Presidents' Hats: Good Days, Bad Days

[Marc Chevalier]

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Like the mere mortals they serve, U.S. presidents have their good and bad hat days.



Good hat day for Teddy Roosevelt:

Bad hat day for same:

So-so hat day for Taft:

Good hat day for a very young Coolidge:

Bad hat day (he got older):

Very good hat day for Hoover:

Bad hat days for his successor:

Good hat days for same:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Very good hat days for Truman (the one president who never had a bad hat day):

 

[WEEGEE]

HAT SALES

Truman was a hat saleman at one point in his life.

 

[Benny Holiday]

If you have a bad hair day, you can cover it with a hat

but if you have a bad hat day . . . you're in trouble!!!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Truman was a hat saleman at one point in his life.

Well, that explains it, then.

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[Matt Deckard]

Awsome thread... good show good show...

I may just go back to the FDR crease

Thats' back when men had to wear hats and they were worn to get dirty... now we baby the darn things so much, we have to fake character when it's wanted.

 

[WEEGEE]

TRUMAN TIMELINE

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/timeline/index.html

1919

January 16: The 18th Amendment is ratified, forbidding the manufacture, sale, import or export of liquor in the United States, and beginning the period known as Prohibition.

May 6: Truman is discharged from the army.

June 28: Harry Truman and Elizabeth (Bess) Virginia Wallace are wed at the bride's church, Trinity Episcopal, in Independence, Missouri, and move to 219 N. Delaware Street in Independence, the residence of Truman's mother-in-law, Madge Gates Wallace.

November: Truman opens a men's haberdashery store, in partnership with Edward Jacobson, at 104 West 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

1920

Truman is appointed major in Field Artillery, Officers Reserve Corps.

Women win the battle for suffrage with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

1922

The haberdashery business fails as a result of a business recession, but Truman refuses to file a petition of bankruptcy. He pays off his share of the firm's debts during the ensuing fifteen years.

With the endorsement of county Democratic party leader T. J. Pendergast, Truman wins election as an eastern judge on the Jackson County Court, an executive body that administers affairs of the county.

1923-1925

Truman attends the Kansas City School of Law.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I may just go back to the FDR crease ...

Ah, FDR. Long before rich folks wore ratty jeans, Roosevelt sported his battered old "lucky" fedora through four presidential campaigns. (Bet it was expensive when new, though!)

Shabby chic, indeed.

 

[scotrace]

Awsome thread... good show good show...

I may just go back to the FDR crease

Thats' back when men had to wear hats and they were worn to get dirty... now we baby the darn things so much, we have to fake character when it's wanted.

That one was his "Campaign Hat." He wore it for outings among the regular folk, taking pride in its battered condition.

And !!! There he is in that damned cape again.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

November, 1919: Truman opens a men's haberdashery store, in partnership with Edward Jacobson, at 104 West 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

No question, Truman was sharp. "You can take a president out of the haberdashery, but you can't take the haberdashery out of a president." Or something like that.

 

[scotrace]

He also wore Aloha shirts, didn't he?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Yeah, and he got a lot of flack for it, too. Political cartoonists invariably depicted him in Hawaiian shirts. It wasn't meant as a compliment.

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[Benny Holiday]

Australia's wartime PM, John Curtin

Another statesman who enjoyed good hat days:

He worked himself to the grave to save his country, dying just 6 weeks before the end of WWII. Our greatest Prime Minister.

 

[epic610]

FDR

i don't mind so much that his campaign hat got dirty or beat up . . . but that by his third and fourth campaigns, it was at least a size too small.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Our greatest Prime Minister.

And clearly with a great tailor behind him.

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[Marc Chevalier]

i don't mind so much that his campaign hat got dirty or beat up . . . but that by his third and fourth campaigns, it was at least a size too small.

That, or FDR's head swelled. After winning four presidential terms in a row, whose wouldn't?

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[Lincsong]

Nixon wore hats while in Congress and the Senate and while Vice-President. I don't recall him in a hat as President. Did Ronald Reagan ever wear a hat?[huh]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Nixon looked pretty awful in hats. So bad, in fact, that I didn't post the photos here: I felt sorry for him.


Goodness, man, how could you have forgotten Reagan in his COWBOY hats? At the ranch, remember?

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[Benny Holiday]

Definitely.

He always wore a waistcoat with a pocket watch, too. Conservative and respectable, he looked every bit the leader of a nation.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

He has a face you can trust, doesn't he?

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