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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Monkeyleg on March 16, 2010, 11:01:07 PM
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I've been seeing these hats on guys the last couple of months (minus the fuzzy balls):
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At first I though the guy was a homeless bum, but after seeing more of the hats, I realized they must be cool (or whatever term is being used this week).
What the hell is going on? This looks like the McKenzie brothers. It looks like something that a character in "Fargo" might wear. This is cool?
Who's driving fashion these days?
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Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
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I think it's rather cunning.
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I can only assume Macrame (sp) has become a fad again?
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Hmm. In Minnesota, where I live, folks have worn hats like these (minus the fuzzy balls) all my life. =D
Of course, we are next to the Canadian border. And the movie Fargo was a spoof on Minnesota not North Dakota... =D
Oh well, I guess I'll just go clean out my wood chipper.
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I've had one of those since winter 2006.
In orange, minus the fuzzy balls on the end. I call it my Jayne hat.
Matches my three season shell and 4th Doctor scarf quite well.
Jelly Baby?
=D
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What the hell is going on? This looks like the McKenzie brothers. It looks like something that a character in "Fargo" might wear. This is cool?
Good enough for the hero of Canton.
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Hmm. In Minnesota, where I live, folks have worn hats like these (minus the fuzzy balls) all my life.
It's a bit different when they're in Texas, where we have to go dig out the coats for a couple months every year, then lose them again.
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The guys wearing these aren't doing so to keep warm. I saw a gangstah type today at the gym with one on, and he wore it the whole time. Looked silly as all hell.
The younger members of the forum have made fun of the 1960's, and the long hair, bell bottoms, etc. But if anyone had told me back then that in 40 years it would be fashionable to wear a knit hat with ear flaps, have baggy pants hanging down so folks can see the underwear and the crack in the butt, be covered in tattoos, have the head shaved, and all sorts of places in the body pierced, I would have had the person making the prediction locked away in a rubber room.
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looks like something for there spazed out other to play with. kinda like a cat with a ball of yarn. :angel: [popcorn]
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The younger members of the forum have made fun of the 1960's, and the long hair, bell bottoms, etc. But if anyone had told me back then that in 40 years it would be fashionable to wear a knit hat with ear flaps, have baggy pants hanging down so folks can see the underwear and the crack in the butt, be covered in tattoos, have the head shaved, and all sorts of places in the body pierced, I would have had the person making the prediction locked away in a rubber room.
Ha ha ha! Indeed sir.
It reminds me of a P.J O'Rourke quote: "A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." - Unless it is a cowboy hat of course.
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Yes - but if I had saved all the crap I wore in the sixties - I could have saved a mint in buying clothes for my daughters.
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That kind of hat comes from Peru, Chile, the Andes mountain region, where wearing it here stateside had some sort of .alt/Kerouac/vagabond/hippie cred. (Also associated with hacky-sack/stoners on college campuses) Then it made the leap to other fashionable subcultures. Snowboarders etc.
Mainly the "I'm so cool I can pull this off" incongruity thing. Went from there.
And all the other references are to Adam Baldwin's character on the short-lived but very popular sci-fi show "Firefly", a.k.a. "The hat of cunning". He and the show are popular amongst geek/sci-fi/libertarian/gun-nut subcultures as well.
http://ficml.org/jemimap/ff/cunning/
Sorry to lay it out so plainly for Monkeyleg, but we must show respect to our elders. =D
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Sorry to lay it out so plainly for Monkeyleg, but we must show respect to our elders.
One of perks of being old is being able to advise a young person to not be photographed "looking like that," as it will haunt the person later on. One of the liabilities of being young is being too haughty to listen, and having to endure the laughter years later when the photos are unearthed.
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Clearly they are merely imitating greatness:
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Clearly they are merely imitating greatness:
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I'M GAY!
lol!!! FTW! =D
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Matches my three season shell and 4th Doctor scarf quite well.
=D
Allons-y!
(yes, I realize my quote is actually tenth doctor, but I am a bit short of 4th doctor quotes at the moment...)
