Time to start wearing hats

[MillCreek]

This is one of my favorite hats.  It helps the grandkids and other people find me in a crowd.

[AJ Dual]

fistful:

Also avoid baseball caps unless you are a kid or playing a baseball cap appropriate sport.  Ball caps are for kids and/or playtime.  Adults wear grownup hats.

Nope. Not going to happen. I'd wear a fscking propeller beanie before being mistaken for a Fedora Athiest. And associated passive-aggressive virginal neck-bearded beta-male douchebaggery.

[roo_ster]

Nope. Not going to happen. I'd wear a fscking propeller beanie before being mistaken for a Fedora Athiest. And associated passive-aggressive virginal neck-bearded beta-male douchebaggery.

Feh.

Children have been known to try on grownup garb.  Few then hold the garb to be responsible for any childish actions that may then ensue.

I suppose you also forego blue jeans, too, due to the unsavory sort who may wear them?

So Rooster, how is the durability of a straw hat?  All of my hats are either nylon, cotton, nyco, waxed cotton or felt.  I have perhaps erroneously felt that straw hats are fragile and will develop holes. 

Generally speaking, a straw hat is not as durable or as able to suffer abuse as what you listed.  A cheapo straw (~$35) will last the whole warm part of the year.  A middling sort, ($50-$75) a few years' warm seasons.  A higher quality straw ($100+) will last indefinitely.  A hemp "straw" hat will last as long or longer as those materials above as.  You may need to get it re-shaped or re-blocked every few years as the lacquer wears off, but hemp is tough stuff.

They eyeball-incinerating beacon you call a "hat" will get you found, alright.  Found insane.

[AJ Dual]

Go tell them about their "kid hats"...

[MillCreek]

They eyeball-incinerating beacon you call a "hat" will get you found, alright.  Found insane.

I also wear it when I go snowshoeing or XC skiing, and I tell people if they see it sticking out of the snowbank after the avalanche, they can start digging there.  

[fifth_column]

Kakadu makes good, reasonably priced hats.  I've got one of their Soaka hats, and like it very much:  http://us.kakaduaustralia.com/collections/soakas-1/products/5h31-rust-the-soaka

[Tallpine]

Baseball hats on adults is very acceptable in the Midwest. Its not kiddie wear here.

I have to agree.  It's pretty much the standard where ever I have lived most of my life, at least for spring/summer/fall.  It must be a working man thing 

I finally switched to a Stetson for most wear a few years ago, now that I have horses.  I'm not a real cowboy but I'm a pretty darn good rider.  But I still wear a ball cap for dirty stuff and/or running machinery where I want ear muffs.

In the winter I have a now grubby insulated ball cap style with ear flaps for most of the time.  When it's really cold, I've got a carhart type rabbit fur lined bomber hat.  For town etc I've got a grey wool railroad type hat with tuck in earflaps.

It's really weird to get on a plane at -20 and got off at the other end at +70 

[roo_ster]

Go tell them about their "kid hats"...

I did.  I thought the pre-BDU ball caps were wretched.

The patrol cap that went with BDUs was a decent bit of kit when they were not worn by a SGM with the blocking dealy inside.  The Navy & USMC versions were unnecessarily complex, though.

Not sure what the non-beret non-helmet head gear is standard nowadays.  If it is a ball cap, that would be sad.

[KD5NRH]

I'm thinking about tracking down a lightweight white straw fedora and some neon yellow dye, then adding a safety-orange-and-Scotchlite band so people who don't recognize me without a hat will know it's me when I'm running.

Could make for an interesting look when I get up to the point of running a 5K.

[charby]

Nope. Not going to happen. I'd wear a fscking propeller beanie before being mistaken for a Fedora Athiest. And associated passive-aggressive virginal neck-bearded beta-male douchebaggery.

Yep, the non *expletive deleted*bag Fedora wearers where I live are usually quite weird and quite liberal.

Safe hats in order of safeness that will not get you public scorn or your ass kicked.

Ball cap
Watch/stocking hat
Boonie hat
Wide Brimmed Tilly hats
Wide brimmed straw hats, only in the summer month
Cowboy hat- if you are wearing the clothes/footwear to match

Hats guaranteed to get your ass kicked
Mad Bomber hats- unless its is 30 below or attending a late football game.
Fedora
Derby

[RoadKingLarry]

Day to day going to work or just bumming around I wear something like this.
Tan in the summer, brown or charcoal in the winter.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OSKR6U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Out on the boat some kind of wide brim boonie style

I'm the one sitting

Sadly, that hat was sacrified to the wind and lake gods later that day but we did win 2 of 3 races that afternoon.

Happy face


Working in the garden or yard work in the sun it'll be a wide brim straw.

