BS: What do YOU wear on your head?

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,whistlin gal
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 08:37 PM

When out and about in sunny San Diego, I often wear a straw hat with a lovely ribbon on it. I suppose I should have made a new chapeau since easter has come & gone--whoopsie! I missed the easter parade.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: DougR
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 05:06 PM

A crown. What else?

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,Minerva
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 02:36 PM

I used to wear a cheap plastic "adventurer" fedora, but gave it up as soon as that movie came out & everybody started wearing them.

Don't wear hats often, & thought I didn't really care about them, but they started finding me - kind of the way I never find cats, but they find me. Some of them just click, with some out-of sync rhythm, and now I find myself using hats to send obscure and meaningless messages.

All-time favorite is a forest green "ball cap" from the El Cortez casino in downtown Vegas. (For those of you who don't know the El Cortez, it's pretty near the bottom of the casino food chain; It smells funny.) The cap has gotten totally salt-stained, dusty, and disreputable, so I tend to wear it to higher class joints. Walk into the Bellagio wearing it, & you can see all the pit critters reaching for their phones to call security. Especially if I'm approaching the check-in desk carrying my matched luggage set of two plastic grocery bags.

Another favorite is a deep-sea fisherman's number with an improbably long bill, with tar schmears on it. Looks like something Bogey would wear, but of course, with his looks, he could wear anything & look right. I just look schmeary.

When I am hanging around with earth friendlies, I wear a black CAT cap with a yellow logo. Kinda puts everybody on edge. The most expensive cap in the world, going for about $70 grand, USD.

When amongst glitterati, I wear an old, gaudy, black & aqua ball cap from the Bay Meadows race track. Get a lot of WTF looks.

Variety of balaclava helmets for winter. Favorite is baby blue that doesn't look quite so bank-robber-ish. The camo number raises some eyebrows (& hackles)

Hard hat in the mine. The beat-up look is a definite status symbol. You can go too far with this, however - one time a fellow worker threw mine under the tracks of a dozer, to give it that rough-& tumble look. Thus the pancake hat was invented. Also blew one up in a seismic exploration blast - biggest surviving piece was 2 inches square.

Another favorite is a quilted welder's cap, shaped like a pillbox with a teeny little brim slanted down over your forehead.

Didn't realize I liked these hats as much as I apparently do until I started writing this note. Also realized I never wore baseball logos, cowboy hats, military hats, beer logos, snap-brims, booney hats that scream, "Gun Nut!", NASCAR crap, or any kind of advertising (except as noted), or corn-seed hats, in other words, the same crap that 99% of the rest of our "culture " wears.

Speaking of which, I used to get almost nauseated watching every. Single. Gd yuppie chick in Sausalito Tiburon Monterey wearing those idiotic leather-brimmed ball caps with their dorky pony-tail sticking out the back. Eeeek! Don't they know how dopey that looks? It's the Stoopid Uniform.

One of these days, a red hat might find me...

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 09:13 PM

A hat in winter to keep my bald head warm and a hat in summer to keep my bald head cool. I am sick of wearing hats. But, not as sick as if I didn't.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 09:04 PM

I've got the white hair, too, Don - but only around the outside. I look like one of those stereotypical monks, and it gets darn cold sometimes. I wear a hat indoors all winter long, and outdoors all summer long.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 07:56 PM

White hair!

It's taken me 66 years to earn that, so I'm not about to cover it with some ridiculous hat.

SO THERE!
Don T

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Peace
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 05:30 PM

"What do YOU wear on your head?"

A lid now and then. That's all.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 04:14 PM

A titanium plate. No kidding.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: skipy
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 05:18 PM

Mother of the bride hat, I've got loads!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 05:16 PM

In the winter I wear a Russian-style fur hat...the best way by far to keep your head warm in frigid weather.

