How do folks react to your hat wearing?

[deadlyhandsome]

Well, this isn’t the thread to discuss etiquette...I thought that’s what your JFK comment was about. Maybe I over-thought it? No worries.


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[scottyrocks]

Well, this isn’t the thread to discuss etiquette...I thought that’s what your JFK comment was about. Maybe I over-thought it? No worries.


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No, my comment was referencing beliefs and misconceptions, which was relevant to the no-hats-ever-indoors comment.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

No, my comment was referencing beliefs and misconceptions, which was relevant to the no-hats-ever-indoors comment.

Ahh. Got it.


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[Frunobulax]

Just had a young guy in a pickup roll his window down, in a snow storm, and said "great hat" as I was walking in the parking lot of my doctor.

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Come to think of it, a guy in the Kroger parking lot asked me if I wanted to sell my hat a couple of weeks back.

Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Marcus D'Hat]

It wasn’t considered wrong to wear hats everywhere indoors. It was only in intimate locations where the hat came off. In stores, lobbies, elevators, etc. it was perfectly acceptable to keep your hat on. In a store that didn’t have a steward to check your hat it was expected that you kept it on. The clerks did not wear them indoors, but customers most often did. There are entire threads here on traditional hat etiquette.

Things got convoluted with servicemen who doffed or donned hats as a threshold was crossed.

Look at the wealthy men inside Selfridges etc. during the early part of the 20th century wearing their hats as they shopped. Sometimes we think that etiquette always means stricter when there was often practicality in the rules. Check out our etiquette threads if you’re interested.

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Thanks, I was trying to figure out how to wear a Fedora without people being mad at my new style, and one website said never wear it inside, I thought it was rather strict but I abided by it anyway, there are places where people can wear a hat, but I thought I would just wear it outside and keep to my own about my strict etiquette from now on, I'll also check the etiquette thread as I have been advised to do.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Thanks, I was trying to figure out how to wear a Fedora without people being mad at my new style, and one website said never wear it inside, I thought it was rather strict but I abided by it anyway, there are places where people can wear a hat, but I thought I would just wear it outside and keep to my own about my strict etiquette from now on, I'll also check the etiquette thread as I have been advised to do.

Hey, I’m not telling you how or when to wear your hat. I was referring to the somewhat archaic rules of hat etiquette. I break those rules all the time. I’m not going to judge.

And welcome to our slightly dysfunctional family.


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[Marcus D'Hat]

Hey, I’m not telling you how or when to wear your hat. I was referring to the somewhat archaic rules of hat etiquette. I break those rules all the time. I’m not going to judge.

And welcome to our slightly dysfunctional family.


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Thanks!

 

[Marcus D'Hat]

Hey, I’m not telling you how or when to wear your hat. I was referring to the somewhat archaic rules of hat etiquette. I break those rules all the time. I’m not going to judge.

And welcome to our slightly dysfunctional family.


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And also, do you believe the Trilby is different from a Fedora?

 

[deadlyhandsome]

And also, do you believe the Trilby is different from a Fedora?

Sometimes it’s a matter of geography (UK vs US). For me, a trilby is a subset of the fedora that usually has all-around smaller dimensions but definitely a smaller brim.


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[Marcus D'Hat]

Sometimes it’s a matter of geography (UK vs US). For me, a trilby is a subset of the fedora that usually has all-around smaller dimensions but definitely a smaller brim.


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Okay, because some of my friends think that what I wear isn't a fedora and what I do wear is a wide brim, black, crown top crease, with two dips on the side, which I am to believe is a classic fedora, it's essentially a black Indiana Jones hat, it's also what I have in my profile picture.

 

[Marcus D'Hat]

Around here a fedora sighting--a proper fedora, that is, not a low-end trilby mistaken for a fedora--is rare enough, and a green fedora even rarer. If anything, I think the color draws as much attention as the hat itself.

Two or three years ago I was wearing my Bluegrass Green Campdraft and my olive drab field jacket while running errands on a rare rainy day, and a slightly older Gent approached me and asked, "That hat isn't government issue, is it?" When I replied it wasn't, he said, "I thought so; the color's a little off." But that led to a very pleasant conversation, during which he told me he'd been drafted and sent to Vietnam in the 60s and couldn't remember ever seeing anyone wearing a hat like the Campdraft. He liked the color, the style, and the way it shed the rain water, so we talked about the hat for a while and I gave him the information he'd need to order one for himself. He thanked me and we parted, but that's the way most of my "hat encounters" have gone--positive experiences, and I hope I've managed to create at least one or two hat converts.

I wish I had a green Fedora, or a brown one, this black one was hard enough to find, it was the only one in Macy's that was the style I was looking for.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

I wish I had a green Fedora, or a brown one, this black one was hard enough to find, it was the only one in Macy's that was the style I was looking for.

Hey Marcus:
What size hat are you? You never know where you might find one. Sometimes they find you.
B
Ps: are you in the States can’t tell?

 

[Marcus D'Hat]

Hey Marcus:
What size hat are you? You never know where you might find one. Sometimes they find you.
B
Ps: are you in the States can’t tell?

I like to keep my location undisclosed, but my head circumference is 54 cm.

 

[Bamaboots]

I like to keep my location undisclosed

Good thinking. You never know when a hat may hunt you down.

 

[Marcus D'Hat]

Good thinking. You never know when a hat may hunt you down.

LOL, I even use presumably reliable aliases.

 

[Bamaboots]

LOL, I even use presumably reliable aliases.

I saw where you posted your hat size as 54 cm. Not to be facetious, but is that accurate? That's mighty small.

 

[scottyrocks]

I'm not paranoid. I just think everyone is out to get me.

 

[Bamaboots]

I'm not paranoid. I just think everyone is out to get me.

Well, Scotty you know what we've been saying.

 

[Marcus D'Hat]

I saw where you posted your hat size as 54 cm. Not to be facetious, but is that accurate? That's mighty small.

I have a small head, don't judge, LOL, I could have mismeasured, it wasn't done professionally.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Okay, because some of my friends think that what I wear isn't a fedora and what I do wear is a wide brim, black, crown top crease, with two dips on the side, which I am to believe is a classic fedora, it's essentially a black Indiana Jones hat, it's also what I have in my profile picture.

Usually, a fedora has a flanged brim that allows it to be snapped down (usually just in front) or worn brim up. In the U.K. I’ve been told the flanged snap brim is part of the definition of a fedora. I’d say that if the hat has the front and rear of the brim snapped or shaped down it looks more like an adventure/outdoors hat and less like a classic fedora, but it’s still a fedora. The crease/bash/crown shaping is a personal choice and fedoras sport all sorts of shapes. Creases and pinches do not a fedora make.

We use the word trilby to usually denote a hat with a narrow brim...arbitrarily I’d say two inches or less. The hats I mostly associate with that style are 1960-1970s evolutions of the fedora. I still consider them fedoras.

Some of the current hats with a barely there brim, super low crown, and lots of taper are fashion hats and I don’t consider them fedoras although they might meet the definition in some reference books.

We are a big tent community and all sorts of hats are welcome here. If you look at the Show Us Your Stingy Brim Hats thread you’ll find photos of what I consider to be a trilby. The What Hat Are You Wearing Today thread probably shows the biggest cross section of hat styles.

Be assured that your hat will fit right in here.

Brent



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