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Do You Wear a Hat?

Kinda look like Lt. Dan these days. Yes, in sun.
 
I generally always have a hat on. Although at work it's usually a hard hat.
Baseball hats are solid back, truckers hats are mesh back and high crowned. They are the go to summer wear. I'm surprised @Ironbuilt doesn't wear a KW one. They started out as advertising giveaways way back. Just like shoes, there is "the one" that just fits right.
 
I wear a ball cap year round, I’m also under a welding beanie and hard hat for 10-12 hrs per day so I feel naked with out. I’ve got the thick hair and big melon issue too, lot of concrete in this head ..lol I miss my old cowboy hat.. I still have my nice old duster for riding in the bad weather ..
 
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'd call that a "Boonie" hat.
 
I always wear a ball cap at work and outside.
Free ones from snap on and other venders are the best. :D
 
Wore one all day yesterday in the pool, hair thinning on top.
 
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.

oh, to have that hat back again! It’s like road salvage tools….the good lord put them there for you, you have to take it. And seeing as how it was perfect, that should’ve been your forever hat! Not to mention the pure coolness factor of having a real hat, not some store bought duded up city hat!
 
I generally always have a hat on. Although at work it's usually a hard hat.
Baseball hats are solid back, truckers hats are mesh back and high crowned. They are the go to summer wear. I'm surprised @Ironbuilt doesn't wear a KW one. They started out as advertising giveaways way back. Just like shoes, there is "the one" that just fits right.
I don't wear baseball hats, but I do wear scullys in the winter. I hate when my ears get cold.

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Back in the day, men wore fedoras even to go take a dump (and a tie) lol. A common part of a wardrobe. I had to wear a tie for some 20 years even when I was a salaried guy in a machine shop. Not the greatest idea being around machinery. Also wore a pocket pencil pack issued from the company with their logo on it.
See old photos of crowds at ballgames and looked like most were in suits and ties with their fedoras. Had to be real comfy when it was 90 degrees. It’s been said the hat routine was kicked when JFK was in office since he rarely wore one.
 
I remember Mom making it a big deal to dress up to shop in San Francisco back in the '60's (she had a few hats). Never saw Dad with anything but the aforementioned cowboy hat though.
 
Traditional hats (like a fedora), versus ball caps or touques, went out-of-fashion in the early Sixties. Cars were designed to accommodate a six-foot-tall man wearing a Fedora. Proof of this is witness the headroom in a mid-Sixties American car, versus nearly any car from the Forties or Fifties. Around the time JFK was assassinated is considered by many as the end of the traditional hat for men. Kennedy rarely, if ever, wore a hat. Look at ads from that time frame. When did hats start disappearing from ads? In 1963-64. Not only was Jackie Kennedy considered a fashion trendsetter then, but so was JFK.

Cowboys wear cowboy hats. If you are not a cowboy, DON'T wear one.

My Grandpa would never have thought to be seen outside without either his Fedora or his straw hat. He wore his proudly until the mid-1980s. That, and a vest and button-down shirt. Many times, with a tie. Damn, he always looked good!
 
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Don't usually wear a hat because I have good hair!

Used to wear my MAGA hat but haven't since Jan 6th because it was singed by Mike Pence :icon_fU:
 
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.

Let me start by saying I think this is really cool what you do with the hats. I think your Dad would love it too.
Let me finish by saying you should wear a better hat, like the one I wear that's red and has a white STL logo on the front....lol.
Just sayin'
 
I generally always have a hat on. Although at work it's usually a hard hat.
Baseball hats are solid back, truckers hats are mesh back and high crowned. They are the go to summer wear. I'm surprised @Ironbuilt doesn't wear a KW one. They started out as advertising giveaways way back. Just like shoes, there is "the one" that just fits right.
Oh man you brought memories with hard hat. WORK we had to wear them.
The metal box that runs the 40 ft. overhead crane has 8 buttons weighs 15 lbs. There's a track so the cord moves with you but it jams and you to yank it. The button box jammed and slipped out my hand so what! Turned to move a spacer and bam the box swung back and wacked my helmet sent and it flying. Was standing on the lip of a furnace base wouldn't been good if I fell. The helmet kept me from getting really clocked.
 
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Got a couple western style hats and a few ball caps, the most common is what I call my "Russian collusion" (Severstal) cap but it's starting to look a bit nasty.
In a couple weeks I'll be in AL so I'll try to get a Trash Pandas cap.
 
Only when I’m fishing or duck hunting.
I actually have very good hair at 57 so don’t want to cover it up. Ironically I get flack from young balding guys lol
 
Only when absolutely necessary.

I’ll wear a ball cap, if I’m going to be outside all day.
 
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