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

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

I know what you mean about the hood holding onto the hat, aggravating to say 
the least. For being outside in really cold weather, I've got a hat made 
with 3M thinsulate material (or something like that). It's got a flap that 
folds down and covers your ears and the back of your neck. Great for tractor 
driving but if you are running a chainsaw or hiking up a big hill snow 
sledding, it gets hot quick!

I remember 1 or 2 customers of the IH dealer dad worked for wearing the 
plastic turtle shells.

I've started getting more free hats in recent years--stuff that is actually 
decent looking. Maybe the folks I do business with are feeling sorry for my 
balding head?

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: Al Jones
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 10:05 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] HATS was Re: OT - How a steam locomotive gets built in 1935

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