Hats! what's on your head?

[rik_uk3]

Baseball cap is perfect for spec wearers in the rain, keeps your glasses dry and also great in the summer to cut down sun glare. Flat cap around town, beanie type hat in winter and sometimes an army 'jungle' type hat.

Contrary to Red's somewhat irrational hatred of baseball caps, not all users are wannabe boyz from da hood and wear hoodie tops.

 

[Chris the Cat]

I forgot my everyday flat cap ! ( thanks rik! )
daily dog walking hat.

 

[david1]

Yeeeap! today fellow forumites, we shall try to maturely discuss hats!
Peace!

forumites made me laugh I tried and failed to Google what a group of forum members are called

 

[redandshane]

http://www.fjallraven.com/outdoor-equipment/hats-caps-and-gloves/

Fjallraven have probably got something for you
I wear the Helags cap
I would hate to lose it and I would replace with the same if I did.Its not that often I would say that about something so i must like it a lot
As others have stated the Merino and Possum fur hat from Woodlore is my cold weather and sleeping out hat of choice

 

[blacktimberwolf]

If it's raining or snowing then it's a leather Aussie type hat.
If it's hot & sunny, then it will be a leather Aussie type hat
& if not, it will be a different leather Aussie type hat.




What else ?

 

[Steve27752]

Summer or winter it's a Rogue. Usually this one

Sorry about my ugly mug!

 

[forrestdweller]

[QUOTE and yes I agree the Rambo jokes get tiresome [/QUOTE]

so do the ""moses/gandalf/ local mountain god"" jokes about my LITTLE walking stick FORREST, the ""crocodile dundee"" jokes about my knife(even though it's MUCH smaller...) or my pruning saw mistaken for my knife and the annoying ""you walk BAREFOOT?!"" comments here in korea....

to get back to the topic: my headbands are simple homemade jobs using a strip of cotton towel. apart from keeping sweat out of my face i occasionally stick small items into them(as tucking a pencil behind my ear(carpenter-style) does not work for me); and once i tied it lower around my face to protect my nose from frostbite....

 

[MikeLA]

I did consider a tilley hat but I felt a bit like a dork in the camping shop when I tried it on..

I'll have a nose on that site and see if any are suitable for me.

Also, I'm too young for a flat cap, live in too much of a ghetto for a wide brimmed hat like the Tilley and don't really like wooly type hats..

I know the feeling, me too, Just to Cowboy looking and feels out of place here and especially on me

 

[MikeLA]

Also the wifes comments were true so its
Green Jungle hat or a
grey Trekmates version for summer and a
beanie for winter

 

[santaman2000]

I know the feeling, me too, Just to Cowboy looking and feels out of place here and especially on me

LOL. I don't especially care for Tilley hats. But they're a looooong way from "cowboy looking." Actually that's one of the reasons why I really don't like them. That and they're way overpriced; I can get a cloth beach hat that's basicly a Tilley clone at any beach shop for $10 or so here.

 

[jhock]

I have a pig skin Fedora, allows to live out my 'Indy' fantasies and stops me getting burnt or wet (more likely at the moment).

 

[bob_the_baker]

My "go to" hat is a Suede Aussie stockman's hat. But I have beanies and/or Buff's stashed in the car/coat/bag/hallway/desk drawer/trouser pockets and probably in a few other locations as well.
Since my natural thatching has thinned to almost nothing I now have an aversion to having rain or, more rarely, sun hit my head directly so I never get caught out these days.

 

[Samon]

Tried on a few flap caps in a camping shop and looked like a right plonker! hehe

There were Tilley hats in too, they looked alright but again I can imagine I'd look stupid with one on..

I will try and find a suitable baseball cap, one that doesn't look too G'!

 

[Tyla]

I did consider a tilley hat but I felt a bit like a dork in the camping shop when I tried it on..

I'll have a nose on that site and see if any are suitable for me.

Also, I'm too young for a flat cap, live in too much of a ghetto for a wide brimmed hat like the Tilley and don't really like wooly type hats..

Your never too young for a flatcap, i pretty much live in mine!

 

[Paul_B]

I got a t5 organic cotton Tilley recently. Years of fear that it'd make me look a dork or just middle aged. They make sense in hot sun so I got one. best thing for years. got it because cap got lost. A cap has been worn sun and resin outdoors for years. I remember fearing they'd make me look a dork too. That's one thing you realize, the right hat only makes you feel dork for a while then you get used to it.

 

[Paul_B]

Wore a flat cap in winter as a kid. Bought for £7 and proper Harris tweed. Got it at a point to point. A great hat. it resisted wind rain snow and anything else too. I grew out off it and sister got it. Wasn't one of the modern ones at all, you know the ones with a dome head bit and a peak sticking out of it. Mine was farmer/gamekeeper style where it went b straight from top of head to peak without the dip like modern kangol type caps.

 

[Harvestman]

Tilley T3. Great for pulling the birds

 

[drowso]

My totally sexy ushanka/trapper hat.

 

[John Fenna]

Tilley T3
I only ever bought one - but I have worn 5 of them out
The Lifetime guarantee is for real and has made the Tilley the cheapest hat I ever bought!

 

[ADz-1983]

Possum Fur and Merino Wool Beanie Hat - Moss (£20)