Be Excellent To Each Other

As a fair-haired chap in his early 30's, I'm feeling the need to get a hat - especially as yesterday when I was out in the sun I managed to catch the sun on my scalp of all places, the only part of me that wasn't liberally daubed in sun block.

However, all is not simple. In the past I'm sure there was a whole gentleman's support group for hat buying, but no more! About all you get nowadays is help on making you look like a tit in a baseball cap. So what's a good hat to get? I'm thinking a Panama or a Stetson... but is anyone here experienced in the field of hat purchasing?

Incidentally, bowler and chimney stack hats are right out. As are granddad-style flat caps. Looking like a tit is not the order of the day!

Outted!




I have a cheap panama that I don't wear BTW.

a beret?

We did have a hat thread not long ago. Surprisingly.

You may very well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment...

I have a hat.

It's woolly, with a peak. But I am young so I can pull it off.

going bald sucks ass

i have one of these...

Well, its that exact shape. It doesn't have the dodgy lettering, instead a rather tasteful pale blue patterned band, but it is stetson-esque without being full Stetson.
Its about 8 years old now, and really falling apart - but it's an awesome hat!

There's only two you can get away with.





(baseball caps will either look excellent or crap, so could be a third option)

Now that looks good - but what is it?

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous comment:

What?! I'm ordering a stovepipe.

There's alot to be said for the Stetson.

All the cool kids buy their hats at Topman.

http://www.topman.com/webapp/wcs/stores ... &langId=-1

That's terrible! It's like all of the Village People rolled into one cuntish head adornment!

As dumb as a box of nails as he was he still had a hat named after him.

Edit. And fuck me he looks worryingly like Fred West.

Its a trilby...

Paul Henry was the choice of Ronnie Barker to play Godber in Porridge, but he was overruled by the producer. CHINNYTRUFAX!

Yeah I don't think old Benny would have suited the role tbh. A bit thick.. Infact, it's probably that stigma that cost him work after Crossroads tbh.

As worn by:

Not very fair. Paul Henry was/is a talented actor who would have been more than up to the job.

As Jasper Carrot once said, either the guy who played Benny was a really good actor or he was actually like that in real life. He was a good actor who did suffer after he left Crossroads. He was the UK's top earning TV star at one stage and in the days of 3 channels he got totally typecast. Remember, it took Tom Baker a good 15 years to totally break free of Doctor Who and start doing major TV series again.

And if you're troubled by Terrible Flies, you can pop a dog tod between the peaks. Keeps them out of your face.

No no no, I didn't say he wasn't a great actor. He was a superb actor. Benny was one of the most lovable characters of my childhood. Infact if it wasn't for him I wouldn't even remember Crossroads now tbh. However, he did have that stigma attatched to his character .

It's kinda like when Pertwee was in other things. I would take one look at him, say, "fuck me it's Worzel" and bust up laughing with cheers of "cup of tea and a slice of cake". And it was usually a serious proggy.

10. LMAO !

Marks and Spencer usually has a good selection of hats. Or just go for a Tilley.

I love hats. My favourite one is a hat I got from Blacks I think. It is a North Face hat, sort of like a wool beanie hat but with a wee slight skip. Trillbys are also cool, I have one which we got for a Halloween party one year but which I took great delight in wearing to Death Disco at the Arches one night. awesome.

The problem is that Pete Docherty wears a trilby and he's a cunt.

True dat. Find someone who isn't and wears a trillby?

I secretly enjoy the etiquette that goes with hat wearing. Tucking it under your arm as you enter a room, putting one on when it's time to leave, doffing it to the ladies, brushing the tip as you pass an acquiantance in the street - it's all awesome gentlemanly fun.

Oh oh oh, get a cane as well!

Swordstick, morelike.




pity they're illegal these days

Again, I give you the glory of me! Looking grumpy and unkempt! In my hat!

I'm having deja vu. Wasn't there a spate of head measuring on this forum not a few months ago.

Anyway. I went to Go Outdoors over the weekend (bought a new tent, look out THE SOUTH, the Parrys are going camping!) and they had a large range of outdoorsy type hats, many of which were quite tempting even to my hat phobic cranium

"Gandalf: The Wild Years"

"Terry Pratchett: The Student Years".

"The Rev: The Use Your Fucking Hairbrush Years."

You are Daniel Kitson. Gimme a fiver.



I don't suit hats any more. Or at least, none of the ones I've tried on recently. I did go through a phase of always wearing a beany hat, and was politely asked to remove it when I went to York Minster, until they 'realised' I was a girl I got 'pwned' by a man of God inside a cathedral.

Nooo, that's a pinch-front fedora.

http://www.hatsandcaps.co.uk/

That one above isn't a trilby, it's a fedora. Get a fedora. There are excellent ones on there for about £20 - 30. I got one (along with an olive explorer type thing and a cordoruy trilby for charlotte... well, she stole it, anyway) recently and have had several compliments on it. They look excellent (unless you get one with one of those daft feathers in, or worse - a tacky badge with the indiana jones logo on. I mean, for heaven's sake) and keep the sun off very well. I also have a cheap straw panama thing that'll probably fall apart in a year, for mooching in the garden/casual visits to town. Keeps the sun off, like.

And 'beanies' are not hats. They are woollen scalp condoms.

Cor! 23 inches! Fnar!

I'm tempted by the Water Repellent Bucket Hat. I'm afraid I'll look like a tit though.

Battered straw sun hat (I want to say "boater" here, is that right?) for the win.

Goddamit! I want a Buster Keaton porkpie hat

http://busterstuff.com/catalog/index.ph ... e4f62113f2

Quick photoshop says: Yes, you look like a tit.

Boaters are those round rimmed straw ones with the shallow cylinder on top. Think cambridge toff stereotype opening champagne on a riverbank while snorting at the working class.

Ah, happy days.

FTFY.

That might work if I was actually from Bristol. Pay more attention, Chinster. I know it's difficult for you to pay much attention to anything from the 70s rather than the 80s, but keep up.

As you clearly must know by now, I pay no attention and instead build mental images of you all in my head.


Mr Chris's official lawyer photo, yesterday.