Russian Fur Hat

The rest of the time? No hat at all.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Scoville
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 03:05 PM

JohninKansas: My mother still has the gray felt unfinished Stetson she got at Girl Scout gathering in 1965. We joke that it looks like the last Confederate to surrender--stained, holey, and rumpled--but it still functions as a hat. It's a bit of a family heirloom now.

I don't know where to get a new one, though (or I would have). At least not a felt one. We do know a guy who sells palm hats, though. My mother has one. Very nice.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 02:18 PM

Rereading the thread, I do note an "unfinished" bit of information:

No, no. It's not the boots -- it's what's on the boots. Walmart cowboys don't walk around in corrals or feedlots.

Since even a plastic cowboy can buy a pair of boots, the real key to telling a real cowboy, as most commonly stated here by the few who still know, is:

          "The shit's on the OUTSIDE of the boots."

My old 'un pictured (at a link) 'way back near the beginning of the thread is now another year+ older, but still in use. I'm still looking for a decent replacement (or addition) but unable to find anything in the local market other than "party hat" throwaways and "novelties." We have a specialist "hatter" in town, but he knows his market, and can't really afford to stock "real hats" - so he's no help for those of us who want something for daily wear; and the places that actually do have anything that might last more than 30 minutes out of the store have only the broad-brimmed high-crown "cowboy" styles. While some that they stock could be worn by a workin' man (or lady) I'm not a "cowboy" - real or imitation - and don't need/want that kind of hat. So my couple of survivors will just have to continue to display their growing "character" for now. The three that survive (one now about 26 years old) look definitely like an "Indiana Jones" at the end of the movie.

John

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 01:49 PM

I can't find a size 5 3/4

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Scoville
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 01:37 PM

HAir when I'm not wearing a forage cap.

You and my brother, both.


Hair. Preferably in a jaunty flapper bob if I can convince the hairdresser that I really do want her to cut off that much.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 01:29 PM

HAir when I'm not wearing a forage cap. Neil

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 12:35 PM

It's just a Kangol cap but you're wearing it back to front. It's supposed to be with the peak at the back (stops olive stones going down the back of your neck according to Flanders and Swann), with the Kangol logo jauntily displayed above your eyebrows.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 11:06 AM

Question for you blokes in the U.K.: I got this cap at a bargain a few months ago. It's made in Great Britain by Kangol. Is there a specific style name for it, other than "a cap"?
       (I wear it around the gallery as my "pretentious artistic persona cap")
                            Dean

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: number 6
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 03:57 PM

Woman of many Words ... that song is on the "Victoria" album by the Kinks. It's actually very easy to sing and a very easy tune to whistle.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 02:49 PM

I also have a WW2 civil defense helmet.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Wordless Woman
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 02:47 PM

Thank you number 6! Splendid song and I think I've got the Kinks album which features it. If not, I'll just memorize the words and do it as a comic recitation. Not only can I not read music, I cannot carry a tune!

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Once Famous
Date: 09 Jan 06 - 10:19 PM

Can Amos find a hat big enough?

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 06 - 07:51 PM

Joseph J. Sullivan 1888

Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a nobby one,
And just the proper style?
I should like to have one
Just the same as that!
Where'er I go they shout! "Hello!
Where did you get that hat?"

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 Jan 06 - 07:07 PM

Depends on the weather.

In the summer, a cricketers white hat to keep the sun off.

If I'm working outside, it tends to be a wide brimmed and very battered thing in waxed cotton or leather depending in which one I can find, to keep off the sun and rain alike. I've done a little stockwork, and lots of scrub-bashing and such like. I'm no cowboy, but certinly am country folk, even if stuck in the city at the moment.

A few drops of insect repellant on the hat works as well. You can use high DEET without worryuing too much, as it's not on your skin. Some seential oils work as well, and smell nicer.

And this being Scotland, in the winter, I'll either have on a wide brimmed thing to keep the rain off, or a wolly one to avoid wind chilled ears.

hats a

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: number 6
Date: 09 Jan 06 - 11:58 AM

Shame ... sounds like a good song Woman of many words. Appreciate the post.

