For you guys who don't wear hats, let us know why

[Antique Hoosier]

I am a minimalist.

Does this mean you have ONE hat??? Or no hair???

 

[luvmysuper]

Many of the men that wear hats around here wear them as some sort of superiority complex. They will wear a Kengol style or some sort of fedora and it won't even go with their outfit. No coordination, more like "look at me and my ridiculous hat!" It doesn't help that there is none of the hat etiquette of the past so these fools are wearing them inside and the like, where it looks really silly.

Hence my wife doesn't let me wear one, even though I'd wear it properly, so as not to be associated with the types.

Do you know many of the men who wear hats around here?
Are you a medical professional who specializes in the ability to diagnose a superiority complex through forum posts?

Come on. That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there. Tone it down a notch, ok?

By the way, wearing a hat indoors is perfectly acceptable hat etiquette. It would depend largely on where and what the "indoors" was.

A store? Ok.
In and out from work place? Ok.
Church or a restaraunt? Not Ok.

EDIT: If the poster meant his current physical living area and not the folks "here" at B&B, Id say it's just a different group of people that are having an assumption made about them.
The fact that I have a connection to the folks "here" and not to the ones "there" is moot.
.... and Hat Etiquette is easily researched online.

 

[koso]

Reminds me of the story about Cowboys Stadium back in the day and why it had an opening in the roof.

Aside from making it easier for God to watch His team, it was to allow Tom Landry to wear hats. Being a gentleman he wouldn't wear one indoors.

 

[Antique Hoosier]

Do you know many of the men who wear hats around here?
Are you a medical professional who specializes in the ability to diagnose a superiority complex through forum posts?

Come on. That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there. Tone it down a notch, ok?

By the way, wearing a hat indoors is perfectly acceptable hat etiquette. It would depend largely on where and what the "indoors" was.

A store? Ok.
In and out from work place? Ok.
Church or a restaraunt? Not Ok.

I believe the Gentleman was using the phrase "Around Here" to be near where he resides rather than B&B....at least that is the way I read it. If it is that case you might want to apologize for your toning down remark which I find more knee jerk and improper.

 

[Go West Young Man]

Do you know many of the men who wear hats around here?
Are you a medical professional who specializes in the ability to diagnose a superiority complex through forum posts?

Come on. That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there. Tone it down a notch, ok?

By the way, wearing a hat indoors is perfectly acceptable hat etiquette. It would depend largely on where and what the "indoors" was.

A store? Ok.
In and out from work place? Ok.
Church or a restaraunt? Not Ok.

I think "around here" referred to O'Fallon, MO, not the B+B

 

[kf4tqj]

I used to wear hats more than I do these days. I don't know, now that I'm getting so much silver in my hair I really just like the way it looks. Now I just wear a hat if it's rainy, cold or I'm working outside like mowing or raking leaves.

 

[Prince]

I wear a baseball cap alot and occasionally a cowboy hat.

Never got into the fedora's.

 

[DFrancis]

Does this mean you have ONE hat??? Or no hair???

Oh man we need a poll now.

I used to not wear one until I finally found hats that work for me and fir my giant head.

 

[mretzloff]

I look silly in a hat. Also, I hate baseball caps and fedoras and the like look much better on older gentlemen (older than I am) in my opinion.

 

[Navig8tor]

Many of the men that wear hats around here wear them as some sort of superiority complex. They will wear a Kengol style or some sort of fedora and it won't even go with their outfit. No coordination, more like "look at me and my ridiculous hat!" It doesn't help that there is none of the hat etiquette of the past so these fools are wearing them inside and the like, where it looks really silly.

Hence my wife doesn't let me wear one, even though I'd wear it properly, so as not to be associated with the types.

My "look at me and my ridiculous hat" is a pith helmet. It looks odd but on hot summer days on the river it keeps the sun off my noggin and keeps me cool. As a bonus it deflects any flies from hooking me if I get a little careless with my casting.

 

[Basil]

I don't really wear a hat but sometimes I do.

Mostly when I do it's a old Greek fishermans cap that belonged to my dad until he replaced it with a new one.

For those not familiar with the style here it is. http://www.natashascafe.com/html/sailorcap.html

 

[Gaz]

I quite frankly don't dress nice enough to warrant a fedora or other style of classic hat. I'm also 6'8" and 300 lbs with a hat size over 8. Choices are limited and I'm too cheap to splurge on a really nice one.

I wear a baseball cap or military type jungle hat (not sure what the correct term is) for sun protection and a winter cap for warmth, that's about the extent of my hat collection.

 

[Oglethorpe]

Hats just aren't really a part of my look. Plus, I have a huge noggin.

 

[Topgumby]

The reason I don't wear a hat is because I am indoors, engaged in athletic activity that doesn't permit it or asleep.

Otherwise, I wear a hat. I'm pretty savvy with the etiquette, and have never had anyone give me a hard time about it.

 

[Wishoot]

I love hats, but I look ridiculous in them and when I take them off my head, my hair looks like I've been electrocuted.

 

[Walker]

Hats for bats

 

[cigarjim]

I just love my panama hat been every ware thru water fall in and in and put in a purse always comes out in shape

 

[weenerdog3443]

I have 2 hats. My Philmont baseball cap and a buffalo leather indana jones style I picked up in some leather shop when I was backpacking along the Appalachian trail. I wear more bandanas than hats. Mainly because whenever im working on cars, backpacking or whatever my hat always seems to get in the way

 

[Kouros]

Hats make my neck look longer. The only hat I can pull off is a watchcap.

 

[DougK]

I don't generally wear hats because I don't look good in them, although I'll wear my old Army boonie hat when I hike if it's really sunny or really rainy.