I am now torn between going for the classic Paul Revere tricorner or a simple straw boater for my trips into the village to inform and impress the locals. I think a ukelele would be a better look for me, versus a musket. Decisions, decisions.
All the cool kids are wearing balloon animals on their heads, you heard it here first.
Johnny, that’s a nice hat. What are your feelings on the Stetson Roadmaster? I’ve always thought that would be a good look for me, as I am neither short nor old enough to be mistaken for Senator Sam Rayburn.
Back in the 1960s a “stingy brim” hat was quite the thing. If you didn’t like stingy brims, you could buy a “snap brim” but I don’t have a clear memory of those. Back then there were shops that I suppose would be called hat boutiques today----hats were their main selling item.
I tried to wear whatever style hat Frank Sinatra favored; I even copied the way he tied his ties.
(I fixed your link in this quote. I think.) I like that hat. Very '40s. I have an image in mind of Clark Gable wearing a red plaid shirt, work trousers, and that hat. Maybe with a Taylorcraft on floats in the background.
That’s why I like them. I have the '66 MGB, and I was born in the Space Age. Hats like that make me think of a time when we were pushing the boundaries in aerospace, when any middle-class person could buy an airplane if he wanted to, people drove with their tops down, and spent days waterskiing or camping out with the Coleman gear.
This is a couple of days late, but I have a photo of my grandfather driving a car with a flat cap on backward–in 1912.
As far as fedoras go, I started wearing my other grandfather’s hats around 1960 as a young teen, and was terribly disappointed when my hat size eventually outstripped his and I had to get my own. Nowadays I’ve got about 30 brimmed hats in fur felt, wool felt, and straw, and am sort of glad the 50s/60s stingy brim has come back. Ten years ago I couldn’t find a Ben Hogan/Sinatra-style snap brim to save my life. Now they’re a, er, snap. Same thing with Homburgs. I don’t need a champagne-colored one, but it is easier to find a gray or black one once the style became popular in the hip-hop world.
I like them, all things considered*, but don’t wear one myself (too old to be a hipster).
*…given the past trends of overly-curled baseball hat brims, popped collars, Converse Allstars, fauxhawks, and wallet zoot-suit-chains, the obnoxious level is much reduced.
Ha, funny you should say that - my parents also always used to identify “Sunday drivers” by the silhouette of a trilby. Get stuck behind one of them and you could guarantee you’d be pootling along at 20mph for a while.
Still, I think it’s a good thing that The Kids are at least wearing hats with a degree of elegance, rather than baseball caps and beanies.
