What does your hat color say? What does it go with?

[1OldGI]

Strictly a brown (and shades of) and straw guy myself. I guess 25 years in fatigues, BDUs and flightsuits, sealed my fate. Oddly enough though since leaving the military in 2005 I've had a total aversion to black shoes. And wear exclusively brown shoes so that may have something to do with my choice of hat colors. After all, nothing says "Dufus!" quite like a gray hat with khaki pants, a brown belt and brown shoes.

I've recently eyeballed a silverbelly campdraft but think at the end of the day I'll go with the tawny color instead. I hate to have such a nice hat that sits in the closet because it's the wrong color.

 

[Lefty]

I started doing some research into the colors of hats commonly available, mostly to determine what colored suits a hat might go well with. As I looked more into hats and their colors I also started to look into the different connotations of colors. This is just a quick guide to the information that I have compiled from a few sources.

Which art school did you visit, and did the hippies at least align your chakras while imparting this wisdom upon you?

 

[carter]

I think you are on to something here...

Why do I think Mr. P. is looking for a snake?

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Why do I think Mr. P. is looking for a snake?

Or the guy, who moments before had been breaking into that shed.

 

[Lefty]

Are you sure he's not just about to draw on his shadow?

 

[jpbales]

that's the first thing I thought

when I saw that pic!lol

Why do I think Mr. P. is looking for a snake?

 

[Torpedo]

Glad to hear it. How about a green hat with a brown suit? (or even a brown suit with a green hat?)

 

[Mr. Paladin]

Why do I think Mr. P. is looking for a snake?

You are correct, sir! And I found him about eight feet to the right...3 1/2 feet long and 9 rattles. I kept the rattles. Wonder how a snakeskin band would look on a Camp Draft?

But I really liked the other ideas as well...

 

[Subvet642]

Grey with black band: I am dull and boring and omnipresent, but I am in good taste.
Grey with any other color band: I know about hats.
Black: I am either serious, or trying to look serious as an ironic pose.
Charcoal grey: This hat is not black.
Navy blue: Neither is this one.
Dark brown: I have taste, but it's a dark brown taste.
Cinnamon brown: I am fond of baked goods.
Olive: No clothing I own looks good with this hat.
Taupe: I am enough of a fuddy-duddy to know what "taupe" is.
Tan or silverbelly: I am outdoorsy, and perhaps armed.
Royal blue: No clothing anyone owns looks good with this hat.
Forest or sage green: I am that guy in the green hat.
Lime green: I am either a. an Italian currently in Italy or b. a hopeless dork.
Yellow: I am a member of the Junior Dick Tracy Club.
White (felt): I am either a. the bad guy who thinks this makes him look like the good guy, or b. Tom Wolfe.

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

 

[Chuck Bobuck]

Grey with black band: I am dull and boring and omnipresent, but I am in good taste.
Grey with any other color band: I know about hats.
Black: I am either serious, or trying to look serious as an ironic pose.
Charcoal grey: This hat is not black.
Navy blue: Neither is this one.
Dark brown: I have taste, but it's a dark brown taste.
Cinnamon brown: I am fond of baked goods.
Olive: No clothing I own looks good with this hat.
Taupe: I am enough of a fuddy-duddy to know what "taupe" is.
Tan or silverbelly: I am outdoorsy, and perhaps armed.
Royal blue: No clothing anyone owns looks good with this hat.
Forest or sage green: I am that guy in the green hat.
Lime green: I am either a. an Italian currently in Italy or b. a hopeless dork.
Yellow: I am a member of the Junior Dick Tracy Club.
White (felt): I am either a. the bad guy who thinks this makes him look like the good guy, or b. Tom Wolfe.

Sounds like a lose, lose situation to me. lol

 

[Neil]

Pretty funny

And I think mostly right on the button. I have a dark moss green hat, and it does mismatch almost annoyingly with everything.

 

[1OldGI]

You are correct, sir! And I found him about eight feet to the right...3 1/2 feet long and 9 rattles. I kept the rattles. Wonder how a snakeskin band would look on a Camp Draft?

But I really liked the other ideas as well...

Please do it and post pics, I've been wondering about snakeskin bands for a while, I bet it would look pretty keen on a tan colored Campdraft and a 9 button rattle would make a really nice "feather" for such a hat band. My problem is all the on-line sources seem to sell western (as opposed to eastern) diamond backs. It just wouldn't be sporty to walk around in Florida with a western diamondback hatband.

On another note, your picture looks just like the back five acres of the house I lived in, in Abilene, before I retired and came home. What part of Texas do you live in?

 

[Mr. Paladin]

On another note, your picture looks just like the back five acres of the house I lived in, in Abilene, before I retired and came home. What part of Texas do you live in?

That is the ranch I grew up on in West Central Texas. It is on the highway between Santa Anna and Brady just south of the Colorado River (the other one). It is about 80 miles from Abilene and 70 miles east of San Angelo. Lots of rattlers there; we used to hunt them alive for the Sweetwater Round-up and for a vaccine mfger. My mom sold the place three years ago when she could no longer live that far out in the country, and I was too far away to maintain it. It was the best place in the world to me...

 

[Tiller]

So, I'm guessing green fedoras aren't that popular, and most people don't like them.

 

[Feraud]

So, I'm guessing green fedoras aren't that popular, and most people don't like them.

Quite the opposite.
http://207.218.231.242/~thefedor/showthread.php?t=34488

 

[avedwards]

So, I'm guessing green fedoras aren't that popular, and most people don't like them.

Go to Bavaria and a dark green hat will be so common that it's almost inconspicuous. I am not a sterotyper, saying that all Germans wear green loden hats (I am half German and used to live there after all) but it is true that they are very common in Bavaria.

 

[immortaldiamond]

I've completely gotten off black. It looks too formal with just about anything. I've replaced all my blacks with grays. Gray is much more versatile.

I have a very dark green (looks black in some lights) cashmere fedora which is very versatile. It's from Worth&Worth in New York, made by Guerro.

 

[warmentrout]

And the only green hats I have ever seen are loden ones. So far I have not seen green fur felt ones.

Fur felt with a velour finish. Very dark, almost black , green

 

[Caity Lynn]

^ I am love with the shape of that hat!!!!! not so much the..fuzzyness of it but...*envies*

 

[avedwards]

Fur felt with a velour finish. Very dark, almost black , green

But nevertheless a hat which originates from Germany, or at least looks as though it does.