Photographers hat

[back alley]

my panama (made in ecuador) cost $20. cdn

what is the material they are made of?
it looks like straw but it seems very soft and smooth.

 

[Ash]

If I need it, I'll use the bowler hat I bought in Camden, it shielded my head nicely on the London outing 😀

I look silly in hats, but I really want a big straw hat ...

... but apparently straw clashes with my ginger hair 🙁

 

[dadsm3]

Straw and canvas are cheaper, but better hats are made with rabbit felt, and the best are beaver, but expect to pay big bucks for a good one.

 

[steamer]

Backalley
Panamas are handwoven from a kind of palm leaf,
These guys have the hat mermaids calling me, must be strong:

http://panamahatsdirect.com/grades.htm

 

[back alley]

they look good.

and they take paypal too!

 

[Crasis]

don't recall seeing it but today i bought a panama hat at our local 'heritage festival' and it worked great at keeping my bald head cooler and protected from the sun.

I went to the heritage festival on Saturday, so I missed you by a day. I kept on the look out for an older gent with non-digital cameras but sadly I did not see a single non-digital on my outing. Found lots of tasty food though!

 

[John Camp]

I was one of the people making fun of Tilley hats and I plan to continue to do so. I even have one so I can come home at night and mock it. Aesthetically, they are the Honda minivans of hats. We all know in our hearts that a minivan is perhaps one of the most efficient vehicles ever built for people who have to move stuff; comfortable, large interior, good gas mileage. But still...could somebody who carries a Leica drive a minivan? I think not. The same goes with Tilley hats. If you ever encounter a large Canadian/American tourist group in any Middle Eastern country, half of them will be wearing Tilley hats and the men will have canvas travel vests with water-bottle pockets. Tilley hats are the first refuge of the terminally earnest.

As for Panama hats, they're a pretty good idea as long as you're willing to grow a soul patch to go with it; that way, people will mistake you for Leon Redbone and you'll get better service. 😀

JC

 

[back alley]

the terminally earnest...i just about fell off my chair! lol!

tilley's are made in canada so it would be a matter of national pride to own and wear one.

i'm definitly gonna get the winter tilley now.

and i hate mini vans...

joe

 

[back alley]

I went to the heritage festival on Saturday, so I missed you by a day. I kept on the look out for an older gent with non-digital cameras but sadly I did not see a single non-digital on my outing. Found lots of tasty food though!

hey, who you callin' a gent?
😉

oh yeah, lots of good food and some not so bad music too.
i took about 2.5 rolls of film but i don't think i got any winners.

lots of digital cameras...

 

[tkluck]

The problem with the best head gear is that it can also make you look like a dork, or worse like a yuppie.
Panama hats? I look like an extra in "The Maltese Falcon".
Tilly hats? You look like the guy who gets eaten by a Lion in the first reel reel of a Tarzan movie.
Resistol (or Stetson, an extra $20 for the name) make the best straw hats for hot weather. Problem here is the chubby icon for a local food store also weares one: "Farmer Jack".
Favorite hat right now is a good ole genuine John Deere ball cap. Very expencive though, you have to actually buy a tractor to get them to give you one.

 

[Crasis]

hey, who you callin' a gent?
😉

oh yeah, lots of good food and some not so bad music too.
i took about 2.5 rolls of film but i don't think i got any winners.

lots of digital cameras...

I got one that I was especially happy with. I still need to print it though, which won't happen for 2 weeks as I'll be in Vancouver. Actually.. I'll borrow a film scanner from there. Actually, what would be far more fun is if we got together for coffee or something and traded a couple of prints. That'd be fun, but will have to wait till I get back if you're up for it!

 

[ray_g]

If you ever encounter a large Canadian/American tourist group in any Middle Eastern country, half of them will be wearing Tilley hats and the men will have canvas travel vests with water-bottle pockets.

Sounds like the smart thing to do when travelling in the desert.

Between the hat and m-classics bag threads, and the emphasis on "not standing out," I'll probably get a djellabah and matching turban when I travel to Morroco next year. With my Leicas, I should be invisible. 🙂

I think blending in has little to do with what kind of hat you have on or how beat up your bag looks. By the way, DAH's hat looks cool. 🙂

 

[Jason Sprenger]

Tilley, Honda, and Leica.

My style has been nailed.

Though I didn't know that I was terminal.

Quick! I need a black beret and a bug-eyed, Austin-Healey!

 

[Trius]

Am I being called a rube? A dork? Hmmm. I shoot RFs; I once owned a Leica (21 SA, 50 DR, 90 Sumicron) could well own a Leica again, shoot Toyo 4x5, prefer film over digital yet don't pan those who shoot digital when they do it wel.... I paddle a custom-freakin'-made cedar-strip canvas canoe (is that to "earnest" enough for you? Kevlar boats SUCK), eschew plebian beers for craft brews, really good wine for California plonk under some poser name, drive a Honda CR-V rather than a Daimler-Chrysler MB whatever or Ford-GM-BMW monster that furthers global warming and, yes, I wear a Tilley hat. Panama? Skimmers? Bowlers? Oh PUH-leeeze shoot me first!

 

[DougK]

I rarely wear hats, but when I do, it's my old olive drab Army-style wide-brim boonie hat. Flip the sides up, secure with the chin strap reversed over the top of the hat and you're stylin'... er, sort of. Very comfortable, they work well in the rain, and because they really have no defined shape, keeping them in shape isn't a problem.

 

[steamer]

Well I don't know you so, I have no reason to presume you are a rube or a dork, but if you put a Tilly on your head, you will look like one, and in general it's not what you wear, but how you wear it.

 

[tomtodeath]

no idea, i wear kangol hats only.

 

[w3rk5]

I rarely wear hats, but when I do, it's my old olive drab Army-style wide-brim boonie hat. Flip the sides up, secure with the chin strap reversed over the top of the hat and you're stylin'... er, sort of. Very comfortable, they work well in the rain, and because they really have no defined shape, keeping them in shape isn't a problem.

I wear one too. It's made by PROPPER. It's good and cheap. 🙂 If I'm wearing this hat while I'm shooting I usually flip the right side up and bring up the chin strap to hold it in place.

Now that I got my official RFF hat, I wear it most of the time. I have to wear it backwards when I shoot though. 🙂

 

[amateriat]

I wear one too. It's made by PROPPER. It's good and cheap. 🙂 If I'm wearing this hat while I'm shooting I usually flip the right side up and bring up the chin strap to hold it in place.

Now that I got my official RFF hat, I wear it most of the time. I have to wear it backwards when I shoot though. 🙂

Well, hey...wearing it backwards separates the serious shooters from the poseurs!😉

(Joke, folks, just joking!!!)


- Barrett

 

[clarence]

I'd wear hats, but I'm old-fashioned and I believe in taking hats off when you're indoors. The trouble is that I hate hat-hair, and the result is that I don't wear hats.

Clarence