Wall Street Journal

[Big Joe]

This weekend's edition of the WSJ has an article in the men's wear section on dress hats.
What is this world coming to? The WSJ reports that men aren't buying hats because it may muss their hair? Some are wearing earmuffs!
Hat makers are fighting back with new fabrics and sweatbands.
Bogie would roll over.

Big Joe

 

[Flitcraft]

Yeah earmuffs- those are sooo much more stylish than a well fitted fedora or even- gasp! - a homburg!

 

[Hemingway Jones]

I hate to say that I do see some logic in that. I take my hat off at the office and head immediately to the restroom to redo my hair. It is a necessity. You simply cannot walk around the office all day with hat head. Of course, it doesn't keep me from wearing a hat.

 

[Wolf]

Do like I do, shave your head.

No helmet head after riding my bike, no hat head after wearing a hat. And gives me an excuse to wear hats, keeps my head warm. :beer:

 

[PeeWee]

Hat head is no worry of mine either. I always keep a clean shaven head under my lids. They stay on better too. PW

 

[WEEGEE]

REMOVE THE VARIABLES

I shave my head ....started ten years ago when i moved back to New York State from LA...just decided i would try to decrease the variables in my
life...even got to the point i only wore black clothing...well i was single then..alot of variables have been added since marriage and small children but i keep the head shaved.(color has been added to my attire)

PeeWee ...Hat head is no worry of mine either. I always keep a clean shaven head under my lids. They stay on better too. PW

And i do find hats fit better with a shaved head.

A variable is any entity that can take on different values. OK, so what does that mean? Anything that can vary can be considered a variable. For instance, age can be considered a variable because age can take different values for different people or for the same person at different times. Similarly, country can be considered a variable because a person's country can be assigned a value.


Ear muffs...rather my ears freeze and fall off.:cheers1:

 

[Mr. Rover]

Current Hair style not Suitable for Hat wearing?

I guess the whole "messy after sex" look is still in the mode, and people can't have that flattened. I know that the Asian guys here with their spiked hair would never put a lid to cover up their do's (considering it takes them half a can of wax to get it to hold to being with). I just keep the sides trim and top longer, and I don't have hat-hair troubles. The top of my hair doesn't really even touch the hat, so all I really need to worry about is the area at the level of my temples.

 

[photobyalan]

Any man who chooses neat hair over a cool looking hat has his priorities screwed up.

Ear muffs are pretty much completely worthless when it comes to keeping your head warm. Very little heat is lost from the ears, most heat is lost from the scalp since there are so many blood vessels close to the surface there (ever seen a superficial head wound bleed?). Ears are mostly cartilage. Sure they get cold, but a pair of earmuffs are not going to do anything to stop loss of body heat on a cold day.

I have discovered to my astonishment that, when I'm wearing my fedora outside on a cold day, my ears just don't get cold, even if they aren't covered. I think it's an air flow thing.

I don't worry about the hair, either. I've been shaving my head for seven years and I'll never go back to having hair. Hair is nothing but an annoyance for me, just another thing to have to fuss with.

 

[Mr. Rover]

Well, not everyone can afford to have their head shaved. We wouldn't want anyone thinking we were neo-Nazis, skinheads, or in my case- a shao lin monk.
I'd rather hold onto as much hair as I can, and I think a nicely groomed head of hair can be just as dashing as a nice fedora.

 

[gekisai29]

I've been saving the head for a few yyears and haven't been istaken for a shao-lin monk yet... darn it

 

[Zach R.]

Well, not everyone can afford to have their head shaved. We wouldn't want anyone thinking we were neo-Nazis, skinheads, or in my case- a shao lin monk.
I'd rather hold onto as much hair as I can, and I think a nicely groomed head of hair can be just as dashing as a nice fedora.

Agreed.

I don't want to insult, but to those that say that you should just shave your head: were you balding, or was your hairline receding in the first place?

 

[WEEGEE]

No insult taken

Zach R.

Agreed.

I don't want to insult, but to those that say that you should just shave your head: were you balding, or was your hairline receding in the first place?

This post point...i don't think was to slam hair or push the shaving of ones head...i think more what was said was just talk about personal approach...though i still say nay to ear muffs.:cheers1:

 

[Hemingway Jones]

I think the shaved head look can look good. Bruce Willis is a great example.
Personally, I have a lot of hair, so I won't be shaving it anytime soon. Instead, I'll carry my Kent comb and brush and get out the hat hair. Gel is pretty good stuff; you wet it and you can start all over again. It takes hat hair right out.

 

[photobyalan]

Agreed.

I don't want to insult, but to those that say that you should just shave your head: were you balding, or was your hairline receding in the first place?

No offense taken. I have a fairly high forehead and I'm a bit thin on the top although by no means bald. I started wearing my hair short about 10 years ago. I liked it so much that every time I went to the barber I had him cut it shorter. When I finally got up the nerve to shave it, I wondered why I hadn't done it years earlier. I shave (with a blade - electrics just don't do it for me) about every three days. If it's a big holiday, I'll stop by the bowling alley and stick my head in the "shine-o-ball-o" to get that nice gleam*. Other than that, I just don't even think about my head. I just stick a hat on it and I'm ready to go.

*Just kidding, don't try this yourself. Professional driver on closed course. Results not typical.

 

[Wolf]

Well, it was meant to be funny. A joke.

I've been shaving for over a year, no, I'm not going bald, just always kept it short, and it's easier to keep it shaved then get a haircut. Besides, never liked my hair anyways.

 

[Lincsong]

Some People are just lazy

How hard is it to pull out the comb? I guess some guys are so blow dry they'd rather look like Travolta in Saturday Night Fever than Bogie or Sinatra.:cheers1:

 

[John in Covina]

even got to the point i only wore black clothing...

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NY is a SERIOUS place, heck in the city, NYC, even the Clowns wear black!

 

[WEEGEE]

WHEN IN LA

John in Covina--

NY is a SERIOUS place, heck in the city, NYC, even the Clowns wear black!

John,


When i lived in Laguna Beach...i use to wear crazy patterned full of

colors Tommy Hilfiger shirts...when i left for the east coast...i left the shirts

outside of a thrift shop. As Black Label :beer: once said in a promo--

Once you go black you never go back

It was a very hip television ad and of course made to look like a NYC hip

roof party.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Brillantine, Brylcreem, "greasy kid's stuff" -- whatever you choose to call it -- went hand-in-glove with fedoras and homburgs. Whenever you took off your hat, just a few strokes with a comb would put your slick hair back in order.

'Twas blow-dried hair and hairspray that killed the hat.

 

[tonyb]

Brillantine, Brylcreem, "greasy kid's stuff" -- whatever you choose to call it -- went hand-in-glove with fedoras and homburgs. Whenever you took off your hat, just a few strokes with a comb would put your slick hair back in order.

'Twas blow-dried hair and hairspray that killed the hat.

Kinda reminds me of that great line from "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?": "I don't want Fop! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"