BS: What do YOU wear on your head?

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 06:27 PM

Addendum to opening post:

I mentioned that when I'm not wearing my baseball caps they adorn my instrument cases which lean upright against the wall. I also mentioned that this practice has led to some friction among the instruments. Well, it's gotten worse.

Obviously, caps can only be worn by instruments which (A) have necks and (B) live in traditionally shaped cases. While that describes most of my instruments, I also have a Fender Strat that lives in a rectangular case, an Autoharp and a hammer dulcimer which live in cases shaped, oddly enough, like an Autoharp and a hammer dulcimer, plus a couple of bodhrans which live in round quilted bags. There is no way to stretch caps over their heads. Heck, I can't even tell which end is supposed to be the head.

Anyway, they're all demanding equal treatment and I don't know what to do. Even the stretchiest XXL knit toque won't go over he head of an 18" bodhran. Maybe I'll let them wear sport coats instead.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Once Famous
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 06:12 PM

Super Intelligence

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 06:06 PM

...or try to board an airplane.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST, The - cookieless - BigPinkLAd
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 06:01 PM

Wear what you will, but please remove it if you come into my house.

(BTW, fellow Canucks ... remember to remove your ski mask BEFORE you go into the bank)

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:52 PM

Ooh Art, I do like the look of the crusher hat, they've got one big enough for my fat head and it's Green! I may well go mad and order me one.....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:49 PM

In the winter I wear a black, woolen cap - which my ex said made me look like a bank robber (cool!!).
In the summer I wear a panama - which probably makes me look like a git - but it stops the top of my head burning. When I go abroad, on holiday, natives of the country that I am visiting tend to come up to me and say things like , "aaahhh - typical Englishman!!" Must make sure not to visit anywhere where they tend to shoot or kidnap 'typical Englishmen'.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:36 PM

I usually wear something on my head...the hair went away years ago, and the sun is dangerous year around at 6000 feet. Most often a crusher"cowboy" hat or a baseball-type hat from my favorite microbrewery. When it's cold out, I usually wear a "cap, watch, wool, black" (that's what the tag inside says) and, for summer hiking, one of these with a bandana stuck under it in the back for the Foreign Legion look.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:34 PM

Yes and you have more to clean than you can handle already Micca, eh?   :)

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Micca
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:27 PM

Morty,
" For what is a Halo?
but Just another damned thing
to keep clean"

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:21 PM

Ooh, is it a button that 'un pops' Jimmyt? 'Cos if it is, it's something I haven't seen for years. A bonafide marching flat cap. Worn by those who went on marches (like the local Orange men or Knights of St. Columba, or indeed, football supporters) the button could be replaced by a pompom in the appropriate colours, making it a hat for all occasions.......

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Joybell
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:17 PM

A white furry-type Akubra that's modelled on a high-crown Stetson.
A very elaborate lace and roses arrangement in all black.
A flat plate-shaped straw one with two white doves on top and lots of pink ribbons and lace.
A bag-lady seen-better-days bonnet with the flowers hanging off.
A genuine American farmer/engineer stripped cap that makes everyone do train whistles at me.
Any one of several velvet berets from when I wanted to be a Beatnik.
A Faerie halo with tinsel stars.
A purple sparkly wig.

Never really found my personal style. Still experimenting. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,Zimmie's Honey
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:16 PM

Why, a brand new leopard-skin pill box hat, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Janie
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:15 PM

A brown wool fedora when it is chilly but ain't windy.

A Tilley for sailing and kayaking (when I can find it.)

Blondish and gray hair or a straw hat in the garden.

A wool beret when it is cold.

A wool toboggan (that's what I call 'em too) when it is really cold.

A baseball style hat that says "Other People's Money" when I don't need a hat but do need a shower and a shampoo.

A big black witch's hat for Halloween!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: jimmyt
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:10 PM

7 3/4 Clinton

I will have to do some checking to see if it is a proper flat cap lady P as it has a button in the middle of the top

I have been called a lot of things CLinton, but a retrosexual? Are you sure you didn't mean metrosexual as I have been described before I guess in the best possible way, but I am comfortable with my heterosexuality but I have no problems going to the ballet, to a cooking store, to perform in theater, etc which I guess to some, sort of stretches the boundaries of "manly" behavior. Retrosexual......It has a ring to it.......Yeah, I think I am a retrosexual!

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: bobad
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:02 PM

BWL

This is a toboggan.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:51 PM

This is NOT a bald spot! It's a solar panel for a sex machine!

