Crap.

The meager exceptions prove the rule.

I also cannot pull off any look with any kind of hat under any circumstances, so my bitterness informs my incisiveness.

W.F: beanies on cold days.

Hats are fine, if a person can pull them off. At present, I'm just too jowly to look that good in one.

Did buy a sunhat similar to this, in the event I have to spend a lot of time in the hot sun down here, but it is by no means a "fashion accessory" in any meaningful sense of the term.

Several year back, I picked up a decent fedora at a department store, which I wore to a friend's post-wedding reception in the midwest. It didn't look too terrible in that context, wherein most people were decently dressed but not sporting formal attire. But then, within a year or two, I started seeing all of these memes about fedora-wearing reply guys/libertarians/very-online nerdy "badasses"/Jordan Peterson fans/etc., and then it just sort of lost its appeal, kind of like the trench coat before it.

If/when I go bald, slim down, or go bald and slim down, I might amend this post but hats are mostly avoided now. Will give them a Not Crap, but with maybe about six waffles. That seems about right.

My bestie is a Hat Guy, he pulls it off, gets a lot of compliments on it when out and about. I'm decidedly not a Hat Guy, have never worn a baseball cap ever, I think a lot of hats just look dumb.

That said, I have a big floppy wide brimmed hat that's essential for working outside in the summer, keeps the sun from burning holes in my eyes. I look ridiculous, Mrs MSE laughs at me all the time, it's fun.

I have a knit hat on most of the winter, because warm. Saying I wear this for fashion would be stretching it, but I'm fussy about them, some look a lot cooler than others.

Like FM jfv said, I'm 53 and still have (most of) my hair, gotta show that shit off.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:52 am
That said, I have a big floppy wide brimmed hat that's essential for working outside in the summer, keeps the sun from burning holes in my eyes. I look ridiculous, Mrs MSE laughs at me all the time, it's fun.

Oh man, the floppy yard work hat. I remember being shallow enough to shudder at photos of friends gardening on social media with that very style of hat. One silver dollar sized MOHs surgery to remove a basal cell problem on my back and I'm out there with the floppy hat doing landscaping. I have skin adapted to Northern Europe and I live at an altitude of 5,280 feet in a state with more sunny days than most.

+1 on floppy hat for yardwork. More functional and more fun than a ballcap. Haven’t owned one of those in a while; time to look into acquiring one.

losthighway wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:14 am I remember being shallow enough to shudder at photos of friends gardening on social media with that very style of hat.

A year ago I would've been the same. But starting last spring I was getting frequent ocular migraines (if you're not familiar: they're triggered by bright light, basically your vision goes all psychedelic for 15 minutes or so. Not debilitating but not fun either), and my eyes got super sensitive to light. I was going through eye drops by the gallon, and that shit's expensive. Working outside, even with sunglasses, wasn't really doable. Big stupid hat made it doable.

I like that it required migraines for you and cancer for me to compromise on our fashion principles.

Never been a hat guy. I run hot and I don’t really have the head for it to look good. I think our gracious host was known to sport a hat for a while, maybe as a poker thing. Soon after, the trilby and fedora comeback took on a gentlesir Redditor vibe, but that’s not the hats’ fault.

NC but I don’t really care because, as I mentioned, I don’t really wear them.

One of my cousins is a ren faire type, and he wears a medieval peasant hat for any occasion.

A while back I bought a used suit so I could go flying with less worry that I would be "randomly selected" for a "totally not racially-loaded extra security screening." I bought a little grey trilby to wear with it. So I used to just wear it any time I needed to dress up for anything. Eventually I ended up in a profession where it made sense to dress up, so I wore it with the business formal attire I was wearing. Last year, my mom got me a different trilby that looks like the one my grandpa used to wear. I like it. Other people like it. I wear it all the time. I figure maybe some people might judge who I am based on it, but they're assholes and can fuck off. I guess that's all I have to say.

rsmurphy wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:00 am sorry but I found more hats

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I really miss the bowler. It got destroyed on an acid trip in Grant Park. You can actually see it coming apart at the seam if you look real close.

Buncha old ass forum members in the froghat pic

You look cool as fuck in that bowler