Hats

[Ben]

Can we talk about hats, please?

Now that it's starting to get cold, I feel like a doofus (and a cold doofus at that) going out in a heavy coat, scarf and gloves, with my head uncovered. I feel like most of the traditional brimmed hats look odd on young men (and I'm not wearing a knit cap with a suit and tie). Any insight or bright ideas? Basically this sums up my feelings about every hat I've ever tried on:

[christian]

Flat caps/driving caps work ok (Wigens is a good brand) or just get used to a small-brim fedora with a slight pinch. 2 1/8" or 2" brim look good on a skinnier guy.

[Ben]

Yeah, I've tried both of those and thought I looked like I was on my way to a LARP convention.

[justinf]

With some amount of cojones you could rock the kangol. Otherwise suck it up and get a wool winter cap that doesn't look foul with your scarf.

[chasea]

Winter is the time to let your hair get shaggy 'round the ears. Solved.

[ZeroG]

Hey Ben, same problem here. On a recent trip to Greece I found a few hat specific stores, and was actually able to find a few models/colors that were tasteful and didn't make me look like an idiot. My wife and her straight opinion helped here, so my point is to go to a proper hat store with a nice selection and ask the personal for assistance, and to have an open mind to try various styles. Otherwise, aside from a suit and tie outfit, a knit style hat always works in my experience. Good luck.

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[Too Tall]

Smartwool SmartWool - Snowflake Pop Hat  |  Rutabaga: Canoe, Kayak and Outdoors (1-800-I-Paddle)

[davids]

Some of us look good in a fedora. But then, some of us are no longer "young men".

Stocking caps, baseball caps, even cycling caps work for me. Flat caps, Kangols, that "Fidel" cap from atmo: Not so much.

But my wife looks hot in the Fidel cap:

[rmplum]

Made in the mitten state...

Caps - Men's » Stormy Kromer

[sonny]

i dig the atmo fidel

but the gf calls it my dunce hat
and likes that i wear it
because it keeps the girls away
:(

wish i could afford a wigens

[christian]

Made in the mitten state...

Caps - Men's » Stormy Kromer

Yooper passport, we call those.

[rmplum]

Yooper passport, we call those.

I am part yooper. All the good parts. The other parts wanna be yooper, but they are stuck trollin' because of jobs and shit.

[christian]

Agreed, the UP is God's country! If I could live up on the Keweenah, I'd be happy as a clam. Mountain bike, kayak, hunt, fish and on the 3rd weekend of every October, drive a rally car. What more could one want? Well, a couple of pasties from the Suomi wouldn't hurt, I guess.

[rmplum]

Hard to go wrong with the purple and blue Sunbuster Lycra nordic ski lid



err, I mean hard to not go wrong.

That's me on the right, Houghton, MI of course.

[Jason Musgrave]

this has been on my radar lately:

UNIONMADE GOODS - sns herning - Naval Hat in Black Melange and Petrol Blue

[happycampyer]

Maybe one of Worth & Worth's casual hats like the tweed Jockey Cap or the cashmere Newsboy would work?

Worth & Worth – Wool Cap, Custom Hats

[dashDustin]

I've got a big head, and yet I can't seem to pull off the atmo Fidel. I want to sport that thing so badly.

[GJsquare]

I'm Cuban - I can't even think about a Fidel.

[mrk_d]

Columbiaknit - Columbiaknit, Apparel Manufacturers since 1921

No personal experience but on my radar.