[AT] HATS was Re: OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935

[Al Jones]

I have always liked the way men wore "fedora" type hats in the 30's and 40's.  Wish that was still the style today.  It used to be such a TREAT to get a free Wayne Feeds cap at the feedmill, or a Pioneer Seed cap, etc.  I used to just about sleep in a feedstore/ball cap but since I have been teaching, I don't wear one much anymore.  Besides that, most of the "low crown" caps that are popular now don't fit my enormous head very well.  Anymore I wear a wide brim Barmah hat I bought at the Got to be NC Festival one year, to protect me from the sun. I like to wear my reproduction IH "turtle shell" helmet, aka pith helmet aka safari hat, but  it doesn't give as much sun protection because the brim is smaller.

In the wintertime I usually wear a cap with a hood over it when I am doing farm work.  My Carhartt jacket has such a heavy hood that if I turn my head, such as looking before I pull out on the road, my cap stays still, so when I turn my head back, the hat is now "Crooked!"  So I usually just go hat-less then too.

I guess that is more about hats than anyone wanted to know.....

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 17, 2012 7:27 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>My daddy wore a dress hat every Sunday and he wore the old dress hat the 
>rest of the week.  He had felt hats for winter and straw for Summer.
>
>I hate wearing a hat.   The only time I wear one is when I have to wear a 
>hard hat and now that I'm nearly bald on top, I wear a straw hat (the panama 
>type)
>if I have to be out in the sun for more than an hour or so at the time, 
>running the tractor or whatever.  That is only to keep my head from getting 
>sun burned.
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Larry Goss
>Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:35 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>It brings back the original significance to the Mark Twain quote, Charlie --  
>Pa's down in the pig pen.  He's the one with the hat!
>
>Larry
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:26:32 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>Shop foreman wearing a suit and hat!
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Larry Goss
>Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 5:01 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>Humm.  Not a hard hat or a pair of safety glasses to be seen!
>
>Larry
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Richard Walker <rick427 at roadrunner.com>
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:36:00 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: [AT] OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935
>
>If you have a fast internet connection and twenty minutes to watch this
>video, it's fascinating.
>
>A documentary film made in 1935, showing the processes of steam
>locomotive building, including casting, forging, machining, and assembly.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YblqWGmIYTg
>
>
>- Richard
>
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