# The Blacklist Red Reddington's hats **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blacklist-red-reddingtons-hats/748361 "2016-03-09T01:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blacklist-red-reddingtons-hats/748361/21 "2016-04-06T17:45:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Hats are long out of fashion and unless you’ve got a really amazing amount of charisma you ain’t gonna pull it off. Literally every guy I’ve seen wearing a hat might as well be wearing a T-shirt saying “LOOK, I’M WEARING A HAT.” I literally never leave the house without a hat, usually a newsboy cap. I’ve never had any serious negative feedback for my hats and I have had plenty of compliments on both my hats and my general style. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blacklist-red-reddingtons-hats/748361/22 "2016-04-06T17:50:03Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > I literally never leave the house without a hat, usually a newsboy cap. I’ve never had any serious negative feedback for my hats and I have had plenty of compliments on both my hats and my general style. ::cough:: musician ::cough:: You, like me, have Hat Access not available to most folks. There are other types of Hat Access, buy Musician Hat Access sure isn’t bad. And you, IIRC, have a cool beard. Increases scope of available hats. In my estimation, you could pull off a Richard Thompson Beret™, you rat bastard 😉 ;). Those are hard to make work. Even with my Hat Access, oy, I had to be careful. Old White Guitarist + Wrong Hat + Guitar Face = Home Videos _no one_ wants to see 😉 😃 ETA: By the way, **RickJay** - nicely put. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blacklist-red-reddingtons-hats/748361/23 "2016-04-06T17:59:22Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > No replies. Wow. I knew my post was a little pathetic, but I would have thought that somebody would have said. “Yeah, I like his hats, too.” > > Or something. > > ::sniffle:: Great hats, and yes,\* you can wear them\*. Anyone can wear a real fedora, assuming you are dressed appropriately. Not one of those horrible hipster _trilbies_ with the narrow brim, made out of godknowswhat and worn with s short sleeved short or flannel shirt, no socks and something “ironic”- but a wide brim wool felt fedora, worn with a suit or similar. So put on some spiffy clothes, then a matching fedora. You’ll look great. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blacklist-red-reddingtons-hats/748361/24 "2016-04-06T18:28:51Z")
Now I want to see Ultron in a Fedora. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blacklist-red-reddingtons-hats/748361/25 "2016-04-07T13:07:56Z")
> [@Gothic](#): > > Now I want to see Ultron in a Fedora. Dude could totally pull it off! Per **RickJay** , the MCU brought Spader in for his swagger. Now, he’d have to get cut-outs in the brim to handle his ear-thingies. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blacklist-red-reddingtons-hats/748361/26 "2016-04-07T15:40:37Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > ::cough:: musician ::cough:: > > You, like me, have Hat Access not available to most folks. There are other types of Hat Access, buy Musician Hat Access sure isn’t bad. > > And you, IIRC, have a cool beard. Increases scope of available hats. In my estimation, you could pull off a Richard Thompson Beret™, you rat bastard 😉 ;). Those are hard to make work. > > Even with my Hat Access, oy, I had to be careful. Old White Guitarist + Wrong Hat + Guitar Face = Home Videos _no one_ wants to see 😉 😃 Thanks. 😃 I am currently more-or-less clean shaven. I do own and wear berets, I prefer the “civilian” style to the “military” (hatband, no “wick”) type that I’ve seen R Thompson wear. I have an Argentinian thick cotton beret, which is a thing of beauty and a lot cooler to wear onstage than a woollen beret. But I was talking about just going down the street, shopping, running errands, etc. Newsboy cap is the usual choice. I don’t think I’m particularly confident or charismatic, but since I got used to wearing hats and learned how practical they are, a hat on me is not an affectation, it’s just normal. So perhaps there _are_ some pathetic shits looking at my newsboy cap and thinking “Look at that guy in the hat, what a showoff” - but _I do not care_, and if it happens I’m not aware of it. And, clearly the problem is with _them_, not me. I’m wearing what I like, I’m happy about it, and the only time anyone raises it with me it’s always positive: “Nice cap!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blacklist-red-reddingtons-hats/748361.md?page=1)