Men who wear hats

bobbyss · 25-03-2023 11:42pm #1

Gone are the days when men wore hats. But that is fashion for you. Do you know anyone who wears a hat on a regular basis?

I can't think of anyone. Mind you I saw a picture of Marty Whelan wearing one. But he seemed somewhat attention seeking and I wondered if he had continued working in PMPA would he be wearing one today?

Think of Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Jack Lynch. There's an elegance to it.

kirk. · 25-03-2023 11:43pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_BvaHsgGg

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Seneca the Stoic · 26-03-2023 12:44am

There is certainly an elegance to it

bassy · 26-03-2023 12:48am

ye a cousin hes a real tramp and a bad one at that,wears baseball hat backwards thinks its still E-17 brian harvey.truth be told hes bald on top at 40 odd yrs and just cannot accept it hence why the hat is super glued on,how sad.................................................................................

Strumms · 26-03-2023 2:20am

For me the wearing of hats is influenced by the weather…

a real sunny hot day, I’ve a couple of baseball hats although not worn backwards…always bring them on holiday.

ive one of those Russian ushanka hats that a relative brought me from Moscow… it’s beyond comfy…

Comfy and some, only worn a handful of times.

ejmaztec · 26-03-2023 2:28am

Baseball caps aren't hats, they're caps, and people who wear them have no taste 🤣

Ozymandius2011 · 26-03-2023 2:33am

I saw a man wearing a tricorne hat in Dublin recently which has never happened before.

seanrambo87 · 26-03-2023 3:44am

I occasionally wear a flat cap, for a variety of reasons, sometimes because my hair is a mess, sometimes because the mood takes me but always, always, because the cap becomes me😁 To echo Bassy I know a fella who always has a baseball cap welded to his head, bald on top but keeps the side hair, looks terrible with the hat off looks like a bit of a fella trying too hard with it on. I say embrace the baldness or shell out.

vafankillar · 26-03-2023 3:58am

notice a lot of men wear them to hide the baldness, which i find weird cos then the reveal is even worse if you've been hiding it for so long.

american anti-woke pundit tim pool is one over the top example, chap wears a beanie 99% of the time

seanrambo87 · 26-03-2023 4:09am

Yeah the reveal is a killer alright, really hemorrhages cool points🤣

Deiselurker · 26-03-2023 8:12am

Plenty hats worn in horseracing. Willie Mullins always has one.

Michael Healy Rae is another one who wears the hat to hide the baldness.

Xander10 · 26-03-2023 8:25am

The Edge and Brush Shields love a hat.

BorneTobyWilde · 26-03-2023 9:39am

A quality Hemp Fedora in the sun is better than a baseball cap

Del2005 · 26-03-2023 12:29pm

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Any brimmed hat will be better than a baseball cap in the sun. I've a €15 sun hat from Decathlon.

A hat will protect your whole head and neck, depending on the brim width, the baseball cap stops the floodlights from blinding you.

corner of hells · 26-03-2023 12:33pm

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I wear a wig on top of my hat .

rolling boh · 26-03-2023 12:33pm

Yeah but the brimmed hat won't hide your face when the occasion demands .

Beechwoodspark · 26-03-2023 12:34pm

I wear a hozier style broad brimmed hat both for fashion at festivals and concerts and also on rainy days to keep the hair dry

Beechwoodspark · 26-03-2023 12:36pm

Healy rae looks much older without the flat cap so that prob why its bet onto him the whole time

26-03-2023 12:39pm

Suspect is hatless. Repeat: hatless.

freshpopcorn · 26-03-2023 12:40pm

Often just hide baldness.

I remember at my grand mothers funeral my dad's friend came in without his hat on knew my name/etc. I hadn't a clue who he was without the hat.

Brussels Sprout · 26-03-2023 12:52pm

Yeah it's a weird one. They were ubiquitous in the early 20th century and common enough in the later decades of that century. Now, as many have pointed out in this thread, its mostly only bald men who wear them. Fashion tends to be cyclical so perhaps they will make a comeback at some stage.

