# My New Hat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hat/328968 "2005-11-01T20:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hat/328968/1 "2005-11-01T20:38:16Z")
I bought a new hat on the wekend - a trilby! I wear it constantly (even now as I sit typing). Trilbies are very verstaile hats - you can wear it high on your head, creating a raffish mid 50’s Sinatra look, or you can jam it down to just over your eyes, giving the “Joe Friday” effect. I mix and match to suit my mood. Man, am I gonna get me some chicks with this hat. Life sure is good with a Trilby. So, any other Doper trilby owners? Or anyone else want to share favourite hat stories? mm ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hat/328968/2 "2005-11-01T20:53:19Z")
A trilby? _has a sudden and weird mental image of a tribble sitting on **mamboman** ’s head_ _Google pause_ Oh, _that_. I call that a fedora, but I’m woefully ignorant when it comes to clothes. Pics? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hat/328968/3 "2005-11-01T21:50:53Z")
I love hats. I used to wear 'em all the time - floppy velvet creations that were very “in” in the early nineties - but got of the habit again. This winter though, Ima get me a new hat. I’m having some problems, though. What I want is a beret. What all the shops seem to have are either baker boy caps, which I loathe because they make everyone loke like escapees from _Oliver!_, and huge, floppy-brimmed Joan Baez style things, which I like but which are a bit more of a statement than I’m willing to make. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hat/328968/4 "2005-11-01T22:28:46Z")
> [@Jennyrosity](#): > > I’m having some problems, though. What I want is a beret. What all the shops seem to have are either baker boy caps, which I loathe because they make everyone loke like escapees from _Oliver!_, and huge, floppy-brimmed Joan Baez style things, which I like but which are a bit more of a statement than I’m willing to make. Maybe [this](http://www.123voyage.com/realsw/tresors/berets.htm) site will carry what you need. Check out the guy in the picture; he looks happy in his beret! ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hat/328968/5 "2005-11-01T23:05:23Z")
Congratulations, and thank you for wearing a proper hat! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hat/328968/6 "2005-11-01T23:25:42Z")
I think I want a trilby! I’ve been looking for a long time for the “perfect” hat that goes with either a suit or casual clothes, for warm or cool weather, and I think that’s what I’ve been searching for. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hat/328968/7 "2005-11-01T23:37:14Z")
Nice hat! Unfortunately, I’m not sure how well it’d hold up in lovely soggy Seattle. (you can tell what kinda weather we have today) I wonder if a Barmah hat would work for me? Ghu knows I need something to stop my glasses getting all streaky.