Club Obi Wan

maboot38 wrote:

Kredepops wrote:True, in big cities nobody bothers to comment on your choice of clothes.

Not true here in Boston. I always get comments on the hat, ranging from #### Tracy references to Raiders themes. One time I even got a comment on a simple shirt. I was wearing a Peruvian football shirt and some chick in full goth attire screamed in my face "What the #### are you WEARING??"...

...to which I replied, "it's a football shirt. The vampire store was all out of my size."

She said nothing and walked away.

HAHAHAHA! Now that's hilarious!!

maboot38 wrote:It still bugs me that one of the most famous fedora wearers of all time, #### Tracy, still can't get his name past the profanity filter. It's my Dad's name, for #### sake! I'm not even allowed to write my father's first name on here!!

It was my Dad's name too, and it doesn't bother me a bit.

Blame/thank the folks who abused the word in useage here in order to get it included in the word censor, not the administration.

Regards! Michaelson

maboot38 wrote:

Kredepops wrote:True, in big cities nobody bothers to comment on your choice of clothes.

Not true here in Boston. I always get comments on the hat, ranging from #### Tracy references to Raiders themes. One time I even got a comment on a simple shirt. I was wearing a Peruvian football shirt and some chick in full goth attire screamed in my face "What the #### are you WEARING??"...

...to which I replied, "it's a football shirt. The vampire store was all out of my size."

She said nothing and walked away.

...not much color coordination going on there, is it?

One practical use might to to round them up as professional funeral attendees..? Wanna skip the funeral? Don't worry about it! We got you covered!

I ran into a vegetarian goth one time, she was like...I VANT to drink a V-8!

maboot38 wrote:

afterthedog wrote: Too bad for them that I couldn't afford their shirts.

Probably because you spent all your money on the Adventurebilt!!

You probably have a point there.

I wore my AB with a kilt once this summer. Try doing that sometime. I guarantee that the comments about the fedora will stop very quickly.

I've written a lot about this topic a lot in the past 10 or 12 years since I first found the IndyGear community in some guise or another. Pardon me in advance if I sound like a broken record...

I'm going to die. Not today, hopefully not tomorrow. Not this year either, I hope. I hope to live past December 2012 and beyond. I hope to celebrate my 40th anniversary of my first post regardless of where I live or the technology. I hope to see many new things, survive more crisis' and endure more challenges with better grace the before. But when all is said and done... I'm going to die.

What's going to be my biggest regret? I know I'll have a few. I'll have some more then others, and less then a few more. There will be things I wanted to do but never did, and there are those things I wish I didn't do in the first place.

I won't die regretting my choice to wear a fedora. That's for sure.

Isn't it your life? Is life about being your own person and making your own mistakes? Isn't being a live in this day and age about being allowed to make your own mistakes? Or being the first guy to say, I'm going to climb that mountain!?

When is life going to be about you and not what other people dictate to you about what you can and can't wear?

I simply made it my mission to single-handedly bring back the fedora, at least in my area, by wearing my hat constantly

But then I bought a motorcycle, and only wear the fedora when I drive with is not frequent. Maybe I should do the roll up fedora!!! YEAH! Ok, I'm going to start rolling my Fed I! (wire has been pulled out)

See, the general rule in San Francisco is that there's always someone wearing a weirder outfit than yours.

jlee562 wrote:See, the general rule in San Francisco is that there's always someone wearing a weirder outfit than yours.

Yeah I personally love it when I can make San Franciscans do a double take, knowing how they must have seen everything.

(eg. running the 49 mile drive!!! Carrying a lifesized replica of Han Solo in Carbonite through Pier 39)

I usually don't wear my fedora every day, as it is simply not always practical. What I do wear it for is when I go travelling.

That way my trusted Akubra has seen me through Egypt, Greece and Turkey so far. All countries where it is warm and it makes good sense to wear a hat against the sun.

jlee562 wrote:See, the general rule in San Francisco is that there's always someone wearing a weirder outfit than yours.

Haha! San Francisco: The exception to the rule.

When I was in high school back in 2002 I decided I was going to wear my mk VII everywhere. And I did ... for a while. After about 6 months people finally stopped calling it a purse and left me alone but I still got comments so eventually it just got easier to wear my bag only in certain situations. I still wear it when I go places on the weekend and yeah, it does get odd looks from strangers occasionally but I guess I've experienced what a few of you have with the fedora in that I just feel comfortable with it now and if people don't like it, they can lump it.

Now, wearing the fedora AND the mk VII at the same time...I might have to work up to that.

jlee562 wrote:See, the general rule in San Francisco is that there's always someone wearing a weirder outfit than yours.

The general rule in Southern NH that there's always Fisk who is wearing a weirder outfit then you...

Indiana Sloan wrote:Haha! San Francisco: The exception to the rule.

When I was in high school back in 2002 I decided I was going to wear my mk VII everywhere. And I did ... for a while. After about 6 months people finally stopped calling it a purse and left me alone but I still got comments so eventually it just got easier to wear my bag only in certain situations. I still wear it when I go places on the weekend and yeah, it does get odd looks from strangers occasionally but I guess I've experienced what a few of you have with the fedora in that I just feel comfortable with it now and if people don't like it, they can lump it.

