[Closed] What fancy hat?

One very fancy hat that would definitely look out of place at a baseball game.

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Good start, MW.

Has one tried a fascinator?

Don't struggle with hats, dude... Start with a beginner's hat - a beanie, maybe - and assert your mastery over said hat from day one. NEVER let your hat control you. Remember, you are a human and your hat is just a hat.

When this first step is mastered, move on to more complex and frisky hats.

Do not begin your hat phase with a Stetson or fedora. That way madness lies.

This one is quite fancy:

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I have a Fedora from [url= http://www.hatsandcaps.co.uk/ ]here[/url] and very nice it is too.

I also have an Australian Akubra and a flat cap...

Lets narrow this down.

Are you from the North?
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or are you from the South?

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Or maybe you're not English at all, Scottish?
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Welsh?
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Possibly of Nordic origin?
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Dang, that's a fancy Homburg... I can really see that working with my New Biggles 'tache. 😀

French Hat?

An oversize Rastafarian Tam, stuffed with socks and worn centrally on the top of your lovely bonce could be a good place to start..

The Rastamouse look..

Winner

What's wrong with baseball caps for men in the summer? Nice big peaks keep sun from your eyes

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I saw a chap wearing one of these at Waterloo Station a couple of weeks ago. To his credit he carried it off pretty well.

Taking the pith?

http://www.petoffice.co.jp/catprin/english/

dannybgoode - Member
I have a Fedora from here and very nice it is too.

That [url= http://www.hatsandcaps.co.uk/ ]website[/url] is pretty dangerous, now looking at trilbies to go with my summer Tilley hat. And the freebie straw hat I got for drinking too much beer.

Some hat tips [url= http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/05/28/the-perfect-hat-for-your-ugly-mug/ ]here[/url]
Maybe something with ostrich feathers ...

My girlfrinend has a pink cowboy hat that I could try, I guess.

I just don't feel comfortable with a baseball or trucker cap. I feel like I'm pretending to be something I'm not. What I am, is a Welshman, so I think I have my answer above, thanks to MW again.

Whatever it is, just avoid those leather Australian waterproof thingies.
A clear indication of a complete c***/B**h rugby fan (same thing 😀 )

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I like a baseball cap as long as its not one of those silly oversized ones with the size label and price tags left on.. WTF all that about anyway?

My girlfrinend has a pink cowboy hat that I could try, I guess.

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Akubra The Territory - to keep the sun off, practical and good.
http://www.akubra.com.au/products_country.html

Ah, mikewsmith, may I refer you to wrecker's point a few posts back..

[quote=yunki ]Ah, mikewsmith, may I refer you to wrecker's point a few posts back..

Yes but if we all listened to Wrecker....

Keeps the sun off my head and neck, great thing. I'm also living in Oz so much more acceptable.

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Edit - Or one of these
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Take the advice of the bard, Rabbie Burns, and "cock up your beaver"

Some fancy plumage brightens any mans headgear.

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Avoid traditional ballcaps by sporting a military-style cap.
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Avoid traditional ballcaps by sporting a military-style cap.

Is the sensitive caring man look obligatory?

Yes but if we all listened to Wrecker....

An Australian hat in Australia is acceptable. Coupled with a barbour and hunter wellies in the home counties; definitive c***.

Is the sensitive caring man look obligatory?

Look closer. Notice, it's Jonathan Trott pulling his 'damn, I just got out' face...

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Barhma Squashy for the summer sun

http://www.barmahhats.com.au/squashy.asp

EDIT: even if wrecker doesn't agree (although I do agree about the wellies and Barbour)

camo16 - Member
Dang, that's a fancy Homburg... I can really see that working with my New Biggles 'tache.

How's yours going Camo?

How's yours going Camo?

Not to shabby, Pinkster - I'm about 85% Selleck, but obviously nothing like your abundant 'tache magnificence! Still, there's some nice width going on now, which makes for good twirling!

To my shame, I actually was looking at...

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...a snip 😯 on eBay for £45!

I reckon it's just the hat for my 'tache - but can anyone seriously stroll about in a Homburg in 2013?

Can't beat a good twirl. 😉

but can anyone seriously stroll about in a Homburg in 2013?

I'm currently considering a beret.

Not Frank Spencer stylee before anyone comments

nothing specific wrecker but this place is not somewhere anybody should take fashion advice from 🙂

Wearing appropriate clothing for the situation is fine, barbour and hunters in the UK is OK on the farm - that you own. Cleans up better when shooting and plucking pheasants (or what ever that sounds like)

Is the sensitive caring man look obligatory?

I think he's looking down at a bug he just squished.

If you have the confidence you can carry off anything on your head.

