Ha! The funny thing is that I really am the "absent-minded professor." Ask any of my students.
Looks like the perfect hat for the Forum.Reading through the various hat related forums on FL makes me feel like "WOW!, there sure are a lot of hat Snobs about"!
A pet peeve is reading about the huge faux pas of wearing, for example, a baseball cap or stingy brim hat at my age (early 50s).
You have a point, but hat snobbery pales into insignificance compered to the aficionados of the leather jacket fraternity.Reading through the various hat related forums on FL makes me feel like "WOW!, there sure are a lot of hat Snobs about"! A pet peeve is reading about the huge faux pas of wearing, for example, a baseball cap or stingy brim hat at my age (early 50s).
Fashion or style aside, the first thing I noticed about your stingy brim was that it failed to provide adequate protection from the sun. I see from your avatar that you're not averse to wider brims. Every so often I like to remind the membership that a minimum 2.5" brim (preferably 3") is needed for UV protection & that the US Surgeon General recently opined that skin cancer was attaining epidemic proportions.Reading through the various hat related forums on FL makes me feel like "WOW!, there sure are a lot of hat Snobs about"!
A pet peeve is reading about the huge faux pas of wearing, for example, a baseball cap or stingy brim hat at my age (early 50s).
That's good to hear.I had plenty of sun screen on and also wore long sleeved shirts and long trousers. I no longer wear that hat, though I still have it, and have several wider brimmed hats now.
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That hat looks a lot better than the stingy. I think it has a lot to do with ethnicity and the shape of one's head and face. Northern Europeans, with, generally, wider faces and squarer heads look terrible in skimpy-brims or hats with tapered crowns. My head and facial shapes are similar to yours, and on the couple of occasions I've tried on those types of hats (most of the Borsalino styles, e.g.) I couldn't get them off my head quickly enough: Zippy the Pinhead was looking back at me out of the mirror. I t was striking how much of a difference the brims and crown shapes made.I had plenty of sun screen on and also wore long sleeved shirts and long trousers. I no longer wear that hat, though I still have it, and have several wider brimmed hats now.
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Fred Astaire and the Tuxedo club founders are rolling in their graves.
John Lofgren Monkey Boots Shinki Horsebuttt - $1,136 The classic monkey boot silhouette in an incredibly rich Shinki russet horse leather. 
Grant Stone Diesel Boot Dark Olive Chromexcel - $395 Goodyear welted, Horween Chromexcel, classic good looks. 
Schott 568 Vandals Jacket - $1,250 The classic Perfecto motorcycle jacket, in a very special limited-edition Schott double rider style.
There's a couple of tux rental places here. Typically for weddings. They rent them unironically for redneck weddings.
Yup, the college is about the only noteworthy thing here. I live only a block from the campus.
But here it is:
UUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!I actually had to look this one up in order to remove it from my 'Nah, couldn't be!' folder.
