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Ok, do hat-wearers have other common characteristics?

analiebe

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Ephraim Tutt said:
Marbles??!! That's not very manly.

Where I come from we've all lost our marbles. Conkers was the duel of choice! Or rock, paper, scissors if it wasn't conkers season.

Or you could just marry me analiebe and we can escape on the Orient Express wearing feathers in our hats and keeping a weather eye out or Beligian detectives wearing homburgs.
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no... it's not a particularly manly alternative option - i'll give you that...- but my intention was to avoid the rather depressing end to an otherwise wonderful adventure... rock, paper scissors is definately a possibility although it might not prevent the spilling of blood as i'm sure miss agatha christie murdered several of her characters with each of these methods at least once...

the orient express, feathers in hats and sleuthing belgians in homburgs (and perhaps belgians with waffles also) are all wonderful suggestions but a wise man once said "love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage." (ambrose bierce- 1842-1913) and i'm a declared incurable ephraim... besides we couldn't so rudely ditch our fellow hat-wearers at (well) the drop of a hat now, could we?
 
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memphislawyer said:
I know we all take different routes to getting a first hat. For me, it was reading up on the shave forums (shavemyface.com), or askandyaboutclothes, or even fountainpennetwork. I know there are men there that share things that I like so I was wondering if the reverse is true.

So, who uses a badger brush (custom made Rooney beehive), English shave creams and DE razors?

Who uses fountain pens? I tried but now have a Visconti Divina Maxi roller ball as fountain pens are not as practical for me (sometimes you have to sign things at court, other people want to borrow it and push too hard).

Are hat wearers more fastidious about suits and ties and wear cufflinks?
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I've noticed that involvement in one area (and forum) often leads to involvement or interests in other areas as you're exposed to different things. I've always worn some sort of hat but as I rarely saw a fur felt hat most of my hats were of the canvas "Gable" style with an exception of an official Indiana Jones hat from the '80s. I had a leather hat that needed stretching, and it was through a search for a hat stretcher that I found this site and began my vintage hat obsession. :eusa_doh:

Fountain pens were another passing interest many years ago, and a few years back when my wife purchased a hand-made journal for me I told her something like that requires a real pen to write in, and that brought me back into fountain pens. Through the Lounge I found the Fountain Pen Network. I now have a number of fountain pens, mostly vintage Esterbrooks.

I've always been interested in a better way to prep for shaving as I find trying to lather my lower neck with my hand awkward. I bought a boar brush and soap from Wal-Mart and started using them. Again, through the Lounge, I found sites like Badger and Blade, Shave My Face, and the Shave Den (settled at the Shave Den for posting) and found Mantic59's videos. I learned more about prep and shaving techniques and have recently begun learning to use a Gillette safety razor. I have several different models of Gillette razors now (all vintage.) Still not getting quite as good a shave as I can get with a Mach3, but getting there as I try different blades.

When I retired from the Air Force I was tired of wearing the battle dress uniform all the time (for some reason senior leadership had decided back in the late '80s that we were all warfighters and therefore the uniform of the day was generally BDUs even if you were working in an office stateside.) I decided that I wanted to start dressing well for work when and if I found work where I could do so. I'm now working as an IT tech (underemployed as such but lucky to have any work at all!) and when I can I dress in business casual, but often wear blue jeans and collared shirt as I'm often crawling under desks or moving equipment around. I do enjoy wearing a suit or dress trousers, shirt, tie, and sport coat with a hat! Of course, I wear a hat no matter how dressed up or down I happen to be.

This site has greatly influenced me in terms of classic style. It's piqued my interest in different subjects, pointed me towards other sites where I can learn more. I daresay my experience is not unique. I imagine that for many of us, landing here (or at one of the other sites we've mentioned) is a catalyst of sorts so it's not surprising that many of us wind up with similar interests.

Regards,
Tom
 
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Sounds perfectly grand and right up my vintage loving alley, analiebe!! You and I of course would be "great and gloriuous ladies" on this adventures. Of course I'd need time to get my vintage furs out of cold storage from my furrier out here. One must dress appropriate for the weather and the excursion...

analiebe said:
now we're talking... perhaps we could all work in a pre-duel sojourn on the trans siberian express
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this would allow a good two weeks to indulge in the reading of antiquitarian tomes...writing long, poetic and insightful letters with our fountain pens...regular glances at fob-watches...allow the gentlemen to compare their travel shave sets...the easily sunburnt among us would have nothing to fear... a bar, bar-ware & a barman would be traveling with us... as well as the style and glamour of heritage class carriages "modern" technology would be available to us so the chanteuse and i could indulge in some vintage film watching....as well as, naturally, days and days of endless hat-wearing opportunity...

mon dieu! i think we've arrived at a most perfect adventure... except of course of the inevitable spilling of blood which i'm not so sure i wish to be responsible for... couldn't you dears simply fight it out over a bout of marbles?
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Ephraim Tutt said:
Yessir! We make 'em awful cute, classy and sassy down here in the antipodes.

Sabers eh? (Would we spell it sabres?!) I should warn you that I'm equally as proficient with sabres as I am with pistols, daggers, archery and the Rules of Queensbury!
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CB seems like a nice person from the exchanges we have had on here, but I am afraid I will have to turn against him as it would be treason not to support you Mr Tutt as you spell sabre the proper (English) way IMHO. I know it's just a cultural difference but I get very defensive when my language is "re" is reveresed and "u" is missed out by those on the other side of the Atlantic :rage:. I am skilled at hand to hand combat with a briefcase which can be surprisingly dangerous when filled with heavy files and swung at someone.
 
Ephraim Tutt

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avedwards said:
CB seems like a nice person from the exchanges we have had on here, but I am afraid I will have to turn against him as it would be treason not to support you Mr Tutt as you spell sabre the proper (English) way IMHO. I know it's just a cultural difference but I get very defensive when my language is "re" is reveresed and "u" is missed out by those on the other side of the Atlantic :rage:. I am skilled at hand to hand combat with a briefcase which can be surprisingly dangerous when filled with heavy files and swung at someone.
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Ta avedwards. I could use the support. (Just don't tell 'em that my 'equal proficiency' in hand to hand combat is precisely, yet equally, zero!).
 
High Pockets

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Ok, do hat-wearers have other common characteristics?

Characteristics? Yes.

I've been a member of several other forums,....including two Pipe Pand forums, three forums that were "religious". One Ford Truck forum, a pocket watch, tin whistle, and straight razor forum.

Each and every one of the above mentioned forums are inhabited by several abrasive and argumentative members who are constantly at each other's throats,....the religious forums have been nothing less than one big argument! Very dissapointing indeed.

However; the members here, the majority of whom I believe are "hat-wearers", are constantly complimenting each other!

It's a treat to come here several times a day and be a part of such friendly atmosphere!

"Hat-wearers are nice people,......and that's nothing short of a wonderful characteristic!

My hat's off to all of you!

:) And many thanks to the moderators!
 
Ephraim Tutt

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chanteuseCarey said:
and Ephraim, please tell me what conkers is. Must be an Aussie game?
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Actually Chanteuse, it's a very British game involving two players, each with the seed of a chestnut tree threaded to a piece of string. The object is to take turns swinging your conker into your opponents conker till one breaks. I believe the name is a corruption of 'conquer'.

What could be more manly than blokes with their nuts on a string bashing another bloke's nuts?!

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