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i just got one of these hats and i love it. not a beginner hat tho

I was getting coffee one day and sat down near a “hat guy”. He saw I was wearing a flat cap and started a whole conversation about this tyrolian hat he was wearing and how nobody these days understands a good hat amirite, and what’s my favorite hat?
I almost felt bad telling him that I just hate getting sun in my eyes.
I am usually a very honest person but this is a situation that gives white lies a right to exist.
I talked myself in a corner today making it seem like I was a yo-yo aficionado to someone who used to love yo-yos. As he was walking away he went “Duncan! That was the dope brand!” And I had to go “Oh hell yeah, Duncan!” even though I had no idea.
Yeah, I’ll fib a little here and there if it’ll make someone’s day a little better. Hat Guy doesn’t need to know that I just like wearing hats, not so much that I like choosing hats to wear. It just needs to feel good on my head.
I tried to be hat guy once. Bought a quick silver trilby about 15 years after ska had kinda been played out.
I saw how people looked at me while in line for coffee and pretty quickly discovered that I was not hat guy.

the trick is you need a wider brim than a trilby.
I’ve discovered that nobody gives a shit what you wear and what you think they are thinking is more of a reflection of what you think about what you’re wearing so I just rock beat up piss stained nuthuggers these days and life has never been better.
I wanna get good enough at hatting that I can wear one of those big fruit platter hats.

BUCKET HAT
WAKE UP KID, YOU’VE GOT THE DREAMERS’ DISEASE
Is he about to fight the Sheriff of Nottingham?
I’ll be hat person eventually, but only after the male pattern baldness sets in.

I think you should begin your hattery early. Like dying your hair. If you do it after the problem starts then its obvious.
Own the baldness!
Wear a hat outdoors to avoid sunburnt scalp.
The options for male pattern baldness are:
- Always wear a hat;
- Shave everything off and go completely bald;
- Wear friar’s robes at all times.
- Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
- Use Minoxidil and Finasteride
- If you don’t want to do that, time for a trip to Turkey
But New York City is the Istanbul of America.
You mean New Amsterdam?
You can’t go back to Constantinople!
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Once you hit completely bald on top then pony tail becomes feasible with the right attitude.
I do not have that attitude. Buzz buzz!
Or be the Captain.
Then who will be my Tenille?
Never! Minoxidil and Finasteride until the day I die!
Can confirm. I became a hat person recently because I am going bald. On the bright side, being a balding man is very gender affirming.
You can also blow up conversations with mumbled asides to yourself like, “I really hope the chemo works.”
Same. Not even due to baldness shame, wearing hats with my full head of lucious locks feels weird.
Good call. Until about 20 seconds ago, I thought the hair on Slash, the Guns n Roses guitarist, was part of his hat, but it appears to be his real hair (or at least used to be at one point in his life).
It must get hot in there.
Sweet, no one posted this already so I get the honour.
love BDG
I suppose a beginner hat would be like a baseball cap or something. But every time I try to wear a ballcap, people ask me if I’m lost and need help finding my parents 😠
Wear it backwards then they’ll think you’re too cool. Or wear a visor, backwards, and upside down and then clip a beeper to the bill, they’ll assume you’re a time traveler and avoid you
I’m not sure ball caps count when it comes to being into hats. A Kangol is a good starting point, or just a great hat. I like a 507 Ventair. I have a Harris Tweed that is not a beginner hat. A few cowboy hats, but they are not out of place where I live as a general purpose outdoor hat. I never felt like I could pull off a porkpie, but I’ve had fedoras I liked before the neckbeard phenomenon happened.
Gor me, it’s stovepipe or nothing.
He should lean out again
Really thought this is some slop image like “This would be Pinocchio irl”
I would like to preorder a complex statement hat
What would you like it to say?
HELLO I AM TRYING OUT HATS SO PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO INTERRUPT MY HAT WEARING WITH LARGE TUBINES OF ANY KIND.
Kangol Tropic is pretty aerodynamic, especially turned around backwards.
Their bucket hats stay in place fairly well.
Porkpie has a tight footprint.
But if you want to actively interfere with the turbines you need this bad boy…

OOP about to go on a swashbuckling adventure
What’s wrong with your faaaaaaaaace.







