MCrider
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Hello all. I was going to post this on the "How Did You Start Wearing..." thread, but being it's my first post I thought I'd roll it all into one. After lurking for about six months, I decided to take the plunge and join. As far as hats go, I've just got back into wearing them about a year and half ago. My first hat I purchased in 1980 as a out of school for a year present to myself. I loved wearing that hat and got many compliments on it. It's brown and labeled a Foreman and Clark and made of imported fur. Right after that Indiana Jones came out and having people call me Indiana was too much (I actually worried about what people thought of me back then LOL) and the hat was retired. Shortly after that I went into the Air Force and somewhere along the line, my mother sent me the hat. For the remainder of my 20 years I drug it around the world without ever wearing it. Several years after retiring, I was cleaning out the closet and you guessed it, there was "The Hat". It was covered with accumulated dust and even had a moth bite. My first thought was to chuck it, but for some reason I started dusting it off. After I was done, it still looked pretty good and I put it on. It still fit and I liked how it looked. Originally I just wore it going to and from work and that was it. But as I got more comfortable again I wore it everywhere. Then I started a buying frenzy with no foreseeable end in sight! When I heard about the new Indiana Jones movie, I just laughed and waited for the comments to start. But of course now I'm more "mature" and it doesn't bother me at all. So there you are. Me and my history of hats. By the way, if anyone's interested (and if my Avatar shows up), the hat in the picture is that long suffering Foreman and Clark.
