monbla256
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Please consider what I'm up against. Let's be frank. As a black man, I'm trying to avoid the "gangster" look popularized in the video "Gangsta Party" with Snoop, Pac, and Dre. Then, think about all the non-stingy brims they call "pimp" hats on eBay. Thankfully, there are actual hat wearers like Ne-Yo and Mos Def in the hip-hop world as far as examples within the bounds of popular culture that I can look to in the current era.
So whichever I choose, I'm trying to avoid looking trendy with stingy brims, as well as avoid that other look. So I'm pretty much going for a classic look, one that perhaps hearkens back to the 60s and earlier. And while I see a few younger men on here, I see more 40s to 60s patrons of this board.
HH,
If that is you in your avitar, the size and style of hat you have on your head looks to work well on you! Having grown up in the 50s and gone to college in the late 60's thru 70's I'd have to say that was the pinacle of the "stingy" brim. I don't recall many new fedoras at that time which were not what we would call "stingy" today though they were "normal" back then. My father and men of his generation were wearing wider brims back then and we younger guys thought they were so "old fashioned" And remember Monk had a cool look going always Onward thru the fog