fashionistas? no wonder you wear a fedora
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Nerds and Fedoras
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fashionistas? no wonder you wear a fedora
FeedMeAStrayCat
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I'd like to think you wear the hat that's in your avatar and mock the fedora wearers
CrookedRain
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Went out to an Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti show last night and we this idiot sporting a fedora with a short sleeve shirt dancing around terribly and bumping into people. All I could think about was this thread. You were right GAF.
Ninja Scooter
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"the fedora has become a go-to accessory for a peculiar subculture of love-entitled male nerds whose social inexperience and awkwardness manifests in a world rocked by a gender revolut-"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8
Devolution
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Well wearing a fedora with a fleece pull over ensures you won't really look classy.
I thought this was funny.
I typically wear a dress shirt (no tie) with jeans. I have a couple of ballcaps and one fedora. They're outerwear. I'm usually wearing an ordinary jacket if I'm wearing a hat.
A fedora is a really nice hat. Yeah, there's some douchebags wearing them, but I'm not going to live my life avoiding nice things just because they're popular with douchebags.
I hardly ever see people wear fedoras besides my step dad/old folks
That's a Panama, not a Fedora?
It IS dead. The Fedora market is only for those who want to appear "different" and "unique." There's barely a professional job in the entire country that encourages that as part of professional dress--wearing it inside is considered poor manners, for one, and no one goes outside for business anyways, so why have it around the office at all?
There's a reason why it died (and it was Kennedy).
Nah, I'm talking about the current fad, where we have people still wearing them (and them looking awkward while doing so). It was around (however many decades ago), then came back in the last 5-6 years, and I thought it was dead. Thread proves otherwise.
Eh, it'll fade away when the "hipsters" grow up realize that being unique and different...eventually breaks down as capitalism forces them to get real adult jobs and real professional attitudes.
Yes, sure, there will be outliers who can get away with it due to their sheer artistic talent (thus getting away with wacky outfits) or have such incredible talent (i.e. tech) that they can wear what they want.
But for the other 90% of the adult world? Gone.
Sniper McBlaze
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As most people have said in this picture, the fedora isn't really the problem. The problem is that they're nerds wearing fedoras. Their posture, outfit and everything else just oozes of virginity.
I also think that the fedora only works a 100% when the wearer has a really masculine face. If not you just look like the feels good man frog with wispy facial hair.
I also think that the fedora only works a 100% when the wearer has a really masculine face. If not you just look like the feels good man frog with wispy facial hair.
I agree that it doesn't work for everyone, and it doesn't work with less formal clothing, but I'm for anything that brings hats other than baseball caps back as an acceptable every day item of clothing, so I'm not going to get upset about anyone wearing any hat they choose.
I want people wearing bowler hats and top hats if that's what it takes.
I want people wearing bowler hats and top hats if that's what it takes.
VGChampion
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out0v0rder
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Why is it bad manners to wear a hat indoors.
From what I recall, something about your head already being covered by a roof.
My ex-housemate used to wear an Atrak style bowler hat thing in the heady days of the 2008 electro house boom and managed to look good, but he's good looking enough to pull off more or less anything.
On the other hand, there's a creep I used to go to school with (who frequently shat himself and had an obsession with Emma Watson) that has a fedora, trench coat, work boots, long greasy hair and a disgusting bum-fluff moustache as his regular attire.
On the other hand, there's a creep I used to go to school with (who frequently shat himself and had an obsession with Emma Watson) that has a fedora, trench coat, work boots, long greasy hair and a disgusting bum-fluff moustache as his regular attire.
FeedMeAStrayCat
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Vermillion
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Only for men.
Dastardly Jerks
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Also fuck Yahtzee, that douche turned a shit hat into a popular shitty neckbeard-culture hat.
I think I pull a fedora off pretty well.
http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/5/1/7/6/7/6/IMG_7152.jpg.jpg
http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/5/1/7/6/7/6/IMG_7152.jpg.jpg
Dastardly Jerks
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Which would you like to hear first: The bad news, or the worse news?
