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Aka flat cap...like this

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I got one for my 3 yr old and he looked hella stylish in it, and he also looks a lot like me, so by the transitive property of handsomeness I deduced that I would also look good in one.
I kinda screwed up though and got one that's too big. It fits fine but it's too poofy/voluminous/peaky blinders and I was going more for the look in the photo above.
I think I'll keep it because it's nice to have a warm wool hat with a brim but try again for a trimmer model.

Anywho, cool or not cool?
 
I like flat caps but I'm picky. Agree fit is crucial. The one in the photo is good. Nice material, well fitted, not too flat & not too poofy.
 
I might try to pull it off if I were as handsome as the guy in the picture. And if I could pull off the sweater. But I’m not and I can’t, so it isn’t happening.
 
There are no rules for a three year old, so he should wear whatever hat he wants.

For adults, hats are loaded with cultural significance, so people think they can Frosty the Snowman themselves into who they want to be. You wind up with young men in Rick and Morty t shirts and fedoras thinking they're Bogart, or scumbags in berets pretending to be sensitive souls. It doesn't work.

Hats can be a literal and figurative capper to a person's whole vibe--there are still men "pulling off" fedoras, ten-gallon hats, and bowlers. There are women making those little flapper caps made of feathers work. But the hat is the period, not the whole sentence.

2man, based on your whole thing, you get a ball cap. When you retire, you can wear one of those Greek fishing caps.
 
Like Denverdave I too am not a hat person and about the only time I wear one is springtime hiking or once in a while doing yard work in the summer and it's always the booney hat because a booney hat is functional (all around coverage.
The newsboy is fine in theory but I think it's one only some people can pull off otherwise it looks like you are trying too hard or even pretentious
 
Chicken Man said:
There are no rules for a three year old, so he should wear whatever hat he wants.

For adults, hats are loaded with cultural significance, so people think they can Frosty the Snowman themselves into who they want to be. You wind up with young men in Rick and Morty t shirts and fedoras thinking they're Bogart, or scumbags in berets pretending to be sensitive souls. It doesn't work.

Hats can be a literal and figurative capper to a person's whole vibe--there are still men "pulling off" fedoras, ten-gallon hats, and bowlers. There are women making those little flapper caps made of feathers work. But the hat is the period, not the whole sentence.

2man, based on your whole thing, you get a ball cap. When you retire, you can wear one of those Greek fishing caps.
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I would totally watch a Netflix reality/makeover show where bitchy @Chicken Man assigns people hats. @rhino and @Flamencology can show up in pop ups/occasional segments as “experts.”
 
Also not a hat person. I only wear in the winter for warmth, never for style. I think the newsboy hat is adorable on toddlers. Any hat on anybody else, I don't get it.
 
Also not really a hat person (or at least not a hat-for-style-purposes-person). I pretty much only wear hats for particular functions (wool beanie in the winter, ball cap or a wider brimmed whatever (I guess a boonie like DdBob describes) if I want to keep sun off, sweat out of my eyes, etc). A newsboy/flat cap is sorta semifunctional (sure, it's warmer than not wearing a hat, and it does have a brim, but the brim isn't big enough to really keep sun off, and it doesn't cover enough of your head to be warm enough in the cold, etc etc.

(Ie, I'd wear a warmer hat in the cold and a better brimmed hat if I wanted to keep sun off and if it wasn't cold enough or sunny enough to care, then I wouldn't wear a hat)

edit: also, and more importantly, I hate that guy's sweater
 
yabba said:
Also not really a hat person (or at least not a hat-for-style-purposes-person). I pretty much only wear hats for particular functions (wool beanie in the winter, ball cap or a wider brimmed whatever (I guess a boonie like DdBob describes) if I want to keep sun off, sweat out of my eyes, etc). A newsboy/flat cap is sorta semifunctional (sure, it's warmer than not wearing a hat, and it does have a brim, but the brim isn't big enough to really keep sun off, and it doesn't cover enough of your head to be warm enough in the cold, etc etc.

(Ie, I'd wear a warmer hat in the cold and a better brimmed hat if I wanted to keep sun off and if it wasn't cold enough or sunny enough to care, then I wouldn't wear a hat)

edit: also, and more importantly, I hate that guy's sweater
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that's pretty much my thoughts. I would add that the newsboy was popular in a time period when boys wore knickers as well. IMHO it was never intended as a functional hat but rather it was meant to be a fashion accessory...like the Bowler (sp?) hat or the bow tie.
 
2manband said:
Aka flat cap...like this

e7cc4-42429_p226_slate_m_15.jpg


I got one for my 3 yr old and he looked hella stylish in it, and he also looks a lot like me, so by the transitive property of handsomeness I deduced that I would also look good in one.
I kinda screwed up though and got one that's too big. It fits fine but it's too poofy/voluminous/peaky blinders and I was going more for the look in the photo above.
I think I'll keep it because it's nice to have a warm wool hat with a brim but try again for a trimmer model.

Anywho, cool or not cool?
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Pfft. I bet this guy doesn't even sell newspapers on the street corner. Fraud
 
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