Do you wear a hat?

[eagle_bearer]

Whether you choose to cover your head with a fedora, a trilby, a Stetson, or even a sombrero, a hat has many uses. For starters, they're stylish. Many a head will turn if you stride down the street with a dapper hat. They can also be doffed to show respect for an achievement or to curry favour with a winsome lady. Then there's the novelty factor. Even the most miserly can't help but raise a smile when they see those Australian hats with the dangly bits of cork. Perhaps most useful of all is the ability to keep an item underneath your hat. Do you wear a hat?

[Buelligan]

Yes.  If it's raining hard and I have to walk a long way, like to work for instance, I wear an ancient waterproof stetson.  If it's extremely hot and it gets extremely hot here, and I have to walk a long way, like to work or doing the vendange or something, I wear an ancient straw stetson.  Sometimes, if it's snowing and very cold, I wear a lovely tweed cap, belonged to an old friend, it's a bit big but it's beautiful.  I also have an incredibly stylish stylised 40's fedora, the most beautiful plummish pinky-red colour, that belonged to my grandmother, she wore a lot of hats.  I don't wear it outside but I put it on sometimes and think about her.

[imitationleather]

No, of course not.

[jobotic]

Never, other than a woolly hat in the winter.

Been thinking I should now I'm nearly fifty. A baseball cap or one of those trucker ones, with a Harley logo on it.

[Ray Travez]

I've mentioned before my millinery proclivities. I have a history of hat wearing. In my teens it was a green felt pork pie I bought in Age Concern. Loved that hat. In my twenties I started wearing bandanas, eventually just a plain black one that I made from a sheet I found in a skip. I must have worn a bandana for about 15 years. One time a kid shouted 'Eminem!' at me in the street. I look nothing like Eminem. The only drawback with wearing a bandana is that people assume u are bald and possibly also having chemo.

Now I mostly wear a black corduroy baker's boy/ 8-piece cap. After all these years I feel weird without a hat on in public, like I've gone out wearing only one shoe.

[Butchers Blind]

Woolly hat in winter and maybe a truckers cap in the summer for shade but any other hat on me looks odd.

[Endicott]

I discovered years ago that if I spend all day out in the sun I get sun stroke, so I have a Tilly outback hat for hiking, and a baseball cap for long distance roof down drives.

Also a woolly hat (no bobble, I'm not a cunt) for when it's cold.

The idea of wearing a hat for style when going out socialising has never appealed to me. Actually thinking back I had a phase around 30 when I thought I looked great in a taqiyah.



Reader, I was wrong.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

Normally just a woolly hat in winter for me too, but I acquired one of these a couple of years ago for when it's really freezing (which let's face it, it hardly ever is).



For his birthday I got my mate a genuine Soviet army issue peaked cap, complete with red hammer and sickle emblem, which he now wears everywhere and really divides opinion in his village. I wouldn't normally wear anything even vaguely resembling a baseball cap but based on Dan's feedback I'm tempted to get one for myself.

[Pink Gregory]

Sadly, I am afflicted with a massive head and if a hat will fit it necessitates it being so large as to look ludicrous, like a man in a giant comedy hat.

The greatest tragedy is that I cannot wear the paper hats out of the christmas crackers.

[dead-ced-dead]

I have an abnormally large head. No hats fit me other than woolly hats and I hate woolly hats.

[Sebastian Cobb]

beanie in winter
crash helmet on bike
beanie under crash helmet in winter on bike

[Better Midlands]

The idea of wearing a hat for style when going out socialising has never appealed to me. Actually thinking back I had a phase around 30 when I thought I looked great in a taqiyah.



Reader, I was wrong.

I knew a cunt guy who wore one of those in the early 90's - he liked acid jazz.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

I've been leaning heavily into my northern heritage, and sporting flat caps for years now. Linen in warmer climes, and a fetching slate tweed now it's turned autumnal. They keep your head warm and dry, fold up to fit in your pocket, won't get blown off in high winds and, most crucially of all[nb] assuming you overlook the pleasing spoonerism for now[/nb], they are not baseball caps.

[seepage]

I discovered years ago that if I spend all day out in the sun I get sun stroke, so I have a Tilly outback hat for hiking, and a baseball cap for long distance roof down drives.

Also a woolly hat (no bobble, I'm not a cunt) for when it's cold.

The idea of wearing a hat for style when going out socialising has never appealed to me. Actually thinking back I had a phase around 30 when I thought I looked great in a taqiyah.



Reader, I was wrong.

