I have a couple knit hats I wear when I shovel snow or use the snowblower. I think they may even be my husband’s; they are kept in a box in the closet and I just grab one before I go out and then toss it in the laundry.
Other than that, nothing. I don’t look good in hats, so I don’t wear them. Whenever I try, I have a look on my face that seems to say, “I’m wearing a hat.” You have to look natural in order to look good in a hat.
Have you tried your local dry cleaners?
Only a couple of baseball hats. I wear them boating, or to baseball games. I’d say 98% of the time, I’m hatless. Around here you almost never see anyone in a hat, unless they’re trying to be a hipster of some type. You would never see a cowboy hat or fedora (I had to google that one to even be sure what it was).
Nah, the cats just snuggled it and clawed it. No bodily emissions. And it was the girls who did most of the loving.
Most of mine are practical. A couple of baseball hats and a straw had for shading eyes and my whole face respectively. A nearly cowboy hat, also for shade, that I bought when I forgot to bring a hat on a road trip and regretted it. Seriously, near dawn and sunset, the flap shades on the windshield won’t do any good at all. A hat is your only relief.
I do have one brimmed cloche hat that could be worn for decoration, but that usually gets worn if my hair might need a wash. And I bought a top hat to wear when visiting Emperor Norton’s grave. I haven’t worn it anywhere yet, but it’s been borrowed for two friends’ weddings so far.
I started wearing ball caps because I needed the shade, but I found that they didn’t provide enough shade. Besides being useful while driving, they are great when walking, as well.
Have you actually visited our Emperor’s grave? I think he’s a fascinating character, and one of the world’s best rulers ever.
I absolutely must wear a wide-brimmed hat outdoors, because my dying retinas are over-sensitive to bright light and glare.
My prized hat was a green Akubra Coober Pedy (Australian cattleman’s hat). I screwed it up and put a hole in the front of the crown (combination of ignorantly grabbing it by the bash and walking into a lot of low-hanging tree branches that I did not see). I have not yet replaced it.
Currently, I wear a “Seattle Sombrero”. It’s a great rain hat, and I can take it on a plane since it crushes to fit in my backpack. It is not, however, at all stylish.
I also have a Henschel sun hat. Blocked cotton with a cardboard stiffened brim–so not at all water-resistant. Looks good, but not versatile.
Also an assortment of baseball caps and knit winter caps.
I need to replace my Akubra. I miss it.
who needs hats when you have ray bans? i love hats. i love shoes too.
akubras are the ones, wonderful.
I hate wearing hats, which always got me in trouble in the military, but have a great face/head for them. I think I have four, which I almost never wear. A straw sun hat for outdoor concerts in summer. An oilskin “Indy” hat, which is too warm to wear in almost any weather. A couple of ball caps, which I only use when we are camping in a place with no shower and can’t wash my hair. My main objection to hats is that they make my scalp sweat.
I love hats. Some include:
A straw shaker-style hat.
An ascot cap I picked up in Paris.
A ScalaSafari Hat.
A cheap panama.
A khaki bucket hat with chinstrap.
A felt fedora.
A felt outback hat.
A couple of knitted wool kepis
A baseball cap made out of oilcloth – great for rainy weather.
Dozens of other baseball caps, including Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, New York Mets, Adirondack Park, Venetian Resort, Alien Nation, Union College, Siena College, Captain Morgan, and a New York Islanders fish stick logocap.
I’ve stopped getting baseball caps, but my rule is that if there’s a hat that costs $20 or less, I’ll buy it. Some of my hats had list prices of up to $40, but I picked them up on sale.
Two. I have one baseball cap which I never wear, mainly because it’s too small. I also have a stocking cap which I will wear when I blow snow.
I probably have 50+ hats, all but 3 of which are baseball caps. The others are a stocking cap, a cowboy hat and a flat cap.
that’s a cat you are thinking of!
I have the opposite, apparently. any hat I put on instantly looks Dumb Ass. but I have a couple knit caps (one with a wool lining) for when it’s really cold. I haven’t lived in Minnesota for a long time so it’s mostly never cold enough to make it worth the Dumb Ass Look.
I, too am the owner of 70+ baseball style hats. I wear them for all manner of outdoor activity. I also have a floppy safai hat (with chin cord!) that I picked up in Costa Rica and a (now crushed) straw fedora that I got on my honeymoon 25 years ago.
About 5, but I rarely if ever wear a hat. I have a 3 baseball caps, one is a momento from an old Ford dealership in town, the other I used to wear backwards when playing paintball, the other is a government-issue USMC cap. I have a lightweight camouflage cowboy hat with mesh near the top that I’ll wear if I’m going to be in the sun a lot. And I bought a nice warm Carhart hat with ear flaps for the upcoming winter.
hadn’t thought of it. I’ll ask them!
You can buy those LED lights as a clip that attaches (or detaches for cleaning) to the brim at most any outdoor store like Bass Pro, Gander Mtn, etc. You can also buy ballcap hat molds intended to provide support to the cap when it’s being cleaned in, of all things, the dishwasher.
Just last week my best friend asked me how many damn hats do I have? Over a hundred different Navy command ballcaps I never wear and are more trophies. Daily wear are a few dozen different ball caps, working in a shop, it keeps to gunk out of my hair.
For fun; fedoras, cowbow style, safari, trilbeys, silk top hat, boaters, hard hats, firemens helmets, greek fishermen style, paintball, and a floppy velour whatchamacallit for the renenance fair… pretty much for every occasion I can think of. This is off the top of my head without walking to the back room and looking in the hat closet.
I wear the same low brim fedora a lot for shooting, one day sweating like hell I threw it on the ground and put a load of buckshot through it, instant ventalation.
My friend and I have been riding motorcycles for over 20 years. I buy a new full face helmet every 2 years or so, so does he. Hanging in his garage we drilled holes in a lot of the old ones and with wire made a mobile.
Obsessed? Who me?
Correction to my previous, which was by memory:
26 baseball caps
add to the list another ushanka, a boonie hat covered with brewery pins that I wear on beer crawls, another canvas fedora, three watch caps and a balaclava.
The only one I currently use is my SubVets ball cap, but I have a few boat ball caps, too. And I probably still have a dog dish or two somewhere.
