Who does them, who doesn't - and why? GG and I both once experimented with berets. Not sure about his but mine shrunk. I could not pull off the 'Popeye Doyle' look. John Simons looks good in his cap. There also used to be an avatar (?) of someone on this site looking not unlike a fuzzy, late middle-aged Groucho Marx. Who would that be? I'm fairly sure he sported a beret.
Those baseball caps on the JS website I do not like. My late father wore one when fishing.
The Baker Boy cap became irritatingly ubiquitous, led on a popular level by Peaky Blinders, and on a cool Ivy level by middle aged men, covering up thinning locks, buying tweedy versions from John Simons who has become the Master Of The Look. Come to think of it I haven't seen his hair for years. Is he going bald?! Sacrilege! Frosty would slaughter me for such disrespect.
I think JS refused to remove his hat when having his picture taken, in the rain, outside the shop. Could anyone blame him?
Never watched that TV programme. Might find my way to it in a few years time when it's become a 'timeless classic'. Currently revisiting 'Between The Lines', a fairly dodgy BBC cop show from the early to mid-90s. Awful clothing but my wife still has the hots for Neil Pearson. Not many hats but tons of helmets because it was made at a time before the fuzz in uniform came to look like paramilitary lollipop ladies or traffic wardens with sub-machine guns.
The older I get, the more I want to wear hats.
This summer I wore the Peter Christian braid trilby/Panama style hat. Looked good, kept sun off and escaped teasing from those who normally cannot resist.
I think Peaky Blinders ruined the ability to wear a Baker cap without a raised eyebrow.
Back to Magee Donegal fleck flat caps for winter, looking like Ted from Ted & Ralph again for those who remember that lovely Fast Show spin off.
Bob Mortimer's Sterson fishing hat in Mortimer & Whitehouse:Gone Fishing always looks good I think.
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I wear hats almost every day. Flat caps (walking the dog, football matches) Baseball caps (fishing and forestry work) and beanies during cold winter months. Panama hats in the summer months. I don't have a trilby hat or a bucket hat. Watching the occasion cricket match I have a couple of England floppy hats. In the last year I've bought 5 hats. One of them was a Kangol made in USA flat cap.
In my social circle hats have become quite popular in the last ten years. There was a Peaky Blinders influence on younger family members. My father and uncles rarely wore hats mainly I think because their own father's wore them and they considered them down-market or old fashioned.
Sean, at 'Wild' in Nottingham wore his cap with great style: in a way that I never could. A kind of baker boy look in, I think, navy. Complimented his overall look very nicely.
Kangol are pretty good, Robbie. I tried a bucket hat. Wouldn't advise it.
Yes I know a bucket hat would not suit me.
My older cousins in their 70s now (original London mods) would not have been seen dead in a hat 20 years ago. Now they wear them with style.
I don't remember JS wearing hats years ago but he certainly looks the part these days
I have a photo of me from almost 2 years ago. Bucket hat, G9 and Clarks made in Vietnam desert boots. Everything AFS dislikes. Once the forum upgrade is in place I will post it.
Being an outdoors type I love practicality as well as aesthetics in clothing. Good hats combine the 2.
I've just spoken to Sean and he said he's not gay plus you're not his type. Sorry Andy.
Also he mentioned something about an exclusion order. (His lawyer will be in touch with more details.)
To clarify: he said you're ok to come into the shop, but you can't break into his home, try on his clothes then snog a mirror.
(Plein soleil reference for those ITK. Such a good scene.)
Failsworth on sale at Chiltern Street. I saw a few examples in a Derbyshire town ('Crooked Spire') at the beginning of last week. Low prices.