What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

[Frunobulax]

Guys, on the question of whether or not to wear a hat with a cattleman's crease...

Well, just to be clear, it's not a matter of how others will perceive me. I mean, if I'm not self-conscious with this face, a hat isn't going to change that. It's more how I feel about it.

Here in semi-rural SW Ohio, westerns are more common than "city hats." So I probably draw more attention with those than I would a "cowboy" hat.

 

[g.durand]

I understand. I'm not saying it's for everyone or every occasion, just explaining my evolution in taste for the style. I now work for a company in a small city in a county where agriculture is still prominent, and whose founder was in the timber industry and owned a winery. He wore a cattleman-creased Open Road. So it fits the setting.

When I walk around at lunch I see more hats on men than anywhere else I've been, and they are in styles from westerns to fedoras to everything else.

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Go MN Gophers Gymnastics Team! Excellent athletics this evening. I was certainly the only fellow who showed up in a fedora. I wore a Mallory Ten in silver belly. A great hat from a local Fedora Lounger Pat. Thanks Pat! A real pleasure meeting local folks who are passionate about hats. Pat met me wearing a vtg. 40's Stetson Whippet in bluegrass. Man that color is a GREAT colored felt. Pat's Whippet is a desirable fedora. I discovered from Pat, that we have a local shop who can clean, block and do sweat repair. Cheers!

Best, Eric -

 

[g.durand]

Couple o' Strats the last couple o' days.

 

[oak1971]

I had the hat in my profile pic altered a bit, overall the brim has been shortened though more in the back and upswept. It matches closely the design of my GT40 themed hat now.

 

[Bob Roberts]

Guys, on the question of whether or not to wear a hat with a cattleman's crease, I went through similar doubts. Too cowboy looking, it looks goofy from the front, etc. But I spent a lot of time looking at old '50s and '60s photos of politicians and other men wearing Open Roads and Resistols, found some pics of contemporary musicians and other current public figures wearing them. I considered that my dad, who was born and raised and lived his entire life in Texas, wore a cloned version of a silverbelly OR with a cattleman's crease in my earliest memory of him. We live in a predominately urban and suburban culture now, and I still had doubts about whether a hat (or crease) more associated with rural America would fit and not be subject to ridicule. But more and more I thought maybe the advice that we're always giving each other here, to wear the hat and not let it wear you would apply to any hat you decided to wear if you liked the way it looked. There are many examples of urban gentlemen in the 1930s, 1920s and earlier wearing wide-ribboned fedoras with side dents. Alan wears his vintage westerns in the decidedly non-western city of Buffalo. Heck, Joao wears his wide-brimmed westerns proudly in Portugal, where he admittedly stands out as an oddity. The relatively tame cattleman-creased OR began to grow on me. Then I came across this review of a cattleman-creased modern Stetson OR on the Delmonico's website, by someone from Berkeley, CA, a place not associated with any kind of rural life, if it ever was. This pretty much decided it for me.

"There's something about this hat. It isn't a cowboy hat, and it isn't a fedora. It's in between. I steamed the curl down in the front just a teensy bit and this hat is perfect on my head. I get a lot of compliments with it. I love how it makes me look like an NRA loving Republican, when I am Lefty Liberal as they come. Something subversive, yet so historic. Lyndon Johnson wore one. The guys in the picture when Lee Harvey Oswald got shot are wearing them. Now I'm wearing one. So awesome."

I agree. PLUS you can do slight variations of a "severe" cattleman and leave the west behind so to speak. No tight pinches. Simple broad center dent only with very little or no rake. Don't go near any type of tear drop. Long pinches not too high on the crown. Your brim flange can either detract or enhance what your trying to put across. It will either scream rural western or suggest western CITY. Think of Carson City banker versus a rodeo cowboy and you'll get to where you wanna be. Got a Camp Draft coming from Sam at EA and I'm gonna consider a cattleman's crease.

 

[moontheloon]

Anthony that thing looks great!

I think this bash looks fantastic Anthony! Perfect for that hat.

Thanks guys
Means quite a bit coming from cats I respect very much

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Glen Grey Snowy River, cowboy hat, with non cowboy clothes and a non cowboy car !!

It's not even an american car... it's just a small beemer that is bigger than my hatchback.

