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  1. Red McCutcheon

    Would you like the fedora and related hats to become main stream fashion

    s Voted yes because I believe better taste would be indicative of a better society.
  2. Red McCutcheon

    A Hat Renaissance?

    x And Connery knows how to sport a lid. Check out Dr. No and From Russia with Love for further evidence of that, if you haven't already.
  3. Red McCutcheon

    A Hat Renaissance?

    s WC, Yep. That's Connery. KG, I know that Hasidic Jews wear hats, but I thought they tended to be bowlers, derbys and homburgs rather than fedoras. Perhaps I'm wrong on that.
  4. Red McCutcheon

    A Hat Renaissance?

    s Ortega, Good point about the distinctiveness of each individual hat. One of the criticisms leveled at hat wearing, at least during the Golden Age, was that it bespoke a lack of imagination, and subjugation to mind-numbing conformity (as if there is anything inherently wrong with...
  5. Red McCutcheon

    A Hat Renaissance?

    d It is very nice to receive such compliments. Thing is, if fedoras become commonplace, those compliments will disappear. So, the selfish side of me hopes that fedoras remain a rarity, while the more altruistic side hopes for a hat renaissance for the common good.
  7. Red McCutcheon

    A Hat Renaissance?

    I'm curious about TFLers' attitudes toward their minority status. By minority status I mean, of course, the fact the we are members of that well nigh extinct tribe known as hat-wearers (I exclude baseball cap-wearers from our little society). Cutting to the chase, do you cherish the fact...
  8. Red McCutcheon

    All You Need to Know About Hat Etiquette

    s Don't wear my hat while sleeping or taking a bath. Otherwise, it tends to stay on.
  9. Red McCutcheon

    What to do when they just don't get it

    d Who knew there were so many great marriage counselors on TFL?! They're coming outta the damn woodwork! lol
  10. Red McCutcheon

    Sartorial Solecism?

    s I wear jeans and a fed as a matter of course. I personally don't think there's too much of a style clash there, just so long as the jeans are not tattered to shreds and encumbered by chains, spikes, studs, radar antennae, anvils, fan-blades, piston-rods, etc.
  11. Red McCutcheon

    What to do when they just don't get it

    d You're my kinda Dame, Betty. Now why don't you get all dolled up and we'll go paint this lousy, two-bit town red. ;)
  13. Red McCutcheon

    What to do when they just don't get it

    d Or "many women have an aversion to anything that diverts attention from them." Eventually, this will become a sentence worthy of Tolstoy. Rodney Tolstoy, that is.
  14. Red McCutcheon

    What to do when they just don't get it

    f How unfortunate. Mrs. McCutcheon had long suggested I wear a hat--not, hopefully, because my hair is skanky--and now that I've obliged her, she likes it very much. If she hated hats as much as your wife apparently does, I don't think I'd wear one around her.
  15. Red McCutcheon

    movie hats that inspired you...

    d That's right, pgoat. And the Brit agent--Hamilton, I think--is wearing a beauty of a stingy in the early stages of Live and Let Die. A pity he then got knifed.
  16. Red McCutcheon

    What size brim do you prefer

    d I'm a bit on the lean side with a narrow face, and I currently sport a 2" brim with a center dent and high crown. The old ears poke out a bit and I fear that a larger brim might make them look like wings. lol
  17. Red McCutcheon

    Sartorial Solecism?

    f I think the fedora/sweater combo is a good one, and it's one I often wear. IMO sweater is sufficiently dressy to match up well with a felt fed.
  19. Red McCutcheon

    Sartorial Solecism?

    f I do have several Hawaiians to fill the bill. Perhaps that's the route I'll go when the weather warms up: button down short sleeves (Hawaiian or no), loafers (sans socks), shorts (yes, shorts), and a straw. No fedora with the tees. PS--Looking for a blue straw fedora, incidentally. And it...
  20. Red McCutcheon

    movie hats that inspired you...

    d Bond in Dr. No and From Russia with Love.
  21. Red McCutcheon

    Sartorial Solecism?

    d I respect your high standards, flylot, even if I'm unable to meet them. lol
  22. Red McCutcheon

    Sartorial Solecism?

    f Of course men in the good old days--not intended ironically, BTW--did not conceive of their lids as icons. That said, the general aesthetic ethos of that era was infinitely superior to our own and, accordingly, I revere the fedora in homage to good taste and sport it as a thumb in the eye of...
  23. Red McCutcheon

    Sartorial Solecism?

    f You've sort of gone round the back end and made my point for me, carebear. The "working clothes" of the 40s and 50s would almost be considered semi-formal today. Thus the fedora was conceived and developed with what we would consider semi-formal wear in mind. It, thus seems anachronistic and...

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