new hat!!

[Aubreay Fallowfield]

My best mate and I both bought a new hat yesterday. He a top hat and myself a bowler. Rather than use the bags they came in we walked around a sunny Birmingham wearing them.
What I loved most of all is that people stared from the other side of the road and from 100 yards away BUT they looked everywhere else when walking past. It was almost painful for them to stare up close. Beautiful!! 

[Hez]

Well done, sir.

[Will Howard]

Well done, sir.

DITTO!

[Ada Thorold]

Out of curiosity, where did you acquire such fine hats?

~A~

[Aubreay Fallowfield]

Top hat from the fine emporium known as the Rag market and the bowler from down stairs in the Oasis indoor market. Both highly recommended for their great customer service.

[frances]

So what else are hats for anyway?  I'm glad that people noticed you have gone to the trouble of looking smart!

[Heckler]

There are only a few things that will cause people to stop in the street and just gawp as you pass, two of them are wearing a hat and carrying a cane, one of the others involves a wardrobe malfunction below the waist.

Oddly with regards to hats there does seem to be an increasing scale of gawp based on the hat, let's call it the gawp-chapeau scale where a Homburg at a jaunty angle barely registers a four, whilst a bowler comes in at a five and a topper oddly an eight or nine.  There is a certain something that catches peoples eyes about the topper.

Were I wearing a hat I would doff it to you (but I'm inside so hat wearing would be a dreadful faux-pas)

[Sebastian Dante]

I have recently procured myself a top hat, but have yet had the opportunity to take it for a spin. I do also have a walking cane I'm rather fond of, so I think I may have to take an outing with them together and amuse myself with the reactions of the general public.

[Fat Spider]

We had a few hours in York on the way out to Whitby last week and I treat my head to a new hat, nothing as jaw dropping as a Topper or Bowler, just a nice Olive Green Fedora with yellow lining, it went straight on my head and the salesman confirmed that was the case with many of their sales.

I do get a lot of second glances especially from children, but you two must have started hundreds of conversations and had people  second guessing what you were about

[greensteam]

I have always loved hats and decided a few months ago to wear a hat at all times when not actually at home. So I wear a hat, cap or beret every day, for work or leisure.

Oddly, many colleagues dont even register I have been doing this for about 6 months now and when I happened to wear one of my brimmed hats with a green silk scarf tied around the crown, they asked if I had put it on specially because the William and Kate were in the city!

As if. I wasnt going to be seeing them so their presence was an irrelevance and if I had for some odd reason been going to see them i would have chosen a fancy hat with flowere.

I dont wear my steampunk hats for everyday (topper, topi, flying helmet etc) but hats are fun. I buy a lot of my hats in charity shops and then fancy them up to my own taste, often using dirt cheap fabric flowers from pound shops. A hat with flowers always cheers people up.

[Aubreay Fallowfield]

We did have a couple of photographs taken from cars by brave drivers.

My problem is that I have a large head and so it has been very difficult to find one. I would love to go into charity shops and procur things, but alas I cannot. My next difficulty will be footwear as again I have large feet! I am positive my mother left me in a grow bag as a child. The staff at my local library love the hat and think I am getting crazier than I usually am.