Fedora with Shorts

Nicht Storen · Post by **Nicht Storen** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:11 pm

What does everyone think of wearing their Fed. with shorts in the summer? I'm headed to Phoenix for a wedding and vacation next month and have been watching the temps soar lately out there to well over 100 degrees. I know I'll be wearing shorts most of the time, but I want to wear my fedora as well. How does it look? Is it ok with a t-shirt as well?
Thanks in advance.

Post by **Michaelson** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:16 pm

Lots of folks do it....not ME mind you...but lots of OTHER folks do it, and it works fine! Regards! Michaelson

Hemingway Jones · Post by **Hemingway Jones** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:20 pm

I did it in Puerto Rico and got some grief for it. Mind you, it was 100+ degrees! Pictures may be found here. I admit that it is a bit of a Robin Higgins looks and perhaps a Pith Helmet might be more apropos, but it was hot, very hot, indeed!

Bottom line is wear your hat as much as possible!

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:34 pm

A hat keeps your head out of the sun. If you want to wear it with shorts, wear it with shorts! I've worn fedoras with all kinds of ensambles, including Indy gear!

bink

rick5150 · Post by **rick5150** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:42 pm

Personally, I do not care for shorts anyways. Very rarely wear them. People tell you how much cooler it is than long pants and I will always disagree. Sure, it can be, but I find that having the sun beating directly on my legs on a very hot day is worse than wearing long pants. Kind of like how hair insulates the head from the sun rather than intensifying the heat. Plus, while hiking, short pants can really cause problems when the temerature changes, or when you encounter low lying bushes or a high lying tree root. Fall on one rock one time on your knee and you will know what I mean.

Another look I will never understand is sandals on guys. Especially with shorts and white socks.

JAN · Post by **JAN** » Thu May 26, 2005 1:14 pm

Drop it, Rick

Say it as it is - Your legs aren´t shorts-showable

Best regards

JAN

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Thu May 26, 2005 1:38 pm

NOPE! NEVER!!! I don't even OWN a pair of shorts!

Regards,

Marc

BendingOak · Post by **BendingOak** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:08 pm

Never owned shorts or ever will and don't wear my fedora with a t-shirt either.

Nicht Storen · Post by **Nicht Storen** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:12 pm

Thanks for the replies. Anyone from the Valley of the Sun with any thoughts??

HJ- Nice pics. Wearing the Fed with the shorts makes you look a little like Frank Buck or the big game hunter from Jurassic Park. It looks good.

Hemingway Jones · Post by **Hemingway Jones** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:30 pm

Nicht Storen wrote:HJ- Nice pics. Wearing the Fed with the shorts makes you look a little like Frank Buck or the big game hunter from Jurassic Park. It looks good.

Thanks, I'll take that over Higgins anyday.

rick5150 · Post by **rick5150** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:39 pm

Jan wrote:Say it as it is - Your legs aren´t shorts-showable

Nothing on my body is particularly showable, but that is not the point. I find a fedora and shorts to look a bit goofy - at least on me, and I need all the help I can get.

ij1936 · Post by **ij1936** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:56 pm

I wear mine with cargo shorts & gym shoes, and I could not care less what others might think! Be a rebel! Wear it! Your noggin will thank you!

Indiana Jess · Post by **Indiana Jess** » Thu May 26, 2005 3:20 pm

rick5150 wrote:Another look I will never understand is sandals on guys. Especially with shorts and white socks.

Kind of a "Birkenstock Jones" look.

Hemingway Jones · Post by **Hemingway Jones** » Thu May 26, 2005 3:23 pm

Indiana Jess wrote:
rick5150 wrote:Another look I will never understand is sandals on guys. Especially with shorts and white socks.
Kind of a "Birkenstock Jones" look.

I believe that is how bink dresses. He was extolling the virtues of Birkenstocks the other day.

J_Weaver · Post by **J_Weaver** » Thu May 26, 2005 3:24 pm

I guess a fedora with shorts is ok, but personally, I don't care too much for it.. But then again, I don't care much for shorts. If I'm wearing shorts than I useally have a ballcap on. I usually only wear my fedora with a suit or while hiking. If I wore shorts hiking around here I would die of a combination of cut, poison ivy, poison oak, etc. There's underbrush in these mountains of a summer that make the jungle in Raider look like Kansas.

