Hat Wearers-What and Why?

[sylvie]

Do you wear a hat? What do you wear? Is it simply functional or a style you have always worn? Is a hat something you consider to be a self sufficient necessity?

The more I am outside the more I want a hat that covers the back of my neck so I am looking for a desert bush hat for warm weather. Right now in winter I'm using a knitted trapper hat with the ear flaps and braids that hang. When I run it is a 21 year old Nike form fitting cap with brim.

 

[inchworm]

I find a wide-brimmed hat a necessity when working outside when it is gnatty. I'd lose my sanity otherwise.

 

[PamsPride]

I like to wear fancy hats...but only once in a while when I get dressed up for church. No one from my church wears a fancy hat...but several ladies own one. They started wearing theirs after I wore a couple of mine!

 

[FarmerChick]

I am a hat hater.
Only in the COLDEST of NC weather will I wear a hat---lol

It squishes my hair. I don't like that cause I go "here and there" all day and don't want "hat hair"-----lol

just me....hats seem to be a good accessory but not a necessity for me being in the South. Our winters are doable without hats.

Up north, yup, I wore hates, but still hated them...haha

I don't think a hat is a self sufficient neccessity for all...it depends on your climate. some must have one, others can do without.

Fashion and fancy hats, never into them. Again they squished my hair....lol

 

[keljonma]

I love hats! They can be useful and fun.

When doing any kind of food prep (not at home) health departments usually insist on some sort of cover for the head. I wear a Cleveland Indians ball cap. Put my hair up in a pony tail and pull it through the back gap.

I have a purple alpaca fleece winter hat that I wear during the coldest weather. I got it at one of the local county fairs in 2004. It was the last day of the fair and the woman who made them just wanted to get rid of the last hat. So I a $95 hat for $35.

I have a huge brim red hat that dh bought me for my 50th birthday, so I would remember to have fun (like the red hats society).

I used to have a straw fedora I used to wear in warm weather when the children were young.

My beek hat looks like this... this isn't me or dh.

My favorite hat is a huge brim straw garden hat that I got at the Texas Antique Rose Emporium. It was perfect for gardening in Houston! I wear it often. Here I am picking blueberries last summer.

 

[patandchickens]

FC! Good to see you back!

I am a longtime fan of baseball caps or grungy looking widebrimmed straw hats for outdoor work in the summer. I didn't used to wear a winter hat very often til I moved to NY State and now Canada. But now I seldom leave the house between late Nov and mid April without my special beloved fleece hat, which is not really a hat at all but a double-thickness polarfleece 'neck gaiter' (you know, like just a tube that you scrunch down onto your neck?) only I wear it as a hat instead. It looks extremely Cat In The Hat and peculiar, and snow comes in the top and gets my hair wet, but it is MY HAT darnit and I don't care what it looks like

You want to know something weird? (If not, stop reading ) All four pregnancies (although the first time around, I did not recognize it as a sign except retrospectively), my first real sign I was pregnant was that I wanted to wear my hat indoors as well as outdoors. Seriously, not only would I forget to take hats off, but I didn't WANT to take them off. I notice that in the second half of my monthly cycle, when hormones are similar to (only less than) what they are in pregnancy, I am more apt to just *forget* to take my hat off, but really feeling uncomfortable without a hat on is for some inscrutable reason a reliable pregnancy sign for me

Pat

 

[Henrietta23]

I have a big goofy straw hat for the garden, a fleece rolled brim hat for winter but mostly I wear ear muffs because I have the biggest head in the world and women's hats don't usually fit me. I can't wear the adjustable baseball caps because even on the last notch.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I love hats!!

I just don't own any er well, I own a tobaggon

 

[punkin]

I don't wear hats, either. They usually give me a headache. In summertime, I use lots of sunscreen on any exposed areas.

If it's cold, I wear ear muffs or a tobaggan.

 

[inchworm]

A tobaggan?