Emblematic · 26-03-2023 12:56pm

John F. Kennedy notably did not wear one at a time most men of his age did and was known as "Hatless Jack"

Run Forest Run · 26-03-2023 1:18pm

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Looks like you're trying too hard to be "cool" or "trendy" if you walk out the house with that on.

Everybody knows you've been staring at yourself in the mirror for an inordinate amount of time... it's just obvious. If you don't mind broadcasting this fact to the world, then crack on I suppose.

I do know a chap that wears fedoras, but it's obvious that he's not wearing them to be fashionable. Many of them are scruffy and well worn. But they do seem to suit him. (expertly hides his giant dome!🤣)

ejmaztec · 26-03-2023 5:45pm

I think bowler hats and pork pie hats are the worse two that I can think off, I'd never join the Orange Order, not that they'd let me. 🤣

The last hat that I bought was a Tilley hat, which I see as a convenient hassle free umbrella. If you ever lose a Tilley hat you're supposed to get a free replacement.

26-03-2023 5:51pm

My father absolutely refused to ever wear a hat, only photos of him wearing one was when he was in naval service uniform. Born in 1962, some of the men on the Dublin suburban road where I grew up wore hats, the actuary down the road certainly did, the neighbours’ Dads, both from Galway, would wear simple caps. Then when my neighbour’s son grew into his twenties alongside me he started wearing a slightly more sophisticated looking cap. But it’s long since much headgear has been regularly worn by men.

Jim_Hodge · 26-03-2023 5:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120401573#Comment_120401573

There are plenty of people wearing baseball caps and I've got big news for you; a Cap is "a kind of soft, flat hat, typically with a peak".

26-03-2023 6:21pm

I wear a flat cap to the races, GAA matches and the mart.

ejmaztec · 26-03-2023 6:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120403348#Comment_120403348

Yes there are plenty people wearing them, and they've always been tasteless, whether they're caps, hats, helmets, or whatever your "big" news tells me they are. 🤣

26-03-2023 6:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120402226#Comment_120402226

Driving a… car.

briany · 26-03-2023 6:29pm

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Depends on who is wearing it, in fairness.

Jim_Hodge · 26-03-2023 6:31pm

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So you accept you were wrong with your "baseball caps aren't hats"? 🤣🤣 Whether they lack taste or not is a different discussion.

Strumms · 26-03-2023 6:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120403426#Comment_120403426

Here, the New York Yankees tell you they are… ‘hats’… . I think you need to have a word with yourself 😳

the rest of us will probably not take fashion advice from someone who is busy laughing at their own posts, oddsville.

26-03-2023 7:28pm

I wear baseball caps in work. They keep hair out of food and are comfortable to wear for long hours, I just developed the habit to wear it almost daily now tbh

im not exactly a fashionable person anyway, I wear things either cos I want to or it’s comfortable.

laughing at the remarks regarding wearing one backwards too, you really have too much time on your hands if you’re theory crafting the personalities of people who wear hats a certain way.

26-03-2023 7:29pm

Also anyone who says a baseball cap isn’t a hat, I mean honestly. I guess you’d correct people for calling sandals shoes too 😂

ejmaztec · 26-03-2023 7:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120403505#Comment_120403505

I'm not offering fashion advice, I'm just stating my opinion. If anyone wants to start an "angry session" on the subject of hats, it's entirely up to them, I'll just saunter off into the background and let them get on with it. There's enough lunacy on this planet as it is. 😜

truthseekerxz · 26-03-2023 7:51pm

I wear a little felt hat

truthseekerxz · 26-03-2023 7:52pm

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U wear chinos correct?

Brid Hegarty · 26-03-2023 8:09pm

Oddjob

Run Forest Run · 26-03-2023 8:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120403633#Comment_120403633

They're also great in winter if you've got your hood up on a rain jacket. Stops the rain dripping down your face and stops the hood moving when you turn your head to look at something. Summer they're good for... ya know... avoiding skin cancer etc. Cause that wouldn't be much fun!