(no joke!)

Indiana Jess · Post by **Indiana Jess** » Thu May 26, 2005 4:52 pm

Hemingway Jones wrote:
Indiana Jess wrote:
rick5150 wrote:Another look I will never understand is sandals on guys. Especially with shorts and white socks.
Kind of a "Birkenstock Jones" look.
I believe that is how bink dresses. He was extolling the virtues of Birkenstocks the other day.

Ah! Binkenstock Jones!

J_Weaver · Post by **J_Weaver** » Thu May 26, 2005 4:58 pm

One thing that drives me crazy are these people that hike in sandals.

Do I hear someone yelling broken ankle?

rick5150 · Post by **rick5150** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:09 pm

I know what you mean. I have seen people hiking very rocky peaks barefoot as well. Foolhardy at best. At least they are not wearing fedoras (keeping it on topic).

J_Weaver · Post by **J_Weaver** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:17 pm

Well, let them do what they want. Some day they all will have serious feet problems and skin cancer on their face and neck.

We will have some really cool, distressed boots and fedoras!

Bufflehead Jones · Post by **Bufflehead Jones** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:27 pm

I have never been that much of a shorts person. I have always felt that I was pretty comfortable with a lightweight pair of long pants in the summer. Mostly, I have just worn jeans.

Having said that and considering that I am about to enter retirement, I have been considering wearing some cargo type shorts on the hottest of summer days. I am starting to consider comfort over looks. Of course, I haven't even thought about what a fedora would look like with shorts. Ummm...I don't know about that.

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:43 pm

Personally, I do not care for shorts anyways.

Man, I was loading up on this one Rick, but other minds beat me to it.

Chicken legs was to be part of the response.

I once worked with a guy on a job that refused to wear shorts, ever. I doubt if his wife ever saw his legs. I did once, by accident when he spilled laquer thinner all over his jeans. Course, he came out of them, and right away. Glad we were in a dwelling under construction.

I understood right away why he never wore shorts, and slept in long johns, even in the summer months. When asked once why he never wore shorts, his stock reply was, " if I did, I could not work, due to haveing to beat the ladies off of me".

Homer was his name, and hyperbole was his game. Fedora

J_Weaver · Post by **J_Weaver** » Thu May 26, 2005 6:09 pm

Fedora wrote:
Personally, I do not care for shorts anyways.

Man, I was loading up on this one Rick, but other minds beat me to it.

Chicken legs was to be part of the response.

Around here we say:

"Man I bet you can sing?"

The person replies: "Why?"

"Cause you've got bird legs!"

Mulceber · Post by **Mulceber** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:43 pm

I have never been that much of a shorts person.

Ditto. Lightweight pants do wonders. Besides, most of the sweating is done on your brow, and in your armpits. So I guess you could say its more important to wear a light hat (Montecristi anyone?) and either a T-shirt or light cotton shirt. :junior: -IJ

Indyjim · Post by **Indyjim** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:16 pm

As much as I like my fedoras, I do not wear them with shorts. What I do wear, though, is my Akubra Banjo Paterson, which is "fedora looking" but
goes much better with shorts and other casual wear. When it is really hot and sunny I have an even wider brimmed Akubra for sun protection. I believe the Aussies wear their hats with most all kinds of clothing, as the hat is not just for looks but for protection from sun, rain and the elements.

In fact, some years ago, I was in Phoenix and did NOT have a wide brimmed hat. I burned my face and forehead so bad that I had blisters and redness
for YEARS! Also, the back of your neck and the top of your head (if you are like me and the forest is thinning) are just as important as your face.
If you are in Phoenix, who cares what you look like, take it from me, wear your hat. I have a brother-in-law in Phoenix who hikes quite a lot.
He wears either a fedora or an Aussie style hat all the time, and with shorts.

