What Would You Like To See Make A Comeback
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This. We had some family wearing Kilts at our wedding. What I can't stand is the weirdos that wear leather ones to the beer festivals. Why?
Why do so many pipers wear cabbie/flat/irish caps? I say bring back the Tam O'Shanter style... wore them all the time when I had dreads(without the pompom ball, though)! Maybe berets and fezes too...I wear hats all the time, but as soon as I see other people wearing the same hats, I put those in the closet. I don't want to ever look like I am copying someone.
Tam O Shanter is a bit too Quiet Man for my taste...
Fez? nah... too outlandish..
Berets a little too Monica Lewinsky or Che Guevara
Classics are better, Fedoras, Pork Pies and Trilbys
Fez? nah... too outlandish..
Berets a little too Monica Lewinsky or Che Guevara
Classics are better, Fedoras, Pork Pies and Trilbys
Choosing to smoke a pipe, is not something that is usually done by someone who is afraid to be or look different from the rest of the crowd. In fact, if someone is all about being like the majority, they would never chose to be seen with a pipe. In college, I hit thrift stores to choose vintage clothes, hats, whatever was unlike what the "popular" kids were doing. Then as an adult, my tastes remained different from the rest. It is just a part of pipe culture. Sure, sure, we have many polo shirt wearing guys with khakis and baseball caps, that have chosen pipes for various reasons, but for the most part, if you aren't afraid to be seen with a pipe, you are probably not afraid to wear a vintage hat. And, I have to wear a hat anyways, because if not, the bald spot on my head will burn in record time.
A guy can see plenty of plaid and leather kilts at the Chicago pipe show too. I'm all for being proud of one's heritage but wearing kilts just because seems like a uniquely Scottish thing. None of my Greek friends show up at the pipe show wearing a toga nor do I see any German brethren wearing their lederhosen.
To answer the original question though, I'd like to see:
Outdoor campfires
Green lawns
Clean sidewalks
^All of these probably exist outside California.
To answer the original question though, I'd like to see:
Outdoor campfires
Green lawns
Clean sidewalks
^All of these probably exist outside California.
Come to Alabama during Oktoberfest. I have a Polish friend who is 6' 8" tall and 300 pounds of muscle who wears his lederhosen any chance he can get... and he is big enough that no one ever gives him grief for it. He is also a surgeon... brilliant guy.
I found a bar in Ann Arbor, MI called the Last Word. You had to take a few steps down from the sidewalk into it. Old, previous era decor and hipster drinks, but the thing I found most attractive was there was none of the typical bar decor (e.g. beer mirrors, neon, etc). Very old school. The best part to me - no televisions. That was a wonderful escape from the typical Sports Bar that replicates itself ad nauseum.
Every restaurant, coffeeshop, or bar in this state has at least six TVs. It drives me nuts. The only day this would be imperative in Alabama is the Iron bowl, when you could walk down the street naked and NO ONE would notice because all eyes are a TV somewhere.
It drives me insane also. Mostly because I have ADD and can't NOT WATCH. It drives my wife insane too, since she attempts to engage in meaningful conversation. Hard as I try, my eyes just end up drifting to it. Even if it is some political pundit spewing out buckets of the incoherent factless opinionated gobbledy gook that every channel is trying to pass off as "news" these days, my eyes and ears just go there. And I am forced to see and hear it until my eyes and ears are bleeding in sisyphean horror as the sweet sweet relief of the check arrives.
Feel that. I've always rocked my own style as well. I actually considered picking up a cabbie hat but I thought I'd look like a walking pipe smoking cliche... still might get one but I'd be the only guy at a pipe show wearing it backwards.
Here we used to have that saying, a man who is not wearing a hat is not properly dressed up,so my vote will go for hats, whatever, brimmed or flat caps.
Go all out and get one of those novelty foam cowboy hats... wear it while smoking an oversized gourd calabash
Gotta have your own style. As long as you believe you can pull it off, you can:
I've been wearing flat caps since I was in jr high(early-mid 80'd) my first was corduroy bought at Chess King...now if that doesn't put you in the way back machine nothing will.
Gotta have your own style. As long as you believe you can pull it off, you can:
I have a buddy who wore this on a beach in Florida. He stopped traffic!!
I have a lovely Skye Wool flatcap.. its good stuff..
Wife hates it. She tells me I look like an old man
Wife hates it. She tells me I look like an old man
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