Finally wore my Bowler

[StylinLA]

You make the bowler look good. I've been a hat guy for a couple of years- fedoras and homburgs.

You don't have to be mature, but it helps. I crossed some line where I don't care if it makes me look "old." I am old and damn happy about it.

 

[hrnfrg]

I wear my Christys' bowler most days to work in the winter, if it is cool enough. If I am in an eccentric mood, I'll wear my top hat.

 

[MichaeltheRomanHistorian]

Another bowler wearer here! My Christys' bowler recently arrived and I've worn it several times this week (it got many compliments from women, interestingly enough). I'm sure it might look odd on me to some but I find it pairs well with my three piece suits and grey or khaki trench coats when I go to campus to give my lectures.

I don't have a photo of me wearing my new bowler but here is one of me wearing a soft bowler a few years ago (I was doing my impression of a British civil servant for a Halloween event and happened to own a bowler):

I have to admit that I do not see many men my age wearing such formal hats but I enjoy them and I often wear many semi-formal or casual hats (I have a wool 'bucket' hat, somewhat like what Sean Connery wears in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, some British deerstalkers, and a panama for warm weather).

Kudos to you on your choice of hat! :

 

[Deltaboy]

Is this b/c you just now care to wear these hats or b/c you are now old enough to wear one? I ask b/c my wife often tells me that certain clothes and hats will look good on me in about 15 years. (I am 36).

I am just working away from my farmboy tradtional Farm caps. I am also wanting to protect my hair and head from the Elements more than when I was younger. Finally the net has made them more available to me. Till I was about 25 I had flat caps and 2 fedoras but the local store where I got them closed and I could not find any in my price range or of suitable quality till I found this site and found out there were companies that were still making quality headware.

 

[Crixus]

some British deerstalkers

Michael, my first hero Holden Caufield wore a deerstalker. You need to post a photo of you in both your new bowler AND and with one of your three piece suits (I remember the Harris tweed thread) with a deerstalker. In memory of Holden.

 

[Austin]

Another bowler wearer here! My Christys' bowler recently arrived and I've worn it several times this week (it got many compliments from women, interestingly enough). I'm sure it might look odd on me to some but I find it pairs well with my three piece suits and grey or khaki trench coats when I go to campus to give my lectures.

I don't have a photo of me wearing my new bowler but here is one of me wearing a soft bowler a few years ago (I was doing my impression of a British civil servant for a Halloween event and happened to own a bowler):

I have to admit that I do not see many men my age wearing such formal hats but I enjoy them and I often wear many semi-formal or casual hats (I have a wool 'bucket' hat, somewhat like what Sean Connery wears in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, some British deerstalkers, and a panama for warm weather).

Kudos to you on your choice of hat! :

Michael, you wear it well. It fits you.

 

[MichaeltheRomanHistorian]

...and to show that I haven't forgotten, (hard to tell from the lighting) but a steely blue herringbone tweed suit and Christy's bowler:

 

[hotreds]

Good onya! I wear my Panama to most herfs.

 

[galopede]

You don't have to look like a civil servant to wear a bowler! Here's me taken at the huge Sidmouth Folk Festival where I was playing for my morris team last year.

 

[buddydog]

I wear a bowler too....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That looks more like a Homburg.

 

[D.Jackson]

I love to wear classic hats like any of these. I have a nice brown felt derby that I like to wear when playing. I'm an old time musician. I also have a couple of flat caps and a couple of straw trilbies. I wore one of the trilbies to a family gathering last summer and one of my wife's friends told it and was a great hat and just think if I kept it for another 30 years it might actually be in style. The nerve of her. How classless! I still like my hats and still wear them all the time. I think they are timeless classics.

 

[MichaeltheRomanHistorian]

I think great hats might not be in fashion but they're certainly always stylish, D. Jackson. I often break out my panama in the summer, my grey tweed hat in the autumn and winter, my bowler any time, and my British deerstalkers when I'm out and about in the countryside or doing a morning walk in the winter.

 

[Shave A Buck]

Hats off to you guys, you look great. I wish I had the courage to wear a fedora myself but sadly do not.

 

[buddydog]

That looks more like a Homburg.

It's a bowler with a center dent.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I just came back from Optimo with a derby. Pics to follow.

 

[Isaac]

Wow, it's like I was going 88 mph!!!

 

[A3M0N]

Wow, it's like I was going 88 mph!!!

Nice

 

[oc_in_fw]

Michael, you wear it well. It fits you.

I will echo that statement.

 

[strop]

Would love to see a picture. All I get is a red X.