Hat Wearers: You're Just Trying to Be Don Draper. Stop It.

[Michaelshane]

I like to watch mad men because...."hell I was there"

 

[hatophile]

I like to watch mad men because...."hell I was there"

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Edward]

Hats will come back, guys. Remember, though, that we're talking about THE FUTURE!

So, move out of the way baseball caps, fedoras, bucket hats, trilbys, beanies and all you others, make way for the energy dome:

Good for keeping an enitre family together on a day out (providing they're all the same height...): put 'em all in one of these, and plug 'em head-first into a giant piece of Lego... lol

 

[Richard Warren]

It does sometimes seem that I am trapped in a world where nothing new gets created culturally while the past gets endless mined, digested, and regurgitated.

There are intelligent, perceptive people who say intelligent, perceptive things about this condition (I do not claim to be one). On the other hand there are tools such Mr. Parsons.

 

[Edward]

It does sometimes seem that I am trapped in a world where nothing new gets created culturally while the past gets endless mined, digested, and regurgitated.

As the Good Book says, there ain't nothin' new under the Sun....

 

[Mario]

Are we not men? We are Devo!

 

[Chuck Bobuck]

Hats will come back, guys. Remember, though, that we're talking about THE FUTURE!

So, move out of the way baseball caps, fedoras, bucket hats, trilbys, beanies and all you others, make way for the energy dome:

Whip it, whip it good. That Devo hat is from the 80's. that is a vintage piece of plastic.

 

[rlk]

Coincidentally, Devo are performing tomorrow night in Chicago in a 1920's Movie Palace, the Congress Theater. Almost worth it just to look at the building interior.

 

[mayserwegener]

Are we're not men? We are Devo!

+1 Spuds!

 

[Fedoration]

I am a man. And depending on whom you ask I am a bit mad, so I guess I am already a mad man. So what if I like Fedora's? Fortunately style and fashion aren't the same thing.

 

[Neophyte]

I particularly enjoyed their new album. They can still whip it good, apparently .

 

[Lefty]

If I'm going to be someone from the show, I'll shoot for Sterling. However, my vibe is far more All in the Family than Mad Men.

 

[Chuck Bobuck]

This is my Devo tribute bash. It takes a lot of steam and is time consuming though.

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I don't watch Madmen.

 

[Nick D]

I am a man. And depending on whom you ask I am a bit mad, so I guess I am already a mad man. So what if I like Fedora's? Fortunately style and fashion aren't the same thing.

I am a man, and I can change. If I have to.

I guess.

 

[Fletch]

I'm not trying to be clever, or sarcastic...

...but who's Don Draper?

A yuppie douchebag, altho such a term was unknown in 1964.

Was there an equivalent epithet then? Or were such people pretty much revered as sophisticates and tastemakers?

 

[theinterchange]

A yuppie douchebag, altho such a term was unknown in 1964.

Was there an equivalent epithet then? Or were such people pretty much revered as sophisticates and tastemakers?

The things I've heard/read about Don Draper, I'd say you summed it up pretty well. Why anyone would want to be like him is beyond me.

Randy

 

[Feraud]

Was there an equivalent epithet then? Or were such people pretty much revered as sophisticates and tastemakers?

I am sure the beatnicks had a term for it.

 

[Mario]

The things I've heard/read about Don Draper, I'd say you summed it up pretty well. Why anyone would want to be like him is beyond me.

Randy

Perhaps this can tell us something about the author of that rant...

It's strange: back in the 1960's, politically aware university professors were made pop stars (at least in Germany and France). Today it's stock brokers, business men and managers that are turned into big stars. [huh]

The show has, to my knowledge, never been shown on Germany free TV, so I've never watched it.

 

[Undertow]

A yuppie douchebag, altho such a term was unknown in 1964.
Was there an equivalent epithet then? Or were such people pretty much revered as sophisticates and tastemakers?

To echo theinterchange, I'm not sure why anyone would want to emulate someone like that. And I don't think people are so stupid that they couldn't see a character that acts like an ass is, afterall, just an ass. [huh]

I guess some folks just want to be dressed well and have enough money to support their burgeoning drinking/womanizing habits. Perhaps that is the "new wave" of suit-dressing men?

God, I hope not.

 

[AntonAAK]

To echo theinterchange, I'm not sure why anyone would want to emulate someone like that. And I don't think people are so stupid that they couldn't see a character that acts like an ass is, afterall, just an ass. [huh]

I guess some folks just want to be dressed well and have enough money to support their burgeoning drinking/womanizing habits. Perhaps that is the "new wave" of suit-dressing men?

God, I hope not.

True but why do people admire/want to emulate James Bond? He is a drinking, womanising misogynist too, who is only out for himself. And he kills people. Sometimes they possibly deserve it, sometimes not.

I think that it is possible to admire aspects of a character whilst disapproving of others. That's why we have anti-heros and that is why good fiction is complex and interesting and not just black and white.

However I've seen a few episodes of Mad Men and haven't seen that many hats in it...