I find them practical too. Not really bothered if I'm winning awards for style either.

Day Lewin · 26-03-2023 8:16pm

A. Tommy Tiernan

B. My friend in Cork who always wears a Homburg and an embroidered waistcoat. Dashing.

26-03-2023 9:09pm

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That'll be one of the lads from the mass shooting thread.

trashcan · 26-03-2023 9:17pm

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So you don’t touch it often then ?

(Ill get my coat. - and hat😉)

Manic Moran · 26-03-2023 9:36pm

I routinely wear headgear.

Daily wear is a canvas drover's hat. It crushes for easy transport, it keeps the sun off my face and back of neck and has a chinstrap for windier conditions without being too warm. Very low maintenance, I have them in a couple of colours to suit.

In winter weather, I've a felt fedora. I've been debating replacing that one with a new one from the hat shop in the Powerscourt center.

For tropical environs, I've a Panama hat.

I've a cavalry hat for work wear, which also has a good wide brim on it, and have been kicking around a cowboy hat. I do live in Texas, after all. However, the things are by no means cheap.

On occasion I'll grab a baseball cap, but they tend to be only if I'm doing something particularly active like driving the convertible.

bobbyss · 26-03-2023 9:45pm

As the OP I just want to clarify.

I am referring to hats (think Jack Lynch or the 40s and 50s) not caps like baseball caps or flat caps.

The point I am trying to make is that very few men wear them nowadays. Some do like as someone mentioned Wille Mullins.

I don't know anyone now who wears one. I mentioned Marty Whelan in the very first post but he is in the media and as such it's simply an attention seeking thing something he wouldn't do if he were working in an office I would say.

A regular 9 to 5 man working, lets say in an office, doesn't wear them.

Run Forest Run · 27-03-2023 8:21am

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Yes, but you are imagining that this was purely for style. But this isn't really the case.

Men of yesteryear would spend huge amounts of time outdoors in all sorts of weather. Hats had a very practical application.

Of course there would be more expensive and trendy examples depending on the status and wealth of the man. But the overall trend developed mostly for practical reasons.

Cowboys, for example, considered their hat to be essential. They would be quite upset if they lost or misplaced it. It was protection from the elements. Technically it still is if you live in cowboy country, but it's also a status symbol now too. A sign of pride telling people where you come from.

Google some pictures of dock workers in the past, you'll struggle to spot a single man without his cap. But these men were not fashion conscious individuals. They were very tough working class people, the most pragmatic and unsentimental types you could meet.

Grayson · 27-03-2023 8:50am

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I wear hats because of my baldness. During the winter it's beanies because it's cold. In the summer it's baseball caps because I don't want to get burnt. In between it's flat caps because it's not warm enough for baseball caps.

I'd wear other hats like fedoras and trilbys but at this point they're novelty items and most guys who wear them look like cocks.

Run Forest Run · 27-03-2023 8:50am

Another example would be shirts and blazers.

This was just what men of a particular era wore. I remember my dad telling me that he never actually saw his dad not wearing a shirt, despite the fact that he was a very tough working class man. Very often doing dirty manual work.

If you go to eastern Europe, you will still see poor farmers wearing shirts with a blazer/sport jacket farming the land by hand. Up until very recently, you would still see a few men of this vintage knocking around rural Ireland too.

If you were dressing up for some special occasion, you would simply wear a slightly more expensive version of the same attire. If you wore a hat/cap, you'd just wear your "good" cap.

RayCon · 27-03-2023 9:08am

99% of the time I'd never wear a hat. Exceptions - if it's extremely cold I might wear a woolly hat. On a sun holiday , I might wear some sort of hat for protection (don't like baseball caps and too old for a bucket hat). ..... and yes, I have a bald patch.