Though a late boomer myself, I never really considered using the above description.Doran said:A Baby Boomer with white beard
Though I suppose it is better than Geezer with a white beard ...
Though a late boomer myself, I never really considered using the above description.Doran said:A Baby Boomer with white beard
That has to be one of the best justifications for when asked why you dress in a certain way. Welcome here as well.Wolfen said:People asked why I was dressed up and I told them just because I can.
ScottF said:And my girlfriend told me yesterday that my hats are starting to grow on her.
Doran said:Yesterday, some seven and a half hours after an execrable comment on campus (see "The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard" thread), I was at Berkeley Bowl, the greatest grocery store in the known world, with my daughter sitting in the shopping cart. I was bagging my own groceries, as is my wont. At that moment I was wearing a brown modern DB with faint turquoise pinstripes, oxblood and black saddle shoes, a wheat-colored vest, a 1920s tie, and my cognac modern fedora, which contrary to what i wrote above, is a Borsalino, not a Stetson. Plus a big DB cashmere belt-back overcoat that I bought for 10 dollars in perfect condition.
I feel a tap on my shoulder. A Baby Boomer with white beard is standing there and says "I just want you to know that I appreciate the way you dress, with the hat and everything. It's really nice."
That almost made up for the campus comment.
Wolfen said:Walking into Walmart 20 mins ago the Salvation Army bell ringer told me he liked my hat. On the way out he stopped me and told me again and asked where I got it. He then let me ring the bell and gave me a little mint candy.
High Pockets said:ROTFLMAF!!
Now that's classic!!
on the standard 10-point scale?Caity Lynn said:Personally if I see a guy with a hat he automatically gets 5 points. lol
bd3 said:Back in the early spring I was working near where my 85 year old grandmother lives. I called her and asked her if I could take her to dinner and surprisingly she said she'd go. Usually she says she's already fixed dinner "but there is plenty" and I go eat with her.
Well, it was cool weather and I was wearing a pair of tan slacks, tan corduroy sport coat, brown dress shoes, white shirt and brown tie. I went inside to pick her up and help her to the car and it was just beginning to mist a bit.
When we got to the restaurant I let her out at the door. Parking lot was crowded so I had to park pretty far out. When I got out of the car I donned my dark brown Mallory Raider by Stetson and went inside the lobby of the restaurant. She was waiting for me there and looked at me for a moment. She had never seen me wear any kind of a hat and then she said, "In that hat you look just like my daddy. He always wore a hat just like that."
I don't think that one can get a better compliment from their grandma.
Something must have been lost in translation.bolthead said:I was at "Olive Garden" tonight. I had a nice gray sweater with my black vintage wool 3/4 length coat, and my Gray Schobel on.
Halfway through our dinner, the waiter came up to me and said, "Can I ask you where you got your hat from?"
Indeed, I had nowhere to hang it, nor rest it, so it stayed on my noggin.....I'm funny that way. [huh]dnjan said:Something must have been lost in translation.
You were seated at Olive Garden and had your hat on ?????