bought classic-style hat, am I a douche?

[guids]

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As long as you don't wear aviator goggles, i think you're alright.

I have three fedora's. My staple is a soft-straw fedora with a black and brown band around it. I even have 4 different kinds of small feathers I'll sometimes put in it. To give you an anecdote, last weekend I wore it and women were buying me drinks, constantly asking to wear it and complementing me for it.

Of course, It certainly helps how you wear it and what you wear with it (I think a wearing it with a slant is required, as it bending the lip in the front so the brim doesn't curve upwards all the way around the hat) but I promise the only people making fun of you will be those that make fun of people who stand out in a crowd; and as long as you dress well enough you standing out will be a good thing.

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These I wear a lot, and like them, usually its while Im cooking and drinking outside on saturdays to keep the sun out of my eyes. but I could never wear them "out" in any type fo formal setting

[Thug Bubbles]

Mine is very similar, but a tan color. But why don't you think you can wear it out? I wore a jet black crushed felt fedora with a wide brim and blood red feather to a wedding and couldn't count the number of complements (the pimpness was, though, that I had a matching blood red tie against my black pin-stripe suit and black shirt). Hell, one woman even asked if she could take my picture.

I think much of the problem is that people are so concerned with standing out they forget that:

1. It looks super-pimp if you don't clown the rest of the close

and

2. Standing out is usually a good thing.

I agree, some just don't work with hats, or even specific hats, but I think most could if they paid attention to their look.

To OP:

It helps if you're brown. Don't ask me why. Also, that style is pretty specific, and I personally don't like it. You should go for one that's a bit sharper in it's lines and less Bowl-like, that has a curvyer brim, that isn't too "tall" and doesn't have too wide a brim. The latter two are just fine with that hat, but I still say you should go for a sharper style.

[guids]

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Mine is very similar, but a tan color. But why don't you think you can wear it out? I wore a jet black crushed felt fedora with a wide brim and blood red feather to a wedding and couldn't count the number of complements (the pimpness was, though, that I had a matching blood red tie against my black pin-stripe suit and black shirt). Hell, one woman even asked if she could take my picture.

I think much of the problem is that people are so concerned with standing out they forget that:

1. It looks super-pimp if you don't clown the rest of the close

and

2. Standing out is usually a good thing.

I agree, some just don't work with hats, or even specific hats, but I think most could if they paid attention to their look.

To OP:

It helps if you're brown. Don't ask me why.

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Ill be completely honest with you. Im already pretty much a walking stereotype, obv italian guy, wearing a nice suit, driving an escalade, with the occasional white crap on the tip of his nose, I think wearing that hat would just be too much.

[Alobar]

It all depends. The odds arent in your favor tho, but some people can pull this off.

Who gives a [censored] tho, if you like the hat, go with it.

[oddjob]

let me know how the specials concert is.

[eviljeff]

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let me know how the specials concert is.

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haha I was just thinking how I would've worn this all the time back in my rudeboy days

[KotOD]

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I was bored and stuck in suburbia, so I went to the mall. I wandered into a hat store and ended up buying a classic-style hat with a brim popped in the back and straight in the front similar to this:



I was happy with my purchase until I spotted similar hats in a Hot Topic as I walked by. I'll wear it regardless, but I'd like to know if I'm going to look like an attention-starved, douchy twenty-something. Does it depend on what else I'm wearing?

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It's wholly dependent on age, body-type and hairstyle. If you are young, do not wear! You look like Molly Ringwald or Backstreet Boys, depending on your hips. If you are fat, do not wear! You'll look like you're trying to be "That guy" to cover up for being a fatass. If you have an asston of hair, do not wear! You will look like Molly Ringwald.

Once you hit your 30's and you aren't a fatass and you don't have George Michael's WHAM! hair -- you can pull these off pretty easily.

[kerze]

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It's wholly dependent on age, body-type and hairstyle. If you are young, do not wear! You look like Molly Ringwald or Backstreet Boys, depending on your hips. If you are fat, do not wear! You'll look like you're trying to be "That guy" to cover up for being a fatass. If you have an asston of hair, do not wear! You will look like Molly Ringwald.

Once you hit your 30's and you aren't a fatass and you don't have George Michael's WHAM! hair -- you can pull these off pretty easily.

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mid 30's, not a fatass and balding - maybe I am pulling this off. I bought a fedora last month. The main reason I bought it is that I go for 30 minute walks at lunch with one of my partners and I thought wearing a baseball cap with a suit looked stupid (and because I'm balding and fair skinned I really need a hat if I'm in the sun). Mine is black pinstriped and I have got a few compliments on it. I'm regretting not also buying the tan hat as I think it would go better with my lighter colour suits (or on casual days with khakis).

I was at wine festival back in May with my brother and sister-in-law and we saw a guy who was really pulling off a hat - after some discussion we thought it might have been because he was about 6'4" and that a shorter man couldn't pull it off. I'm 5'9" but I think I'm pulling it off somewhat.

[pokah5]

you have to be dwyane wade to pull it off..

[Mike Gallo]

Hi Eviljeff,

I think thats a pretty sharp hat, however I agree with the posters who say you will need to wear this with an overcoat and dress clothes/suit.

A cigar would look good also.