Indiana Neri · Post by **Indiana Neri** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:26 pm

I'm with Rick on the shorts and the sandels (w/ socks) issue. I mostly wear my LL Bean pants in the summer. Latley I have been wearing shorts, not as much - mostly when I go down to the beach and when I go swimming. Swimming in pants slows you down

. In any case, here in li'l Rhody (or anywhere in New England), the temperature always changes, so I'm always in pants...this coming from a guy who wears his Wested in August

. I wear my Indy hat with everything. One summer I went to New Hampshire with some friends and I wore my "fed" with everything - even my bathing suit. My point is wear it, especially if it's an AB (I have got to get me one of those). Even if it's not, you still must have spent some big bucks on your fed (let's face it, feds aren't cheap), so wear it anytime you want. Besides, if you're going for the Cairo look, then you got to let it face the elements, lol. My advice: Wear with pride!

Indy N.

OT: You may have noticed that I refere to my "fed" as my "Indy hat" or put [fed] in " "; I bought it in Disney and the general concensus(sp) here at COW is that the Disney hat is not a true fedora

. When I purchase an AB, only then will I "...have obtained the one true Ark."
(Sorry for the rants and long-winded speeches, I'm over my sugar intake limit

)

Richard~Buxton · Post by **Richard~Buxton** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:45 pm

Most of the time I wear Trouses. But in the hot months I might be temted
to wear a pair of kaki cargo shorts, they might look good on me with the AB.

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri May 27, 2005 12:02 am

Hemingway Jones wrote:
Indiana Jess wrote:
rick5150 wrote:Another look I will never understand is sandals on guys. Especially with shorts and white socks.
Kind of a "Birkenstock Jones" look.
I believe that is how bink dresses. He was extolling the virtues of Birkenstocks the other day.

Yes, I admit I own a pair of Birks, but I'm not a hippy. I wear them around the house (they're orthopedic, just like Aldens) and WITHOUT socks when I'm at the beach, but never with a suit. So BACK OFF!!!!!

Hey, how about a kilt? I prefer a kilt to shorts any day, and I find the kilt to be more comfortable.

McBink

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Fri May 27, 2005 1:55 am

Geesh, ya'll wouldn't make fun of a fellow fan, wouldja ? http://public.fotki.com/Fedora/hats/ric ... tmare.html

Fedora

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Fri May 27, 2005 1:59 am

Hey, how about a kilt? I prefer a kilt to shorts any day, and I find the kilt to be more comfortable.

Actually, if I owned a nice set of kilts, the whole shebang, knife, etc, and a set of bagpipes, I would wear them around the house.

I can hear my nosy neighbors now, "honey there goes Mr. Delk again, to get the mail, wearing those @##* kilts and trying to play those bagpipes!"

Indiana Jess · Post by **Indiana Jess** » Fri May 27, 2005 1:59 am

binkmeisterRick wrote:Hey, how about a kilt? I prefer a kilt to shorts any day, and I find the kilt to be more comfortable.

McBink

I remember the last time you went there Bink ...

rick5150 · Post by **rick5150** » Fri May 27, 2005 5:46 am

One would almost think that even if sandals and white socks were even remotely visually pleasant, socks would defeat the point of wearing sandals. Kind of like the guys who wear shorts over their sweatpants. I have done that but with underwear and pants. And whisky. But the lampshade on my head matched my underwear.

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:05 am

Indiana Jess wrote:
binkmeisterRick wrote:Hey, how about a kilt? I prefer a kilt to shorts any day, and I find the kilt to be more comfortable.

McBink
I remember the last time you went there Bink ...

So does my wife.

8-[

And Fedora, I DO own the whole garb, short of bagpipes!

bink

Renderking Fisk · Post by **Renderking Fisk** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:43 am

You can get away with wearing a fedora and anything else... just do it.

I own a pair of khaki shorts, and I don't own a single piar of jeans... wear what makes you look and feel the best.

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:55 pm

Nudism it is, then!

bin--er... JESS!

Hemingway Jones · Post by **Hemingway Jones** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:57 pm

binkmeisterRick wrote: And Fedora, I DO own the whole garb, short of bagpipes!

bink

Ah, yes, the MK VII Sporran -very screen accurate.

