How do folks react to your hat wearing?

[Bamaboots]

I was out alone for beer and wings last night at a local spot, wearing my Resistol 25, sitting at the bar. The bartender and a couple of patrons made positive comments on my hat, though no one paid my tab.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I was out alone for beer and wings last night at a local spot, wearing my Resistol 25, sitting at the bar. The bartender and a couple of patrons made positive comments on my hat, though no one paid my tab.

Still trying to figure this all out. I know the bartender on a first name basis & he starts his shift at 4:00 so I'm going to stop in today before it gets busy to see if I can learn anything more. Plus I really owe him a tip; I was somewhat stunned & left without leaving him one last night. I don't want to short him on his money because of my good fortune. I want to make that up to him before all is forgotten.

 

[BobHufford]

Got my first "Indiana Jones" comment (and this from a co-worker who wears tweed caps). I was wearing a black Akubra Cattleman at the time.

 

[Benzadmiral]

The day before the Annual Insanity peaked (aka the day before Mardi Gras), I was crossing from my car to my front door. At the time I was wearing weathered jeans, dark brown cowboy boots, a yellow button-down shirt under a very weathered leather jacket, and my reddish-brown ca. 1938 Borsalino. A neighbor nodded to me and I nodded back. Then I heard her say to her companion, "Man looks like he in a movie."

 

[Frunobulax]

Received a compliment from my server at lunch yesterday in a little restaurant/tavern in Anchorage. She mentioned that she liked my hat (SBCD), and that she didn't see much aside from baseball caps these days. I, of course, thanked her.

As much as I see brimmed hats (western, fedora, OR-types), when I travel the western CONUS, I'm surprised I haven't seen more up here. The ruggedness and outdoorsy-ness of Alaska begs for this type of hat to me.

 

[Zombie_61]

...As much as I see brimmed hats (western, fedora, OR-types), when I travel the western CONUS, I'm surprised I haven't seen more up here. The ruggedness and outdoorsy-ness of Alaska begs for this type of hat to me.

Trouble is, they'd probably have to buy two of each hat--one sized to fit their heads during the warmer months, and one sized to fit over whatever they wear to keep their heads warm during the colder months.

 

[Frunobulax]

Here's a bad pic of a guy in Anchorage wearing a dress fedora

First I've seen all week.


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[mmbarnes]

I went to the grocery store in my derby. As I start walking into the store from my car, an elderly woman says to me: "Your wife is a lucky woman."

Gotta love it!

 

[BobHufford]

Here's a bad pic of a guy in Anchorage wearing a dress fedora

Nice neon signs too!

 

[Bob Roberts]

Got my first "Indiana Jones" comment (and this from a co-worker who wears tweed caps). I was wearing a black Akubra Cattleman at the time.

Lol.

 

[Bob Roberts]

Received a compliment from my server at lunch yesterday in a little restaurant/tavern in Anchorage. She mentioned that she liked my hat (SBCD), and that she didn't see much aside from baseball caps these days. I, of course, thanked her.

As much as I see brimmed hats (western, fedora, OR-types), when I travel the western CONUS, I'm surprised I haven't seen more up here. The ruggedness and outdoorsy-ness of Alaska begs for this type of hat to me.

Makes sense.

 

[Frunobulax]

Nice neon signs too!

I took several while walking today. I'll post them when I get home to the neon signs thread


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[Frunobulax]

Oh, and this kid was rockin' a topper

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[Hurricane Jack]

I took several while walking today. I'll post them when I get home to the neon signs thread


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Did you check out Club 25?

 

[hatsRme]

Did you check out Club 25?

HA!! You beat me to the punch, Jack!! What kind of "neighborhood" was that, Fruno?!!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

HA!! You beat me to the punch, Jack!! What kind of "neighborhood" was that, Fruno?!!

Charlie, I'll bet Cherry, Jade, & Candy were working. Maybe Dominque too!

 

[Frunobulax]

Did you check out Club 25?

Club 25 is a tea room now.

The topper kid was in the mall downtown.


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[Frunobulax]

Sitting in a local tavern last Saturday with friends (I know, all of my stories begin with, "I was in a bar..."), wearing an old Adam - the first hat I ever refurbished, a gentleman walked in wearing a large brim wool fedora. Both my wife and I noticed his eyes immediately locked on my hat. After the obligatory "Nice hat!" he asked if it was a Stetson. I replied that no, it was an old Adam I had rebuilt myself. Like many, he had not heard of Adam Hats, but was immediately curious about the work I'd done on it. After explaining how I had put in a new sweatband and replaced the ribbon, it was evident he thought I was a hatmaker. I immediately disavowed him of that notion, and we discussed the local hat shop located a few doors from the tavern.

I find that wearing a fedora often elicits positive reactions from passers-by. As I'm always ready to talk your ear off about hats, I find it to be a pleasant experience.

 

[belfastboy]

I was in a coffee shop (no bar, it was a Sunday Morning!) wearing my Biltmore long hair fedora. A fellow walked across the shop, tapped me on the shoulder and said, "That's a great hat" and returned to his seat. We did not talk as I was in a group meeting.

 

[Jake Willis]

As much as I like a good hat it just isn't something worn much nowadays. Wearing a hat makes you stand out most of the time. In the Internet I've seen a very aggressive anti-fedora stance and a lot of stereotyping on anyone that wears a hat, especially on us younger men.

I haven't had any negative remarks thrown my way, but a family member told me that I was getting some looks when we went to Walmart after church on a Sunday. My friends usually say I dress like the Godfather, I mostly wear chinos with sportcoats, and I've gotten called a pachuco too. All in good fun, never really had any negative reaction from anyone. My Grandfather says my hats suit me and he wears western hats from time to time. What I read on the Internet gets to me sometimes and I become self-consensus about my hat but I still wear 'em because I like it and the weather here sometimes demands it.

I wear a cowboy hat, but I live on a ranch in Montana, so most others do too. When I visit Washington where my Grandmother and some other family of mine live, people give me odd looks and either ask me if I'm a poser, or ask if a rodeo is in town. As for your you g nen stereotyped fedora thing, it is because the fedora became popular with younger men, but many of the ones that wore it were kind of the "nerd living in mom's basement" types. This stereotyped fedoras as such. Its like they wore the hat to offset how little class they had. Either way, just keep a clean image (and don't grow a neck beard), and keep your behavior and manners on the up and up, and you should be fine. If you're gonna wear it, wear it with pride.