Flat caps?

brummytom

What do you think of them?

I bought one today - dirt cheap (£5) but IMO looks good, in mom and dad's opinion i "look like a pillock" (I'm 15)

Is it about time they became commonplace again or should they be left to 80 year old farmers?

waraf

Your parents are right you do look like a pillock. Boy band members from the ninties wore flat caps and even they with their good looks and talent for moving from one foot to the other whilst miming looked like pillocks. Put it away or you will be looking at pictures of yourself in 10 years time asking your parents how in Gods name they let you out of the house looking like that. Plenty of time for flat caps when you're 55+

ScumLord

You have to be old and either fishing or farming to be able to pull one of those off.

il gatto

Not at 15, unless you're at a horse show, and even then.....no, no excuse.
I have one somewhere. But then I'm over 30 and live in the country. And I own a Land Rover Defender. And we have horses and a few fields and grow veg. And I can drive a tractor. And I still wouldn't wear it unless I was knocking around the shed or the field.
Buy a Castro style hat. I got one in a sort of grey flannel material and it looks nice. A guy at work said I looked like a German sniper, but I took it as a compliment:pac:.
Re: you parents, yeah "pillock" sounds about right:D.

OldGoat

Thankfully I'm old enough to appricate flatcaps, excentric enough to get away with a flat cap and most of all I'm lucky enough to not give a fiddlers for anyones elses opinion on my choice of headwear.

The point is that if YOU are confident enough then enjoy wearing it then
go for it. Nothing worse then looking back at your youth and realising you never tried anything out of the ordinary and were simply one of the sheeple.

The flatcap is an emenantly sensible hat for Ireland/UK at this time of the year. It will roll up and fit into a pocket when not needed, protect you from both sun & rain.

il gatto

OldGoat wrote: »

Thankfully I'm old enough to appricate flatcaps, excentric enough to get away with a flat cap and most of all I'm lucky enough to not give a fiddlers for anyones elses opinion on my choice of headwear.

The point is that if YOU are confident enough then enjoy wearing it then
go for it. Nothing worse then looking back at your youth and realising you never tried anything out of the ordinary and were simply one of the sheeple.

The flatcap is an emenantly sensible hat for Ireland/UK at this time of the year. It will roll up and fit into a pocket when not needed, protect you from both sun & rain.

But what about hurtful words? Will it protect you from them?:D Only messing. Feck the begrudgers I say. If you want to look like Seth from Emmerdale, you go right ahead young man.:)

OldGoat

il gatto wrote: »

But what about hurtful words? Will it protect you from them?:D

The pain of the verbal taunts only last for a few decades so you soon learn to live with it.

When you look back at photos of yourself and friends from 10, 20 or 30 years previously you realise that EVERYONE looked like a dickhead, flatcap or not. Hunt through the charity shops to find a good tweed jacket too.

PrivateEye

Got a nice one over in the Fred Perry shop in Liverpool for a tenner, its puirely for gentleman business- i.e walking the dog. Were I wearing it a fair bit and not on rambles, I wouldn't really give a damn what people think of my hat myself, not least in a society that thought v neck t-shirts looked good with waistcoats.

Fajitas!

Pffft, if you like it, wear it.

I haven't worn mine since last Sept. ish, but that's moreso out of not having it around. It saved me from plenty of sunburn, along with keeping the head warm, whether it was at festivals, travelling, nights out... anything. It even got some compliments to boot.

Besides, noone wants to start on a pikey.

shiny bold head

hats good also bald sun burn head apply sun lotion on head al ltime wear flat cap or basball cap summer no hair on top keep sun away burn bald cant grow any hair stubble who was i too kidd i could grow nto flat top see through buzz off clippers grade 0 no guard short clean look now razor off gillette mach 3 shaving gel bald 34 why wear hat somtimes cold

Dord

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