I also have good felt fedoras and oil skin outback style for cold/wet weather.

[brimic]

Yep, the non *expletive deleted* Fedora wearers where I live are usually quite weird and quite liberal.

Safe hats in order of safeness that will not get you public scorn or your ass kicked.

Ball cap
Watch/stocking hat
Boonie hat
Wide Brimmed Tilly hats
Wide brimmed straw hats, only in the summer month
Cowboy hat- if you are wearing the clothes/footwear to match

Hats guaranteed to get your ass kicked
Mad Bomber hats- unless its is 30 below or attending a late football game.
Fedora
Derby

I think you'd look good in a Derby with White framed sunglasses.  

[charby]

I think you'd look good in a Derby with White framed sunglasses.  

Johnny Depp I am not.

...nor Truman Capote.

[cosine]

You can have my baseball cap when you pry it from my hot sweaty head.

[Perd Hapley]

Baseball hats on adults is very acceptable in the Midwest. Its not kiddie wear here.

I'm pretty sure it's the same everywhere. roo_ster was being a curmudgeon, not a regionalist. He prefers a time when men were men, and women were women; and wore hats, not caps.

Hats (or caps) tend to make my head uncomfortable, so I won't wear them unless I realize some benefit. So a felt outback/Indiana Jones/wide-brimmed fedora in cooler weather, a Radar O'Reilly hat over my ears in cold weather, and potentially one o' them Panama hats to shade my noggin in the summer. Ball caps don't do any of those things very well, (except make my head hot) so I've never liked them. They sure is popular, though.

[Ben]

Hats (or caps) tend to make my head uncomfortable, so I won't wear them unless I realize some benefit.

Same here, and getting thin on top, er, that is, keeping my hair cut short, means I have to wear hats lots to keep from getting head sunburn - the most painful of all the sunburns.

I generally just wear ball caps for running and for shooting.  I wish I could wear a brimmed straw or felt hat for shooting, but hearing protection interferes. I wear them when hunting since I can get away with just earplugs for bird hunting. Always a brimmed hat for fishing. Straw fedora ( a real one with a wide brim, not those ones that trained apes wear that are two sizes too small) for Summer fishing, felt cowboy hat made for me by Larry the hat guy for cool weather. When I spent lots of time on boats I wore a boonie hat.

[Doggy Daddy]

Nope. Not going to happen. I'd wear a fscking propeller beanie before being mistaken for a Fedora Athiest. And associated passive-aggressive virginal neck-bearded beta-male douchebaggery.

Followed your link, and buried amongst the furry necks and hats was this gem:

[Regolith]

I'm pretty sure it's the same everywhere. roo_ster was being a curmudgeon, not a regionalist.

That's going beyond curmudgeonly; he's starting to edge into the neo-Victorian area. 

[Perd Hapley]

roo_ster, thanks for the recommendations.

[erictank]

Yep, the non *expletive deleted* Fedora wearers where I live are usually quite weird and quite liberal.

Safe hats in order of safeness that will not get you public scorn or your ass kicked.

Ball cap
Watch/stocking hat
Boonie hat
Wide Brimmed Tilly hats
Wide brimmed straw hats, only in the summer month
Cowboy hat- if you are wearing the clothes/footwear to match

Hats guaranteed to get your ass kicked
Mad Bomber hats- unless its is 30 below or attending a late football game.
Fedora
Derby

I've been known to wear a fedora, from time to time. Nothin' wrong with a nice fedora.

Attack me without just cause, whatever hat I might be wearing (no, "because I thought he was a hipster!" is *NOT* just cause), and you won't like the result.

It ain't the headgear that's the problem.

[Ben]

I've been known to wear a fedora, from time to time. Nothin' wrong with a nice fedora.

I wouldn't attack a guy in a fedora myself. You never know when they might be armed. :)

[roo_ster]

I wouldn't attack a guy in a fedora myself. You never know when they might be armed. :)

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3860/14958627875_3996d6750b_z.jpg

Not just fedoras:

            George
      Any a you boys know your way around
      a Walther PPK?

            DELMAR
      Well now, that's where we cain't
      help ya. I don't believe it's in
      Mississippi.

[charby]

I've been known to wear a fedora, from time to time. Nothin' wrong with a nice fedora.

Attack me without just cause, whatever hat I might be wearing (no, "because I thought he was a hipster!" is *NOT* just cause), and you won't like the result.

It ain't the headgear that's the problem.

I was joking about getting your ass kicked, but you should be expected to be hassled by youngsters for wearing those hats.

[Tallpine]

A man walks down the street wearing a fedora - you know he's not afraid of anything.   

[charby]

A man walks down the street wearing a fedora - you know he's not afraid of anything.