Here's some more hat lyrics:

She's bought a hat like Princess Marina's
To wear at all her social affairs
She wears it when she's cleaning the windows
She wears it when she's scrubbing the stairs
But you will never see her at Ascot
She can't afford the time or the fare
But she's bought a hat like Princess Marina's
So she don't care

He's bought a hat like Anthony Eden's
Because it makes him feel like a Lord
But he can't afford a Rolls or a Bentley
He has to buy a secondhand Ford
He tries to feed his wife and his family
And buy them clothes and shoes they can wear
But he's bought a hat like Anthony Eden's
So he don t care

Buddy can you spare me a dime
My wife is getting hungry
And the kids are crying
This poverty is hurting my pride
Buddy can you spare me, buddy can you spare me a dime

She's bought a hat like Princess Marina's
And her neighbors think it suits her a treat
But she hasn't any food in the larder
Nor has anybody else in the street
But to look at her you'd think she was wealthy
'Cos she smiles just like a real millionaire
'Cos she's bought a hat like Princess Marina's
So she don't care, she don't care, she don't care

... She's Bought a Hat like Princess Marina by Ray Davies

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,Wordless Woman
Date: 09 Jan 06 - 11:40 AM

Sorry, Number 6. I don't have the tabs to Where Did You Get That Hat. Can't even read music. I heard the song about 25 years ago. It's an old English Music Hall song.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 02:38 PM

"BWL, with the NSA keeping track of us all, who needs telepaths?"

I understand that the International Telepaths' Association is holding their annual convention on May 27 and 28, but they're not telling anyone where.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Mooh
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 02:27 PM

In winter, a toque or a sheerling flap hat. Other seasons, ball caps (from the local conservation area, bait shop, Sleeman's beer, and whatever), a Tilley, or some other nondescript tilleyesque hat. Haven't worn a beret since Scouts, or a dunce cap since elementary school.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 01:23 PM

BWL, with the NSA keeping track of us all, who needs telepaths?

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 01:20 PM

139 posts and no mention of tinfoil hats? Amazing!

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 01:20 PM

Hey, Uncle Jaque, neat looking li'l parlor guitar! What breed is it?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 12:46 PM

Just a Walmart wadie
Talkin' 'bout ropes and things that he don't even know....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 12:15 PM

oh....yeah.....I've got a lot of that Rapaire. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: number 6
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 09:00 AM

Good one artbrooks!!

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 08:58 AM

Of course...really pointed toes, a multi-colored eagle on the front of the boots and tucked in trousers may also be an indication...

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 08:52 AM

No, no. It's not the boots -- it's what's on the boots. Walmart cowboys don't walk around in corrals or feedlots.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: HuwG
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 02:58 AM

Occasionally, when stewarding at festivals, I have worn a disgustingly sweat-stained cricketing hat, with a steward's badge secured to the crown with an elastic band.

Cricketing hats are off-white (occasionally in other colours), made from cotton with a double-stitched broad brim. The underside of the brim is usually dark green, which cuts down on the glare.

For hot and sunny summer days, they are surprisingly practical. (I must admit to never have been a cricketer).


Australian joke:
Q. What's the definition of an optimist ?
A. A pommie batsman putting on sunblock.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: lady penelope
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 02:25 AM

Lawks, people! It's hat! Get over it! Who gives a damn what hat you wear? What, we gonna have 'hat police' now? My job doesn't have an associated hat - that mean I'm not allowed to wear a hat at all?

Tch! That's it I'm off to put my tiara on.......

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Joybell
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 01:47 AM

His head is pointy, Sandra so the hat goes down well over his ears. If he wore it perched on top of his head it would look higher. Anyway he looks good doesn't he?

Peace, if I wore only head covering that fits with my (former) job I'd be wearing a nurses veil. Like the kind we had in 1960. How silly would I look then? Hmmm! I wonder though. It'd be different. I hate being fashionable. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 12:13 AM

"And I find that if you want to figure out who's a working cowboy and who isn't, look at their boots...."

