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Post by lucy on May 1, 2009 14:35:30 GMT -5
Oh wait a minute Bobbiez! There are all kind of women out there that just might like that sort of thing. hahahaha......
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Post by bobbbiez on May 1, 2009 15:52:34 GMT -5
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, but Swimmy better be good at handling a wheel chair. ;D
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Post by chris on May 1, 2009 17:05:00 GMT -5
Personally I like the one with the little propeller on top. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by concerned on May 1, 2009 18:40:33 GMT -5
I've been noticing a lot of young kids wearing them.
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Post by Swimmy on May 2, 2009 0:39:22 GMT -5
No, I will not keep that goofy looking feather. That will come into play if I reach the ripe age of 70.
I will not wear that white-haired wig.
Because most of the girls I have asked which they thought would look better on me, I am going with the Casablanca in black.
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Post by frankcor on May 2, 2009 6:15:26 GMT -5
I don't know how I missed this before, but wouldn't it be Zen if you got a red Fedora like the one in your avatar?
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Post by clarencebunsen on May 2, 2009 7:04:21 GMT -5
Swimmy,
As a person who normally wears a hat I agree it is hard to find a hat that meets my 3 requirements: not a baseball cap, not a "cowboy" hat, affordable. It helps when you reach an age that you can be considered eccentric rather than wierd.
Warning: if you let the gals choose your hats, they will soon move on to your suits, ties & shirts. Your only fashion choice left will be socks.
One bit of advice from when I was in my 30's and meeting with execs in their 50's & 60's, find a copy of the book Dress for Success. I don't know if it has been up-dated in 30 years. The styles may have changed but the concepts haven't. I think it was expressed well by a young (but senior) salesman from Careerbuilder when we were making a joint presentation. "Be the best dressed person you will see today."
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Post by Swimmy on May 2, 2009 8:37:40 GMT -5
I don't know how I missed this before, but wouldn't it be Zen if you got a red Fedora like the one in your avatar? I agree that it would be zen. And if I owned a red winter jacket and red raincoat, instead of black, I would so buy a red fedora. The avatar is homage to Fedora Core, a flavor of Linux.
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Post by dgriffin on May 2, 2009 8:38:37 GMT -5
Very true, CB. Once, while young and attending a meeting of marketers and engineers ... something I endured often through my career ... I noticed the differences in clothing, haircuts and demeanor among the group. This was in the early seventies, just as longish hair and wild colors were beginning to bang on the doors of even staid old companies. No dreads or pants cuffs wide enough to hide a litter of kittens that day, but still there were differences. And not just with clothing or hair styles.
On my left sat a grey-suited young man in his mid-twenties wearing a white shirt and regimental striped tie, and on my right sat a middle aged fellow in a well worn Robert Hall suit that his mother probably picked out for him in high school. The topic was technical, the tone of both men was reserved and studious. I was trying to decide which fellow's judgment to trust. Regimental was a salesman and wore a fine gold watch on his wrist. Robert Hall was an engineer and wore a 12 Time Zone watch that might have been used by an astronaut.
My judgment that day followed the advice of the young marketing man with the gold watch. Myself, I was wearing a watch with 4 dials that would submerge to 150 feet on a band wider than my belt. I never wore it to a serious meeting again. And the next time I bought a suit, I went to a real men's store .... yes Virginia, there were indeed such places ... and invested in the next cut above.
No one wore a hat in the meetings I attended.
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Post by Swimmy on May 2, 2009 8:47:32 GMT -5
Swimmy, As a person who normally wears a hat I agree it is hard to find a hat that meets my 3 requirements: not a baseball cap, not a "cowboy" hat, affordable. It helps when you reach an age that you can be considered eccentric rather than wierd. Warning: if you let the gals choose your hats, they will soon move on to your suits, ties & shirts. Your only fashion choice left will be socks. One bit of advice from when I was in my 30's and meeting with execs in their 50's & 60's, find a copy of the book Dress for Success. I don't know if it has been up-dated in 30 years. The styles may have changed but the concepts haven't. I think it was expressed well by a young (but senior) salesman from Careerbuilder when we were making a joint presentation. "Be the best dressed person you will see today." Excellent points. I will have to track down a copy of that book. Thank you for the warning. I still pick my suits, shirts, and ties. I will never waive that freedom. There are two items that will go into any prenuptial I enter into, and there is zero room for negotiation. The first is that my first son (assuming my first child is a daughter) will be named after me. The second is that I keep my right to select my attire for work and social settings. I've seen my parents operate in this department and there is nothing more depressing than seeing my dad hang his head in shame because my mother belittled his selection of attire for going out into public. I don't care if it's true love and my soul mate. If she won't agree to those two things then I walk away. So I'm not too concerned about asking for feedback about a hat. The way I see it, I'm not asking whether I should get one, rather, what kind of one I should get. I'm still leaning on the Godfather one too. I'm thinking that I could buy both and rotate them.
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Post by Swimmy on May 2, 2009 8:51:55 GMT -5
No one wore a hat in the meetings I attended. I would not be wearing the hat in any meeting or court appearance. It is simply for wearing on a cold winter day or a rainy day but not raining enough for an umbrella. Outside of those scenarios, I would not really be wearing the hat. I always take my hat off when I enter buildings.
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Post by Swimmy on May 2, 2009 8:53:26 GMT -5
I have always preferred the powdered wig look for lawyers, a hold over from my days of watching Rumpole of the Bailey In England they still wear them for the courtroom. Come to think of it, I think many European courts still use the wigs as part of courtroom decorum.
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Post by dgriffin on May 2, 2009 14:38:55 GMT -5
No one wore a hat in the meetings I attended. I would not be wearing the hat in any meeting or court appearance. It is simply for wearing on a cold winter day or a rainy day but not raining enough for an umbrella. Outside of those scenarios, I would not really be wearing the hat. I always take my hat off when I enter buildings. Swimmy, I was being subtle.
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