker Barrel has a brass hat and coat rack, though I usually prefer to use the back of an empty chair at my table to keep curious (and malicious) fingers from the felt. Most restaurants I'll either use the chair or simply leave the hat on (the ball cap wearers do it, and no one seems offended- had no real reaction from others to my "rudeness" when I've done the same).