Not necessarily, in recent years, a lot that I have ridden with prefer Ropers or something similar. You're a lot less likely to break an ankle on rocky ground and sooner or later, on rough terrain you've got to get down off your horse.

Something with enough heel for safety in the stirrup is a lot more practical than tottering around in high heels on rocks like a sailor without sea legs.

I don't consider myself a cowgirl, although I did manage to rope and tie a herford to a tree that was careening around loose in the neighbourhood once...but I did that on foot, not on horseback. LOL.

I've been riding horses for over 50 years now and caring for my own for the last 15 of those. While I will wear a "cowboy hat" on occasion, for practical purposes, you will never catch me in a "cowboy boot" on the kind of trails I prefer.

I've no desire to break an ankle and around here in recent times, when I'm not being sloppy, I prefer my steel toed work boots for ground work, I've had too many crunched toes over the years and my bones are probably not as robust as they used to be.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 11:05 PM

A Green Bay Packer cap.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:10 PM

"And I find that if you want to figure out who's a working cowby and who isn't, look at their boots...."

Good one Rapaire !!

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,Uncle Jaque in Maine
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:09 PM

Forage Cap; M-1853; Infantry; Enlisted.

UJ does "Lorena"...

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: GUEST,Uncle Jaque in Maine
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:04 PM

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:00 PM

And I find that if you want to figure out who's a working cowby and who isn't, look at their boots....

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 09:59 PM

Well, I agree with Bruce -- "cowboy" hats on drugstore cowboys look silly. BUT they are practical, especially if you live/work in the plains, desert or mountains (and we have all three here).

But as for what people wear on their heads, I'm surprised that no one has yet told of the people visiting a remote Pacific island. They were a bunch of anthropology students, and were studying the indigenous people. Interestingly enough, the locals all had their heads covered with the excrement of a large local bird called the "Foo" in the language of the people there. The belief was that they would die if they washed the stuff off their heads. The Anthro class, of course, did interviews and all the stuff that anthropologists do, and one day at Foo scored a direct hit on the Professor. The natives, of course, gathered 'round and told him not to wash his head now or ever, but he ignored them, washed, and dropped dead immediately. His students learned, and when they became targets they never after washed their heads. They had learned that if the Foo shits, wear it.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: number 6
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 09:55 PM

Ya guys can knock the cowboy hat all ya want ... but Hank Williams certainly never rustled a cow in his life, and Hank could wear that setson as proud as proud can be.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 09:47 PM

Joybell - True love's hat is a very low hat compared to the hats I saw.

6 - Oz police officers can wear brimmed hats or baseball hats. I'm just waiting for info on neck skin cancer claims to hit the news, tho the Police Service probably gives out sunblock. Oz has the highest skin-cancer rate in the world.

Years ago a friend & her 21 year old son had skin cancers removed at the same time, both from their driving arms, and he had only been driving for 3 or 4 years.Around the same time another friend was an outdoor worker whose employer supplied sunblock. Most of his macho mates wouldn't wear it so he was giving it away to us.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 09:11 PM

The working cowboys/girls I know all wear hats of some sort--as in 'cowboy' hats, and for the reasons art suggests. I guess the 'country' singers are making sure the lights don't fry their brains.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: artbrooks
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 09:05 PM

Hello? I am about as far as you can get from being a working cowboy and still live in the American Southwest. However, the reason that style of hat is popular with cowboys, sheep herders and other such people is that it is the most practical hat for the weather here. The broad brim keeps the sun and rain off your head, your eyes and the back of your neck, and the high crown (1 1/2 to 2 inches above the top of your head) provides insulation from the heat and cold. UV will go right through a ball cap sitting in contact with your scalp. I wouldn't have a Stetson, though...they don't fit very well. Most people I know wear Resistol hats or some kind of straw hat in that hated design.

Subject: RE: BS: What do YOU wear on your head?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 09:01 PM

Opry? OPRY? What the f#ck is OPRY?