Reply to: Why don't men wear hats anymore?

[wobbegong]

http://www.iwanttogoas.co.uk/fancy_d...8a7032a3b84113

That's ridiculous! Now this is what I call a hat!!

[Platypus]

I love hats! But convention dictates against wearing one all the time.

My 'Flat Cap' (farmer's) hat is my fave.

A wide-brimmed Barbour for when it's peeing down
http://www.theoutdoorway.co.uk/Porta...ther%20hat.jpg

A Bushman's hat for the Summer (oh I love that hat, why do people laugh so when I wear it?)

A woolly beanie when it's really cold.

A few baseball caps from when I watched motor racing.

And this one for Christmas ! (SFW) (that's not me)

[DS23]

all the hat stand companies were requisitioned to make munitions during the war. after the war they almagamated to form a division of bae. hat stands slowly dissapeared from offices through natural wastage but were not replaced. with nowhere to hang them hats became a nuisance and that is why nobody wears hats anymore.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Someone once said you can measure the health of a society by the number of eccentrics that it tolerates. On my travels, for what it's worth, I note there now many more eccentrics in Germany than there are in the UK, where everyone seems to have the same aspirational consumerist ideas.

Well observed.

[wobbegong]

Have I mentioned great uncle Bartholomew's pickelhaube?

No, or cousin Max's SS stahlhelm.

[Pogle]

In the Barbour shop on Piccadilly the other day I was tempted to buy an Andy Capp flat cap, but then thought it would make me look 10 years older and as if I was hiding a bald head, and as not many people wear them I didn't want to look too eccentric.

Oh Owlie - you were born to wear a panama

[Boudica]

are you losing your hair?

[sasguru]

In the Barbour shop on Piccadilly the other day I was tempted to buy an Andy Capp flat cap, but then thought it would make me look 10 years older and as if I was hiding a bald head, and as not many people wear them I didn't want to look too eccentric.

Someone once said you can measure the health of a society by the number of eccentrics that it tolerates. On my travels, for what it's worth, I note there now many more eccentrics in Germany than there are in the UK, where everyone seems to have the same aspirational consumerist ideas.

[OwlHoot]

In the Barbour shop on Piccadilly the other day I was tempted to buy an Andy Capp flat cap, but then thought it would make me look 10 years older and as if I was hiding a bald head, and as not many people wear them I didn't want to look too eccentric.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Anyone older than 12 should never wear a baseball cap - it identifies you as a septic idiot.

true dat.

I've just remembered. You should have seen and heard ex-mrs HAB when she found me down one of the bars chatting up a couple of septic tourists with a knotted handkerchief hat made out of a serviette and looking very much like this (that's not me).

Needless to say, I was very, very drunk.

[sasguru]

Anyone older than 12 should never wear a baseball cap - it identifies you as a septic idiot.

[Troll]

I have 2 base ball caps, 1 cow boy hat, 1 evening hat, 1 top hat, 2 fascinators and a wooly bobble hat.

I love hats

Just noticed this post was about men & hats but oh well..

Interloper

[Halo Jones]

I have 2 base ball caps, 1 cow boy hat, 1 evening hat, 1 top hat, 2 fascinators and a wooly bobble hat.

I love hats

Just noticed this post was about men & hats but oh well..

[HairyArsedBloke]

You do need to have a certain gravitas to pull off wearing an old fashioned hat. I wear a panama on holiday in tropical climes.

But I look even more stupid in a baseball cap.

I should wear a hat more than I do when I'm 'out there', but I just don't get along with them. Never bothered in the UK.

[Julius Caesar]

Never wear a hat that is more interesting than you.