Guys, on the question of whether or not to wear a hat with a cattleman's crease, I went through similar doubts. Too cowboy looking, it looks goofy from the front, etc. But I spent a lot of time looking at old '50s and '60s photos of politicians and other men wearing Open Roads and Resistols, found some pics of contemporary musicians and other current public figures wearing them. I considered that my dad, who was born and raised and lived his entire life in Texas, wore a cloned version of a silverbelly OR with a cattleman's crease in my earliest memory of him. We live in a predominately urban and suburban culture now, and I still had doubts about whether a hat (or crease) more associated with rural America would fit and not be subject to ridicule. But more and more I thought maybe the advice that we're always giving each other here, to wear the hat and not let it wear you would apply to any hat you decided to wear if you liked the way it looked. There are many examples of urban gentlemen in the 1930s, 1920s and earlier wearing wide-ribboned fedoras with side dents. Alan wears his vintage westerns in the decidedly non-western city of Buffalo. Heck, Joao wears his wide-brimmed westerns proudly in Portugal, where he admittedly stands out as an oddity. The relatively tame cattleman-creased OR began to grow on me. Then I came across this review of a cattleman-creased modern Stetson OR on the Delmonico's website, by someone from Berkeley, CA, a place not associated with any kind of rural life, if it ever was. This pretty much decided it for me.

"There's something about this hat. It isn't a cowboy hat, and it isn't a fedora. It's in between. I steamed the curl down in the front just a teensy bit and this hat is perfect on my head. I get a lot of compliments with it. I love how it makes me look like an NRA loving Republican, when I am Lefty Liberal as they come. Something subversive, yet so historic. Lyndon Johnson wore one. The guys in the picture when Lee Harvey Oswald got shot are wearing them. Now I'm wearing one. So awesome."

Well I don't like much the cattleman crease but still have hats with it. It's way too common and needs a high crown for it not touch the top of my head.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Friday was another Stagecoach... (John Galt were are you?)

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Yesterday was another Stagecoach. (sorry for the bad picture... color is... Cordova)

 

[Dlaniger]

Thanks hatophile, moontheloon and Bob.

I was wondering if anyone would notice that little snippet of plaid. It was a dull day here and needed a little more bright.
4-1-2016 Today's Clothes by Michael A2012, on Flickr

Michael

Well done!

 

[Dlaniger]

I had to go to Chicago this weekend and while there; I had an opportunity to stop by a place of interest for many hat lovers.

Too much fun!!!


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[Bolero]

Outstanding pictures of Optimo and Hats, thanks for sharing...
What was a General price range on those Fedoras...???

 

[Trenchfriend]

@Dlaniger

So much fun!

 

[Frunobulax]

I had to go to Chicago this weekend and while there; I had an opportunity to stop by a place of interest for many hat lovers.
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Too much fun!!!
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Sounds like a blast, Dlaniger. Which ones went home with home with you?

Outstanding pictures of Optimo and Hats, thanks for sharing...
What was a General price range on those Fedoras...???

Their price list is on their website. Not for the faint of heart, tho.

 

[splintercellsz]

Great hats, fellas! It's so nice to see swell toppers being posted daily. Please keep it up!

 

[moontheloon]

I had to go to Chicago this weekend and while there; I had an opportunity to stop by a place of interest for many hat lovers.

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Too much fun!!!


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I love the smile of a child in a toy store ... you are in your element my friend

I know you left with something ... lets see it

... and great coat by the way

 

[sergejvandervreede]

Another great bunch of hats this weekend on all of you. Spring has sprung or something like that. 18c today.

Simone

Yours truly

Both hats by Esther [emoji4]

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[Short Balding Guy]

Outside starting yard work this early morning. Not getting very far as I need to start up a chainsaw to cut fallen limbs. I should not start the noisy machine for a couple of hours. Can you imagine folks are still sleeping on a sunny 38'F morning!

Vtg. Adam Premier Executive gilled fedora is my "chore " hat.

Best, Eric -

 

[Dlaniger]

Sounds like a blast, Dlaniger. Which ones went home with home with you?




Their price list is on their website. Not for the faint of heart, tho.

Bit my lip and pulled out the CC! Hat selection TBA...