Ok, I'm kinda confused. Why does everyone hate flat brim hats? Because of whats typically ON them, or because it looks stupid?

I personally do not like how it looks, or feels. As a joke, when I bought my Fox hat, which was only slightly "rolled" I wore it around for a day and found it to be VERY uncomfortable. It's (as are all of my hats) obviously rolled now.

So, is it the look/feel, or the logo's typically on the hat? What if it was a volvo flat brimmed hat? Or a JVAB flat brim hat?

I'm actually legitimately curious, as to me, its an article of clothing, why harass someone over it?

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I think it is mostly due to what is under the hat. Even more likely if the flat brim is off to one side or the other!!!



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It is neutral in itself.
When it's some 42 year old multi-millionaire POSING like an idiot, it becomes readily visiblecentral part of a stupid thing.

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They just look stupid. On everybody.

Doivi Clarkinen Wrote:
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> They just look stupid. On everybody.


well, not EVERYBODY....

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For me, personally, it's because the hat doesn't actually FIT on your head properly with the brim all flat.

I suppose it comes down to WHY are you wearing a hat in the first place?

To shade your face from sun, and to protect your hair from dirt and grime? In that case, you want the hat on tight, so it doesn't fall off at an inopportune moment, or by a gust of wind.

To keep your hair out of your face while the wind whips around? Or to cover it because you're having a bad hair day? Same deal.

Because it's advertising and supposedly cool? I think it's tilted to the side, becuase the side of your head has less of a curve than the front does, so this makes it so the hat fits better without having to make the brim properly curved.

Then there's the retarded Redneck way, to super-curl the brim. I think that's just as stupid, and a waste of a good hat.


--sarge

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Jorden R. Kleier
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1990 Mazdog Protege 4WD
1973

SgtRauksauff Wrote:


Well Sarge, you would look at the hat per se as a "statement" in and of itself. But then you're a journalist aren't you?
For some everything we choose to do or say is a sign or a symbol in some level and you're right to link the "hyper rigid curl" as the anti-thesis of the flat brim.
The "hyper curl" IS a statement of many rednecks and a whole heap of Rednecks are whitey white boys of the whitest persuasion.......looking like pin heads with the little super curled hat perched precariously atop their near shaved head emphasizing their pin head nature.

And just where do we see the "obviously as opposite as possible in every way" flat brimmed hat pulled down loosely past eye brow?
In the cultural opposite of Red-neck fantasy land......the fantasy "ghetto" of black hip hop cultcha made popular by little white boy wannabees everywhere.

Both are now empty cliches which are supposed to carry with the mere wearing a host of cultural values and statements but which are just stupid empty gestures when "said' to people speaking a different langue...


I guess I don't speak "dumb" very well.
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> For me, personally, it's because the hat doesn't
> actually FIT on your head properly with the brim
> all flat.
>
> I suppose it comes down to WHY are you wearing a
> hat in the first place?
>
> To shade your face from sun, and to protect your
> hair from dirt and grime? In that case, you want
> the hat on tight, so it doesn't fall off at an
> inopportune moment, or by a gust of wind.
>
> To keep your hair out of your face while the wind
> whips around? Or to cover it because you're having
> a bad hair day? Same deal.
>
> Because it's advertising and supposedly cool? I
> think it's tilted to the side, becuase the side of
> your head has less of a curve than the front does,
> so this makes it so the hat fits better without
> having to make the brim properly curved.
>
> Then there's the retarded Redneck way, to
> super-curl the brim. I think that's just as
> stupid, and a waste of a good hat.
>
>
> --sarge
>
> ---** To be in compliance with the Anarchy **---
> Jorden R. Kleier
> Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
> 1990 Mazdog Protege 4WD
> 1973

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>
> Then there's the retarded Redneck way, to
> super-curl the brim. I think that's just as
> stupid, and a waste of a good hat.


That's redneck? I thought it was frat boy. Either way steamrolled flatbillers and wrapped around a Bud can roundbillers both look silly.

Now my light blue Labatt's trucker cap (free with a case!), now that is classic.

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fiasco Wrote:
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> >
> > Then there's the retarded Redneck way, to
> > super-curl the brim. I think that's just as
> > stupid, and a waste of a good hat.
>
>
> That's redneck? I thought it was frat boy. Either
> way steamrolled flatbillers and wrapped around a
> Bud can roundbillers both look silly.

How do you distinguish a Frat-boy from a redneck?
there's a difference?



>
> Now my light blue Labatt's trucker cap (free with
> a case!), now that is classic.
>
> Andrew Steere
> Lyndeborough, NH
> KB1PJY

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Frat boys MADE IT INTO college. Besides that, not much. lol

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I wear hats to keep my hair out of my face, thus usually backward.

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I wear a hat to go to the Supermarket when I haven't showered yet and my hair looks like Don King!

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Nick Taylor.
Knobhead.
Los Angeles, CA.

I wear a hat when I'm either welding/generally wearing a facemask while working, when my hair gets longer, or when I dont feel like putting gel in my hair.

But never flat brimmed, uncomfy and lame looking.

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Welcome to the cult of JVL drink the koolaid or be banned.

I wear a hat to look like I have hair!

Ever seen the kiwi movie "Bad Taste"? (best movie ever) One of the heros takes a fall off a 200 foot cliff early in the film, splits his skull open, wakes up, grabs some of his brains from a seagull, puts them back in his head, and clamps it down with, you guessed it; a hat! Best use of hat ever.



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