Men who wear hats

Timfy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120460592#Comment_120460592

Yup, pretty much identical. I also own a full stockman coat... be warned that unless you have the physique to carry it off and ONLY wear it on horseback then and only then you may get away with it!

Myself I look like a cross between Vera and a badly wrapped bale, it's only worn when I know there will be no witnesses!

AyeGer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120403789#Comment_120403789

I regularly wear baseball caps, I own lots of them from playing golf. I’m not particularly bothered if it’s seen as fashionable or not. I don’t wear them to be fashionable. I have my head shaved all over so they are quite useful on sunny days and as you say, warm in winter.

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120416830#Comment_120416830

I find it amazing that so few boardies here make the connection between keeping the sun off your head and getting CANCER. Wearing a hat -especially a WIDE RIMMED one to substantially keep the sun off your nose, ears, cheeks and chin is essential to significantly reduce one’s chances of getting cancer.

we can be a complete contradiction at times. We are so conscious of all types of cancer now, yet we do things like not wearing a hat in the blazing sun. Another eg. The most dangerous seats in a plane are at the front yet they are the most expensive. The safest seats are at the back because of its shape

back to hats. Did you ever note , for example, when gov ministers are on overseas trips to a war /famine/flood disaster area and the sun is blazing AND NONE OG THE MISSION - INCLUDING THE MINISTER- are wearing hats

it is also a fact that the cancer dangerous rays are still getting through on an overcast day - but maybe not so much in the wintertime

So, IMO, one should have access to a wide rimmed hat at all times and wear it during sunny, warm days - even when attending burials when you could be out in the scorching sun for circa 2 hours. Wear a black one to show respect.

A bald man out in the scorching sun and without a hat needs his head examined - no, not for cancer but for the logic he is using.

if not wearing a hat is a fashion /designer problem we’ll there is an opening for the next Philip Tracy - a son of Ahascra , Co Galway

Ramasun

I have a nice Fedora and I feel good wearing it. The lack of hat infrastructure stops me wearing it more often. It'll be like EV charging stations I reckon. Once more venues have proper hat stands, people will feel more confident bringing their hats further from home.

Zebra3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120460706#Comment_120460706

I was always told the safest seats on a plane are the ones at the front!!

”That’s the part of the plane the pilot is most interested in saving!”. 😂😂

The Moist Buddha

Erik Ten Hag has gone down the "Peaky Blinder" route, as has Rio Ferdinand

brokenbad

Michael Flatley's movie "Blackbird" is a tribute to Fedora, Trilby and Panama Hat wearers everywhere....

Ezeoul

My grandfather used to wear a flat cap for work, and a trilby for good wear. The trilby made him look very dapper.

My father was a tailor and a very smart dresser, but I can't think of a single instance where I ever saw him wear a hat.

I can't think of any men I know now who wear hats.

Masala

I like a Tilley hat when out in Sun ..or on walking trails. Keeps the neck and face free of burning etc.

Have the LTM5 below and LTM6...... great hats for both rain and shine.

bnt

^ Snap! I have a similar Tilley, though slightly lighter than that (or that's a dark photo). Christmas gift from friends in the USA.

With the weather we're having, I wonder why so few people here wear hats.

PS: the "Fedora-wearing neckbeard" type usually isn't wearing a Fedora at all, but a Trilby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LiIk2xudsI

mariaalice

Is a hat, not a must when you are bald? keep you warm in winter and the sun off in the summer, my husband has a great selection of fedoras, trilbies, and tweed caps, the Elmer Fudd hat is for very very cold days and the baseball hats are for the summer.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121619765#Comment_121619765

Is that just a fancy name for a bucket hat? 😄

Masala

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121628059#Comment_121628059

…Naw!

Feisar

As above, Tilley Wanderer when out in the rain or mildly cold weather

Seal Skin Waterproof Beanie for the cold

Columbia Schooner or the Tilley for the sun

brokenbad

My brother in law (late 40's) wears a trilby hat, long overcoat and scarf anytime he is out and about....the same guy is trapped in a time warp from the 70's and dresses like a college professor....and he's a complete arsehole to boot.

RetroEncabulator

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120460706#Comment_120460706

I find this a lot in Ireland.

