and solely the preserve of middle-class London hipster **** these days
And us oldies who are trying to keep the weather off our glasses
And us baldies who live somewhere where it pretty much always bloody rains, hence my waxed cotton flat cap
I’m not trying to look like i’m out on a pheasant shoot, I just want to keep my bonce dry
I once needed some studs for a dress shirt
#accidentalpartridge
I think the last person to pull off a topper was this fella.
It's the only reason I became a civil engineer. Imagine my disappointment.
It's never too late; call the moggster to find out where he gets his.
Don't forget apricot jam - for maintenance purposes; you could instruct one of the below stairs plebs...
I am fairly sure* that a milliners is for ladies and for blokes it's a hattery.
Neither of which have been any use to me as anyhow, I appear to have an unfeasibly large bonce which means I have genuinely been into shops with hundreds of caps/hats on offer but only about 3 fit.
*it's a distant memory and Google is no help because that's just interested in telling you that you have head disease, or to buy a Pixel 6.
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Definitely head disease. Pumpkinitis - the bad type.
ooh good pedantry 👍 OED certainly agrees.I am fairly sure* that a milliners is for ladies
Can’t wait to see what OP comes out with 😀
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So what we’re faced with here is in response to somebody asking, perfectly reasonably, where to buy a flat cap, he’s being steered towards the ideal place to try on a selection of fascinators…
For a serious response I’d noticed the National Trust shops do a section of exactly the type of hats you’re after so why not go for a cream tea in the grounds of a stately home and get yourself sorted there?
He asked where to buy hats - not specifically of the flat variety.
Fascinators? Definitely not fascinating.
My wife's godfather owns this place. Think he went in to buy a hat and bought the shop?
@slowoldman He's one of the reasons I went to Brunel Uni. Imagine my surprise when I found out that engineering was a progressively smaller part of what they wanted to do.
Yes, milliners make hats for the ladies, but I thought the word sounded better. Plus, it's a modern world, right?
If @alpin is going to thrown Munich out as a hat destination, I feel obliged to point out that I got a fantastic Harris tweed flat cap from The Scottish Shop in Stockholm.
Is Brunel wearing a stovepipe hat in that pic?
I think only Jacob Rees Mogg could get away with wearing one of those in 2022, and that's just because he's a real life panto villain.
OK a stovepipe is a form of top hat apparently, presumably they fell out of fashion as motor vehicles became available as a more effective form of penis extension.
Any love for the bowler? I've always quite fancied a bowler.
Aussie bushman hat is my hat of choice - keeps the sun of my shiny head in summer and the rain off in winter.
I am fairly sure* that a milliners is for ladies and for blokes it’s a hattery.
Neither of which have been any use to me as anyhow, I appear to have an unfeasibly large bonce which means I have genuinely been into shops with hundreds of caps/hats on offer but only about 3 fit.
That is exactly the point of a milliners/hattery. They'll make one to fit any noggin.
Any love for the bowler? I’ve always quite fancied a bowler.
I always fancied a dressage hat, which is like a bowler but with a flat top, or a short top hat if you will. But I think it's only lady horsewomen who are allowed to wear them 🙁
A horsey lady yesterday.
I'm a big fan of Tom Hardy's hat in Taboo.
I expect I could carry one off quite well, being equally badass 😀
No thanks to @matt_outandabout for posting that link, I'd murder for some Harris tweed cushions and a matching handbag. Did you watch Ben Fogle's latest where he sailed to St Kilda? Was rather taken with his, possibly Harris tweed, gilet. Looked smart yet warm and functional.
You match your handbag to your cushions? Nice!
I've always wanted a genuine Fair Isle hat. The excitable Paul Murton has a lovely one
https://www.exclusivelyfairisle.co.uk/shop.php
@cinnamon_girl - have ever been to Melin Tregwynt?
Makers of lovely traditional welsh blankets plus they do cushions, bags and all sorts nowadays. Nice cycle friendly cafe too if you're ever down there.
Those fairisle hats look absolutely cracking.
I always fancied a dressage hat, which is like a bowler but with a flat top, or a short top hat if you will. But I think it’s only lady horsewomen who are allowed to wear them
No they are (or were, I think they may now be banned and helmets mandatory) by men.
Probably look nicer on horseback than a mountain bike. Actually they are quite similar to sailors' tarred hats in Napoleonic times.