Most of the time, a Greek fisherman's cap. Black. But—

Back in the early 1970s I saw a whole bunch of them in a chandler's shop out on Shilshole Bay, liked them, and bought one. Then, when I went to the first Northwest Folklife Festival I ever went to, I noticed that every guy who had ever sung (or attempted to sing) a sea chantey—and his pet chicken—were wearing Greek fishemen's caps. They're a bloody drug on the market. Very "folky." But I like the thing, it's comfortable, and it's handy.

I'm thinking about a change of image, though. I'm told I look good in a fedora. And I have a "Crocodile Dundee" hat that I got at the local Banana Republic stuffed away in a closet somewhere.

I'm giving serious consideration to a deerstalker. I think I have the kind of nose that could bring it off.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:45 PM

By the way, what several folks have called a "toque" in this thread is what I've always called a "toboggan". A Google image search for "toque" indicates that the terms are relatively synonomous, but that "toque" also has a much broader meaning. It seems to mean any of a variety of bill-less caps, including those goofy-looking things worn by chefs.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:21 PM

Brown Trilby, black Fedora, straw Panama, dark blue Greek fishermans cap (with a stars and stripes badge), lightweight cotton fishermans cap, grey wool/fur Ushanka, Stars and Bars bandana, umpteen wooly hats in assorted colours, 1 or 2 baseball caps, 3 or 4 flat caps, motor cycle crash helmet, bicycle protective helmet and many more that have come and gone and I can no longer remember!

But not all at the same time:-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: bobad
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:15 PM

BillD

You are truly a man of many hats!

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: number 6
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:15 PM

Here's Six in his winter lid (click next and you'll see my summer lid)

a warm winter lid

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:05 PM

Mostly an unruly mess of very gray hair. I've just never gotten into the ball cap habit, but usually wear one for yardwork in the sun, or in my shop when making a lot of saw or router dust. Out and about in summer sun, usually an old tan or blue "sailor". For winter cold, a plain knit "stocking cap", with jacket hood added for worst case days.
There is a cowpoke style straw in the closet that I got when we rode mules down the Grand Canyon a few years ago, but I seldom put it on.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Morticia
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 03:44 PM

a halo *G*

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 03:40 PM

X leather baseball cap, 50p in sale "66" logo baseball cap,Grey Asda tweedy fedora, Kangol "Flat'at and various wooly hats that make me look like a stereotypical pervy nerd.(But they don't 'arf keep your head warm)

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 03:33 PM

I also have a safety hard hat (blue) and a camouflage boony-style hat. I used to have a "steel pot" with peace symbol painted on the back that I'd where when I rode a motorcycle -- something I gave up years and years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:59 PM

At the Getaway, Mmario was given a hat that to my mind suits him perfectly. I could weave a story around that persona.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:44 PM

You wear your beard on your head LF? That must be one HELL of a comb-over....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:26 PM

You mean apart from the Beard ?? Various hats - An assortment of caps in tweed , denim and corduoroy and a number of Brimmed hats in leather , suede , and cotton , usually colour cordinated with the rest of the outfit ! Sometimes its hard work being a Professioanl Poseur !!!

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:24 PM

I like beards, personally - well not on me, but you get my point.....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:16 PM

" Is that you Clinton?"

No other bugger is unlucky enough to call that his face but me.... At least that's what I looked like October 2004.... But that was 30 pounds and a shave ago....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:10 PM

LOVE that brown 'sued' one on the right hand side BillD!

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:09 PM

Aah, we call them bobble hats. Ramblers and such were renowned for wearing them (in the fifties) and they are also used as a term for derision in Britain.

Is that you Clinton? Very natty - and the hat! Why am I not surprised to find out you're a ginger nut? (If that is you...)

:)

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:06 PM

*struggling up from the dusty catacombs*

*whew*...took a bit to find a couple, as they hide...in fear I'll wear them again! ..Or maybe my wife hides them....hmmm...

so...an assortment

The left two on the top shelf are military surplus (from The Yard Store, John!..I used to work there in 1973-76) one is a "yardbird" hat like you'd see on *M*AS*H*, the other is a navy flight deck cap with fleece lining and a neck cover for bad weather. Below them are Winter caps which get worn maybe a few times each winter... The 'baseball' type, I use mostly to keep stuff out of my hair when mowing of leaf raking...the 'cowboy' type are also seldom worn, but I carry one with me in the summer to outdoor events...(Scots ancestry...sunburn)
...the one collapsed under the weight of the badges was worn for 17-18 years at our local folk festival, where I was staff...mostly photography...it got a new badge or two each year and for the last two or three, it was only worn for a short ceremonial period. The hard hat was also worn during work there.

The ones I wear mostly now are the 'Greek' types in front, with the leather one being my favorite..

