Have you any unusual hats?

[Globalti]

I love hats for the look of them and being bald they are a necessity in winter and hot sun.

I must have about 30 different types of headgear including a Balmoral and a Glengarry:

I've removed the cockades, the toories and the dicing off these and just wear them plain. I love these for the ribbons, which can be left loose or tied in a bow, originally they were used to tighten that hat around the head but now they're decorative.

Now I want a Tricorne hat. Difficult to find one the right shape and size and of decent quality; not just made for fancy dress and not looking too much like Jack Sparrow's tricorne. I think I was born in the wrong century.

I'd also quite like a pork pie hat but would need to try one on for the size. Anybody remember Popeye Doyle in French Connection?

What's your favourite hat? Where did you get it? Anybody know of any good online sellers?

 

[Tim Hall]

I have a klein bottle hat, which my daughter crotcheted for me.

 

[byegad]

More hats than I care to think!
Being 'thin on top', a glasses wearer*, and a bit sensitive to bright light I wear a hat out of doors all year. So I have waterproof hats, sun hats, a lot of baseball caps and several weird and wonderful items of head-ware.

 

[Davos87]

I have my late fathers cap which I treasure.
I also have a Bobbys helmet!

 

[Piemaster]

A brazilian tarp hat, which despite working in Brazil where they are made,I had to get in the UK as I couldn't find one here, not even in the touristy bits of Rio. Worn during summer and a Walleroo oiled leather aussie hat, similar style but used in wet weather, sort of a personal umbrella.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I have lots of hats. 5 fedoras, 3 of them vintage, with varying brim sizes; a Panama and a similar Japanese woven paper hat; one cord and two tweed flat caps, including a driving cap; some other modern caps; a Siberian ushanka (perfect when it's -20 or below, which is does get to quite frequently here in Ontario in winter); and of course the requisite 'tuques' (Canadian term for a knitted hat). I also have a reproduction nineteenth century top hat, but I only wear that as costume. This was also costume (including the moustache) although I'd wear most of this (except the moustache) in different contexts...

 

[mickle]

I favour a 'white trash' style cap in Realtree or similar camo /hunting fabric. I have eight of them.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Just this one...

 

[Cuchilo]

I once went to price a job for someone rather high up in the British Army . He insisted on showing me his collection of hats that consisted of other troops ceremonial hats . He started putting on bear skins and marching up and down the room as he swapped hats and carried on marching . Total nutter

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Fedora, wooley hat and various cycling caps.

 

[nickyboy]

I once went to price a job for someone rather high up in the British Army . He insisted on showing me his collection of hats that consisted of other troops ceremonial hats . He started putting on bear skins and marching up and down the room as he swapped hats and carried on marching . Total nutter

As are most people with a hat collection I think you'll find

 

[compo]

I have a genuine fur Russian hat that I wear in the winter on the beach when fishing. I also have a shocking pink woolly bobble hat that an old dear in a care home knitted for me for fishing. I haven't the heart to get rid of it and I occasionally wear it. I also have loads of the Thinsulate hats that I seem to accumulate from somewhere.

 

[hopless500]

I've got rather a lot of all different types. But not your floaty wedding ones . Favourite is probably a green cord trilby

 

[welsh dragon]

I have a straw hat that I wear in the garden. I look like a proper country bumpkin

 

[cisamcgu]

I love hats but suffer from two problems : 1) I have an unaturally large head and 2) my family laugh so much every time I try one on I get discouraged.

ho hum :-)