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Are hats ever really justified? The only hats I see are worn by hipsters (unless it's for health ie. sun reasons) and really to me unnecessary clothing items = evil affectation! But, I'm an idiot. So, what do you think of the practise of wearing hats?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 12 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. I keep meaning to try to find a good hat that suits me. I've yet to find any item of clothing that suits me ever, in fact, but hats have always seemed optional, so I've not bothered.

Best hat-wearing I've seen by an ILXer award: Anna.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 January 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got one of those peaked caps like the one John Lennon wore on the cover of In His Own Write. I never wear it much though.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 12 January 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you differentiating hats and caps, or no? I thought hats were crimes again good fashion sense until I moved to the midwest. One Janauary in Chicago was all it took to cure me of that. Now I will wear any hat rather than no hat just so long as I can keep my head warm.

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Sunday, 12 January 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I think that counts as a "health reason", and by all means find the STYLINEST hat you can, or not. I've never been anywhere that cold, for long enough to change my clothes anyway. I'm kind of meaning just wearing a hat for the sake of wearing a hat, but really if anyone has tales of hatwearing to tell they should do so.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 12 January 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

What's wrong with wearing a hat for the sake of wearing a hat? Why do people wear jewellry, for instance? Hats are fine. Think of them as stylish wigs. Great hair every day.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 12 January 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Christ almighty I'll be in London week after next and now I'm gonna have to worry about whether local ilX0rs will spot my ridiculous green cap and say "good heavens that'd be a great hat if Mia Farrow were wearing it and the year was 1975

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Sunday, 12 January 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It is fucking cold here, though, so I have been wearing my non-stylish black beanie hat a lot. It keeps my eyebrows warm!

Hats on gurls = CLASSIC.

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 12 January 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I love my hats, I nearly spent £25 on a 1930's perch on top of head affair, then I realsied it wouldn't be cool and would make me look like a pretentious twat.

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 12 January 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

My great grandmother used to make hats, I remember they were all very grandiose.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 12 January 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with the observation that the only hats (aside from caps, which are worn by people who don't wash their hair at times, even by myself on occasion ahaha) I see around this warm city are worn by stylish poseur-hipsters. I SO WANT TO RIP THE STUPID BEANIES OFF THE HEADS OF THESE GARBAGE HOLLYWOOD SCENESTERS WITH THE UTMOST GLEEFUL FEROCITY SINCE I HAVE ACTUALLY LIVED IN A COLD PLACE AND KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE FROZEN EARS AND THERE IS NO REASON FOR THEM TO BE WEARING ONE WITH A TRENCH COAT WHEN IT IS 73 DEGREES OUTSIDE. Also, dud = those stupid hats on girls that are the kind worn by Ashanti in her foolish videos.

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, this whole newsie-boy-cap thing has got to end. It is *so,* like, 2001. If you see someone wearing a newsie-boy-cap, be a good samaritan and please do him (or hr) a favor: tap him or her on the shoulder and say "the trend is over, I think it's safe for you to take that ridiculous appendage off your ugly head now." They'll appreciate it, trust me.

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Hats to keep your head warm are wonderful, and it is easy to find ones that look good (woolly) but hats to keep the sun off your face, which are equally essential, are much harder to find.
My employer gave all the staff a hat for christmas but sadly it is a beanie and does not work for summer.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

one each, obviously, not one to share amongst us

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

yr employer hates fun isadora

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

What kinda hats were those that the guys in the Joboxers worse? Man them were some right smart hats, there.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't get too cold here in the winter, but it does get really, really windy by the water, so I wear a knit wool hat when I'm out walking just to keep my hair out of my face. It's too short to put in a pony tail, but just long enough to blow into my eyes.

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 13 January 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew, are all your clothes chosen strictly for their insulating or protective qualities? Do you hate fun?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 13 January 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Sun visors as worn by American football coaches, chainsmoking journalists and golf-crazy Florida retirees = classic

Other kinds of hats as worn by people without cold heads = depends on the person but in my case and 99.32% of cases, total fucking dud, don't waste yr time.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 13 January 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone mostly chooses my clothes for me. But y'know, you do NEED a shirt, so why not pick a nice one? I don't actually need a hat, though. It might just be that I don't want any extra clothesbuying effort.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 January 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

My stripey pseudo Gap hat is grebt - especially because it helps keep my headphones smooshed right to my ears. The music actually sounds better with it on. I have a brown one too, but it likes to jump into puddles instead of staying on my head.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 13 January 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to veer off from the hats thing, but hey Andrew, last weekend I have been wearing a green ribbon. One day I just carried it around but then I took to tying it to one of my trouser loops - I liked the colour and how it fluttered around. I didn't buy the ribbon for the purpose, I just had it. So, let's say if you saw me, do you think my ribbon-wearing would've irritated you? I'm just curious, though yes I do fervently wish never to be taken as a "hipster"/desperate(or at all eager)-to-appear-cool person.

