What is it About This Hat?

.....that if I had more hair, I wouldn't need a cap? and so I really need a cap, and this...this is the cap I'd wear

They are comfortable, crushable, easy to keep clean, warm, and they stay put in the wind ...  Been wearin' Hats all my life ... and this one has always been a favorite ... Looks Good with my BibAlls and my Boots, and my Pea Coat along with it puts me right back with The Joads ... The Hat was my Dad's, and the Pea Coat came to me with my Initial Issue, when I joined the Navy ....... They also gave me a P-38 ... which we called a John Wayne Can Opener, which is on my Key Ring to this very Day ... NOTE:  Not to be confused with an American Fighter Aircraft, or a German Pistol .......  Still works too !!!  Self Sharpening ...

That cap is so ...... American.
Once upon a time, me and Spot the dog would help out as 'beaters' for the pheasant shoots on the local Estate. You could spot a nationality by their headgear. The Italians were the funniest, the Spanish coming a close second, the Americans .... Well, what can one say? Fashion tip - when joining a 'shootin' potty' (That's how it's said in posh English) you dress in cow-s**t colour to blend in with the scenery. I suspect that when we had a bunch of Americans, the guns would miss but the pheasants would fall out the sky laughing.  

That cap, became the rage in France when Wilbur Wright began flying and demonstrating the aeroplane and he wore one with the bill unsnapped and the cap pushed back onto the back of his head. He flew at Le Mans in 1908 and throughout Europe in 1909 and his cap was always there.

Newsboy cap....

So we DO have a topic involving a humble newsboy cap, whereas we DON'T have any topic to date regarding the FEDORA?

Politicians wear Fedoras,I'd rather talk to a newsboy

My Dad had an entire Hat Wardrobe. Fedoras (Eli, he was a city suit guy, but hardly a politician), Panama hats, boaters (or was it skimmers), caps like the one Mr. P is selling today, ball caps, fishing hats, ski hats, cowboy hats. It wasn't that he was weird for hats, it was just part of his regular guy wardrobe. I lovvved the Fedoras and wish I had some now.

My husband wore berets. Strangers on the street wanted to punch him.

It looks like a warm cap. A little too much for the eye since it has sort of stripes in it. But after watching on Encore channel last week about the building of the Titanic Blood and Sweat how the men wore that kind of hat in those times.
The rich men wore one style of hat and the poor wore that style of hat. Only not to be noticed who they were when the riots went down for unionism. They checked up on all their men who built their ship (such as Mr. Astor), and they dressed down to make sure the ship was built according to their regulations which was quite interesting.
But being damp and cold in their country in Belfast I quess the men needed a sturdy hat that was warm and durable supposely like the R.M S. Titanic.
Deaddoll999 from Pa.

Hats and more Hats, I love hats...can not get enough of hats..Victorian pattern on J.Petermans' Wool Herringbone Cap is just... handsome, Caesar-like, Attractive! Exits in faux fir leopard leg warmers and faux fox headband for a walking day on the east bank Indian Village of the Kittanning shops on the Allegheny River...  remaining calm while looking above for UFO's! ***Jane, I hope that you are feeling so better after your car accident, it will take time and healing;...=====As a child, on a down hill blindspot, the car I was in.. was hit by a semi-tractor trailor truck with parents and 9 children in a stopped station-wagon in Cortland, New York going to a wedding...my Father was an expert driver and let the truck run with the vehicle "as a triangle for quite a long time."..in the end, my door didn't open.glass shattered, fumes, dust, and trauma...I was in 7th grade...and the kids in the rumble back seat where laying on the front windshield...held onto by my father, but yes, SAFE, I remember the pop sound.. and everyone survived...empathize with you...it is a hurtful tragedy.to be in any kind of car vehicle accident..and no matter how courages you managed to get out.... safely, the scare of hurt is there..now, that you are safe this is all that matters..and "is" the first step to getting well....praying for healing..Burgundy

I've been wearing one of these hats ever since I inherited it from my dad.  It looks feminine on a girl!

wish this came in a color other than brown. I look terrible in brown and I need a new one.

Welcome ChefJune, hope we don't spoil the soup.

ChefJune~ I think I recall a photo of Jean Shrimpton (famous English model, 1960's) wearing a cap like that and nothing else. Feminine??? Vavavoom sexy!
My Ex#1 had a hat for every occasion. The best one was a motorcycle crash helmet. Saved his life. He has become follically challenged on the scalp - it all slid down and turned into a beard - so he needs his hats to keep the rain off and provide insulation against chilly weather and sunburn protection when it's hot. Me- I have wide-brimmed gardening hats, and a couple of woolly tea-cosy things for winter days. I did try 'hoodies' but being claustrophobic, they drove me crazy. I have yet to figure out how to manage an umbrella, a walking stick and a bag of groceries.
I have been on dog duty this afternoon. One little doggy is going to be in big trouble - she'd got bored with being shut in and had disemboweled her bed - a snowstorm of that synthetic white stuff. She was mighty pleased with herself.