You match your handbag to your cushions? Nice!
Why not? Why keep to matchy handbag and shoes?!
Makers of lovely traditional welsh blankets plus they do cushions, bags and all sorts nowadays. Nice cycle friendly cafe too if you’re ever down there.
Love those blankets! Lots of lovely things for sure and looks to be in a gorgeous setting.
Why not?
Why not indeed. I was admiring your sartorial attention to detail. If I had a hat I'd doff it.
Fair Isle knitted items have a very strong Scandinavian style, in particular Norwegian, which is appropriate, considering the strong Viking connection to the place.
My favourite style of cloth cap is the six-panel duckbill, it’s finding one that fits, now that I have little hair to pad them out.
Re Cambridge - Ede and Ravenscroft are on the corner of Silver Street and King's Parade, and they will happily sell you a lovely hat, albeit not cheaply (I do own one, and although it was spendy it is a. also excellent and b. much cheaper than the bespoke suit I was actually in there to talk about. A narrow squeak). There is another shop though, exclusively hats - Laird, in Green St.
Tbf though there are regularly nice hats at Tacky Macky's, amongst the toot, if you don't mind the hunt.
A gentleman should have a range of hats for all occasions and weathers. I have a Panama, a couple of fedoras in different colours, a sombrero ( a real one not a tourist one) a waterproof hat like a stockmans hat and several warm woolly hats in varying degrees of traditionalness.
One should never wear a baseball cap. Thats a basic rule of course
One should never wear a baseball cap.
Even if you're playing baseball?
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Do you mean cricket? Cricket has its own range of headgear. Baseball is only for colonials who don't know any better
Oh - and take your hat off indoors! that includes the in the pub!
A gentleman should have a range of hats for all occasions and weathers. I have a Panama, a couple of fedoras in different colours, a sombrero ( a real one not a tourist one) a waterproof hat like a stockmans hat and several warm woolly hats in varying degrees of traditionalness.
One should never wear a baseball cap. That's a basic rule of course
A splendid post TJ. But I'd like to put in a small defence of the humble baseball cap if I may. I do have one, a Patagonia brand basic cap. It really comes into it's own working or playing outside in high summer. In primary position (peak forward) it shields your eyes from the sun allowing you to see what you're doing, and in secondary position (peak facing backwards) it allows you to get up close to the item you're working on whilst protecting one's neck from the sun. So my rule would be: never wear a baseball cap in a restaurant with the peak to the side 🙂
@jambourgie
My great great grandfather took that photograph.
Totally useless piece of information.
jambourgie
Thats what the panama or the sombrero are for! No need to keep turning it around - you have a brim all the way round.
With a macro lens? Or are they really big chains?
My great great grandfather took that photograph.
It's a helluva photograph. Hats off to grandad!
Thats what the panama or the sombrero are for! No need to keep turning it around – you have a brim all the way round.
Yes yes ok, but clearing one's gutters up a ladder wearing a sombrero would make you look a very strange person indeed.
The chains really were that big - and Brunel was diddy.
There was a storage yard near the old Naval shipyard in Walker (between Wallsend and Newcastle) where redundant anchors and chains were kept; F me, some of them were absolutely huge.
Have a look at the archive film of the Esso Northumbria being launched at Swan Hunters in early 1970's to see the amount and size of chains used to stop it from hamnering into the opposite river bank.
You’ll be wanting Lock & co St James’s st or Bates on Jermyn st.
Then pop round to John Lobb for bespoke shoes...
Brocklehursts in Bakewell might be able to help you out. They seem to be outfitters to the country gent.
Anywhere that sells Failsworth caps.
The Harris Tweed one's are particularly nice, there's a shop in Hawes on the main street with a cracking selection.
I think only Jacob Rees Mogg could get away with wearing one of those in 2022, and that’s just because he’s a
real life panto villain.****
FTFY
but clearing one’s gutters up a ladder wearing a sombrero would make you look
like you're a Mexican doing house maintenance.
Yes yes ok, but clearing one’s gutters up a ladder wearing a sombrero would make you look a very strange person indeed.
But wearing a topper is de rigeur for a chimney sweep in Germany.
Sombrero. Not one of those fake comedy "mexican" ones but a proper traditional south american one - this shape available in straw or felt
