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Autumn is on our doorstep, the skies in the Northern hemisphere are slowly turning grey. While the wind blows colder each day, I wonder: who now wears hats?
Those beautiful traditional dress hats for men have gone out of fashion in the early sixties, and I guess women's hats have faced the same fate a little later. Some people still buy them, but they belong to a minority group. Are you one of them? If not, do you wear other types of headgear?

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I wish men's hats would make a comeback. I think they're stylish, but I'd feel funny wearing one.
I do wear British style flat caps sometimes.
Rick

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Pimps and rap stars/ musicians still wear hats.
Ashton Kucher does. I do. Doesn't make me any of the previous.. ok maybe the first one. If I find the right hat, I will wear it. Make a fshion statement.
I'm looking for a fedora-type short-brimmed cool rude boy hat, can't find anywhere.
Gotham

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I do - I live in the Southeast so I have two - a Panama hat for the summer months, it's amazing how cool it makes you feel when it catches whatever trace breeze may be stirring - and a wool felt for the winter - a perfect finishing touch and makes you stand out in crowds, especially when claiming your things from coat check at the theatre, opera, or symphony. Both are fedora styled...very traditional. I felt odd wearing them at first, but now it's a part of the wardrobe and routine.

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Originally Posted by gruffydd3 Ê Ê I wish men's hats would make a comeback. I think they're stylish, but I'd feel funny wearing one.
Ê Ê I do wear British style flat caps sometimes.
Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Rick Snap!
Bates in Jermyn Street do some lovely ones
Trot

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I'm not familiar with Bates, but I have several from James Lock and a couple from Barbour. I'll check to see if I can find any websites that sell Bates.
Thanks,
Rick

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Bates Gentlemen's Hatter
21A Jermyn Street
London ÊSW1Y 6HP
Tel Ê020 7734 2722
www.bates-hats.co.uk
Sometimes the site is hard to access
Trot

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Wow what amazing hats! I'd love to wear a hat... maybe when I'm older. My missus wanted to buy me a Panama hat for my birthday and while I really like them for some reason they always make me think of old soaks drinking Singapore Slings in Raffles.
I am still only a young soak so perhaps not yet.
I think we should start a real hat revival. There must be a society somewhere for men who wear traditional hats: After all there are societies for cigar smokers and moustache growers, surely there will be one for hat fans.
Of course people still wear hats - the baseball cap has become the tribal headgear of Britain's cretins - and you see those arty dressed in black 80s style theatre people wearing little ethnic caps to cover their bald patches.
And at "society parties" there is always some fashion queen trying to catch the Tatler photographer's attention by poncing around in an elaborate hat.
Sikh turbans aren't strictly hats but they look great. And Samuel L Jackson always suited those Kangol fluffy caps. Pity no-one else did.

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I have a friend who wears a fedora all winter. Like Renoles, he said he felt funny at first. Now he wears it everyday and everyone else is used to him wearing it now, so they don't stare anymore.
Maybe we should follow suit and just go for it.
Rick

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Originally Posted by gruffydd3 Ê Ê ÊI have a friend who wears a fedora all winter. Like Renoles, he said he felt funny at first. Now he wears it everyday and everyone else is used to him wearing it now, so they don't stare anymore.
Ê Ê Maybe we should follow suit and just go for it.
Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê ÊRick Am I that friend?? I wear hats all winter long, and during fall and spring as well . . . even during the summer. I love hats. As for people staring . . . let them! Who cares? As a matter of fact, I like it if people stare, but I haven't noticed that they do. I always get compliments on my dress hats, most of which I buy at Saks Fifth Avenue. The only thing is: they destroy one's hair. You cannot worry about a hairdo and wear a hat . . . but, as Joan Crawford said: a woman without a hat is like a picture without a frame. I think hats do a great deal for a man's looks, as well. You need a half way decent profile, though. And wear your hats the right way: straight down on your forehead. I cannot stand it when I see a great looking hat sitting back on a person's head. :-X