# Any men who wear hats? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 9, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456 "2012-11-09T05:26:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/41 "2012-11-09T20:37:44Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Well, I’ve got three at the moment–a straw fedora for summer, a grey-plaidy stingy brim fedora (or maybe it’s a trilby? I’ve never figured out what makes a trilby a trilby) for fall and spring, and my blue-green wool fedora with a feather for winter. I have a straw trilby also. A trilby is a narrow brimmed fedora as far as I can tell. I wore it a couple of times in the summer. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/42 "2012-11-09T20:38:45Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Sadly, there is still no love for the [boater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boater). I’d wear a boater if I had a seersucker suit. ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/43 "2012-11-09T20:39:42Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > The last is a bit too big, and I need to take it down to Pork Pie Hatters soon to see if they can adjust it. Just stuff something under the inside band. If you have a local store, they probably have a little rubbery band they will put in, but you can use most anything – just be aware that toilet paper works fine until it gets wet. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/44 "2012-11-09T20:53:54Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I have a straw trilby also. A trilby is a narrow brimmed fedora as far as I can tell. I wore it a couple of times in the summer. Well, that’s what I thought, and then I see something like [this](http://www.amazon.com/Borsalino-Trilby-Hat/dp/B004DPR2SQ). ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/45 "2012-11-09T21:05:14Z")
I love my flat cap, but it’s generally too damn hot here to wear it. The sweat stains look pretty ugly. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/46 "2012-11-09T21:07:17Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Well, that’s what I thought, and then I see something like [this](http://www.amazon.com/Borsalino-Trilby-Hat/dp/B004DPR2SQ). Well that looks like a regular old fedora. Trilby makes me think about the hats worn by Frank Sinatra and occasionally Bing Crosby instead of his usual full brimmed fedora. The straw version has that retro look that goes good with summer wear. The kind of thing I wear to the Yacht Club\*. \*Excerpts from a review of this Yacht Club: “It’s a dive bar. On the water. Cash only (with an ATM located on-site).” “A limited greasy-spoon type menu, pool table, an old-school video game or two, and generous pour (my cup o’wine) added to the water view looking over to Waterman Grille, Stuck-up Bridge (aka: Crook Point Bascule Bridge), and India Point Park with plenty of outdoor seating make this a new favorite dive bar.” ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/47 "2012-11-09T22:21:11Z")
No, because your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance, well, they’re no friends of mine. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/48 "2012-11-09T22:26:16Z")
I would love to be a hat guy but I don’t have the guts to try it out and stick with it. ☹ I would also love to be a cape, and possibly even an epaulettes guy if it were socially acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/49 "2012-11-09T22:35:36Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Sadly, there is still no love for the [boater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boater). There is if you’re a Harold Lloyd fan. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/50 "2012-11-10T00:51:49Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Sadly, there is still no love for the [boater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boater). I have one! ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/51 "2012-11-10T02:27:17Z")
In the last few years I’ve taken to wearing a [fedora](http://www.stetson.com/Images/ProductFull/b39840-8410/temple-in-caribou.jpg) in cooler weather, and a Panama hat in hotter weather. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/52 "2012-11-10T03:14:06Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > [My 14 yo son](http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p4/rhiannon8404/MaddieandCharlie.jpg), **Ledzepkid** (doesn’t post much), has worn a fedora nearly every day for almost 2 years now. He has the one in the picture which is black material, and one that is grey wool. It suits him. Both his hats were fairly inexpensive, but if he keeps up with the style he may end up getting a quality hat for his birthday. Dang, I was all expecting to be like “stupid hipster kids and their damn hats” But your son wears that hat well. Sharp-looking young man. Tell him to keep it up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/53 "2012-11-10T10:04:46Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > [My 14 yo son](http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p4/rhiannon8404/MaddieandCharlie.jpg), **Ledzepkid** (doesn’t post much), has worn a fedora nearly every day for almost 2 years now. Are you sure that’s a fedora? It looks more like a porkpie to me. At any rate, he wears it well, and looks good in it. I like to wear my hats from time to time. Among my favourites are an Australian bush hat that I like to wear when I’m out for a walk (no, it does not have corks dangling from it; it looks more like [this](http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/clothing/accessories/hats/australian-leather-bush-hat)); and a cowboy hat that I wear occasionally. (See my SDMB photo in the [portrait gallery](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/9680.html).) I’d like to find a nice fedora. I’ve worn them when I’ve played in community theatre, and they look good. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/54 "2012-11-10T10:46:27Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Heh, asking if any guys on the Dope wear hats is like asking if anybody here has an opinion on Kirk vs Picard. Or, like asking your choice of [if you’d rather piss your pants, or crap your pants](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15683140#post15683140). ETA: James Tiberius Kirk, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/55 "2012-11-10T10:48:36Z")
Getting back to the thread, when I ride my motorcycle, I wear my helmet. That counts as a hat, right? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/56 "2012-11-10T13:03:16Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > Getting back to the thread, when I ride my motorcycle, I wear my helmet. That counts as a hat, right? Well if we’re going to count helmets, I also have 2 Roman legionair ones, a Samurai helmet and a British Boer War pith. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/57 "2012-11-10T14:02:05Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > [My 14 yo son](http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p4/rhiannon8404/MaddieandCharlie.jpg), **Ledzepkid** (doesn’t post much), has worn a fedora nearly every day for almost 2 years now. He has the one in the picture which is black material, and one that is grey wool. It suits him. Both his hats were fairly inexpensive, but if he keeps up with the style he may end up getting a quality hat for his birthday. > [@Spoons](#): > > Are you sure that’s a fedora? It looks more like a porkpie to me. At any rate, he wears it well, and looks good in it. A porkpie is circular, so I wouldn’t call the hat in the picture a porkpie. But its brim is rather narrow, so I would hesitate to call it a fedora. I would call that hat a trilby. ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/58 "2012-11-10T14:34:28Z")
I wear an[Aussie Hat](http://store.bootamerica.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=Min9541&Category_Code=minnetonka-hats) while walking the dog. Good for keeping the sun out of my eyes or the rain off my head. Bought years ago in the French Market in New Orleans on my first holiday to somewhere that far south and discovered how strong the sun was! ps No corks and I don’t clip up one side! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/59 "2012-11-10T16:05:53Z")
Also, when it’s cold out I’ll wear a knit watch cap. Our Canadian friends might call that a Canadian toque? Or, my [Kangol Rain Tweed Trapper](http://www.kangolstore.com/p/286325/Rain-Tweed-Trapper.aspx?c=1742). ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456/60 "2012-11-10T17:39:03Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > Also, when it’s cold out I’ll wear a knit watch cap. Our Canadian friends might call that a Canadian toque? I don’t see why we would. A toque is any knitted winter hat. And it’s just “toque”–I’ve never heard anyone say “Canadian toque.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-men-who-wear-hats/640456.md?page=4)