Freezing day - you wear gloves, and you've snide comments.

Freezing day - you wear a scarf - snide comments.

Sunny day - you wear a hat because you've skin type zero - people making snide comments.

Sunny day - you wear shades, middle of winter - you've some weirdo making snide comments.

Sunny day - you put sunscreen on your shaved head because you no longer have flowing locks, and I've literally had some weird woman in Dublin shout abuse at me outside a cafe - called me a 'baldy ****' ... probably my own fault for sitting outside in Smithfield I suppose.

I went into a cafe recently and had a guy go "your shirt is loud!" I responded with "thanks for letting me know. Well done!"

Look! Don't get me wrong, Ireland can be great but there are a lot of people here need to be told to f**k off and mind their own f***ing business a bit more regularly. People put up with way too much pass remarkable sh1te.

legrand

Not so prevalent these days but I do recall my mother saying be wary of men who wear hats while driving a car (inevitably poor). She was correct! Also men with big noses... I had a few mate's with big noses and oddly enough I would find they too were hardly skilled drivers.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121636248#Comment_121636248

A thing in Ireland if you're in a pub and you encounter some "gas men", one of them will grab your headgear without asking and plonk it on his own head to the amusement of his redneck mates. You'll never see this bullsh1t in any other country.

The Moist Buddha

just because they don't get it but I'll stay fitted, New Era committed

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121636248#Comment_121636248

You should read the Janky Jane viral Twitter thread about trying to be stylish in Ireland. It was both hilarious and a bit depressing.

Having said that, I wear hats (fedoras, mostly) a lot (female, granted) and 99.9% of comments I get are positive.

RetroEncabulator

I know I was talking to an older relative of mine who's now in her 80s and she was talking about walking through Dublin in the 1950s wearing trousers and women literally shouting out "GET THEM OFF YA, MRS!" at her out their window of their houses around Smithfield somewhere, and being loudly tutted at by women in shops and stuff.

She was saying you used to get comments / looks for being "out in your hair" (without a hat / scarf) or being "out in your figure" (without a coat).

It has a bit of a history of conformist fashion sense and taunting people.

Hande hoche!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121636248#Comment_121636248

You can pick out the tourists in a given setting, they will be the ones dressed for the weather.

RetroEncabulator

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121645053#Comment_121645053

Some of that is just acclimatisation though too. Most of us seem to operate at a totally different temperature range to some tourists and some tourists also making an assumption that Ireland's utterly freezing (Americans in particular) and bringing way too many heavy clothes.

If you look over at some of the tourism forums on Reddit for example, you'll occasionally see some tourists (again, mostly Americans) who seem to be prepping for a trip to the antarctic (or possibly outer space) and are actually just going to West Kerry. There's a bit of a notion that it rains (heavily) all the time etc etc.

I'll be wandering around in a t-shirt in December, while I know some people from Italy who were going around shivering.

Also, I've seen people make the same comment about Parisians. It can be drizzling / raining lightly in autumn / spring and nobody has an umbrella and are flitting around the place running between the drops, because - why would you?! it's not that wet and people in these kinds of climates just don't notice light rain.

Hande hoche!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121645066#Comment_121645066

True you can go too far the other direction. Like many things, there is a happy medium.

Duke of Schomberg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121636248#Comment_121636248

Well, I'm pleased to know it isn't just me. Waiting for a bus to Londonderry in Bridge End, Co Donegal, a fortnight back, wearing a blazer and scarf (to cover the collar area) - car approaches from the NI direction, slows as it passes me, turns at the roundabout to return back to NI, slows to a stop where I'm stood, window goes down, I approach the open window, passenger shouts "Scarf, you f***ing pr*ck!", car drives off, turns at the Maxol garage, drives past again towards the roundabout, something shouted by the driver, then off towards Bundoran.

Geoffrey Boycott - there's an Irish link in the surname - frequently wears an MCC panama when commentating on the cricket.

thedeer

Oliver Mack. The coolest hat wearer I ever met and a gentleman into the bargain.....

https://mickeykellyphotography.wordpress.com/commissions/oliver-mack/

The Moist Buddha

Pearse Doherty

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058289774/men-who-wear-hats

I'm bald and treat men with hats with great suspicion

RetroEncabulator

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