Reply to: Do you wear a hat ?

[Hawkeye]

I have lots of beanie hats, some baker boy hats and some cloche hats.

[RichardCranium]

I wear the best hat in the world. A Tilley hat.

[TimberWolf]

I bought a £1 hat from the Pound shop last year but haven't used it yet this year.

A bit off topic, but about 6 months ago I bought a new bicycle seat from a proper bike shop. Unbelievably, it soaks up the rain like a sponge. WTF. You'd think people that make seats for a living would be able to design a seat that doesn't soak up rain. There's a seam of stitches running along the edge of the seat, where water gets in and now the foam (or whatever padding is inside) is waterlogged. So I get a wet arse even on dry days (the bike is stored outside and I can't be bothered with a bike/seat cover). It will probably be mid-summer before it dries out (if ever) sufficiently that I can waterproof the seam in some way. Preferably I would like to waterproof it without buying expensive waterproofing stuff. I wonder what would work best? Rub a candle along the seam?

[Zippy]

I wear a furry hat when it's cold and a kangaroo skin bush hat when spectating at horsey events.

[Pondlife]

Black wolly hat when it's super cold.

Cap, only on holidays where there's absolutely no shade or I'm reading

Hard hat for work (no pencil but with eye protectors.)

[Jeebo72]

Bucket hat, prob cos I still want to be in the Stone Roses, milling about a field circa 1989 connecting with people.

[thunderlizard]

As a northerner I got my first tweed flat cap around the age of 6 and never lost the habit. It folds nicely into a jacket inside pocket for the rare occasions it's not drizzling.
Panama occasionally in summer.

[Tingles]

Panama in the tropics / foreign climes - Sidney Greenstreet.

Bluf or beanie in the winter - I look like a scally.

and a waxed hat with brim in the rain - country walks, to the pub - like a Barbour ad.

[ilovehr]

Tanned or untanned - Kangaroos stink!!!

And so do Koalas for that matter......this came as a great surprise to me when I was lukcy enough to meet up with a couple at the Zoo in Sydney.

They smell a little like eucalyptus cough sweets mixed with cigar smoke......

[Boudica]

.....but it does stink of Kangaroo....

tanned kangaroo?

LOL

[ilovehr]

I have a couple of wooly hats for cold weather and a leather bushmans hat for when it's pissing it down / stupidly hot and sunny. Wide brim keeps the rain / sun off nicely, being leather it doesn't leak and the vent holes keep your head cool when it's too hot.

I approve most emphatically of your choice!

I bought a Kangaroo Leather bushmans hat in Canberra earlier this year. It's waterproof, sunproof, folds up into a lovely linen bag for travel and makes me look a little like Hugh Jackman (in my opinion, not shared by anyone else)....

.....but it does stink of Kangaroo....

[NotAllThere]

A black woolly hat during colder weather.

[Boudica]

Woolly hat to protect hair from wind. Man I am seeing wore a hat over on the weekend, was kind of cute, looked like a teacosy.

[DaveB]

I have a couple of wooly hats for cold weather and a leather bushmans hat for when it's pissing it down / stupidly hot and sunny. Wide brim keeps the rain / sun off nicely, being leather it doesn't leak and the vent holes keep your head cool when it's too hot.

[BlackenedBiker]

Just bought a tweed flat cap, as in John Wayne in The Quiet Man.

I love it, but I do get ribbed for wearing it.