Now, wearing the fedora AND the mk VII at the same time...I might have to work up to that.

Just do it! I wear both all the time. The only comments I get are from family, and they just don't "get" the whole hobby. The only comments from them I get now are about the bag, but I don't think I've ever gotten a comment from a stranger about the bag. Just the hat, and even then it was "nice hat" pretty much every time. It goes back to not being self-conscious about wearing either.

Excelsior!
Riothamus

riothamus wrote:

Indiana Sloan wrote:Haha! San Francisco: The exception to the rule.

When I was in high school back in 2002 I decided I was going to wear my mk VII everywhere. And I did ... for a while. After about 6 months people finally stopped calling it a purse and left me alone but I still got comments so eventually it just got easier to wear my bag only in certain situations. I still wear it when I go places on the weekend and yeah, it does get odd looks from strangers occasionally but I guess I've experienced what a few of you have with the fedora in that I just feel comfortable with it now and if people don't like it, they can lump it.

Now, wearing the fedora AND the mk VII at the same time...I might have to work up to that.

Just do it! I wear both all the time. The only comments I get are from family, and they just don't "get" the whole hobby. The only comments from them I get now are about the bag, but I don't think I've ever gotten a comment from a stranger about the bag. Just the hat, and even then it was "nice hat" pretty much every time. It goes back to not being self-conscious about wearing either.

Excelsior!
Riothamus

I wear the bag and the (in fact, Riot's former) hat together all the time. I never get comments on the bag, and only occasionally on the hat, but, again, I wear them all the time, so people who know me expect it. Those that dont know me, or are just in passing, who cares . . .

I never get a comment from wearing the bag, except from my friends who jokingly call it my "purse". I used to try and refute it with "its a satchel" but now, after "The Hangover" I just sigh....lol.

I used to wear Indy gear a lot, years and years ago, and back then everyone called the bag a purse. I stopped wearing the stuff for a while, and then messenger bags became super-popular. I've recently bought a new bag and started carrying it around, and since the rise of the messenger bag, I haven't heard a darn thing about it.

Renderking Fisk wrote:...
I'm going to die. Not today, hopefully not tomorrow. Not this year either, I hope. I hope to live past December 2012 and beyond. I hope to celebrate my 40th anniversary of my first post regardless of where I live or the technology. I hope to see many new things, survive more crisis' and endure more challenges with better grace the before. But when all is said and done... I'm going to die... I won't die regretting my choice to wear a fedora. That's for sure.

Isn't it your life? Is life about being your own person and making your own mistakes? Isn't being a live in this day and age about being allowed to make your own mistakes? Or being the first guy to say, I'm going to climb that mountain!?

When is life going to be about you and not what other people dictate to you about what you can and can't wear?

Well said. No one ever has laid in his deathbed thinking "I really wish I hadn't worn a fedora so much"

... buck up, it ain't that long a ride. Do as you please!

"What is a man, anyhow? What am I? What are you?

All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own,
Else it were time lost listening to me.

I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums, and the ground but wallow and filth;
That life is a s uck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare
crape, and tears.

Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids—conformity goes to
the forth-removed;
I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out."

-Walt Whitman

Who cares what others think! Life is way to short to judge others for what they wear! Society is to wrapped up in buying things we don't need, too impress people we don't know, with money we don't have.... Food for thought. So get that Fedora put it on and wear it proud my friend!

Randy,
A little of both.

At first I was a little shy to wear a hat in public... but that eventually went away. Now I can't imagine myself going out without one on my head. I'm especially enjoying it now that it's the rainy season here, because it makes it more essential to have a hat.

fenris wrote:At first I was a little shy to wear a hat in public... but that eventually went away. Now I can't imagine myself going out without one on my head. I'm especially enjoying it now that it's the rainy season here, because it makes it more essential to have a hat.

Remember - when you don't wear your fedora, you're naked from the neck up.

I hadn't thought of it that way, Ren!

Regards! Michaelson

theinterchange wrote:Does that mean you can be arrested for indecent exposure by the Fedora Feds?!

Randy

Yes! Buff and Graverobber Greg will arrest you, and bring you to my gulag where you will be tortured for 40 days and nights with my live performances of the entire Meatloaf song catalogue via Karaoke. My record for breaking people is right after "Bat out of..." and before "For Crying Out Loud..."

It's not a law you want to break twice.

I wear my fedora with a plain t-shirt (little or no logos/pictures), my blue jeans, and my brown boots. I do get the odd look sometimes and the occasional "nice cowboy hat" but all my friends think it suits me~

ajocampo wrote:I wear my fedora with a plain t-shirt (little or no logos/pictures), my blue jeans, and my brown boots. I do get the odd look sometimes and the occasional "nice cowboy hat" but all my friends think it suits me~

Hey, we have the same style... That's how I dress for just going out to the mall or something.

I used to get odd looks, but now I don't notice it that much anymore. Probably because I'm not that insecure anymore about wearing a fedora in public.

Wearing a fedora in public really does require some attitude...

Renderking Fisk wrote: Remember - when you don't wear your fedora, you're naked from the neck up.

SOme of us are more naked than others.