Favorite Hat(s)?

Hello, I am not much of a Hat person, but i do like either the filson safari style hats. Or the ones that are made by Orvis.

Later, JC:D
 
I tend to wear a baseball cap (usually one of the free ones you get from the NRA when you send them a donation). Under that, if it's sunny, I like to wear one of those bandana-with-velcro things (I think they're called sandanas) you can get from brigade quartermasters -- so there's the material hanging down the back covering the back of my neck. People always stop and ask me where I got the cool hat, and I show them that it's actually the baseball hat with the sandana under it.
 
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Who makes a hat, waterproof [preferably goretex] with a removable liner [because sometimes it's too hot, and sometimes you need the liner], with fold down ear flaps and that can tie on securely in the case of wind? The only one i know of is the OR Hat for All Seasons, which is gruesomely ugly [ or at least I'm gruesomely ugly wearing it - I don't know if that can be helped], but worse, it blocks my vision even if I flip up the plastic bill, which never stays up antway. Anyone got a secret hat that fits the bill, if you'll excuse the terrible pun?
 
red mag -- where'd you get your Spydie hat? Have always wanted one o' those...

re: caps: Aside from my t-wolves, my fav for cold weather is a woll white sox cap and for sunny days is a dark tan Denver Zoo hat with komodo dragons on it (I have a friend who is a zookeeper there).
 
To me, life gets better when I can wear a hat. My favorite for the hot sun is my Shady Brady... a straw hat in the cowboy style. But my addictions run towards most Filson hats. I have 10-15 of them. Great quality construction, looks great, great customer service.
 
I just got a hat made by Turtle Fur called the Mulligan cap. It's basically a black driving style cap with inner folddown ear flaps and is made from 60% poly/40% wool.

I also have a Belgian made military beret I bought a few years ago. It doesn't have the US style insignia stiffener (Thankfully) and is made of a thicker, denser wool. It's black and has 2 metal eyelets and a black cord tie at the back.

I have other hats including various wool fitted ballcaps and a boonie hat.

Hey CD,

You need to get a Chicago Cubs hat, the White Sox Suck! :p

:)
 
Actually I had a couple of Cubs caps. In my youth in TN, I had no idea that being a Cubs fan and being a White Sox fan were mutually exclusive. I just grew up watching WGN on cable and knew I hated the Braves!The '86 Cubs were my favourite, with Matthews, Sandberg, Dawson, etc.

Cheers,

Clay
 
Stetson (straw) RoadRunner. Classic 'cowboy' hat. Thru the years (23) the sides have kinda rolled up & the front and back got pulled down. Had a new sweatband installed 3 years ago. It is the "O-Fish-All" Fishin/campin/party hat :cool:
 
I have a Filson tincloth packer hat I like a lot, as well as a Carhartt ball-cap, and a cheap Indiana University camoflage ball-cap. With a hairline like mine, hats are very important to me.

Steve
 
I'm partial to my Bailey straw cowboy hat. It's about as good a hat as I've ever worn. You gotta love the way you can shape the crown on a straw hat few other hats develop as much character as their broke in.
 
I just got both a Tilley T3 and Lightweight T3. Gotta say, I'm extremely impressed with both. They seem rock solid, built to last, and they're damn comfortable.
 
My favorite is my Tilley T3 in Khaki. Not waterproof, but built rugged. Great for camping, walking the freeloading fleabag and sunny days at the beach.

Gord.
 
Tilley hats rule.

I've got several - keep one in the boat, the car, and at home.

For Christmas this year, I got their new winter hat, in wool with fold-down ear/forehead flaps. Great hat!
 
Tilley LT3 and LT5. No other hat comes close for true outdoor adventure. They are nylon, very protective, waterproof and keep their shape.
 
Bald and sunburned is no way to go thru life, I can testify. Good to see so many different hat's on here, they're a very 'personal' choice. Some folks like a Ford and some like a Chevrolet (or BMW vs. Saab as the case may be). I have some friends who swear by Tilley's or Filson's. I've bought same for said friends, they look good on them. My winter hats are pretty easy. I wear wool watch caps, wool 'driving caps' or Irish walking hats, used to wear good cowboy hats but they priced themselves out of my range. I always have a couple of cloth 'gimme' ballcaps that I can afford to lose in the truck (a boxfull of 'em with my former company's logo 'fell off the truck' when they weren't used at a trade show).
Summer hats are a little different. If I get stuck with no better headgear facing a dose of sunshine, I'll safety pin a bandana to the back of a gimme or a big-brimmed fishing ballcap, or wear one of those fishing hats made with a neck-cover. Those fishing hats always seem to go on sale at the end of season for next to nothing (Am I the only one who buys these? It takes a bold man to wear 'em in public if you don't own a 30 foot fishing boat.)

If I know I'm heading out into the sun all day long, here's what I wear. These 'cowboy' hats are hand-made of split palm-leaf down in Central America, they're almost indestructible. Beat 'em, batter 'em, re-roll 'em back into shape as good as new when you get home. I got one with a leather 'stampede string' which I remove most days, but any time our local breezes get up to 30 mph or higher it comes in handy. I used to buy a new summer Stetson every year or so...but no more, buy one of these and just cry once. This one casts plenty of shade, but there's another at the site with a bona fide WIDE brim. Sombrero, you betcha. I bought mine from the website shown above, nice folks, good service (usual disclaimers...don't work there, they don't owe me money, I've got no dog in any fights this week).

Another hat that gives much shade, I wear what's called a 'lifeguard's hat' when I'm working out in the yard. These are a wide-brimmed straw based on an Australian design, lifeguards wear them hence the name. I pick 'em up around here almost anywhere for $7-10 in season, REI always carries them online (As an 'Angle Lake Straw Hat-Unisex) if you don't have local access. They're not so much for tough, but they cast big shade and soak up the weekly mowing brow-dew so I can leave my good 'Gus' hat for hot weather weekend hikes, fandango's and other soiree's. ;)
 
My usual wear is a Bureau of Land Management Wildland Fire baseball cap I got last summer working for the BLM out in Arizona; on special occasions I wear a Stetson, model Gus. In the winter I often wear a olive drab watch cap (5.95 at the local army-navy), but I tend to lose them, or loan them to women who never give them back.
 
I purchased an Ultimate Hat last year and love it. They're virtual copies of the Tilley's, but a little less expensive.
Lenny
 
Stetson. I didn't realize there were others;)

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Had to get a knife in there too;)
 
http://www.hannahats.com/products/dontweedcap.html

I've always liked this style cap but never could find one that looked decent on me. I've got a large noggin (7 5/8") so they always looked like had some kind of lid on my head. Then this year while I was at Amelia Island I found this one made in Ireland. Before I looked in the mirror, I knew from the way it felt when I put it on I was going to like it. My wife even liked it.

It's not exactly typical south Georgia but my big ol' bald noggin loves it on these cold mornings.
 
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