Work Lid?
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Work Lid?
I decided to move this question into its own thread, as I'm afraid to highjack Skip's. Here's the question...
Doe's anyone else wear there Indy lids to work? Or is it just me?
I get the impression more than a few of us do...
If you do, what kind of response do you get?
Warm Regards
Kilgour Trout
Doe's anyone else wear there Indy lids to work? Or is it just me?
I get the impression more than a few of us do...
If you do, what kind of response do you get?
Warm Regards
Kilgour Trout
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Yeah, I've worn my fed to work a few times.
I didn't get much of a response until we went out to coffee- when the guy we know at the café whistled 'Waltzing Matilda'. I don't expect you to know this tune- but it's song strongly connected with the stereotyped version of Australian culture and the wearing of Indiana Jones type hats. No one made the Indy connection though...
I didn't get much of a response until we went out to coffee- when the guy we know at the café whistled 'Waltzing Matilda'. I don't expect you to know this tune- but it's song strongly connected with the stereotyped version of Australian culture and the wearing of Indiana Jones type hats. No one made the Indy connection though...
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Re: Work Lid?
You are a scholar and a gentleman!!!Kilgour Trout wrote:I decided to move this question into its own thread, as I'm afraid to highjack Skip's. ...
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Kilgour Trout
I usually only wear mine leaving work, because of the hair thing. I don't have the stylist following me around after each take!
Although it looks great with my suits!
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Sure I wear mine to work -- what's a hat for? I've always received positive comments and usually from the ladies.
When wearing my Fed, someone once asked me if it was Australian. Well it was an Akubra. Oddly enough, I never had anyone associate the Akubra Fed with Indy, but I was told I looked like Indiana Jones when I happened to be wearing my Akubra Cattleman!
Cheers,
Harry
When wearing my Fed, someone once asked me if it was Australian. Well it was an Akubra. Oddly enough, I never had anyone associate the Akubra Fed with Indy, but I was told I looked like Indiana Jones when I happened to be wearing my Akubra Cattleman!
Cheers,
Harry
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I'm an old, decrepit coot who doesn't care what anyone thinks. At work I install computers and pick up disconnected computers. My dress is casual; jeans t-shirt and sneakers (or the Aldens or the J.Crew boots) I get outa bed and the hat goes on (HJ or Optimo or Fed Delux) I wear it all day every day, everywhere. If I take it off, it's my call. It does not rely on anything else. One guy at work calls me Indee sometimes in a Salah type voice, but by and large most people say nothing.
Some days I go to work in the LL Bean trousers, the aldens, the shirt and the Wested. It's the hat that makes the difference, though. If I wore no hat, or a ball cap, no one would notice the rest of the outfit.
Some days I go to work in the LL Bean trousers, the aldens, the shirt and the Wested. It's the hat that makes the difference, though. If I wore no hat, or a ball cap, no one would notice the rest of the outfit.
You're kidding, right? Yeah, I wear my Indy's and other hats to work! My team probably wouldn't know me if I didn't show up in a hat! Even the guy who handles my oil changes calls me 'Indy'! Kind of strange to see this posting today -- first day in months, I have not worn an Indy-style fedora to work -- came in with a deerstalker today. W>
I never get the "Indy" thing. Most college students around here can't tell the difference between a fedora or a cowboy hat, so it's always, "Where's your spurs," or something similar, if anything's said at all. (But it doesn't help matters that the minute the weather cools down, I'm in my ol' battered Aussie-style drover's coat either.)
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Fish! Ain't it so! And, it is not just college kids! It amazes me just how un-hat-knowledgable so many people are -- all ages. Truthfully the real cowboy types understand more about hats of all types than the average Joe. I don't think it would seem so strange to me if it was just the younger people who think wearing ball caps is all there is when it comes to headgear (and not even wearing these correctly), but it baffles me how many men my age and older, who have been around, seen a lot and even though hats went out of vogue (to a big extent) with the Kennedy years, don't know anything about finer toppers. Even these guys tend to wear ball caps -- and poorly at that, some of the time. So, you are not alone..I would love a dollar for everytime I get compared to a cowboy or to Crocodile Dundee. The comparisons really don't bother me, but I get a bit flustered with the -- do I want to take time and explain the differences to them -- or blow it off, concepts. I usually just blow it off! Regards. W>
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Re: Work Lid?
All the time. No responses anymore. Everynow and then someone will comment like it's something "new" or joke about it. When they do, I ususally have a sassy remark as a response.Kilgour Trout wrote:Does anyone else wear there Indy lids to work?
If you do, what kind of response do you get?
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I wear my PB Borsalino to work every day. I don't wear it inside, but whenever I go out I wear it. It's amazing the responses I get. Some recognize the hat from Indiana Jones and some think it looks like a cowboy hat (I don't get that, 'cause I HAVE a couple of cowboy hats and they look nothing like a Fed). For some strange reason, my son thinks it looks like a Park Ranger's hat?! Whatever others think it looks like, I like it, and it keeps my bald melon protected from the elements!!
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I wear one of my hats everywhere. When I had the shop, it was a good way to keep sawdust out of my hair, and haveing an Akubra on even saved me from a bad head injury once. I never get comments anymore, and I attribute this to being older. Like Dakota, I could care less what folks think. I am pleasing myself, and have never been one of the herd. I like being different. My rules for wearing a fedora is basically to take it off at bedtime, due to my wife's insistence. To me, a hat is an article of clothing. I would not pull my pants off in order to enter a building. The hat stays on. regards, Fedora
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I always wear a hat to work. I wear western hats, fedoras, and some straws of each type. I get many compliments from ladies. Guys often ask me about my hats. I know some (possibly many) people think I'm foolish for wearing a hat but I don't really hear negative comments. I have a natural facial expression like Hugh Jackman in X-Men so I think people assume that I'm not interested in their fashion critiques. Let me tell you what really makes my skin crawl. Women often say, "Oh, My husband has a hat like that. He got it at Wal-Mart." This makes me want to scream and cry at the same time but I try to stay polite. I've had people call me Indiana Jones when I'm wearing a white straw cowboy hat and a blue denim jacket! Once when wearing a raincoat and an Akubra Stylemaster fedora, a wiseguy started whistling the theme from The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly and then laughed like a mental patient. Maybe, he was a mental patient?
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