Fella who drops in at the local restaurant where some of us gather for breakfast seems to wear a different hat each time he comes in.

Might be a cowboy hat one day, a bowler the next.

Keeps us guessing on what hat he will show up wearing next time.

Kinda brightens up the place.

And those of us who gather there.

I vaguely remember the smell of the helmet I had as a kid, it was from some TeeVee series, and had the panache of the secret squadron decoder ring, but right now the memory of the character's name escapes me. Looking through the visor shield, everything was purple...Captain Midnight? Maybe?

My friend Frank and I pictured here http://www.petermanseye.com/photos/7421-tommy-typical/user?page=18 with me as Lazar and Frank as Tevye in similar headgear let's say more than a decade ago but the time period of Fiddler is similar as Marc Chagall's inspirational painting was around 1912.

Aw shucks- Copied the whole page. Here's the pic. http://www.petermanseye.com/photos/62161Walk. Chew gum. copy linl. Now I got it.

"Extra, Extra read all about it!"
"John Jacob Astor IV wears a newspaper boy's hat."

What hat would you choose to wear, knowing you were going to die? For some maybe a crash helmet. For others I am sure it would be a team cap, NY Yankees or Chicago Cubs. That might be the hat of choice. Talk about die hard. If I were a lady I'd wear an Easter bonnet. Could the maker of all things turn away a lady in an Easter bonnet? I'd be happy to sport this cap at the gates, maybe Old Pete would swap it out for a pass inside. May be.

Hello, do30red and welcome.
 
 

I just want to know one thing, MR. TYPICAL, do you have a personal photographer escort you on your travels or do you ask any available John Q Public to snap a commemorative shot whenever the need arises? I needs to know. I gots to know. It's driving me CARAAAAAZY.

Astor was a News Boy, himself .......
 
How better to learn Huckstering ???

Reminds me of my grandfather.  He was an immigrant from Sweden.  He sailed out of Goteberg in 1922, November, and when he finally arrived in New York, and then Chicago, he was wearing this cap.  I have a photograph: he looked young and eager and extremely handsome.  He was smiling, more like a grin.  He didn't look one bit afraid. ... When I arrived on the scene, some 30 years later, he was still wearing this style of cap.  ................ I heard it described on the History Channel as the "immigrant's cap" - newsboy or immigrant, either way, I have fond memories of both it, and the man who wore it.

p-sometimes (thank goodness for editing app) and yes I find some traveling soul is always available to help a gray haired pappy singing John Prine. "I'm just tryin' to have me some fun. Well done, hot dog bun, my sister's a nun." Cheese! **** 

IVAN ~ There is a little company just west of here and
due south of ROME that once made those Pea coats for the US Navy. For all I
know, they may still produce them. I know they make the dress blues and other navy
duds. Are you telling us that your original issue pea coat still fits? or do
you have a personal tailor who will alter for food?

TT ~ are you saying
that may not be a legal smile?

John Jacob Astor, expensive news boy cap ($119.00), hats of all kinds, pea coats, and "Please, will you take a picture for me?"  I can relate to all that.
 
Astor' son, while living at Hever Castle as a little boy, wanted a pony.  Mrs. Astor thought him too young so Mr. Astor had an elaborate hobby horse made for him decked out in velvet with a real horse hair tail and mane.  Thus Astor's plush pony. 
 
Love hats and have an elaborate Easter bonnet I plan to wear to cheer a friend of mine after his operation.  He loves ladies in pretty hats.  Have a very small head and most caps are too big so haven't a news boy's cap.
 
I have a Navy issuse pea coat that was my son-in-laws.  He has put on a little weight from when he was a Navy Seal.  It's my favorite and warmest winter coat next to the Naval Chaplin's full length coat from WWI.
 
Been the picture taker for many visitors to my little village here in Virginia.  Why not get everyone in at least on picture.   

  Someone said "Fedora."  Ah, Frank Sinatra....

PAOLOS:  Tho' I was rudely misshapen by having an eight thousand square foot Garage collapse all over me, pursuiant to an assisted explosion ... the miracles of Surgical Stitchery have put me nearly back in my original condition, and the Original Issue Pea Coat(Liberty Cuffs and all) still fits ... I've got a Railroad Yard of scars n' stitches all over me ... so much so that I feel like I ought to have Bolts in my Neck ....... but once dressed I can almost get away with looking Human ... Last four years we have been doing some weekend Surgeries, tryin' to get me back to my Fightin' Shape ... I'll never be pretty, but at least I won't scare the Children ...
 
I think I have been to that Plant you speak of ... I think I went there to buy as many Pea Coats as I could get ... I was told to come back when they finished the Production Run, and if there were any left, we could talk ...  By the time they got thru, I was back aboard Ship, on my way to El Salvador, and playing Gin with LBJ .......
 
