The visor fedora

[Jerekson]

Now that the auction has ended, what do you fellas think about this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Straw-Fe...QQcmdZViewItem

[Bud-n-Texas]

Hats similar to that can be found in feed and seed stores for about that price. The popularity and demand for them has dwindled, but I still see them from time to time. My mother in law still wears one when she gardens. RBH has commented about these before if I remember correctly.

[Undertow]

Certainly not a personal favorite but it is interesting.

[big kahuna]

I have this picture of a retiree in a Aloha shirt, plaid shorts, wrap-a-round shades, black socks and sandals on a bench in Boca Raton or Miami..

I've seen new big brim straws at WalMart with the green plastic shade material (for gardening??)

I remember hats like this as a child...something from a different time and era.

[Lamont Cranston]

That is a very interesting hat!
I have a hat in the same style, without the visor, that I bought from the Amish in Indiana about twenty years ago. It is the every day hat of that community.
I was told by an old Indiana farmer that non Amish farmers also wore straw fedora style hats before WWII . After the war, seed companys started giving away the "Seed Caps" that you see farmers wear today, for free. He told me he thought that the straw hats were more pratical.
They keep sun and rain off you.
But the seed caps were free and the seed companys gave away alot of them.

Nice hat.

[fatwoul]

That is a very interesting hat!
I have a hat in the same style, without the visor, that I bought from the Amish in Indiana about twenty years ago. It is the every day hat of that community...

Really? THe bash and the band seem a little dressy for the Amish. Most of them wear flatter (or simpler) crowns, and very simple black bands.

As for this visor hat, I've never really understood visors - the sun still gets through, but its just green? What's the point?

Personally, I'd prefer to just have the brim at the front.

[Edward]

Well, it wouldn't be my choice personally, but definitely interesting. I don't recall ever seeing anything like this before. I can certainly imagine someone wearing the like of that, though - I picture the natural wearer as a gentleman in his mid 50s - retirement age, wearing it in the Summer while out and about driving in an early 50s Ford, Caddy or similar. It puts me in mind of the sort of fifties period accessories for cars, like the sun visor above the windscreen (windshield?).

[mingoslim]

Really? The bash and the band seem a little dressy for the Amish. Most of them wear flatter (or simpler) crowns, and very simple black bands.

Most folks only think of the Pennsylvania Old Order Amish from the Lancaster area when they think of the Amish . . . But there are groups in Southern Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky that are far more "modern" . . . I have seen them in hats like this (without the visor of course) . . .

And I have a traditional Old-Order Style Amish Hat, which I got a few years back . . . Flat-top, plain band . . . which was hand made by an Amish Hat-maker in Indiana . . . Looks kind of neat . . . But it is heavy and hot as all get out. If I were Amish, I would certainly go for something more comfortable when in the fields.

[fatwoul]

...If I were Amish, I would certainly go for something more comfortable when in the fields.

Like one of those little battery operated fans?

[Big Man]

... I picture the natural wearer as a gentleman in his mid 50s - retirement age ...

Remember this quote when YOU are in your mid-50's.