The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

[johnnycanuck]

I keep getting called Crocodile Dundee when I wear my brown Akubra Federation and Indiana Jones when I wear my Black Akubra Downunder...... ? But when I wear my black horn-rimmed glasses it all gets superseded with Buddy Holly. Smile and wave. Just smile and wave.
Johnny

 

[havershaw]

To be fair, 95% of the time, I get positive feedback on my attire. And even that other 5% is more cheesy commentary than negative per se.

 

[scotrace]

Last year in a suit and Milan straw I got "You look like a big time operator."

 

[czack]

"Do you dress like that to piss people off?"

This was asked of me not too long ago. Anyway, I was wearing a hawaiian shirt, porkpie, and khakis. Of course I asked if how my manner of dress would offend someone. If I was wearing a tasteless T-shirt maybe I would have understood.

 

[BigSleep]

Last year in a suit and Milan straw I got "You look like a big time operator."

Ha
B.T.O. of the E.T.O.

 

[jamespowers]

This is the only photo I could find.

Yeah! I should carry an extra one of those around and give them to idiots who make ridiculous comments about my attire. It would be kind of like: :"Here's your sign." lol

Regards,

J

 

[Senator Jack]

I once replied:

You know, there used to be a quiz show called 'It Pays to Be Ignorant'. Something tells me you would have won the grand prize.

I think it went over his head.

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

Nobody has actually said anything negative to me when I was wearing a hat. Some people stare and some smile. A few weeks ago my Grandson told me that I looked like Superman while I was wearing my Stylemaster. I told him that Superman doesn't wear a hat and he said "Yes he does and glasses just like you, when he is Clark Kent".

 

[jamespowers]

Nobody has actually said anything negative to me when I was wearing a hat. Some people stare and some smile. A few weeks ago my Grandson told me that I looked like Superman while I was wearing my Stylemaster. I told him that Superman doesn't wear a hat and he said "Yes he does and glasses just like you, when he is Clark Kent".

Yep, you look like Clark Kent then.

Regards,

J

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

Yep, you look like Clark Kent then.

Regards,

J

<----- I do now. lol

 

[jamespowers]

<----- I do now. lol

George! I knew it had to be you. :eusa_doh:

Regards,

J

 

[Spatterdash]

::Calling upstairs to the manor::

Alfred, on the Fedora Lounge board... See that Kent fella?
Uh-huh, looks a little familiar to me, too.

I'll be taking the plane tonight.

 

[Doh!]

Wearing a fedora locally, I once got "Guy looks like 'Little House On The Prairie.'" Not even a character...the entire show!

Years ago, I was riding the bus and at one of the bus stops was a chubby kid wearing a baseball cap. Somebody in the seat behind me saw him and exclaimed to his friend, "That kid looks like Leave It to Beaver!"

Really? The entire show? Geez, he isn't THAT chubby, I thought.

 

[BigSleep]

Okay just got back from dinner and coffee. While in the coffe shop the guy taking my order compliments me on my hat. I was wearing a medium brown fedora. Not the one in my pic. which is a little Indy-ish. We're chatting and the other guy behind the counter starts humming the "Raiders" theme. We all laugh and I say, "Oh that's original. Never heard that one before." We continue to laugh, point made.

My wife said I was rude to him.

She's one of those great people who feel that just because someone is an @$$ to you that you dont have to stoop to their level.

She's right, but I couldnt help myself.

 

[Sefton]

Michael Jackson!

Once a 'crumb catcher'(an adolescent)asked me if I was "A fan of Michael Jackson?" [huh]

 

[Joel Tunnah]

It's astounding how many people associate the fedora with Michael Jackson. :eusa_doh:

 

[matei]

Oooh - the King of Pop? That would be a new one to add to the list.

I've been called Sherlock Holmes (?), Crocodile Dundee, Indy, gangster/Al Capone and even a cowboy - but no MJ comments yet.

 

[funneman]

Dumbest Comment...

I heard a pretty good one about an hour ago.

I'm wearing a black and white Guyabera type shirt with Wranglers, Two-tone black and white slip-ons and a gray Royal Stetson.

A guy says to me, "..are you from New York?"

I say "Why, do I sound like it?"

And he says, "No, it's your outfit. You don't see too many people dressed like that down here (South Florida)." "You look good."

Reminded me of Rodney "Hey how'd you get that hat? Free with a bowl of soup? No offense, it looks good on you!"

 

[jamespowers]

I heard a pretty good one about an hour ago.

I'm wearing a black and white Guyabera type shirt with Wranglers, Two-tone black and white slip-ons and a gray Royal Stetson.

A guy says to me, "..are you from New York?"

I say "Why, do I sound like it?"

And he says, "No, it's your outfit. You don't see too many people dressed like that down here (South Florida)." "You look good."

Reminded me of Rodney "Hey how'd you get that hat? Free with a bowl of soup? No offense, it looks good on you!"

You weren't dressed like Ted Knight were you?
I can sort of understand that one since some New Yorkers go to Florida in the cold season but this sure isn't it. :eusa_doh: Let's use my new word. What a Chauncey!

Regards,

J

 

[Boroparkpyro]

Actually, it sounds like she was a jew, and she was asking you if you are a "religious" (ie. orthodox) jew. What direction the conversation would've taken from there, I have no idea (my wife's reformed) - but there's nothing "crazy" about it.

Joel

Heyall, i think i'll introduce myself here...
I have a hat. It looks like the picture of me over on the side of the screen. I have another hat, which looks like this:

or this:

I'm not actually a vintage-lover. I just relatively recently got into hats, at least straw hats during the summer. I got the tropical touristy looking shantung one three years ago, when i headed off to grad school in a warm and sunny climate for two years. I got the more stark, formal looking panama one this summer.

I am also an Orthodox Jew, which makes hat-wearing somewhat complicated. I'm what's called Modern Orthodox, while it's the Ultra Orthodox people who are known for their black fedoras. So i needed to find a formal hat that wouldn't make any ideological or sociological statements that i don't intend on making. I think this one works; out of the small percentage of "Black Hat" people who switch to wearing straw hats during the summer, only a very small percentage wear light-colored straw; and those that do have it usually very bright white, not as brownish/natural colored like this hat. They also have it in more of a fedora-shaped crown, not this teardrop-shaped kind (if i'm misusing terminology, please correct me! i'm new at this):

I have gotten comments about Indiana Jones, although those are ironic since my friend who got me into hats, his last name is also Jones (first name isn't Indiana, though).
I've gotten a few of the "religious assumptions" comments, some of which made no sense, though. For instance, no Ultra-Orthodox "Black Hat" man would be caught dead wearing a white paper-straw thing with a bright blue tropical-patterned band around it.
My brother, though, when i bought my first hat and went to catch a ride with him, refused to let me in wearing the hat, since "only people who are 6 feet tall or more look good in hats". (this was a reference to our hat-wearing friend Jones)

I've also started dressing more formally recently... jackets, ties, etc. Not quite vintage, and not necessarily retro or oldschool either, but hey, it seems to be related to what you-all talk about here.

Anyway, that's me, nice to meet y'all.
(yes i say "y'all" even though i'm from NYC)

And now off to comment on some other threads...