Being from Dunedin I have only just now (having moved to a warmer place) re-entered the world of not wearing hats all the time and I'm really enjoying it. Issadora's boss giving beanie hats midsummer is insane!

― spectra, Monday, 13 January 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Anna: ... a 1930's perch on top of head affair, then I realsied it wouldn't be cool...

How can you say that?

http://cnet.windsor.ns.ca/Environment/Advocates/Anim/perch.gif

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Shh, don't want those pesky stylist people to take my fish-hat idea away.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

1930s perches were so much cooler than the rubbish contemporary ones, btw.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Duh-uh! Like, totally.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

it's all about the hats (or a bit, anyway). best way of reviewing tv shows and films is in terms of hats. however this should not be taken as meaning that period dramas rule.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Today's perch is a far inferior product. They've gone soft, not nearly as fierce as they used to be.

I like hats by the way, wooly and baseball, the latter are especially good at keeping the rain off my glasses.

― chris (chris), Monday, 13 January 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Spectra--- it might have, I'm pretty easily annoyed (mostly I think because I kind of enjoy it), but it would've depended on what else you were wearing. If it was a whole focussed cutesy-type outfit I might've been bugged, if it was isolated I probably would've liked it fine. Wearing an actual fish on yr head would be even better, though.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 January 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Vic and Andrew,Stop your hatism right now!! Perhaps you need to find the right Bowler or Headcoat that speaks to you...

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

All of Anna's hat ideas are nice.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/hat/ for hats of the future

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Is the balaclava here a good color?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on, it's real cold here!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the colour!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

what's it for?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

My head.

I think I will buy it now, thanx Greg!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

that's not a colour. it's like a shade or something.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it is a very pale, dark green.

but what is it for?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

mugging old ladies

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hat:

http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/graphics/product_images/pG01-1027488reg.jpg

These are always allowed.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Also this:

http://www.urbanaddiction.com/chappelle/DaveChapelle.jpg

I love those.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

My head.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/000C/im/hats.jpg

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_edin_t/0_edinburgh_transport_trams_pilrig_tram_and_crowd.jpg

http://www.rowfant.demon.co.uk/moncrowd1.jpg

http://www.mch.govt.nz/history/project/images/vote.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that's some hat right there.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a wide brimmed hat, like the ahmish might wear.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i bet those people weren't hipsters.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

They're all just following the crowd.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cyber-cinema.com/gallery/Stingthe.jpg

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Sunday, 17 October 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Is the open part of a balaclava not supposed to be stretchy? I.e. is it not possible to pull it off the top of the crown of my head yet keeping it covering my face while wearing it?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

What the hell are you on about? You want to pull off the top of your head? Is this correct?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Like a hoodie, except I'm still wearing it on my face, like it's just a mask.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Nope, still don't get what you mean.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

There's a good reason for this hat.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:flj3nQt9rd0J:http://www.mygayweb.com/shop/prod_large/10162-0300.jpg

― Super, Friday, 5 November 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

As in the top left example. I'm wearing the balaclava normally, but now I decide I want to pull the top part up and off my crown, yet without removing it from my face.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)

that's like totally a snood, not a balaclava, shurley...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

But can a balaclava do the same thing?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago)

um, no, cos it's all like sewn up the sides usually...

a snood is basically just a tube, whereas a balaclava, um, isn't...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Ah, thanks. I should've gotten this then.

― Leeeter van dog Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I want to bring back the acceptability of wearing tophats.

But I need some good suits for that.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Leee, I think you'll get arrested if you try to pull a dog over your head.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Only in the South.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

I wear hats a lot now. I'm not losing my hair and my head isn't cold, I just don't care what people think anymore. I'll use any fucking excuse to wear a hat, and once they're on I don't like taking them off (it's always unpredictable what my hair will look like then, and I feel vulnerable). So I just keep my hat on.

― Kornblud (admrl), Sunday, 16 February 2014 22:54 (eleven years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_headgear

― fit and working again, Sunday, 16 February 2014 22:56 (eleven years ago)

i don't really get how vicious opposition to hats came to be the ilx party line.

― james franco, Sunday, 16 February 2014 23:57 (eleven years ago)

Strident standpoint on the pros and cons of washing them.

