OT - Hats?

[polaski]

Baseball hats without logos can be found at JJ Hat in NYC. So can fedoras. (You can get a top hat there, if you wish.)

www.jjhatcenter.com/

The real kick is going actually going there.

 

[W Morgan]

Baseball hats without logos can be found at JJ Hat in NYC. So can fedoras. (You can get a top hat there, if you wish.)

www.jjhatcenter.com/

The real kick is going actually going there.

Thanks, Polaski - actually I just go to small shops that do team embroidery & whatnot and buy a "blank"...

 

[visiondr]

Wear hats all you like. Make them part of your daily wardrobe.
But If I ever see you in a restaurant eating with your hat on (even a fast food joint), I'll immediately conclude that you're a boor and have no idea about basic manners.

 

[rover]

Hats on heads in restaurants are so common in rural S.E. Texas that I don't even notice them any more. I'm from a different generation, though, and never wear my hat inside.

Different generation indeed. Though I guess I technically am too young to remeber those old days, I too always take off my hat indoors.

Interesting thing about this. I was fortunate to be invited to a golf event at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club last October. The club house and lodge are very traditionally, classic masculine designed. All hard woods and darker colors inside. The resort has a "proper golf attire" dress code and specifically states that hats are not to be worn inside any of the facilities. Yes, Arnold is old school, but it is a shame that had to be stated as I am sure there were many guys coming off the course sitting in the restaurant keeping their Titlist cap on while eating.

 

[visiondr]

I realize I'm tilting at windmills here. In the casual - I don't dive a damn what you think - times we live in, old fashioned or quaint ideas of civil behavior are just about lost. Then again, as long as we treat each other civilly, I guess that's what matters.

Now, back to hats...

 

[rogue_designer]

There was a great sign in a Pool hall I liked (sadly closed now).

"Gentlemen will remove their hats. Everyone else must."

My dad grabbed a shot of me in my hat over the last weekend.

 

[Peter_Jones]

I reckon a hat is a lot more sociable than those nuisance umbrellas - ever been poked in the eye by one ? It smarts.


I like to wear a hat (Aussie style waxed cotton) whenit's raining heavily, but I feel self-conscious in one. People are too used to seeing baseball caps at odd angles, anything else gets odd looks.

 

[visiondr]

There was a great sign in a Pool hall I liked (sadly closed now).

"Gentlemen will remove their hats. Everyone else must."

My dad grabbed a shot of me in my hat over the last weekend.

Great quote and great shot. You look very cool. Somehow this photo needs a lit cigarette in one hand and a haughty, curvy dame at your side.

 

[sherm]

There was a great sign in a Pool hall I liked (sadly closed now).

"Gentlemen will remove their hats. Everyone else must."

My dad grabbed a shot of me in my hat over the last weekend.

Rogue,

Great picture!! I know that we talked about it earlier but, hats can evoke GAS just like cameras so....... here's the link to Optimo when you are ready for your next one or maybe a "summer straw" http://www.optimohats.com/

Keep wearing them!!

 

[kuzano]

I feel the hat should fit the camera.....

I feel the hat should fit the camera.....

And since I have a lot of camera's I have a lot of hats.

When I take my Holga abroad, I have one of those clown hats with the upturned brim
and red ball at the top.

When I take my Leica out, I have a reproduction of the Pope's mitre.

In between, I have a cowboy hat or three, a dark blue wool Ivy League cap, half a dozen baseball caps... One is so well worn the cap is blue but the bill is black with finger oil.

The Ivy league is great because it's relatively warm, stately looking, and when I put my camera up to my eye, I automatically flip it, bill to the back, looking somewhat like Barney Oldfield at speed, or one of the bowery boys.

 

[projectbluebird]

Finally!

Finally!

I keep meaning to get a shot of me in my hat for this thread... and forgetting. So instead I've done up a little sketch of me with all my apparel from another era.


From top to bottom:
fedora (grey w/black band)
Leica M3 w/50 'lux v1
Navy pea-coat authentic
Billilngham Hadley pro, not exactly vintage, but built to last!

Not pictured:
1920's rolled silver redipoint pencil (one of several) usually in my pocket.
Used to draw this picture, incidentally.

-edit-
I liked it so much, it's now my avatar!

 

[rover]

one of the bowery boys.

Sunday mornings, NY channel 5 or 9, I forget.

After church we would watch Abbott & Costello, the Bowery Boys, Creature Feature and Tarzan.

Nobody my age remembers the Bowery Boys, that was my childhood leading into a big Sunday family meal.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

I want one of those Afghan wool hats as seen in a photo of Steve McCurry in the back of National Geographic this month.

I have one of those, straight from Afghanistan. My daughter's boyfriend is stationed there and I made him send me one.

Every now and then, I wear it out in public just to freak the family out....

 

[Rick Waldroup]

The only hat I really ever wear is a freebie given out at a Dallas Cowboys football game, over 15 years ago.

People have seen me wearing it so many times that it was actually returned to me two different times when I lost it.

It has been washed so many times and it is so faded but it keeps on living. I don't know if it will ever die.

