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I came home to find my wife wearing the new-to-her O'Farrell inside the house for no other reason than she just likes the hat. I was shocked! Not sure we can support two hat fanatics...
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How do folks react to your hat wearing?
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AMEN!
psklenar
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I've been alternating between wearing my Mayser Panama and my Stetson SE Hemp Stratoliner to work this summer and have had several very positive comments from my co-workers and aquaintences. But I wore my new, to me, Playboy to the office Friday and I heard not only from them, but two complete strangers stopped me to complement me on it!
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Doing my part for National Drink a Beer Day I visited my favorite saloon for happy hour this afternoon. Wearing my usual uniform of jeans, boots and my Butch Dorer —50.
I sat at the bar next to a fellow I had not met before but he was quick to introduce himself. Not long after this Jim said, "How do you get away with wearing a cowboy hat in here"?
My flashpoint can be a little low sometimes when it comes to what I perceive as rude behavior and yesterday was no different. I won't bore you all with my response just suffice it to say his eyes were a bit wider when I finished than when I started.
I sat at the bar next to a fellow I had not met before but he was quick to introduce himself. Not long after this Jim said, "How do you get away with wearing a cowboy hat in here"?
My flashpoint can be a little low sometimes when it comes to what I perceive as rude behavior and yesterday was no different. I won't bore you all with my response just suffice it to say his eyes were a bit wider when I finished than when I started.
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Winston Carter
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Winston Carter
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I like wearing my western hats old style and my fedora's funky style with the brim turned up so I have no expectations for the general public to understand. 
scottyrocks
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I got a positive comment about my green Penman the other day.
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For all of us it depends on the people and the place. In my case most people don't speak or react at all. Those who do usually say something like nice hat, or I like your hat. One guy I know remarked on me having a different hat whenever he sees me, made in a neutral tone, and that was the only comment he's ever made about my hat(s). Only once has anyone made some sort of Indiana Jones crack, and I was wearing a Tilley!
Keep in mind, whatever the remark, it is saying more about the person making it than about you.
Keep in mind, whatever the remark, it is saying more about the person making it than about you.
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It's when they move away from me that stings.... I mean, really, just because I say something like, "Well, even after all these years they still can't find the bodies...."
I've never received a negative comment about my hats, but I do take some compliments a little more seriously than others, if you get what I'm saying. For instance, there is a huge difference between hearing "cool hat" from a teenager, and hearing "man, that is a nice hat" from a guy your age (for the record, almost 50). Know what I mean? Not that I'm complaining, I'll take any compliment, any time!
Anyway, was at my kid's marching band competition the other night, wearing my favorite hat (a diamond crown stout, with a stingy upturned brim. I know the stingies aren't terribly popular around here, but I am a real sucker for them, especially when paired with a matching shirt and sport coat). I was filing out of the stands, when, from about 15 feet away I could see the gate attendant checking out my hat. You could tell a compliment was coming... Sure nuff, as I passed him to leave the stadium, he leaned in and gave me the old "man, that is a nice hat"....
Anyway, was at my kid's marching band competition the other night, wearing my favorite hat (a diamond crown stout, with a stingy upturned brim. I know the stingies aren't terribly popular around here, but I am a real sucker for them, especially when paired with a matching shirt and sport coat). I was filing out of the stands, when, from about 15 feet away I could see the gate attendant checking out my hat. You could tell a compliment was coming... Sure nuff, as I passed him to leave the stadium, he leaned in and gave me the old "man, that is a nice hat"....
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Oh, darn!!
You coulda had a good story edited out too!!
Oh just.....gee Wally!!
Man that was close!!
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Got a "Nice Hat" comment on my BGCD from a lady at the Ripple Glass Beer Bottle Recycling dumpster. "Classy" she said.
It was, B. The story and I would have been edited.
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Around here a fedora sighting--a proper fedora, that is, not a low-end trilby mistaken for a fedora--is rare enough, and a green fedora even rarer. If anything, I think the color draws as much attention as the hat itself.
Two or three years ago I was wearing my Bluegrass Green Campdraft and my olive drab field jacket while running errands on a rare rainy day, and a slightly older Gent approached me and asked, "That hat isn't government issue, is it?" When I replied it wasn't, he said, "I thought so; the color's a little off." But that led to a very pleasant conversation, during which he told me he'd been drafted and sent to Vietnam in the 60s and couldn't remember ever seeing anyone wearing a hat like the Campdraft. He liked the color, the style, and the way it shed the rain water, so we talked about the hat for a while and I gave him the information he'd need to order one for himself. He thanked me and we parted, but that's the way most of my "hat encounters" have gone--positive experiences, and I hope I've managed to create at least one or two hat converts.
Mine as well, Al. The problem I had with my encounter last week were the words "get away with". As if I was breaking an unknown rule. If he had said something to the effect that he didn't see many cowboy hats or hats around this area, it would have created an opening for a pleasant conversation instead of the spark he sent my way.
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I wore my VS to the Big E (aka: Eastern States Exposition) a week or so ago and had probably 20 or 30 people comment positively on the hat and maybe half a dozen asked where on earth could such a nice hat be found these days!
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Exactly, couldn't agree more. I get the same responses and you can easily tell when someone is being sarcastic with a "nice hat" or actually means it.
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