IIRC these were quite popular in the early 80s. Bloke I knew made bespoke ones while skiving off sick on full pay from British Rail.

[Dex Sawash]

Fleece beanie (black) for winter,  bought from kids department tobe sure it doesn't come too far over my ears.
Unstructured nylon baseball hat for other 3 seasons.
Seattle Sombrero for outdoor activities/sailing/paddling have a goretex one and a plain nylon.



Have 1 boat that is too fast for a hat with a brim so wear one of those UPF50 sun balaclavas on that.

[Norton Canes]

Sadly, I am afflicted with a massive head and if a hat will fit it necessitates it being so large as to look ludicrous, like a man in a giant comedy hat

I have an abnormally large head. No hats fit me other than woolly hats and I hate woolly hats

Thirding the 'abnormally large head' issue. Though in my case the abnormally large bit is a lumpen annexe hanging off the back of my head like a cranial dormer.

[poodlefaker]

For a middle-aged man, there's a fine line between having some style and looking a bit of a character, and the hat-wearer must walk this line. I consider my Harris Tweed cap puts me in the former camp, but a beret (which I'd love) would consign me to the latter.

[Inspector Norse]

Yes, in the winter, but my hat is currently in police custody. No, really!

[Buelligan]

For a middle-aged man, there's a fine line between having some style and looking a bit of a character, and the hat-wearer must walk this line. I consider my Harris Tweed cap puts me in the former camp, but a beret (which I'd love) would consign me to the latter.

Lots of people round here wear berets and no one turns a hair.

[Pink Gregory]

I tried to wear a beret for exactly one day (my reference was Richard Thompson, by the way) and never again after the amount of dirty looks I got on a single walk through Yeovil.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Can't say I'm a big fan of the trend of youngish guys wearing flat caps either tbh. Peaky Blinders and shit northern indie bands have a lot to answer for.

[Icehaven]

I wear black woolly hats in winter but my head is quite round so I end up looking like an upside down cartoon bomb. I had a lovely chunky knitted one that countered this beautifully by having subtle cat ears but I left it in a supermarket basket when I'd flounced out after being ID'd when I didn't have any on me and I was too proud to go back for it. Still pissed at myself for that tbh, not least because it was a present from my Mum which she bought from the German market in Birmingham so it was probably extortionately expensive.

[The Mollusk]

I've got one of those FBI caps with a hilarious caption underneath. It reads "Federal Bureau of Investigation"! I get some right looks wearing it let me tell you!

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Sadly, I am afflicted with a massive head and if a hat will fit it necessitates it being so large as to look ludicrous, like a man in a giant comedy hat.

The greatest tragedy is that I cannot wear the paper hats out of the christmas crackers.

" The Elephant Man" Screenplay Writer considers rewrite.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Lots of people round here wear berets and no one turns a hair.

Not me, but the admin. assistant in my place of work wears a beret, and she wears it well. Every evening as she leaves, bidding me a good evening, I always think to meself " now, there goes someone who wears a beret well." It takes a certain panache to wear a beret well. How many of the boys and girls of CaB could carry off the beret on head look? I would say Buelligan, bgmnts, Gregory Torso, possibly Brundle- Fly, The Dog and NO ONE ELSE AT ALL.

[El Unicornio, mang]

I'm "bad at hats" but sometimes wear Chicago Cubs baseball cap on walks. Keeps the sun out of my face/hides bad hair day. A year or two ago though I was walking along on a windy day and it blew off and I had to chase it down the street in front of a load of people. There's no way to look dignified when that happens, so I've been very cautious ever since.

[Zetetic]

Finally had a special helmet delivered for my fat head, so I'm having to get used to that.

[Attila]

I have an old suede cap, kind of a cross between a Greek fisherman hat and a newsboy's cap, that I've owned since I was about 14 -- wear it a heck of a lot in the winter and if it looks like  rain, since it's been waterproofed repeatedly over the past 4 decades. On non-rainy days I will wear vintage hats from among various ones I've collected over the years, usually 1940s and '50s ladies' day hats (as opposed to OTT Ascot-type jobs). I have loads of hatpins to go with them, too.

[nugget]

Just beanies in the winter for warmth, and unstructured caps in the summer, otherwise I get sunburn on my bald head. I like the Soviet style cap posted by Voltan above, but I feel that wearing something like this could be problematic living a region of east Germany with widespread far-right support.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

...but I feel that wearing something like this could be problematic living a region of east Germany with widespread far-right support.

Not unlike Pattingham, South Staffordshire apparently.