Hats
Jan 16 2007
Qualifications for posting on this thread - you think anyone (male) under 50 wearing a flat cap looks like a nob.
I need a hat (only partly to cover my hair. I can't choose one. Help me choose a nice one.
Thank you.
PS - not a beanie or a baseball cap.
Jan 16 2007
#2
What about a nice flat cap?
You look like a nob already, so it might have a sort of double-negative effect, and cancel it out. 
Jan 16 2007
#3
Do you really want to sit through a SLSF meeting with 2 people wearing flatcaps?
Christ, I might as well get a beret.
Jan 16 2007
#4
I've got a beret.
(How much would you give me to wear it to a meeting?)
Jan 16 2007
#5
You already discredit us enough with the foul stench of your wanky French tobacco. 
Jan 16 2007
#6
Jan 16 2007
#7
how about a nice ironic maoist hat:
all the rage i hear, since Keffiyeh's escaped the clutches of earnest lefties.
Jan 16 2007
#8
I might add that today I came to work in a black rollneck sweater.
I am a stereotypical anarchist of yesteryear. 
Jan 16 2007
#9
That's actually what I want, but can't find one that fits me.
Obviously without the red star.
Jan 16 2007
#10
Obviously not in green, too.
Jan 16 2007
#11
Get a hat like mine and look cool like me. Seriously though you should wear a hat, I think the deterioration of society can be directly linked to men no longer wearing hats.
Jan 16 2007
#12
in that case, the only headwear befitting an ultra-left purist:
Jan 16 2007
#13
Jack wrote:
That's actually what I want, but can't find one that fits me.Obviously without the red star.
That is one wanky hat. This is what happens when you hang around Goldsmiths.
Jan 16 2007
#14
jef costello wrote:
I think the deterioration of society can be directly linked to men no longer wearing hats.
Well it beats decadence theory, anyway.
Jan 16 2007
#15
They're awesome!
Altho I mostly want one the same as George Clooney wears in O Brother Where Art thou. 
Jan 16 2007
#16
at christmas i had the good fortune to be browsing through my wee bro's FHM and found Jenny McCarthy rating types of hats on fellas. Well guess which one she thought was the coolest and least try hard, yep the flat cap, the tilby took a slagging as the guys who wear them "think they are mysterious and interesting yet never are".
Flat caps all the way!
Jan 16 2007
#17
Jack wrote:
Qualifications for posting on this thread - you think anyone (male) under 50 wearing a flat cap looks like a nob.
Jan 16 2007
#18
Get that CNT hat off ebay I posted the link to ages ago.
Jan 16 2007
#19
One of those militia hats?
I bought one for Grace, they don't fit me.
Jan 16 2007
#20
so it turns out that jack is, in fact, big-headed
Jan 16 2007
#21
revol68 wrote:
at christmas i had the good fortune to be browsing through my wee bro's FHM and found Jenny McCarthy rating types of hats on fellas. Well guess which one she thought was the coolest and least try hard, yep the flat cap, the tilby took a slagging as the guys who wear them "think they are mysterious and interesting yet never are".Flat caps all the way!
what a fuckin lie, least try-hard my arse.
Shave your head back and sides and get a baseball cap.
Jan 16 2007
#22
haha jesus fuckin christ he actually thinks he looks good in this! jesus. We went to Co-op the other day and some old woman shopping trolley matched Revol cap, she could've swapped him for her mammy's-boy son who was with her.
Jan 16 2007
#23
SombreroXcore always wins.
Jan 16 2007
#24
i'm a big hat afficionado (in recognition that i've got about 3 years left of hair ) and i would say drop into Bates The Hatter on Jermyn street but -
your hair is too long for a proper hat like a trilby, pork pie or bowler. You cant have long hair coming down the back it would look totally trampy and studenty.
Also, the couple of times i've seen you you've been well dressed in a contemporary way, but not in a way that would work with a trad hat. You cannot wear hoodies or casual wear with a hat - like the long hair it would look like a 'wacky student combo' - you'd want to be wearing a shirt and a jacket. I think your best option, seriously, is to go for a variant of the cloth cap style. Not an actual mao cap, but that kind of thing; a soft material baseball cap. You can probs pick one up in the shops you already like.
Anyway your hair looks fine in the pic, but i'm hardly one to judge 
EDIT:
OFFS you've already agreed to a soft cap, why the fuck did i not just read that before wanking on 
Jan 16 2007
#25
Joseph K. wrote:
so it turns out that jack is, in fact, big-headed
I could have told you that.
Jan 16 2007
#26
I don't want a "proper" hat, I'd look a proper nob.
Yea I think it'll have to be some variation on a cap. But everywhere I've looked is just 1 size fits all shit.
Jan 16 2007
#27
is there a TK max in s london?
This is just general point - fucking check out TK Max! Its amazing.
If you want multiple sizes of hat in that syle, you might have to go to Stussy, Freshjive, Boxfresh etc in Covent Garden. Tis very UK Hip Hop.
Whilst you are there you could drop into Fred Perry and get a totally new fashion sense... No? Worth a try
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I don't want a "proper" hat, I'd look a proper nob.
Now thats just uncalled for.
Jan 16 2007
#28
Tacks wrote:
is there a TK max in s london?
Lewisham!
Man, we've got everything.
Jan 16 2007
#29
Joseph K. wrote:
how about a nice ironic maoist hat
true story: 24 years ago the gf at the time went as a tourist to the PRC. (she was one of the first wave to do this.) as a gift i asked her to bring back a mao cap. i thought it would be cool but as soon as i handled it i knew i could never wear it. no irony possible for such as mao.
jack, definitely go with the puritan hat.
Jan 16 2007
#30
in all seriousness, get a lumberjack type hat. i have one and it rocks my world. now i have it, i couldn't imagine my life without it.
i was going to buy a hat, you've just discredited them by association