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What's with distinctive cold weather gear and sci-fi? (And who let these Doc Who fans in here? Creepy.) :P
Oh, and Monkeyleg, the new cool is spelled f-i-s-t-f-u-l. [walks away into own private dreamland]
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I've been seeing these hats on guys the last couple of months (minus the fuzzy balls):
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sojones.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F09%2FGoorin-Brothers-The-Peju-Crochet-Knit-Helmet-Hat.jpg&hash=89033240dadcbfc4383bf2b642056bd55f62bcf1)
Saw a guy wearing a solid white model recently. Looks quite a bit like a pith helmet when viewed via the corner of your eye. Practical item for colder weather.
Oh, and Monkeyleg, the new cool is spelled f-i-s-t-f-u-l. [walks away into own private dreamland]
It is spelled Z-a-r-d-o-z.
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What's with distinctive cold weather gear and sci-fi? (And who let these Doc Who fans in here? Creepy.) :P
Space is cold.
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"Cool" is just another way of saying "Not so hot."
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Well honestly, since space is a vacuum, getting rid of your waste heat is usually the problem. Hence half the "panels" on things like the ISS are actually radiators.
If "cold" in space is a problem, you've got really bad problems, like no power.
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It been many many years so I may be wrong but didn't Spicoli wear one of those in Fast Times at Ridgemont High? ;)
jim
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When I was younger, anyone wearing that hat would have been a super-dork.
Also, isn't the Zardoz photo a violation of APS rules now?
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I had a hat like that in college in the mid 1990's, seems like they are still around.
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I think the guys buying this today are Monkeyleg's normal customers. They thought the model came with the hat. :P
jim
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When I was younger, anyone wearing that hat would have been a super-dork.
Well, in the 1920's most all hat-wearing was done by women, so yeah, a guy wearing that hat would have raised a few eyebrows.
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Actually, AJ, the wearing of hats amongst men was common and fashionable right up to about the 1960's. By "hats" I mean dress hats, not MacKenzie brothers hats. ;)
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Also, isn't the Zardoz photo a violation of APS rules now?
Violation? It's practically the APS mascot. :P
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Good enough for the hero of Canton.
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thesignal/signal_224_20061220.mp3
At 41:17, there's a quite good rendition of "The Hero of Canton."
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There is a hat in that photo?
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The hat should have stopped at Jayne.
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Well, in the 1920's most all hat-wearing was done by women, so yeah, a guy wearing that hat would have raised a few eyebrows.
Every pic I've seen from the 1950's and earlier show men wearing some form of hat outdoors. Fedora, cowboy hat etc depending on region.
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Every pic I've seen from the 1950's and earlier show men wearing some form of hat outdoors. Fedora, cowboy hat etc depending on region.
It was customary for English middle class men to often wear a suit and hat no matter what the event (Alfred Hitchcock dressed in this middle class fashion).
There was a photo published in the Houghton/Hancock MI newspaper of my grandfather fishing in a rowboot wearing a suit and hat.
He didn't look like Doug MacKenzie, though.
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I want a Jayne hat..... =D
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http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=41204019
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Actually, AJ, the wearing of hats amongst men was common and fashionable right up to about the 1960's. By "hats" I mean dress hats, not MacKenzie brothers hats. ;)
Back then, was "Doing the Charleston" all the rage it's made out to be in history books?
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My Grandmother got evicted from a Pittsburgh ballroom for doing the Charleston in the 1930s
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I've been seeing these hats on guys the last couple of months (minus the fuzzy balls) :
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So that's what I've been doing wrong....I haven't been wearing the hat......
=D
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*rollseyes*
uhhhh guys.... that hat has been skater/stoner style for the past 15 years. ;/
now the real question is when are the pinstripe suit, fedora and wing tips gonna come back for the mainstream...
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*rollseyes*
uhhhh guys.... that hat has been skater/stoner style for the past 15 years. ;/
now the real question is when are the pinstripe suit, fedora and wing tips gonna come back for the mainstream...
And you expect me to know this? ;)
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And you expect me to know this? ;)
sorry, i spend too much time with my dad. he's 57 and keeps better track of current style/pop culture then i do. :lol:
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*rollseyes*
uhhhh guys.... that hat has been skater/stoner style for the past 15 years. ;/
now the real question is when are the pinstripe suit, fedora and wing tips gonna come back for the mainstream...
Go to the private room and ask fistful.
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Go to the private room and ask fistful.
:facepalm: (not about asking fistul though...)