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Dad wore a cowboy hat (and boots) everywhere he went. Video doesn't even mention the cowboys once.
Do You Wear a Hat?
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I wear cowboy boots, and used to wear a cowboy hat too, but while horses don't have head rests, trucks do, so I went back to a ball cap.
Don't, I have hair to showoff, problem it's gray.
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I've worn a ball cap most of my life. (Well I take it off in the house) Mainly I wear it for the sun visor.
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I wear baseball and trucker hats all the time. I was bored one day, so I decided to see how many hats I got and turns out I got 50!
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I have several hats, barely use them, only on the beach or if it is a sunny day, i preferred a Panamá hat instead of a baseball cap.
Pd. only If Dick show up, or Krysker kid, NO !!! I do not have or wear a mariachi sombrero period.
Pd. only If Dick show up, or Krysker kid, NO !!! I do not have or wear a mariachi sombrero period.
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What's a "trucker hat"? Never heard of it.
I wear a floppy hat when it's really hot to keep the sun off my head.
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I have several hats, barely use them, only on the beach or if it is a sunny day, i preferred a Panamá hat instead of a baseball cap.
Pd. only If Dick show up, or Krysker kid, NO !!! I do not have or wear a mariachi sombrero period.
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I’m the most non hat person on the planet. But here goes...
I have a big head, and I mean actually big and not just full of myself. Also have big hair, which doesn’t help.
Forty years ago I got a job at Douglas Lake Ranch, one of the biggest. Yes, I’m aware there are bigger ranches. Please don’t tell me about them. I know already.
Douglas Lake was hard core old school. The cowboys had dogs and horses and spent weeks and months out in the fields with the cattle. It really was like going back to the mid 1800’s.
Now at that time I was about as far from a cowboy as you’re gonna get and still be straight. I had an afro, just finished a stint playing bass in a metal band, smoked pot, and I graduated from high school. I watched the news and read books. Not really cowboy material.
I get dumped onto the farm crew, where I fit in about as well as Liberace would have. But those bastards wore me down. In time I got a set of boots. Rolled smokes. Started dipping, although I hated Skoal and used Stag rough cut snoose, instead.
One day the boss sends me out to change the oil in an old pick up. I pop the hood, and there’s a mass of some sort on the battery. It’s a cowboy hat, and it had to have been there for YEARS. I knocked the dust and dirt off of it, and lo and behold it’s a real, old school cowboy hat. Not the kind that city boys wear to the bar. It is filthy, but freakin’ awesome! Perfect patina.
I place it on my head, and it fit PERFECTLY! Like it was made for me. It was like King Arthur pulling Excalibur out of the stone.
I wore it all season, and it suited me to a “T”. Suddenly I was one of them. At the end of the season I tossed it out when I moved back to town. I have regretted it for the forty years since. Not only was it the only hat that I’ve ever worn, it was perfect. Edit—- it resembles the hat that Sheriff Longmire wore, only much more thrashed. And it was kind of dark greenish blue in colour.
I wear a Viet nam era boonie hat to keep the sun out of eyes hunting but it’s too small, like every other hat.
I have a big head, and I mean actually big and not just full of myself. Also have big hair, which doesn’t help.
Forty years ago I got a job at Douglas Lake Ranch, one of the biggest. Yes, I’m aware there are bigger ranches. Please don’t tell me about them. I know already.
Douglas Lake was hard core old school. The cowboys had dogs and horses and spent weeks and months out in the fields with the cattle. It really was like going back to the mid 1800’s.
Now at that time I was about as far from a cowboy as you’re gonna get and still be straight. I had an afro, just finished a stint playing bass in a metal band, smoked pot, and I graduated from high school. I watched the news and read books. Not really cowboy material.
I get dumped onto the farm crew, where I fit in about as well as Liberace would have. But those bastards wore me down. In time I got a set of boots. Rolled smokes. Started dipping, although I hated Skoal and used Stag rough cut snoose, instead.
One day the boss sends me out to change the oil in an old pick up. I pop the hood, and there’s a mass of some sort on the battery. It’s a cowboy hat, and it had to have been there for YEARS. I knocked the dust and dirt off of it, and lo and behold it’s a real, old school cowboy hat. Not the kind that city boys wear to the bar. It is filthy, but freakin’ awesome! Perfect patina.
I place it on my head, and it fit PERFECTLY! Like it was made for me. It was like King Arthur pulling Excalibur out of the stone.
I wore it all season, and it suited me to a “T”. Suddenly I was one of them. At the end of the season I tossed it out when I moved back to town. I have regretted it for the forty years since. Not only was it the only hat that I’ve ever worn, it was perfect. Edit—- it resembles the hat that Sheriff Longmire wore, only much more thrashed. And it was kind of dark greenish blue in colour.
I wear a Viet nam era boonie hat to keep the sun out of eyes hunting but it’s too small, like every other hat.