Well, I am a self-confessed hat lover.

In the past I've worn Berets with Gallic panache, military caps with 'nam vet flair and my stetson gets a rare outing, always at a jaunty angle a la Douglas Fairbanks in The Gaucho... but I worry that a Homburg may be beyond even my hat-wearing confidence...

Mind you, it worked for Winston:

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Not Frank Spencer stylee before anyone comments

So you'll be going for the Benny Hill look then:

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I've ditched the baseball cap in favour of the cloth duck-bill six panel hat. Enough peak to keep the sun and rain off my specs, and comfy with it. I have a wax-cotton look one made by Stetson, as it happens.

So you'll be going for the Benny Hill look then:

Baseball caps don't suit me at all. Many years ago I turned to one of [url= http://www.tilley.com/The-T3-Cotton-Duck-Hat.aspx?id=10CD03HT0T31071 ]these[/url].
lots of sun cover. Stays on in windy weather. Keeps the rain off.
[edit] and my children are still young enough to walk with me when I wear it.
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Aaarghhh yes those ****tish Australian style hats with immaculate long waxy coats and Hunters - nothing says "Twunt" more loudly and I will soon be seeing many on my way to work and trying to restrain myself from bursts of Tourettes.

Homburgs are the coolest headgear ever - and that's a fact.

@ononeorange. <indignant>Canadian style!</indignant>. It lacks the leather and cork of the Australian ones.

[url= http://www.jillcorbett.com/ ]Jill Corbett[/url]

My dark brown leather pork pie hat is totally amazing.
I wear it constantly and after a few years, it's still in
first class condition.
It took a few months to break in mind..

Phwoaaaaarrr, those Jill Corbett hats are funking ace!

How about a kepi from the US Civil War? Both sides wore them.

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And no one has mentioned the propeller beanie!

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Rocketdog, yesterday...

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Sorry pretty polly. Canadian then!

Hats. Very prescient. I too am a terrible hat wearer and need advice, not so much for me but for my dad who's lost his hair this week due to his chemo. And I am his double, ergo if I look like a tw#t in a hat, so does he.

I can manage a baseball cap, but have mixed feelings. They are useful to keep the rain off my glasses, but I feel they should be principally confined to sporting use. But then Pete oxygenthief Doherty* pointed out 'there is no more distressing sight than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap'

*good songs, utter twunt

and while i kind of agree, because he said it I feel compelled to go against it. But a baseball cap on a 75 year old - really?

I can manage a beanie, but it has to be pulled down low because I have ears like a taxi with both doors open. And if I don't pull it right down, I look 'sunshine coach chic' (apologies, my wife's words, not mine, and no offence meant). And again, while a 75 year old can wear a beanie, it's 25 degrees out there....

So the only other hat that vaguely suited me was my daughter's summer holiday hat which was about a fiver from Accessorise, and looks like it was nicked off a beach front donkey. Including having had the brim chewed. Unfortunately it's too small and has a big pink flower on, and while there are male equivalents, it makes me look a bit 'fixie rider on holiday'

So I shall study some of these links and see if there's anything that might work. If you buy on line and look like a taunt, are they returnable (assuming so, they're not like underwear are they)

Those Ozzy leather hats are very popular amongst the hairy biker brigade too, so be careful branding them as the preserve of the home counties c**** 😉

Hence why I have one - they pack into luggage damn well!

I also have an Akubra Snowy River which is rather fine, an Akubra Traveller which is almost as good for taking on the bike as the squishy Barmah but tends to take 24 hours to return to shape properly after being crammed into the motorbike luggage, a dodgy straw cowboy hat (bought for a beach wedding in California) and... pride of prides... a rather lovely [url= http://www.adventurebiltdeluxe.com/ ]Adventurebilt[/url] Fedora which my brother bought me a few years back, although I really need to get that back for some repairs at some stage!

Hats are ace!

Thinking that a waxed cotton military cap and perhaps a trapper hat may be useful this winter though....

theotherjonv, I think you need to post a picture of yourself and/or father so that the STW Photoshop wizards can [s]give us all a laugh[/s] show you what you'd look like in different styles of hat!

ps, all the best to your Dad

Aaarghhh yes those ****tish Australian style hats with immaculate long waxy coats and Hunters - nothing says "Twunt" more loudly and I will soon be seeing many on my way to work and trying to restrain myself from bursts of Tourettes.

😀
Glad I'm not the only one. Why does it get on my nerves?
I just googled porkpie hats as they seemed fairly unoffensive.
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Mind changed. Black wooly number in winter is as far as I'll go. Not very daring; I know.

I have a couple of nice Kangol hats