I'm very fond of it, though. I've never really been a hat man before, but I feel an affinity for the flat cap.
I'm very fond of it, though. I've never really been a hat man before, but I feel an affinity for the flat cap.
#NortherneratheartQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I like hats, but I still wear Beanies and baseball caps. I do think I need to admit my age and get something a bit more gentrified.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
:nod: Go full Peaky Blinders, psrb.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Very much the Irish farmer at heart, I note.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I love my fedora, of course, but I can't wear it in the rain. This displeases me.
I don't know why, I see you in a leather cap aka Village people style...... back in 5Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
A hat you can't wear in the rain is an entirely pointless object imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
You might require a sun hat and a rain hat..... 2 completely different animalsQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
But a fedora is not a sun hat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
It's not a hat I'd wear... you either have a hat because of it being sunny, rainy or windy..... 1 does not cover all. A fedora doesn't seem to cover any basesQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I also have a flat cap, acquired in Hawkshead, Cumbria.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Funny, I was thinking just this morning as I stepped out of Blackfriars tube into pouring rain that all men should wear hats and a suitable, weather proof coat in the rain.
Umbrellas are for women imo.
Weather proof coat with a hood... sorted, and no chance of losing said hat.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Apart from on a golf course I can't remember using an umbrella
You realise you have just described an *gulp* anorak, yes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
Barbour jacket with a detachable hood....I have the jacket but can't be arsed with the hood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Living in Manchester, you need a sodding great golf umbrella!
Or parka.... I don't own an anorak :nono:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I have a weather proof jacket acquired at one of those Cotswolds shops. It works very well and has a hood that can be extracted in times of rain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It never has been extracted, however, as it would look ridiculous and I have my tweed flat cap for that purpose.
The Barbour jacket is a wonderful thing, p, and of course the first thing one does when one gets it home is defenestrate the hood.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
A grown man wearing a coat with a hood, for all love. He may as well have mittens in the sleeves connected by a length of string.
A leather bush hat, that's the thing for rain.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Just in terms of clarity and accuracy, are we talking about flat cap or baker boy style?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I suppose the problem for you is that any hat you wear will look like you're trying to hide your baldyness. Like Duncan Goodhew. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
Me and you will have a full on fist fight one day, that I assure you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nod: I have a Barbour and a tweed cap. I am basically waterproof.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
:nono: I am afraid that rules of etiquette dictate that I may only enter into fisticuffs with another gentleman, sw. I'm sorry to disappoint you.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I'll happily have one of my chaps give you a thrashing if that suits?
A flat cap. Baker boy indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Thrashing? You clearly have no idea with whom you are dealing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I had a record once.
Kylie Moinogue's 'Locomotion'?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Grievous bodily harm. GBH.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I would take note and proceed with caution, pal. Further I would factor in a modicum of respect in all your future dealings with me.
Pal.
This is you, isn't it? :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixFQUpLnr3E
You should be fine, anyone that wears such an overpriced rain coat as him must be as soft as ****eQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
You see you are veering close to Northern stereotyping here P, “overpriced”.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
Nothing is overpriced if the purchaser a) wants the product and b) can afford the product. We are then simply moving into the area of supply and demand, John Maynard Keynes etc.
In respect of outerwear a man should own a few different options for different weather conditions and different social circumstances.
I have a Barbour, a Belstaff, 2 x Patagonia Torrentshell, a North Face, an Albam cagoule and naturally it goes without saying a Baracuta G9 (Harrington to you and others).
Hats I have at least 4-5.
This is a very touching defence of free market economics, sw. wd.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
However, I'm not sure Keynes would be my go-to man in such a defence, since he was little better than a communist and a poofter to boot.
:clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Ooooh, well in, Charles.
Sorry SW :-(
He is the only one I remember from O and A Level study.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
His sexual preferences and deviancy was not something we were made aware of. Given I was at a CBS perhaps it was thought a touchy subject.
One appeared in my kitchen a few weeks ago. I traced the previous night back and it was left in the pub by some **** who I'd been drinking with, I wore it all the way home! Haven't worn it since mind. :freecap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You've been watching too many Guy Ritchie movies, imo. NTTAWWFCs though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney