There is some anti-hat propaganda going on...

[guillaumeb]

arf...

 

[GHT]

Whenever a small unused hole occurs in the great Interweb, the "Attire Patrol" or some other self-proclaimed "expert" is always prepared to "mend" it with a handful of worthless recycled opinions. At least no paper was wasted in the process

Wise words written by The Dane on the what to wear with a fedora thread.
By all accounts I will be cool if I wear something that looks remarkably like The Pontiff. And if I'm looking for a bold look and want to upgrade from a fedora, I should try a wide brimmed one. This one from Off-White is minimal, bold, and beautiful. Off-White, $580
Five hundred and eight bucks, NS Sherlock, there isn't an alternative agenda here, perchance?

 

[TheDane]

I believe the off-white "wonder" will be nice, when it's finished. A ribbon, flange and crease would make it look a bit more deliberate/finished.

Hopefully the author stays off crack while writing

 

[Edward]

Reads like a satire of a fashion blog, but it's probably "for real". TBH, I found it pretty funny - it's obvious they writer has little clue.... Fedoras a 20s thing? They "went away", only to return in the 50s? I'm assuming this guy failed history at school.

 

[moontheloon]

I've seen a lot of these type articles and blog entries ... they always seem to choose pictures of people oblivious to any sort of style and wearing some sort of $7.99 TJMaxx cloth hat you would buy on the boardwalk or something and place it next to Humphrey Bogart or James Cagney ... the low hanging fruit approach

if these people skimmed through this forum for 2 minutes there would be less of these articles cluttering the ever so cumbersome internet

 

[-30-]

It's not "anti-hat propaganda"; just proof positive that BS Baffles Brains,
or that it's all mind over matter; he doesn't have a Mind, so it doesn't Matter.

Regards,
J T

 

[foamy]

There's some cluelessness going on there—and that would be the author of the article. His solution? A pair of baseball caps (one pink, no less) and a fashion felt? Good for a chuckle.

 

[Frunobulax]

The guy in the vid? The least of his problems with the ladies would be how he looks in a Fedora (oops, sorry Steve, Soft Felt Hat ).

As for the article writer, he must have gone to the "Pull Things Out of My Butt" school of journalism, which is unfortunately all too common these days.

That's cool, though. By encouraging others to wear more baseball caps, the vintage market won't be inundated with hipsters with too much $$ and too little sense looking to expand their wardrobe.

More for me!!!

 

[skydog757]

Al Capone a "fashion icon"? " . . . the perennially cool Steve McQueen" as someone who revived fedoras in the 50's? Steven McQueen is cool, but the next time I see him wearing a fedora will be the first time. He had a lot of influence on style in the 60's, but it was towards a more casual, personal almost anti-fashion statement.

I think the writer of the above article is trying to go after the cheap, garish hats currently in fashion with teens and doesn't seem to have the sense to separate them from the higher end models that have never really gone away. If so, he needs to take just a few moments to think about his approach and do just a smidge of actual research.

 

[Frunobulax]

Heck, this young man I saw and surreptitiously photographed at a mall in Anchorage knows more about rockin' a hat than the author of the article!

 

[Rogera]

There's some cluelessness going on there—and that would be the author of the article. His solution? A pair of baseball caps (one pink, no less) and a fashion felt? Good for a chuckle.

And the felt offering was unfinished for over $500? Hmm mmmmmmm. They always show the guy wearing a crap, Target "fedora". That's the problem. It's a terminology issue. Those guys are not wearing fedoras.

 

[Frunobulax]

And the felt offering was unfinished for over $500? Hmm mmmmmmm. They always show the guy wearing a crap, Target "fedora". That's the problem. It's a terminology issue. Those guys are not wearing fedoras.

Schmatta

 

[Bob Roberts]

Al Capone a "fashion icon"? " . . . the perennially cool Steve McQueen" as someone who revived fedoras in the 50's? Steven McQueen is cool, but the next time I see him wearing a fedora will be the first time. He had a lot of influence on style in the 60's, but it was towards a more casual, personal almost anti-fashion statement.

I think the writer of the above article is trying to go after the cheap, garish hats currently in fashion with teens and doesn't seem to have the sense to separate them from the higher end models that have never really gone away. If so, he needs to take just a few moments to think about his approach and do just a smidge of actual research.

Those that can do. Those that can't, write.

 

[moontheloon]

Those that can do. Those that can't, write.

I've always heard ...

those who can , do ... and those who can't teach.

which I resent because I do both

 

[Bob Roberts]

I've always heard ...

those who can , do ... and those who can't teach.

which I resent because I do both

True. They both teach and write...

 

[GHT]

I've always heard ...

those who can , do ... and those who can't teach.

which I resent because I do both

And you bring a healthy dose of common sense to both. The expression: Those that can, do, those that can't, teach, has come about in the last twenty or so years. At first I thought it was a malaise unique to our Island, but the internet, giving us the chance to read social media input from other countries, has proved that the lunatics are running the asylum.
The UK's structure of local government, like the national system, is made up of civil servants. There was a time when the head honcho of the local civil service was known as: The Town Clerk. In today's money his salary would have been somewhere between £80K to £100K depending on the size of the community. Nowadays the title is: Chief Executive Officer and the salary ranges from a quarter million to about half a million. The Town Clerk was a dedicated, hard working local government officer, who did an excellent job. Today's CEO has to have a team of advisors, seems unable to express an original thought, reads from the bible of political correctness and gives incompetence a bad name.
You can take that example elsewhere. We had dedicated heads of charities earning a sensible, generous salary, but not so generous to cause offence, raising millions for good causes, and very good they were too. Now it's become a greasy pole, career opportunity for those that can't to teach, to pontificate and to stuff their pockets with repugnant salaries and eye watering bonuses.
Look around, read newspapers. The incompetent bankers that brought the world to it's knees seven years ago, the money grubbing lawyers who have tarnished the highly respected practice of law and the do-gooders who pander to whatever whimsical fad of the day it is. Whereas you my friend, me and most of the world, know our jobs, know our limits, do what we know best, do it well and keep the world afloat with all the taxes we pay. No dodgy offshore accounts for us. But we do get a verbal chastisement if we have the temerity to wear a fedora! Heaven forbid.

 

[Edward]

Let's be careful not to weigh this into politics.

TBH, I do start to wonder if the article is not so much ignorant as trolling. CAn't think of a photo I've ever see on Macqueen in a hat of any sort?

 

[Frunobulax]

Let's be careful not to weigh this into politics.

TBH, I do start to wonder if the article is not so much ignorant as trolling. CAn't think of a photo I've ever see on Macqueen in a hat of any sort?

Probably a combo of ignorance and trolling. The video was maximum trolling. McQueen was the embodiment of 60s cool, so a hat wasn't part of his image. Of course, he wore a Stetson in Wanted: Dead or Alive and other westerns, and driving caps, as he was a racer. I did find this, though - which I don't think flatters him:

That is The Great One in the foreground, no?

 

[JackieMatra]

The expression: Those that can, do, those that can't, teach, has come about in the last twenty or so years.

I beg to differ.
I definitely recall the phrase being in common usage over fifty years ago.

 

[JackieMatra]

Probably a combo of ignorance and trolling. The video was maximum trolling. McQueen was the embodiment of 60s cool, so a hat wasn't part of his image. Of course, he wore a Stetson in Wanted: Dead or Alive and other westerns, and driving caps, as he was a racer. I did find this, though - which I don't think flatters him:

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That is The Great One in the foreground, no?

It's Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr., yes, if that's who you mean.