PS: The hat was lying on the back seat of my car when the beloved 15 year old daughter of my best friend climbed in and frowned and said: OH, Is that one of those hats that only rich people wear?.
    I have no idea but they may be in fashion this year.

I have a couple of straw hats. I never wear them but I like the look. I also tried one on with a narrow brim in a sort of navy/creme weave mix with a narrow brim ala 1960s which suprisingly looked great on me. I am not really  a hat wearing person but choice of hat is interesting because the right choice (partly your choice bt mostly what other people see you as in it) will make you look terrific and the wrong choice will make you look dated in the worst possible way or even kooky.

Although, beware of one time compliments. Sometimes people think when you wear something bold youre amazing but if you wear it more than once youre odd.

Not that a straw hat is odd. Actually, it probably registers as more of a positive than the felt fedora or trillby. I am saying this as an opinion about the wider audience. I have always liked hats myself, just never wear them beaus of the extra fuss and worry about where to put them, hold them, etc.

Been wearing one with a 3" brim for years. What's the problem?

I really like hats in general, but like most here I own, rather than wear them.  My preferences go away from wide brimmed fedoras and more toward narrow, soft-ish Trilbys.

Panama hats are a real favorite of mine.  I think that they are the one style where the gangster look is easily avoided.  Recently, I visited Optimo while in Chicago and they showed me some Panama's that were truly mind-blowing.  While the good grade hats were very, very nice, the really superb hats had an organic-ness and softness that you only ever see in the best products of a given category.  I very much wanted to pick one up but I held off.  Maybe someday soon.

Not to de-rail the thread, but I loved this:

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showpost.php?p=594539&postcount=62

When will the penny drop that some people don't think much of their message board and just plain don't need it?
Anyone can set up their own site if they wish. Nobody owns the Net, and nobody has a monopoly on discussing any topic on it. That's the point of the Net.
The big clothing MBs are a big yawn because they've become so stale. The real internet talent only shows up there when they're either slummin' or trollin'.
The heyday of AAAC and SF was when they were the only games in town. Give people a choice and things start to drift. Nobody of interest will put up with their pseudo-autocratic rules anymore now they have a choice. Why would they? The big MBs know this, but don't know what to do about it beyond blustering and blowing off.
More and more they are just getting left with a large volume of low-grade posters talking around in circles and all the cool kids are skipping class to go have more fun elsewhere or just not bothering to post at all.

Some evenings I feel so wise...

Now, back to hats -

Last edited by jack_sparrow (2007-08-05 11:02:47)

all i can say is: according to the Times there a lot of kids oiut there wearing straw hats. I would enjoy the moment.