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Only on hot sunny days! 440'
Been wearing them most of my life. Mostly ball caps for the visor and these days to keep bugs and bird **** off my head. Without one, my bald crown acts like a moving target. I have a couple nice cowboy hats, a camo boonie, a scully, several roll ups, olive drab, camo and desert tan, a Ted Nugent style camo cowboy hat, Green Bay Packer hats and NJ Devils, and a boat load of Mopar hats of all sorts. I wear them at work also because there are always drips from pipes, Which have gotten in my eyes many times. Don't forget the winter knit type hats also in camo and Mopar! That's my "Hat Trick!
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Only on FBBO would a thread about hats result with a photo like this
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Baseball type hat since 85 ish. A girl bought me a matellica hat and said she loved it...she lasted 2 years give or take...plus extra 2 on the side/down low...hat stayed ever since.
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Covering this....
Would be like telling the Lord that I don't appreciate his efforts.
This was just ME having fun.....
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I was born with a hat on....feel naked without
one.
one.
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Played ball from a very early age, so yes on the hat thing even though I inherited thick hair
from mama's side of the family, so it ain't about hiding bald spots - I still have to cut it every
two weeks (yes, I cut it myself - figured out 30 years ago that I could pay someone else $20
to screw it up or do it free of charge myself!)
I can relate to @Sahara about having a huge melon with lots of hair, too - it's difficult to just
buy a hat at the local sporting goods as a result. I typically have to order them online.
I've owned various Mopar hats of course, but the mainstay for some decades now is an Atlanta
Braves cap - usually the one the players actually wear for home games currently.
I have a "working on the farm" one that's usually a really old, nasty one I'm not worried about
trashing; then there's the well-kept current one for wearin' to town and such.
The "public" one gets changed out at the end of each MLB season - and this is going to sound silly to
a lot of you, but there's a reason:
My dad was a baseball guy and we grew up in Atlanta, where he was big into the local Little League,
eventually volunteering to be President of the regions' chapter when no one else would.
As such, we were big Braves fans, something he and I could bond over and did for decades, even if
other parts of life didn't always see us agreeing on other things sometimes - we always had the
Braves to talk about.
Anyways...I got into the habit of buying a new cap each spring and wearing it until the Braves were
either officially out of any chances for the World Series or actually won it (hey, it happened once!).
Pop was in on this little ritual of mine and rather than find it silly, he "got it" - and he knew it was a
way for me to show a little bit of a nod to him in the process, too.
When Pop passed in 2010, I didn't want to do the hat thing anymore....didn't see the purpose anymore?
It took my wife (of all people!) to gently push me back to wearing one again, so I agreed - and I have
been ever since yet again, this time wearing the Braves cap until they're eliminated each year out
of honoring Pop.
When that day comes, I take the cap, put it in one of those plastic display cases and leave it at Pops'
grave, usually with a note saying something like "we'll get 'em next year, Pop".
The cemetery caretakers know what I'm doing and respect it, leaving the hat there until winter comes,
then taking it away to wherever old flags, flowers and such go from gravesites.
I told you it was silly - but it's just something I have to do.
from mama's side of the family, so it ain't about hiding bald spots - I still have to cut it every
two weeks (yes, I cut it myself - figured out 30 years ago that I could pay someone else $20
to screw it up or do it free of charge myself!)
I can relate to @Sahara about having a huge melon with lots of hair, too - it's difficult to just
buy a hat at the local sporting goods as a result. I typically have to order them online.
I've owned various Mopar hats of course, but the mainstay for some decades now is an Atlanta
Braves cap - usually the one the players actually wear for home games currently.
I have a "working on the farm" one that's usually a really old, nasty one I'm not worried about
trashing; then there's the well-kept current one for wearin' to town and such.
The "public" one gets changed out at the end of each MLB season - and this is going to sound silly to
a lot of you, but there's a reason:
My dad was a baseball guy and we grew up in Atlanta, where he was big into the local Little League,
eventually volunteering to be President of the regions' chapter when no one else would.
As such, we were big Braves fans, something he and I could bond over and did for decades, even if
other parts of life didn't always see us agreeing on other things sometimes - we always had the
Braves to talk about.
Anyways...I got into the habit of buying a new cap each spring and wearing it until the Braves were
either officially out of any chances for the World Series or actually won it (hey, it happened once!).
Pop was in on this little ritual of mine and rather than find it silly, he "got it" - and he knew it was a
way for me to show a little bit of a nod to him in the process, too.
When Pop passed in 2010, I didn't want to do the hat thing anymore....didn't see the purpose anymore?
It took my wife (of all people!) to gently push me back to wearing one again, so I agreed - and I have
been ever since yet again, this time wearing the Braves cap until they're eliminated each year out
of honoring Pop.
When that day comes, I take the cap, put it in one of those plastic display cases and leave it at Pops'
grave, usually with a note saying something like "we'll get 'em next year, Pop".
The cemetery caretakers know what I'm doing and respect it, leaving the hat there until winter comes,
then taking it away to wherever old flags, flowers and such go from gravesites.
I told you it was silly - but it's just something I have to do.
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