I've long been a hat guy. My aunts used to chide me during my misspent youth to give up on the hats. "It will make you bald", they said. So by age 10 I was warned off one thing would make me bald, another would make me go blind. Today I wear glasses and am bald.
I wear all kinds of hats. My favorite are the geographically challenged Panama hats. I wait all year for summer so I can wear my Optimo with the Bentley Drivers Club hat band. 
I keep in a supply of each in case I lose one.
I keep in a supply of each in case I lose one.Winter its Irish walking hats, fisherman hats, flat caps, deerstalkers or occasionally a Coke.
As much as I enjoy hats, all my life I have had mixed feelings about skimmers, or if you prefer boaters.
Every year about this time come the ads showing boaters and seersucker suits. Skimmers and linen, boaters and...
I just can't wrap my head around it. Somehow to my eye they appear like they are trying too hard. As I write this I've got a Don Ameche movie on in the background. He looks pretty dapper in his, but that was 70 years ago.
I've been ably warned off items I can't wear with aplomb. As much as I want to, as much as I may enjoy buying one, I just can't wanna wear one.
Toad
Have a great weekend friends, I'll be back Tuesday.
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6 comments:
Good on you Toad for wearing hats. I limit my use to baseball hats. Just can't seem to make it happen otherwise. The Boater...looks good in pictures. Too theatrical otherwise.
Hats...must have more hats.
If you wear a coke then you can wear a boater.
I have a boater which I've moved to a hook on the hall tree. That means that, with the right kit, it's a single step to out the door!
As for it looking theatrical, well, what of it?
I can do buckets. Will be giving the telescope a go this summer if I can manage it.
I was sorry when men's hats (real hats -- not baseball caps) went the way of women's gloves . . . .
SIGH!
Ah! But they haven't. While you no longer see no women in gloves (a shame)you will see men in real hats. There aren't many of us, but we are out there.
I think that Panama looks firmiliar. If so, I loved it, but don't have the cranial diameter to support it. As for the Bentley band... Nice touch. May you wear it in good health always.
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