perhaps it has something to do with confidence. You reach a time in your life when you realize that you are what you are and you are comfortable with that, then the hat comes on because you dress for yourself--not someone Else's concept of "style".
Great photo! GREAT hat! Great place to start.This 'Indiana Jones' fedora is the first one I actually bought for myself. c.1984
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Hey, I just found this one; does my baby tyrolean count? This one was shot about 1956! ≈
-dixon cannon
Hat-fondness does start in our youth for some of us...