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 17 February 2014 10:30 (eleven years ago)

I have a nice brown leather Stetson type thing from Ecuador. It tends to keep the rain off for the circumference of the brim but also catches the wind for the same reason. But I love it when it ain't too windy.

Had an Australian Bush hat in brown leather before that but kept washing it in the washing machine when it got sweaty. Did that until the leather ripped along where the hat band goes.

Also got a short brown top hat cos it was going to be too hot to be wearing leather during the summer. For the same reason I got a floppy brown suede one too, but it was even more prone to being lifted off my head by the wind.

Would love a trilby and a homburg.

― Stevolende, Monday, 17 February 2014 12:32 (eleven years ago)

Trilby warning: u will be tarred with the "fedora bro" brush forevermore!

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 04:25 (eleven years ago)

I hate hats because they make me sweaty and make my hair look dumb, and also there's no reason for them

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 04:27 (eleven years ago)

They are defs the most satisfying thing to knit; turn one out in a couple weeknights over phone chats or TV. I have made myself at least 10 beanies of varying fanciness but it's 86º F in Tucson. There's no need for them and no one I know wants to wear a hat. I just keep turning them out for the sake of meaningless completion. @Mordy I hope your daughter enjoyed her hats.

― lord of the files (Crabbits), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:11 (eleven years ago)

It has to be really, really cold for me to feel like a hat is necessary for warmth, like probably 10 degrees F or lower.

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:15 (eleven years ago)

I love hats and I love anyone with the unselfconsciousness to wear them – if it can be called such, a snapback is just not a thing. I love the wide crazy range of haberdashery presented to women throughout the years. Hard to hate any. Favorite is the big floppy wide brim felt hat that I think of as "the Joni Mitchell hat" (eg CLASSIC)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gscE_cDNk5A/SmTN3-8-Z2I/AAAAAAAAASk/e2XYeV_6vOY/s400/Floppy%2BHat.jpg

― lord of the files (Crabbits), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:17 (eleven years ago)

Like for the person with the SUPERNATURAL CONFIDENCE to wear it a hat is such a marker of it

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/Hats%20-%20Erykah%20Badu.jpg

― lord of the files (Crabbits), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:20 (eleven years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MZJ2tsUwP0I/TeU4dIz4QVI/AAAAAAAAAHk/oOubzg-86Uo/s1600/dynasty-joan-collins-1.jpg

― lord of the files (Crabbits), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:21 (eleven years ago)

I like wearing hats, and headpieces, and stuff in my hair like floral doohickeys.

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 06:13 (eleven years ago)

@Mordy I hope your daughter enjoyed her hats.

both my daughters did!

― Mordy , Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:17 (eleven years ago)

I fucking love hats, and I own a billion of them and wear most of them (I am wearing a hat right now, in fact!) all the time and I would wear more, except for the fact that I live in Britain, and the wind blows the freaking hats right off my head. I need to invest in some way - hat pin? sewn in elastic band? - which keep the fuckers on me. Anything with a brim, forget it. I have this amazing Bowie-esque blue velvet squishy thing, and a straw boater i never wear (I managed to get away with a boater 24/7 in LA because there is no weather there, in fact, I needed it to stop from just lobstering out in the sun) because any wind just... forget it.

Where is the line between a fedora and a trilby?

There's this scene in Wings of Desire where Peter Falk tries on 8 thousand hats looking for the perfect one, and that would so be me, if Dudebros hadn't ruined fedoras forever.

― ~Autotelic Fabulousity~ (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:56 (eleven years ago)

Ah, I see. The Fedora is the one with the wider brim.

― ~Autotelic Fabulousity~ (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:59 (eleven years ago)

six years pass...

nice hat dork

― j., Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:14 (five years ago)

I'm old and bald and I even wear a fleece beanie in bed sometimes. I may be a dork. No, I certainly am a dork, but my head stays warm and I sleep better.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 01:07 (five years ago)

I just want to wear large women’s straw hats all the time

― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 03:12 (five years ago)

ambiguous modifier, it’s the hats that are large

― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 03:13 (five years ago)

well the rest of the woman is probably proportionally as large as the head for the hat so

― j., Wednesday, 11 March 2020 03:14 (five years ago)

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/Hebd1d4523f5a4aaaa0f65cc3ad6ab223X/Fashion-Big-Sun-Hat-Beach-Hat-Anti-uv-Sun-Protection-Folding-Straw-Cap-Women-2019-summer.jpg

a little too big but you get the idea

― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:02 (five years ago)

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