Indiana Jess · Post by **Indiana Jess** » Fri May 27, 2005 3:06 pm

binkmeisterRick wrote:Nudism it is, then!

bin--er... JESS!

It was Bink who that said that! He was in the buff ... I mean bluffing ... He was bluffing about it being me!

Kaleponi Craig · Post by **Kaleponi Craig** » Fri May 27, 2005 4:38 pm

Frankly, I think a nice Panama fedora would go better with shorts.

rick5150 · Post by **rick5150** » Fri May 27, 2005 4:58 pm

I am thinking a beanie w/propeller would be fitting.

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Fri May 27, 2005 6:16 pm

I am thinking a beanie w/propeller would be fitting.

You just don't know how the thought of that cracks me up. There is nothing funnier than seeing a grown man wear one of those. Next funniest to me would be the Goober cap. Fedora

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri May 27, 2005 6:25 pm

ClintonHammond wrote: " how about a kilt?"
HA! The Irish gave the Scot the kilt hundres of years ago, and the Scot still hasn't got the joke...

Heh

Yeah, nobody laughed at the Romans wearing "skirts," especially as they conquered the heck out of their enemies. Besides, it takes a strong man to wear a kilt. I mean, wouldn't YOU be afraid of a a bunch of guys in skirts running full tilt at you with seven foot broadswords? ...I thought so.

Also, in its original form, the kilt was a very practical garment that would keep you very warm in the highlands. If you've ever worn a true kilt, you'll know how warm it is!

bink

rick5150 · Post by **rick5150** » Sat May 28, 2005 7:24 am

and 'swishy'

Hahahaha. Swishy.

Hey Steve, in case some of the young'uns didn't get the Goober reference, I found this:

Edit: 06/02/2005 to change link to picture.

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Sat May 28, 2005 10:46 am

ClintonHammond wrote:I've worn them... they are very warm... and 'swishy'

Swishy?

Never heard that one before! I've worn my kilt in the dead of winter and been perfectly warm. One of these days I'll have to get a pic of me in my gear and kilt!

bink

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Sat May 28, 2005 12:37 pm

ClintonHammond wrote:Ya... swishy... in the "Whoops! Get her, boys!" sense of the word...

That's what the sporan is for!

bink

Indiana Neri · Post by **Indiana Neri** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:47 pm

It's a bit crude, but this was last minute:

Click Here

Indy N.

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:51 am

All I get is a timeout message. No pic.

bink

J_Weaver · Post by **J_Weaver** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:55 am

Me too.

BendingOak · Post by **BendingOak** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:04 pm

same here

Mojave Jack · Post by **Mojave Jack** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:45 pm

The Commonwealth troops fought their way back and forth across North Africa (and back and forth and back and forth...) in bush hats and shorts during WWII. And looked cool as heck the entire time. If you're nervous about the fedora, just go a brim size larger and call it a bush hat!

http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/un ... pell03.jpg

Here's one where I am breaking all of the rules! T-shirt, shorts, bush hat, and *gasp!* flip-flops! Not quite birkenstocks, but I am in my backyard, after all.

Indiana Neri · Post by **Indiana Neri** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:03 pm

Sorry 'bout that, I never really knew how to host pix.

Indy N.

Feraud · Post by **Feraud** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:29 pm

Mojave Jack wrote:The Commonwealth troops fought their way back and forth across North Africa (and back and forth and back and forth...) in bush hats and shorts during WWII. And looked cool as heck the entire time. If you're nervous about the fedora, just go a brim size larger and call it a bush hat!

I will agree with Mojave Jack on this one! It can be done, and with good taste, in the summer months.

Shorts with retro styled headgear(which a fedora is) were being done for a long time and should continue when in the blazing sun.

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No fedora's per se, but I see at least two 'slouch' type hats, a lot of bare heads and one dog!

What I am getting at is the idea that a fedora would be perfectly acceptable with shorts. Maybe you could skip the Greatful Dead shirt and Birkenstock's but a fedora with shorts in moderation seems o.k.

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