Hats and Kilts

[MacSimoin]

Adam,

Maybe this Skipper Cap from Hanna Hats is what you're looking for? Or, maybe this Irish Fishermans Cap from American Bay Outfitters?

[Aggie]

I wear a baseball cap when casual, a balmoral for outside formal occasions, and a straw cowboy hat. I agree with Paco about fashion taking a back seat to having a doctor peeling parts of your face and head. As to what you do with a cowboy hat, CanadianCowboy.com has a few etiquette rules:

*Any time you enter a building, the hat should come off.

*If it is an informal occasion you may put it back on but for a formal occasion it should stay off.

*When sitting down at a table for a meal, the hat should come off unless there is nowhere to safely lay the hat.

*When sitting down at a counter for a meal, the hat can stay on.

Linda Mussehl who writes for the Livestock Weekly says, "The hat comes off immediately, however, in a restaurant with a carpeted floor and linen tableclothes. He puts it under his chair or on an extra chair. If the carpet is dirty or there's no chair to park his hat on, he hands it to his wife to hold for him."

[davedove]

As to what you do with a cowboy hat, CanadianCowboy.com has a few etiquette rules:

*Any time you enter a building, the hat should come off.

*If it is an informal occasion you may put it back on but for a formal occasion it should stay off.

*When sitting down at a table for a meal, the hat should come off unless there is nowhere to safely lay the hat.

*When sitting down at a counter for a meal, the hat can stay on.

That's basically the rules I follow, except I feel REALLY strange wearing a hat when I eat.

Linda Mussehl who writes for the Livestock Weekly says, "The hat comes off immediately, however, in a restaurant with a carpeted floor and linen tableclothes. He puts it under his chair or on an extra chair. If the carpet is dirty or there's no chair to park his hat on, he hands it to his wife to hold for him."

I love that!

[Cawdorian]

A hat is a necessity for me because of the relative absence of hair and skin cancer issues. Having a Sqaumous Cell Carcinoma removed from the top of your head ain't no fun.

I wear a black balmoral with red and white dicing with the kilt, a ball cap in the summer, a flat wool cap in the winter and one of those little roll-up wool bucket hats with the short brim in a black watch tartan for the cold rainy winter weather.

Paco, thanks for the link to Tilley Hats, I'm going to look into one of those for summer, I think it will do the job for me.

[Paco500]

A hat is a necessity for me because of the relative absence of hair and skin cancer issues. Having a Sqaumous Cell Carcinoma removed from the top of your head ain't no fun.

I wear a black balmoral with red and white dicing with the kilt, a ball cap in the summer, a flat wool cap in the winter and one of those little roll-up wool bucket hats with the short brim in a black watch tartan for the cold rainy winter weather.

Paco, thanks for the link to Tilley Hats, I'm going to look into one of those for summer, I think it will do the job for me.

There are great stories on the site about in indestructibility of the Tilly's. My favorite is about a zoo keeper and an elephant. Elephant eats the hat, zoo keeper gets it back a few days later. Happen several times. Hat survives with a GOOD washing. They are the tanks of the bucket hat word. They also hold on your head great without a chinstrap making you look foolish.

[Kilted Taper]

I typically wear a Kangol or other scally cap. The occasional ball cap, but usually just on TCU Football game days!

[arrogcow]

Adam,

Maybe this Skipper Cap from Hanna Hats is what you're looking for? Or, maybe this Irish Fishermans Cap from American Bay Outfitters?

Thanks for the links. Both hats are basically what I have been looking for except that the one my dad had was coduroy. Very cool.

Adam

[cloves]

here's a corduroy fishing hat for you....a bit taller and all.
the hat you were looking for?

lot of great hats on this site for decent prices too.

[arrogcow]

here's a corduroy fishing hat for you....a bit taller and all.
the hat you were looking for?

lot of great hats on this site for decent prices too.

That's not it.

It didn't have a band around the crown or the piping and had a soft cord bill as well.

Adam

[Joe Gondek]

Arrogcow wrote

Well, I typically wear a ball cap of some kind unless I'm dressed up. Howevr, I've been looking for a John Bull Top hat for some time (shorter that regular top hats - think Tom Petty in the "You Got Lucky" video or anything with the Traveling Wilburies). Biggest problem is that if I'm going to get one, I want it in real beaver felt and I can't seem to stop buying kilts long enough to save the money. In actuality I've only known what this hat was called for less than a year now, though I have been searching for one for nearly 15 years

Check out clearwater Hats

http://www.clearwaterhats.com/
They make a great version of this hat in beaver felt