Comments on: midweSTYLE: Oh, Pioneer! http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html Blog Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:43:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: TheRuss http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-829 TheRuss Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:22:43 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-829 As a long-time brimmed hat wearer, the touchpoints I operate on are:

1. Be comfortable in the hat. If you feel uncomfortable wearing the hat it comes across more strongly than it does with nearly any other accessory. The more you wear hats, the easier it becomes. I started with my “perfect hat” fedora and have worked up to pulling off a beret with confidence.

2. High quality hats are worth the money. They age very well and actually feel better on your head. They act as temperature buffer for your whole body, especially in the fall and spring.

]]> By: Jason Wednesday Miller http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-784 Jason Wednesday Miller Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:24:25 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-784 Although there is or can be much controversy over the word Fedora, we at Salmagundi Boston, refer to any hat with a crown and a brim to be a fedora. Usually because the hat is then classified by the shape of its crown and/or the size of the brim. That said, your hat specifically is a center crease fedora. It looks as if it needs to be re-blocked because the center crease is popping up in the middle of the crown, an easy fix. However, don’t get too picky on the shape of that particular hat, because as previously mentioned it is a “crusher” or “roller” meaning it is meant to be crushed and “packable”. Which in all honesty any felt hat can be crushed, it is the fur hats that will last the longest though.

It is my belief that hats look the best after they have been banged up and worn in a bit!

If interested in fine headwear check out Salmagundiboston.com

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]]> By: Raquel http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-779 Raquel Sat, 03 Mar 2012 03:47:35 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-779 Hats are a yes. And what a perfect hat you have picked up. As a girl, when I see a guy wearing a unique hat I figure he not only is super stylish but very confident– and that actually goes for girls as well. Hats like your pioneer/fedora are my favorite: it has a retro, timeless, classic feel, and I love that.

]]> By: Daniel Honigman http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-778 Daniel Honigman Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:52:14 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-778 Amen. (Re: wearing hats indoors.)

]]> By: Amy Creyer http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-777 Amy Creyer Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:34:21 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-777 Jeff, you looked fantastic as always and it was a pleasure photographing you. Not that my opinion matters, but I love the way men look in hats.

]]> By: Some Assembly Required http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-776 Some Assembly Required Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:34:22 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-776 Thumbs up on hats, love them, wear them all the time: for cooler weather I have wool flat caps in tweed patterns; a couple of Stormy Kromers (made in Michigan) for when it’s colder; a “crushable” fedora-style hat like the one above that I got at Orvis (also made in USA); a couple of Panamas for summer to protect my head from the sun, and yes, a couple of ball caps, which I’m most likely to wear while walking the dog.

One thing though: NEVER WEAR A HAT INDOORS. When you go into a restaurant, your workplace, a movie theater, etc., you need to remove your hat. Not doing so makes you look like what my grandparents used to refer to as a “greenhorn” (a person with no class or manners). A lot of guys, especially younger ones, don’t seem to be aware of this, probably because no one ever told them (and because hats, while on the upswing, haven’t been as popular as they were in the past).

So I mention this not to put anyone down, but because I want guys to look dignified and dashing, not clueless and ignorant.

]]> By: DT Chase http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-775 DT Chase Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:52:26 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-775 I’ve seen this hat referred to as a “crusher” specifically as it can be rolled and packed in a rucksack. I’ve got a few from an old-time hat-maker in Hartford, CT.

Good thrift score! Seems like it came from the Banana Republic’s of yore, when their store decor was like a scene out of “Jewel in the Crown.”

]]> By: Daniel Honigman http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-773 Daniel Honigman Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:20:05 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-773 Love to wear summer hats, especially my panama fedora. More Miami than midwest-style, I suppose, but I’m a big cigar smoker.

Also wear my Goorin flatcaps as I can throughout the year. And I have a big ol’ bomber hat for those REALLY cold winter days.

]]> By: I Art Fashion http://themidwestyle.com/2012/02/midwestyle-oh-pioneer.html#comment-770 I Art Fashion Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:56:07 +0000 http://midwestyle.com/?p=35#comment-770 I love to wear hats, they need to come back in my opinion. Personally, if I may say… I like them better when they are pulled closer to the forehead, as shown in the 4th pic :)

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