I bought a hat today. No, I take that back. I bought a Hat.
It’s a dark grey (graphite) Stetson fedora. I got the narrow brim, 'cause the wide brim looked…well, too wide. Dorky. I also took the feather out of the band, 'cause it looked too old-mannish, but I kept it in case I change my mind. Should I put it back in?
I’ve always wanted a Hat, and since my birthday passed without notice or present (cue violin) I decided it was okay to treat myself. I’ve had caps, of course, and a balaclava, but never a Hat. I’m not certain what made me interested in Hats, though I suspect it’s a combination of Casablanca, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Big Sleep. Nonetheless, Hats are cool.
I have an overcoat–dark blue–and it just screams for a Hat. It goes pretty well with the leather bomber-style jacket I got for Christmas six or seven years ago. I suspect people are going to look at me like I’m some kind of poseur for wearing a Hat, or that I’m trying to be some kind of third rate Indiana Jones (when combined with the afformentioned jacket) but I really don’t care. I like it.
I’m wearing it now. Can you tell?
Stranger
who does not usually post pointless, stream-of-consciousness OPs, but hey, it’s a Hat. Somebody needs to know that I have a Hat.
You mean there’s a place where they still make hats?
Kidding, kidding.
Actually, I always thought hats were cool, but they didn’t work on everyone. Sinatra in a hat, yes. Dean Martin in a hat? No. And they were really cool and stylish in the thirties and forties.
I think feathers in hatbands are very cool. Even more cool points if you pick up some colorful feathers yourself, but the feathers that come with are okay, too.
This summer past I got a hat I’d been wanting since I was just a wee bairn. It’s not as cool as your fedora Stranger, but it’s still danged Jake in the headwear department. It’s a pith helmet. A really nice pith helmet. But, it’s a pith helmet, so I don’t wear it much.
I like the “hat look”, but I have a big monster head and even when I buy the biggest hat in the store, it doesn’t quite fit. I have found an online store that sells larger-sized hats, but I haven’t bought one yet.
I like hats, but my head is too small. Whenever I get a hat it always falls over my eyes, like I’m some little urchin, and my hair is too short to sweep stylishly from under the hat. So no hats for me.
I have an Idiana Jones hat as well. My friend bought it off a fan site, and graciously gave it to me. Luckily it fits. I’m rather proud of that hat.
I also buy brown leather shoes that I consider my “Indy” shoes. I feel way more confident in them. If I had the money I think I’d look for the jacket as well.
Nope, no sunglasses. I don’t know about the Hat+sunglass thing; that seems kind of, um, Eighties-ish; something John Cusack might have worn when he was making “John Cusack” movies. Not that there’s anything wrong with John Cusack or “his” movies[sup]*[/sup], it’s just that the era has passed. So have the Roaring Thirties and the Noir Fifties, too, but since I wasn’t alive during those I can’t be accused of just trying to relive my adolescence.
It’s raining here in SunSoCal today. What a great opportunity to wear the Hat.
Stranger
“My little brother got his arm stuck in the microwave. So my mom had to take him to the hospital. My grandma dropped acid this morning, and she freaked out. She hijacked a busload of penguins. So it’s sort of a family crisis. Bye!”
I just realized that it’s the Roaring Twenties, not Thirties. :o
And before someone nitpicks, yeah, a lot of film noir was set in the Thirties and Forties, but I always think of The Third Man and The Blue Dahlia (and maybe Double Indemnity) when I think of noir, which are still all set in the post-war Fourties, so…ah, heck, I was just wrong.
i also have a black felt fedora i wear in the winter. my wife says it looks like the one luca brasi wears just before he is strangled in the tatalliia family nightclub
I, too, have dreams of buying a hat. But it’s not anything like your hat. I found this hat in the Melody’s Choices Fun Store in our mall. (It’s like a toy store, but small.) This hat is… get this… a unicorn. A pink or purple or white (I’ve forgotten) unicorn. And what’s better is that if you take the hat off, it’s also a puppet. That’s right – a puppet hat.
But for the life of me, I haven’t been able to find another one. I wasn’t able to buy one that day, and I haven’t ever seen one since. sigh. I want that hat so badly.
