• Flying SquidM
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    583 months ago

    I wish fedoras didn’t have the reputation they do. My wife thinks I look sharp in a fedora.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      423 months ago

      People don’t think some guy and his wife look like losers when he’s wearing a fedora. People think a single guy in a graphic tee with a fedora looks like a loser. Go dress sharp, the only people whose opinions of your appearance matter seem to like it when you wear one.

    • Karyoplasma
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      193 months ago

      There is a saying in German: Haste Hut an, biste gut an.

      It translates to “If you are wearing a hat, you are dressed well.”

    • no banana OP
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      I personally wear hats. A fedora is one of them. It can be hard to dress for, but I tend to underdress rather than overdo it because wearing it casually doesn’t make me look like an internet meme. Helps to be a bit older, too.

      • Flying SquidM
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        183 months ago

        I just feel like an asshole when I wear one now. Or more of an asshole than usual anyway.

        • @EpeeGnome@lemm.ee
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          The trick is what you wear with it. Yeah, if you wear it with an edgy t-shirt, cargo pants, and a trench coat people will think you’re an asshole. If you instead wear it with, for example, a casual button down shirt, sturdy slacks, and in colder weather a light leather jacket, people will think you look like Indiana Jones. I know because that’s how I usually dress and random people compliment me on that. As long as the outfit suits the hat, people will see it in the way you mean it.

          There’s no saving the Trilby hat though, there’s no outfit that makes it work. Edit: I was wrong. Even the Trilby can be cool.

          • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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            73 months ago

            I wear a trilby and get compliments frequently. People tell me I look like: The Blues Brothers, Inspector Gadget, Dick Tracey, and one guy called me Inspector Clouseau.

            • @EpeeGnome@lemm.ee
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              53 months ago

              Damn, you’re right. I didn’t think about the Blues Brothers, who do in fact look very cool in trilbys. I guess it just requires the right accompaniment like any hat. I apologize.

          • Flying SquidM
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            43 months ago

            You know what I like? The bowler. I’ve never had one, but I like bowler hats.

            • @EpeeGnome@lemm.ee
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              53 months ago

              My brother has a bowler. It can look damn stylish with the right clothes, and downright silly with the wrong ones. I can’t wear one though, I look silly in them no matter what I wear it with.

        • @0ops@lemm.ee
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          73 months ago

          Wear the fedora, don’t be an asshole, then you’ll change their perception an interaction at a time. Fuck the strangers

          • Flying SquidM
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            113 months ago

            You’re telling me not to be self-conscious in public? You’re almost 47 years too late for that one I’m afraid.

            • @froh42@lemmy.world
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              43 months ago

              Groaan, my 17y old sun is currently intentionally growing a mullet.

              Can’t the trauma be enough? I already grew up in the 80s.

        • no banana OP
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          33 months ago

          I mostly wear it when it’s hot and sunny. The wide brim is very useful in the sun.