Are you ugly 'cause yer mad or are ya mad 'cause yer ugly?

[Snrbfshn]

I'm with Raindog...

Let's see what your mug looks like. I'll admit, I felt funny the first few times I posted self-taken mugshots with new acquisitions. But the feedback is good, and you won't get a better qualified set of critics than the folks on this forum.

 

[StraightRazor]

Heres an old shot of me in my Stetson temple. I think it looks alright

This is the one my girlfriend always jokingly called my 'cowboy' hat. Hopefully, , my AB will be completed soon, and I'll post a pick of that.

 

[StraightRazor]

And yes, I'm in my pajamas.

 

[vespasian]

For me the angle of the camera doesnt help. The brim looks quite wide, the hat is tilted but the crown looks about right. It looks quite a bit of hat for your head. Those hats look to me to be a bit of a safari hat as in the brim is wide and its built tough for keeping the sun and rain off and taking a few good knocks. Try going for a true dress hat especially with a more modern look. Are you wanting to have a full vintage appearance or do you want to look like todays guy in a stylish hat? From there you can start out on the next step and thats for me, putting on the most likely day to day wear you have and then trying a hat on it.

You look about my age, build and facial shape. I wear a different hat for different occasions and the one I have similar to the above is my weather hat. I dont use it with suits and day to day wear.

Below is me in my smart hat: Its a 2in brim, 4in crown city trilby from www.hatsonline.com. Looking at it I could probably take a larger hat, but not much more because I want a modern look. It depends on your starting point, as in, the period.

 

[REDKNIGHT1775]

I like to think I look good in a hat, but that's me....

 

[StraightRazor]

That looks good on you, but I like a more vintage look. Something with reverse taper but a narrow brim like yours. My AB will have a fairly wider brim, obviously, 'cause it's an 'Indy' hat, but I'd like another reverse tapered fedora, grey, with a narrow brim like the one you are wearing above. I would wear that as my dress hat, and my AB as my outdoors, or 'weather' hat. Any suggestions?

 

[vespasian]

http://www.villagehatshop.com/vhs_jaxon_bogart.html

I dont have one like the jaxon bogart but it looks like the kind I would like and very similar to the one I wear. Have a look around the village hat shop. The brim on my hat is only 2in.

 

[Aerol]

fitting your hat to your face

Indys are nice...I suppose everyone needs either an Indy or a safari type hat (mine's a 15+ year old Akubra). They're nifty starter hats. I'm having mine updated with a new ribbon and bound edge, just to change the look a little.

But if you want to develop a wardrobe of hats, you should head to a custom hatter like Optimo. There's nothing like actually selecting the entire hat, from color to bash to trim, to make a hat that fits your face and your physique.