(John...a couple of those hats have been to Winfield!)

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:02 PM

This is my current every-day hat

Or rather, that's what it looked like the day I bought it a year ago, October.... It's more, ummm... broken in now...

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: bobad
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:59 PM

lady p

It's what these two hosers are wearing on their heads.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: number 6
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:53 PM

That is one mean determined looking hat there JohnInKansas.

Lady Penelope ... a toque is a wool sock hat. Very common headress for cold Canadian winters.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:49 PM

That makes my head hurt Clinton..........

There's no reason why someone shouldn't wear a hat if it pleases them to do so. Although I do tend toward wearing hats and outfits that compliment each other.

There are some people (but very few) who really don't suit hats, but normally it's because people can't find the right style or size.

As a female with an enourmous head, most of my hats come from gentlemens outfitters (which reminds me, I need a new panama) and all the pretty dainty ones have to remain in the shop as they never fit me. One day I may go mad and have a go at making my own.......   :)

JimmyT what's an irish style cap? Do you mean a flat cap? And what the heck's a toque? I'm intrigued....... and British, so bear with me.....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:48 PM

I'll go with the crowd with my 16 year old Fedora (Trilby style) Stetson "Gun Club" model. A similar but now apparently discontinued one that I wore for about 9 years (until the brim fell off) was also a Stetson called the "Indiana Jones" model.

I'd really like to retire this one, but when I took it to the only "hatter" in the region he informed me that "Stetsons are too cheaply made to be cleaned" so I bought one of his. His lasted about a year and fell apart, so I went back to my Stetson. While it has a whole lot of character, and I really do have to treat it gently, I think it's good for at least a few more years.

It used to be brown.

John

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Raptor
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:47 PM

For winter I have a rabit fur hat with floppy ear pieces that can flop down and do up under the chin or over the head. And a big fur brim that can come down over the eyes.

A friend from Russia told me it's called an ewshankka but I'm not shure how to spell it.!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: number 6
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:46 PM

That is one nice hat Clinton.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:37 PM

Yer better off to NOT trust me, trust me....

,-)

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:36 PM

Take comfort, Clinton and JimmyT- I once read that there is something to the effect that bigger heads are more photogenic and inspire trust in the viewer. (Although I can't imagine the 'trust' part in regards to Clinton. *G* Gotcha!)

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,Svengali
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:03 PM

To put on a baseball cap lowers ones IQ by 10%
To put one on backwards or sideways reduces it by at least 50%

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:44 PM

A fedora.

I also have a Sleemans baseball cap for keeping the sun out of my eyes, and a Team Canada toque for cold weather. And hoods. I like hoods.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:15 PM

"put that Stetson up for Mudcat auction."
eBay more likely, where similar hats can go for 50-100 bucks...    Or I'll just hold on to it, until I meet someone who will give it the respect it deserves....

"Sorry if you think ballcaps look ummm... trashy..."
I'm not sorry at all... Wear what you want... I don't have to like it even a little bit....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:12 PM

Heck, Clinton, put that Stetson up for Mudcat auction. Whut with its historical significance, having once been owned by none other than Clinton Hammond his own self, it's gotta be worth, oh, $3.95 or so.

Sorry if you think ballcaps look ummm... trashy...

I've tried other caps and hats but, on me at least, they all look a little ummm... pretentious...

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:08 PM

"I really like the concept of hats, the old felt fedoras and homburgs and derbies and top hats."
Join the Retro-sexual crowd JimmyT!

" I also have a huge head"
Size?

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: jimmyt
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:06 PM

Clinton, another big headed person! I also have a huge head for hat purposes and find it difficult to find hats that fit. I also have an Irish style cap that I wear when we are travelling but Jayne never lets me wear it at home because she says it makes me look dorky. ( not a stretch I guess) I really like the concept of hats, the old felt fedoras and homburgs and derbies and top hats. I wish they would make a comeback for routine wear. I sort of missed the whole hat thing which seemed to wain in the late fifties.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 11:55 AM

Fedora for day to day... I think ball-caps outside of the ball field make one look ummm... trashy...

I WISH I could wear This Vintage Stetson But it's only 7 1/2, which is 2 sizes too small for me...

It pains me to see it in my yard sale pile....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 11:45 AM

As with spatulas, it is best that I assemble them and take a picture, so that you all may truly grasp the boundless eclectic and eccentric nature of my collection of headwear....some of collectable nature, I'd venture....

Now where DID I put that Navy flight deck cap?....

*heads down to the catacombs*

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: bobad
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 11:42 AM

In summer a ball type cap.
In winter a toque - Canadian eh!