The "hat face"?

[Trenchfriend]

I was complimented by a 70+ former gastronomy workmate of my parents, half hour ago. He sad, my traveller felt hat suits me well and I really got a matching "hat face".

Any ideas, what a "hat face" is meant to be?

Gloomy, 3 day beard, mistrusting expression??

 

[Pellie]

I was complimented by a 70+ former gastronomy workmate of my parents, half hour ago. He sad, my traveller felt hat suits me well and I really got a matching "hat face".

Any ideas, what a "hat face" is meant to be?

Gloomy, 3 day beard, mistrusting expression??

According to me it depends on the hat you are wearing and when you look back to the 60's and earlier, everybody was wearing a hat, so everybody had a "hatface"? I think today it is that you wear a hat with confidence!

 

[Dash Riprock]

what a "hat face" is meant to be?

It's kinda like when you are playing poker... you keep an expression on your face like you mean bidness and you ain't messin around.

When you take your hat off, you can relax.

But, when you put your hat back on... you gotta go back to having an expression on your face like you mean bidness and you ain't messin around.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Picard as Dixon Hill, right?

 

[Dash Riprock]

Picard as Dixon Hill, right?

I was thinkin more like Bugs Bunny as Porky Pig

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., Harald!

 

[Edward]

Yeah, I think it's about looking like you belong in the hat. Same as suits - or, in my experience (even moreso) a kilt. Some guys in any of these things look uncomfortable, unfamiliar, always pulling at it. Or if not, they still otherwise wear it as a costume. You know, like that English guy at a wedding in a kilt going "Do you like my skirt?".

Having a hat face means you wear the hat, and wear it well. The absence of hat face is somebody who is worn by the hat, and always looks like they are in fancy dress.


You can see this phenomenon in a lot of period-piece films. All those 40s and 50s pieces Dicaprio does really work, visually, because he looks so comfortable in the clothes, he belongs in that visual world. Dominic Cooper in Agent Carter is the same. Then you'll see other actors who just.... look wrong, they stick out and come across as being in an obvious costume. The former two I mention have a hat face, the others who look odd don't, as they're wearing a costume while Dicaprio and Cooper are wearing clothes.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

It’s a look that says without words:
Don’t touch my hat
And be careful what you say!
B

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Any ideas, what a "hat face" is meant to be?

Sun wrinkles & scars, a long ago broken nose & a cauliflower ear, Ted Herubin was no paper shuffler behind a desk. He’d seen enough in Vietnam to last him a lifetime. RIP.