Author Topic: This is the new cool? (Read 7692 times)

Monkeyleg · « **on:** March 16, 2010, 11:01:07 PM »

I've been seeing these hats on guys the last couple of months (minus the fuzzy balls):

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?

Regolith · « **Reply #1 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:05:19 PM »

Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.

zahc · « **Reply #2 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:12:47 PM »

I think it's rather cunning.

SADShooter · « **Reply #3 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:14:37 PM »

I can only assume Macrame (sp) has become a fad again?

Inor · « **Reply #4 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:14:58 PM »

Hmm. In Minnesota, where I live, folks have worn hats like these (minus the fuzzy balls) all my life.

Of course, we are next to the Canadian border. And the movie Fargo was a spoof on Minnesota not North Dakota...

Oh well, I guess I'll just go clean out my wood chipper.

Sindawe · « **Reply #5 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:18:54 PM »

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?

RevDisk · « **Reply #6 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:20:28 PM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on March 16, 2010, 11:01:07 PM

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.

KD5NRH · « **Reply #7 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:27:27 PM »

Quote from: Inor on March 16, 2010, 11:14:58 PM

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.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #8 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:28:44 PM »

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.

sanglant · « **Reply #9 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:39:14 PM »

looks like something for there spazed out other to play with. kinda like a cat with a ball of yarn.

Inor · « **Reply #10 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:42:55 PM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on March 16, 2010, 11:28:44 PM

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.

Mrs. Inor · « **Reply #11 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:46:52 PM »

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.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #12 on:** March 16, 2010, 11:56:50 PM »

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.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #13 on:** March 17, 2010, 12:57:09 AM »

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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.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 17, 2010, 12:58:02 AM »

Clearly they are merely imitating greatness:

sanglant · « **Reply #15 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:35:27 AM »

Quote from: Mabs on March 17, 2010, 12:58:02 AM

Clearly they are merely imitating greatness:

I'M GAY!

lol!!! FTW!

Fjolnirsson · « **Reply #16 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:47:07 AM »

Quote from: Sindawe on March 16, 2010, 11:18:54 PM

Matches my three season shell and 4th Doctor scarf quite well.

Allons-y!

(yes, I realize my quote is actually tenth doctor, but I am a bit short of 4th doctor quotes at the moment...)

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #17 on:** March 17, 2010, 03:07:33 AM »

What's with distinctive cold weather gear and sci-fi? (And who let these Doc Who fans in here? Creepy.)

Oh, and Monkeyleg, the new cool is spelled f-i-s-t-f-u-l. [walks away into own private dreamland]

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #18 on:** March 17, 2010, 03:20:21 AM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on March 16, 2010, 11:01:07 PM

I've been seeing these hats on guys the last couple of months (minus the fuzzy balls):

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.

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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.

RevDisk · « **Reply #19 on:** March 17, 2010, 09:42:43 AM »

Quote from: fistful on March 17, 2010, 03:07:33 AM

What's with distinctive cold weather gear and sci-fi? (And who let these Doc Who fans in here? Creepy.)

Space is cold.

HankB · « **Reply #20 on:** March 17, 2010, 09:51:43 AM »

"Cool" is just another way of saying "Not so hot."

AJ Dual · « **Reply #21 on:** March 17, 2010, 10:19:57 AM »

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.

Jim147 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 17, 2010, 10:28:23 AM »

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

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #23 on:** March 17, 2010, 10:43:32 AM »

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?

charby · « **Reply #24 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:26:30 PM »

I had a hat like that in college in the mid 1990's, seems like they are still around.

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