The Hat Thread

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Ohhh, I want zombie taxidermy for christmas too! That is SO cool!

If only because it would make an interesting list for the inlaws...

you can just see him in my av. there is a bigger pic in the GB curves thread or on fet. he is truly the mangiest fox ever.

I kees you!

heh, I was channeling you last friday when we go the hat out again for a photo session. as soon as I can I'll upload a pic, and you'll see what I mean.

 

[the captians wench]

Any one see the fascinator Kate Middleton wore to christen that life boat the other day?

I love that they are giving her a classic vintage look. She does well with tailored suits.

 

[satindesire]

A fancy bonnet of this year's model unquestionably appeals to our sensibilities to-day much more forcibly than an equally fancy bonnet of the model of last year; although when viewed in the perspective of a quarter of a century it would, I apprehend, be a matter of the utmost difficulty to award the palm for for intrinsic beauty to the one rather than to the other of these structures. So, again, it may be remarked that, considered simply in their physical juxtaposition with the human form, the high gloss of a gentleman's hat or of patent-leather shoe has no more of intrinsic beauty than a similarly high -gloss on a threadbare sleeve; and yet there is no question but that all well-bred people (in the Occidental civilized communities) instinctively and unaffected cleave to the one as a phenomenon of great beauty and eschew the other as offensive to every sense to which it can appeal. It is extremely doubtful if anyone could be induced to wear such a contrivance as the high hat of civilized society, except for some reason based on a aesthetic grounds.

I "read" this picturing you in a waistcoat smoking a pipe with a snifter of brandy in your hand, sitting in a slightly worn overstuffed armchair in front of a fire, while a stock exchange ticker clicks away on the table nearby.

HAH!

As a OT post:

I fucking LOVE hats. I used to have quite a collection of very expensive designer hats until my darling ex decided to take me breaking up with him out on my clothes.

Bastard.