The Hat Game-fedoras,bowlers and the like!

[moustache]

Ok ladies and gents:How about a game to keep things interesting during the winter/holiday period.
When out and about in the mall,downtown,or in the suburbs,try to count how many hats of each variety you see.
No need to say where they were encountered,unless you want to!!
I will start first:

I have been on vacation at the beach in wet and rainy Washington state.Long Beach to be precise.This was my count yesterday:

2 felt trilbys.(Pendleton maybe-they rule the less expensive coop here)
2 cowboy hats(one straw,one felt)
and too many basball caps to name.Most were dirty and unkept.Some had logos or words emblazoned that i could not repeat here(or around anyone for that matter!).At the beach no less.


That was my tally.
Tomorrow i head to big city for a doctor visit and look forward to the count totals there!!!

Happy hunting!

Moustache in the Vancouver/Portland metro area.

 

[tinmanzzz]

Hats in East TN

Please allow me to introduce myself; I am the New Guy around here. I have been wearing Fedoras for only a few Months but love the way people look at them.
Also, before any one mentions it, yes my Avatar is wearing a Bucket hat not a Fedora (I can't afford Fedora's for both of us).
This week a saw a Grand total of 2 Hats (i.e. non Baseball, cowboy or Hunting hats).
Glad to be associated with a group of well dressed men.

 

[moustache]

Welcome!

Please allow me to introduce myself; I am the New Guy around here. I have been wearing Fedoras for only a few Months but love the way people look at them.
Also, before any one mentions it, yes my Avatar is wearing a Bucket hat not a Fedora (I can't afford Fedora's for both of us).
This week a saw a Grand total of 2 Hats (i.e. non Baseball, cowboy or Hunting hats).
Glad to be associated with a group of well dressed men.

Welcome aboard!!!

JD

 

[undertaker]

Greeting From Down The Road!!!

Please allow me to introduce myself; I am the New Guy around here. I have been wearing Fedoras for only a few Months but love the way people look at them.
Also, before any one mentions it, yes my Avatar is wearing a Bucket hat not a Fedora (I can't afford Fedora's for both of us).
This week a saw a Grand total of 2 Hats (i.e. non Baseball, cowboy or Hunting hats).
Glad to be associated with a group of well dressed men.

I would also like to welcome you to the lounge. Glad to have another Tennessean on board.:eusa_clap

Regards,
J.S.

 

[melankomas]

from what i recall of yesterday...

one pork pie
two ball caps
six cadet caps

i'll pay more attention today.

 

[moustache]

Today:nov 27

I saw three hats today.Amazing that on the coldest day of the month and NOBODY was wearing hats! Two fedoras,one a Pendelton and the other i thought a newer Borsalino.
And one baseball cap.

Thats all.And the temp is now 36 degrees!!

Snow tonight!! MAybe a few more hats tomorrow.

JD in Vancouver,Wa

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Not counting a look in the mirror - Zero.

 

[moustache]

Yikes!!

Not counting a look in the mirror - Zero.

Even in Houston!!???? Not even a COWBOY hat????

JD

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I don't work on a ranch .

Not today. Maybe a few baseball caps but I really don't pay attention to those.

I'll look harder tomorrow.

 

[metropd]

Houston is suprisingly a well dressed city even in the summertime at least compared to San Diego were I live. I'm going back to Houston this holiday season. I have even seen 1 or 2 furfelts in the summer and that is in 95-105 degrees. I always where a fur felt fedora whether its 5 degrees or a 120
Ther many high quality menswear stores including miller hats and a plethora of mens suit stores in Houston. Right now is the best time to go. Houstonians are great people I just don't know how well they would get along with my avatar! LOL

 

[moustache]

Hmmmm

Houston is suprisingly a well dressed city even in the summertime at least compared to San Diego were I live. I'm going back to Houston this holiday season. I have even seen 1 or 2 furfelts in the summer and that is in 95-105 degrees. I always where a fur felt fedora whether its 5 degrees or a 120
Ther many high quality menswear stores including miller hats and a plethora of mens suit stores in Houston. Right now is the best time to go. Houstonians are great people I just don't know how well they would get along with my avatar! LOL

I figure that most would simply not pay attention ,to be honest.People don't concentrate anymore.The iPods and cell phones have taken most of the young'uns away from real life.
All except FL'ers that is!

JD

 

[metropd]

You are right, I was just comparing houston to todays standards. Since there are many major corprations and a lot of buisness it lends itself to towards being a better dressed city.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Yesterday:


One fez. One shako. Two saffron turbans. One cap made from an origami'd newspaper (looked like a paper boat on the guy's head). One plastic supermarket bag.


Yes, I live near Hollywood Blvd.


.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Nix (I don't count ball caps)

I'll have to wait 'til next time I catch up with Koop Kooper to be able to report a count of one.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I moved to Iowa last fall and am still ensconced here in Des Moines.

Not much out there except ball caps -- young men with ballcaps sometimes turned backwards (Iowa has always been at least 5 years behind the east and west coasts). plus a lot of older men, many farmers, in ballcaps and bib overalls; a few older men with Australian type fedoras, probably wool, they don't look like Akubras. I saw one elderly man at a mall with what looked like an elegant fedora. I see some young African American guys wearing the "rude boy" stingy brims.

I see a few women with short brim fedoras, the women's variety you see in department stores. The women I see wearing them are mostly younger African-Americans and elderly women. I see women wearing caps here, not the snap-brim 8-panel newsboy caps I wear, but the little caps you see in department stores and Target.

When I see cowboy hats, they are usually being worn by Mexican American men. I have yet to see a cowboy hat on any woman in Iowa, though I haven't gone to a rodeo here.

Most white people don't wear hats, even in a downpour or a blizzard, or, for that matter, a summer heat wave. Not even stocking caps! I see more guys wearing them than gals, but only on the very coldest days.

I know a man who has had two bouts with skin cancer -- he wears a ballcap when he is out in his garden. Duh!

Twice I have seen women sitting in restaurants who belonged to the Red Hat society. I wanted to run over and kiss them.

karol

 

[thetankw/ahat]

i see hats all over the place when i work. unfortuneately i havent had work the last couple of days.

a couple of days ago (maybe thanksgiving) i saw these three ladies in the red hat society getting off the skyride and this rude guy i was walking past said something like "look at those bozos" i wanted to turn around and yell at them and then i realized i was still in uniform and that would be bad.