Show us an old photo of you under a felt hat when you were young!

[Yahoody]

How young ? 2, 4 and 8 here.

 

[Blare]

How young ? 2 to 8 here. View attachment 256752
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Excellent!

 

[Rumad]

It's not felt, but pimpin' velvet (and there is a convertible top in between it and my head). The '64 Impala fits in with the pimp theme as well. 1975.

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Easy-E would be proud of you Bob, hope you still have that six-fo!

 

[BobHufford]

Thread needs a bump. Not a felt hat, but if I still had this Archie Bunker for President bucket hat from 1972 I would almost venture out to the polls to vote in person.

 

[jkingrph]

This was about 1952 or 53.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

My favorite ‘79 Ford. Had three. I liked the body styling. Was a diehard Hank Jr. fan. Made the lettering and Ruger emblem myself.
This was sometime around ‘85. I was tanning and making rattler hide hat bands and belts. This mid 80s black Resistol has one and the belt buckle and belt does, too.

 

[GHT]

It's not felt, but pimpin' velvet (and there is a convertible top in between it and my head). The '64 Impala fits in with the pimp theme as well. 1975.

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You're not related to Mick Jagger, by chance, are you?

 

[deadlyhandsome]

View attachment 270342 My favorite ‘79 Ford. Had three. I liked the body styling. Was a diehard Hank Jr. fan. Made the lettering and Ruger emblem myself.
This was sometime around ‘85. I was tanning and making rattler hide hat bands and belts. This mid 80s black Resistol has one and the belt buckle and belt does, too.

You have some serious attitude going on there. You look like have the swagger of a young man who has the world well in hand.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

You have some serious attitude going on there. You look like have the swagger of a young man who has the world well in hand.

Thanks, Brent.
Back then I did.
Or thought I did, anyway.
They should move the legal adult age to at least 35.
In my grown up opinion, the world tries to keep us in its clenched fist, and it’s best when we stay God’s hand.

 

[Woodtroll]

View attachment 270342 My favorite ‘79 Ford. Had three. I liked the body styling. Was a diehard Hank Jr. fan. Made the lettering and Ruger emblem myself.
This was sometime around ‘85. I was tanning and making rattler hide hat bands and belts. This mid 80s black Resistol has one and the belt buckle and belt does, too.

Boy, that photo looks very familiar to me, except my favorite Ford pickup body style was the '71. I drove my first one all through high school, college, and for a good spell after I got married. Three-speed on the column with a bench seat - that truck had all KINDS of room in the cab! As a tall young man I sure appreciated the room, but all the vehicles seemed roomier back then. Remember those big sunshade screens you used to get for the rear window on pickups - some kind of vinyl sheet with all the little holes in it, held in with two-sided tape? I had one of those I had painted silver, and in black I had painted the Ruger emblem centered, "Bocephus" under it, and Blackhawks facing center from each side. And I always wore a Hank belt buckle, too.

Hank had some awful good music in those years. I dearly miss all the music and artists of the honky-tonk and outlaw crowd of the late 60s through early 80s.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Boy, that photo looks very familiar to me, except my favorite Ford pickup body style was the '71. I drove my first one all through high school, college, and for a good spell after I got married. Three-speed on the column with a bench seat - that truck had all KINDS of room in the cab! As a tall young man I sure appreciated the room, but all the vehicles seemed roomier back then. Remember those big sunshade screens you used to get for the rear window on pickups - some kind of vinyl sheet with all the little holes in it, held in with two-sided tape? I had one of those I had painted silver, and in black I had painted the Ruger emblem centered, "Bocephus" under it, and Blackhawks facing center from each side. And I always wore a Hank belt buckle, too.

Hank had some awful good music in those years. I dearly miss all the music and artists of the honky-tonk and outlaw crowd of the late 60s through early 80s.

Yep. Hank was the man! Merle, Waylon, Willie, and George was too.
Hey, if you have a photo of you by the ‘71 and the rear sunshade I’d like to see the truck and your artwork!
If you happen to not be wearin’ a hat in the photo just take an ink pin and draw one on!

 

[Woodtroll]

Yep. Hank was the man! Merle, Waylon, Willie, and George was too.
Hey, if you have a photo of you by the ‘71 and the rear sunshade I’d like to see the truck and your artwork!
If you happen to not be wearin’ a hat in the photo just take an ink pin and draw one on!

Unfortunately, I don't think a photo of that screen survives. I'd have to dig back through some real old albums to even come up with a photo of that truck.

Although I'm not wearing a hat in this photo, that's a Hank "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound" tour T-shirt hiding behind the flannel, and a Hank belt buckle, of course...

That's my wife and I, on about our third real "date". To bring this back to hats... This is my hat, but she's wearing it! I was 18 or so then, she was about 16. Not a very clear picture, but of course it's a scan of an old photo. That old wool felt hat is long gone, but I still have that beaded hatband that a dear friend made for me when we were teens. He no longer walks this earth, so that hatband is a treasured keepsake.

Those were some good times, and yes, we thought we had it all figured out! Thank goodness she's still trying to help me figure it all out...

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Unfortunately, I don't think a photo of that screen survives. I'd have to dig back through some real old albums to even come up with a photo of that truck.

Although I'm not wearing a hat in this photo, that's a Hank "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound" tour T-shirt hiding behind the flannel, and a Hank belt buckle, of course... View attachment 270661

That's my wife and I, on about our third real "date". To bring this back to hats... This is my hat, but she's wearing it! I was 18 or so then, she was about 16. Not a very clear picture, but of course it's a scan of an old photo. That old wool felt hat is long gone, but I still have that beaded hatband that a dear friend made for me when we were teens. He no longer walks this earth, so that hatband is a treasured keepsake.


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Those were some good times, and yes, we thought we had it all figured out! Thank goodness she's still trying to help me figure it all out...

Dude, between the “Hat, shades, beard and aaaall” you make a good resemblance of a red headed Hank Jr!
Pretty wife, too. Congrats!

 

[Woodtroll]

Dude, between the “Hat, shades, beard and aaaall” you make a good resemblance of a red headed Hank Jr!
Pretty wife, too. Congrats!

Haha! Yeah, it wasn't a conscious effort to "look like Hank", it was just the fairly standard look for young men at the time and place I was growing up. Not everyone wore brimmed hats as a habit, but a lot of us did. As you know, the older traditions seem to hang on a lot longer in the rural areas.

 

[Lefty W.]

Well, I found the hat, but I can't find a photo of me in it...

 

[Studebaker Driver]

This from about 1980 or so, on an antique car tour

This from about 7 or 8 years later at a cowboy-themed barbeque

 

[Michaelshane]

 

[jkingrph]

 

[FedoraRedHat]

I don't have an old photo, and neither is this hat made of felt. However, I was cleaning out the attic the other day, and I came across a costume fedora I wore to a Halloween party when I was ~16. The hat feels as it was made from cardboard.

It fits perfectly.

 

[quikrick]

1980! Wannabe Urban Cowboy!