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If you want to see a hat around here, you gotta go out on Sunday mornings, before or after church. They're usually atop the head of the driver of a Mercury Grand Marquis, or a Buick Lesabre, or a Park Avenue. You see where I'm going with this. There is practically Zilch for a hipster community around here (thank God) but the local Wal-Mart does have all sorts of varieties of those stingy brimmed atrocities you can buy. Ironically the other day when I was going to the post office, there was two other older fellas in trilbies (from the 60's or 70's) heading in as well.
You see quite a few of these hats around here, too. It's the closest to a fedora I've ever seen my dad wear. We were looking at hats at the Antique Mall today and he was talking about how he'd like to wear hats but sees it as necessary, and more important, to go with the flow and not wear a hat. Pa hates ball caps and seldom wears one, but very much likes derbies. However, as was said here, the type of dress would also need to change. I know a lot of people, like my pa, who like Fedoras, Trilbies, Derbies, Homburgs, etc but they just wouldn't go with their clothes. My dad usually wears a t-shirt or wife beater and jeans. Not really a put together look with a quality lid.
You see quite a few of these hats around here, too. It's the closest to a fedora I've ever seen my dad wear. We were looking at hats at the Antique Mall today and he was talking about how he'd like to wear hats but sees it as necessary, and more important, to go with the flow and not wear a hat. Pa hates ball caps and seldom wears one, but very much likes derbies. However, as was said here, the type of dress would also need to change. I know a lot of people, like my pa, who like Fedoras, Trilbies, Derbies, Homburgs, etc but they just wouldn't go with their clothes. My dad usually wears a t-shirt or wife beater and jeans. Not really a put together look with a quality lid.
Hat's like this are common here, especially around hunting season. I'm guessing the cost is somewhere between $30-$60 bucks in most places.