 

[craygc]

i shave my head so I need something to cover it if Im outside for extended periods. However, I cant stand photographing while wearing anything with a brim - I always lose shots that I perceive to be a vertical as the camera hits the brim as I lift it to my eye. These days I usually go out with a bandanna, much easier!

 

[nksyoon]

Stanley Greene in Perpignan.

http://www.noorimages.com/index.php?id=stanleygreene

 

[etrigan63]

I wear baseball caps but would truly like a nice well-made brown fedora. The trick is finding one in my size (macrocephalic git that I am).

 

[bmattock]

On hats:

Popular hat styles for men include caps, fedora, cowboy, toque, beret, and flat cap (aka driver's cap).

First of all, a baseball cap is properly worn, if one must wear them, with the bill forward, as it was designed (to keep the sun out of a baseball player's eyes). Habitually wearing them backwards outside of the age of college boys is saying to the world - hey look, I'm an idiot. Thanks for the warning, though. I do appreciate that part.

A fedora is a hat style. A Stetson is a brand, its style is 'cowboy'. Get it right. And while I'm on the subject of personal dress and misuse of terms, 'khaki' is a color - the pants style is called 'chino'. One has a pair of chinos in khaki, not a pair of khakis. And the beard style so popular with geeks and nerds is not a 'goatee' but a 'Van Dyke'. A goatee does not have the mustache connected to the beard. A Van Dyke does. Again, get it right. OK, end of rant there.

The best fedoras are properly made by Borsalino. They also make very nice flat caps.

Because I am an uncouth American with very little sense of style or fashion, I normally wear a baseball cap, and when I am about to turn my camera lengthwise to portrait orientation, I spin my baseball cap around and wear it like a lout.

In the winter in Michigan, I often have to wear a touque. No worries, my wife knitted it for me from Alpaca and it is quite warm. No brim to get in the way of the camera.

I have a nice fedora and a flat cap, both made by Borsalino, which I wear when it makes sense to do so.

I am quite bald, so wearing a hat is more-or-less an imperative.

I would not wear a beret if I were given the choice between it and a painful sunburn on top of my head. People who wear berets by choice (and not as part of a military or police uniform) should be shot out of canons into the nearest large body of water.

All other hat choices are acceptable. I wish the fez would make a comeback. I look stunning in a fez.

My list of baseball caps is quite large, but I prefer the khaki-colored one which I got at Gettysburg College, which lists the name of their sports team - the Bullets. It gives peaceniks conniptions, which is just a positive for me.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

On hats:

Popular hat styles for men include caps, fedora, cowboy, toque, beret, and flat cap (aka driver's cap).

First of all, a baseball cap is properly worn, if one must wear them, with the bill forward, as it was designed (to keep the sun out of a baseball player's eyes). Habitually wearing them backwards outside of the age of college boys is saying to the world - hey look, I'm an idiot. Thanks for the warning, though. I do appreciate that part.

A fedora is a hat style. A Stetson is a brand, its style is 'cowboy'. Get it right. And while I'm on the subject of personal dress and misuse of terms, 'khaki' is a color - the pants style is called 'chino'. One has a pair of chinos in khaki, not a pair of khakis. And the beard style so popular with geeks and nerds is not a 'goatee' but a 'Van Dyke'. A goatee does not have the mustache connected to the beard. A Van Dyke does. Again, get it right. OK, end of rant there.

The best fedoras are properly made by Borsalino. They also make very nice flat caps.

Because I am an uncouth American with very little sense of style or fashion, I normally wear a baseball cap, and when I am about to turn my camera lengthwise to portrait orientation, I spin my baseball cap around and wear it like a lout.

In the winter in Michigan, I often have to wear a touque. No worries, my wife knitted it for me from Alpaca and it is quite warm. No brim to get in the way of the camera.

I have a nice fedora and a flat cap, both made by Borsalino, which I wear when it makes sense to do so.

I am quite bald, so wearing a hat is more-or-less an imperative.

I would not wear a beret if I were given the choice between it and a painful sunburn on top of my head. People who wear berets by choice (and not as part of a military or police uniform) should be shot out of canons into the nearest large body of water.

All other hat choices are acceptable. I wish the fez would make a comeback. I look stunning in a fez.

My list of baseball caps is quite large, but I prefer the khaki-colored one which I got at Gettysburg College, which lists the name of their sports team - the Bullets. It gives peaceniks conniptions, which is just a positive for me.

I can just imagine you in a fez......

 

[KoNickon]

The Gettysburg Bullets? Really? Not the Minie Balls?

Anyway, seeing a ballcap worn inside (like at a restaurant) drives me nuts. Usually it's worn by some guy who's old enough to know better; usually it has a golfing logo on it. The guy might, to really complete the look, have his Bluetooth headset growing out of his ear.

A coworker and I were discussing hats the other day. He had no idea what a fedora was. It took a few minutes for him to know what I meant. But then, he's in his early 30s and doesn't remember the old days when all men who worked in offices had a brimmed hat they wore every day.