My Personal Tailor is Abe Mendel, of ZINDLER'S in Houston (if he is still alive) There are some Fine Custom Tailors all over the World, but neither Saville Row, nor Gucci, nor any other has got a thing on ZINDLERS ... Since You asked .......

My dad was a fedora man. He never left the house without it. Nothing fancy, but it put the Chicago Stockyards miles behind him when he was out and about after work.

I think he wore it so much in part to hide his baldness. He looked pretty sharp in it, and without it too. I think he even wore it when we would go to one of the beaches or Indiana's Sand Dunes at the bottom tip of Lake Michigan where you could still see the Chicago Skyline. My Mom was always so pleased to be walking hand-in-hand with him wherever we went.

One of mine and Mr. Stoney's all time favorite movie begins with a black fedora being blown about in the wind and landing in a woods. The movie being Miller's Crossing.

Even though I've been told that I'm the spittin' image of my Dad, I just cannot see me in a fedora. I am and always have been a cap guy. I do like the one mentioned but mostly favor the snap brim type without the button on type.

It's ironic that such caps that were de rigueur for the blue collar laborers are now considered to be fashionable for the high hatters.

Anyroads, peace out and be well

Georgia peach.......what a treat it is to see you wandering around the neighborhood today! Hope all is well by you.

I wanna know why it is so many religeous leaders are the real mad hatters. I suspect it may be a statement that the higher the hat, the closer to god.

I suspect it is a lot more complicated than that. I gotta say though, some of those hats they wear are real doozies. They are only out-hatted by Vegas show girls.

IVAN I knew a Jakob Zindler,
a pianist.  Best known for his rendition
of the Hungarian Rhapsody Numero Duo. 
Perhaps you have heard of Zindler's Liszt?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp27ji7CmPs

Two Chefs on the page and nobody cooking? Left some chicken tandoori for you in the club car and som rather explosive ginger beer. (Home made, lethal! Might explain the earthquake) Past duvet time here. Nos da, dear people. x

PARK....................blonds have never been my first love, it's always Italians, but I have a true adoration of Swedish men & Swedish movies & Swedish women...................so there!
 
Maybe if someone has a unique name on this page..............CHEFDEB..................then someone coming on probably should NOT use that moniker...................rather b*tchy, but it seems fair for the first person to use it to OWN it...................my 2 cents...........................
 
MISS BLUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE........................where art thou?
 
PL.................what a sweet story about your mother & father walking together................lovely.......................

Lamb stew, a pint o Guinness. Yankees v. Tigers.  It is October.

"Hats, hats, hats for career girls.  Oh how I loved New York!"  "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar"
 
I love it, personally, and would add it to may collection in a second, well...the second AFTER the black dress with the pink dots.
 
Wear it forward, wear it backward (ala' Hollywood), wear it to the side like a kid...but I'd wear it with pleasure! 

H-and-B everyone!

Chocolate Stout,stogie,firepit,headphones to listen to the bloviatons,and Mom is resting comfortably for now. Thanks,Lord,and all who pray...

And Swedish Mystery Writers......

Bebes, your Andy Pettitt pitched a good game Saturday even though the Yankees lost in extra innings.

Be well

Road Yacht, my thoughts and prayers still go out to you and your mom. I love hats, this newsboy is my favorite. I like the intrigue that hats illicit when one encounters an individual so doned. It kind of makes you LOOK and wonder what that person is all about. It is also an interesting conversation starter. If someone is wearing a cowboy hat, it makes you look and want to keep looking,wondering, looking and wondering.

Welcome, ChefJune - don't feel too self-conscious about which colors flatter
you. When I entered high school, someone remarked that I looked like Helen Brown. I simply replied that I didn't look that good in green, either.

pl~~~~WAS IT YOU WHO FOUND MY BLUE SOCK IN THE MAYTAG//?? mismatched, YES I SAW THEM THEY ARE REALLY NEAT AND YES VERY PRACTICAL, IF YOU LOSE ONE, YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE TO MATCH IT. I GUESS WE CAN THEN WEAR ANY MIS-MATCHED SOCKS IN OUR SOCK DRAWYER.THANKS HAZEL FOR THE INFO.

HATS ARE USUALLY WORK BY THE BIRTH SIGN ARIES. IF YOU ARE NOT AN ARIES SUN SIGN, THEN YOUR MOON OR RISING SIGN IS ARIES. JUST SAYIN'

IT'S LATE, PEACEFUL DREAMS VILLAGERS. 

RY................you area really ggood son.............my best thoughts going out to your mother................

PL................and he looked exquisite doing it! and yes, I forgot those writers, thank you!

Eli~ The thought of you Mom resting peacefully with a caring son nearby is comforting. Thanks for the note

I have thought the contrast between/among the forever lovely human female image and a man's hat; an old pickup  truck or a Jeep or other masculine accoutrements to be infinitely fetching...but then I'm a man so what would I know?! 

The cap reminds me of the poets visiting the Left banks of Paris " He is the bully of the left bank, always ready to twist the milksop's arm" a rough and tumble bunch when they've had the drink!