NotTheGuyYouKill
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FeedMeAStrayCat
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Looks fine to me, carry on bro
Dastardly Jerks
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It pains me to do this, you seem like such a nice person.
Bad: You don't, your look would improve dramatically without it.
Worse: You think you do.
Today is the first day of your new life, go forth.
Well, you make such a compelling argument.
Incitemaybe
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It's weird some people judge others for clothes. Wear what you want.
FeedMeAStrayCat
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Exactly. And by some people, you probably mean most people. At least most people I know. Jerks!
FeedMeAStrayCat
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Typically, I wouldn't pay much attention, but thanks to this thread I noticed numerous fedoras out in the wild this weekend and each one made me feel legitimately embarrassed for the wearer. My face may have even contracted into a pained wince while passing some of the especially bad examples.
It's never been about indoors/outdoors but actually about an implicit public/private distinction, as well as a sign of respect [the latter surviving from medieval times, with tipping one's hat the supposed descendant of raising the visor on one's helmet].
Break out old etiquette books and they say it is appropriate to wear hats [meaning dressy hats like fedoras, bowlers, etc] in hallways, lobbies, malls, grocery stores, etc. that are indoors. It is not ok to wear one inside someone's home or inside someone's office, or inside a cinema or theatre where you are implicitly a guest. [There are places that are mixed public private- like restaurants-where the code was shakier and more arbitrary- the rule was hat off in booths or tables, on at the lunch counter.]
It's also supposed to be removed as a sign of respect: for God [e.g. in church], country [flag], and women.
Broadly speaking, I still use that code [though I only remove it for elderly women who would be offended otherwise and/or are pleased by old school, though arguably sexist, manners.] Since the public/private distinctions understood in previous generations are not necessarily the same we have, I've instead found that a seated or standing rule seems to largely take care of it with less thought. [That is to say, off when visiting a friend's house, in church, in a presentation, in a movie, or in a restaurant; on most other places].
Also- cross posted from another thread. As noted by some of the previous posters, the real problem with people wearing "fedoras" now is that they aren't fedoras, but tacky, fragile junk trilbies sold at a mall cart and worn inappropriately/without the rest of the outfit.
A proper fedora not only looks good, but is incredibly functional- I use it and an old trench coat instead of carrying an umbrella, and they last forever if you buy a quality hat [that required some cute animal to die for it, as before], instead of some wool crap.
http://hatsdirect.com/federation/index.html
I bought three of these four years ago. One has almost never worn, one worn a few times, and one worn almost every day: not only to work with coats and ties, but out in the rain in lieu of an umbrella, when it's snowing to the point of an inch building up on the brim, and even out walking in the desert a couple times. Took it all like a champ and is in the same condition as the other two--even after all that I can still wear it with my suits and sport coats, as they really ought to be worn.
Do you like to talk about the Yorkshire Dales?
FeedMeAStrayCat
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What makes the Okcupid thing even better is that I have an account there... and in my main profile pic, I'm wearing a fedora. YES
Set it up a few months back... not actually searching out a relationship... 7 year marriage will be ending within the next month or two
fuck relationships
Set it up a few months back... not actually searching out a relationship... 7 year marriage will be ending within the next month or two
fuck relationshipsDastardly Jerks
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It's not my responsibility to convince you, you can either take constructive criticism from a faceless person on the internet or not. The difference being that an anonymous person doesn't thrive on telling you what you want to hear, like a person in real life, simply for the sake of a positive experience. It's just sheer brutal honesty. I'm not out to crush your day or cut you down, just provide constructive criticism.
You're the face of a game developer, so I should expect that you're versed with taking constructive criticism.
Do what you want with it.
Even when I was young I heard things like "take of your hat inside, you aren't Jew", so I imagine it somehow translated from antysemic prejustice from few centuries ago towards meaningless bad manners (in some parts of the world earlier than in other)
mescalineeyes
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This is the exact problem with Fedoras.
It's not that people wearing them think they look like any examples posted on the first page of this thread. They know exactly what they look like and they still think they look cool.
Sorry for making an example out of you, kukouri, you seem like a stand up guy. But no, you are not pulling it off, it seems like you are compensating for your lack of hair.
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