Evenin’,
There ain’t no way…you can leave your hat on…
Yes, well, some women like hats. Men’s hats. This is a chocolate brown borsalino, given to me by a friend, on whose head I had admired it. I couldn’t believe he took it off and gave it to me, and you’d think I might have said, “No, you mustn’t.” But I didn’t. A true gent.
My Dad always wore hats, and so did my mother. Stephen Sondheim wonders, in The Ladies Who Lunch, his brilliant song from the musical Company, if “…anyone still wears a hat?” Yes, they do.
Perhaps the buying of a hat for oneself is different than someone (a man…) giving you one? I think so. This is for Jack C Crawford (who’d questioned my penchant for sideways glances)…and Colin Lucas-Mudd because, well, he’s Colin Lucas-Mudd…and to the rest of you fellas.
Give your lady a hat. Then play this for her. It doesn’t get better than the one and only…Himself…stirring things up a bit…
Joe Cocker – You Can Leave Your Hat On (LIVE in Dortmund) HD
Have a hat-tippin’ sort of weekend with your loved one.
Giselle
October 5, 2012 at 11:12 pm
That is a beautiful hat! And you wear it well. Have a great weekend.
October 5, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Just checking in as a hat-man in the post-hat world.
October 5, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Tim King you are adorable and I love your hat. We seriously need to have a Hat Circle…
October 5, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Thank you Ms. Awesome Paula Jones. You, too!
October 5, 2012 at 11:18 pm
That is a great looking hat and it looks good on you. I am saddened that few men wear real hats anymore, I always wore hats when I was younger as did my dad and my mom. Now it is all ball caps and they are not removed, as a gentleman of yore would do when eating in a restaurant – except as Nero Wolfe once said except if dining in a train station ( gratuitous bonus points to me for the literary reference since I am commenting on a post to a lovely lady who appreciates writing -smile )
October 5, 2012 at 11:20 pm
Pretty women wearing a hat: Now that is a nice picture of you Giselle.
October 5, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Giselle Minoli Thanks, right back at ya! Love the wide brim with long hair & bangs. The recent revival had me tired of seeing women wear stingy brims because they think smaller means more feminine. It’s all about fitting the face and shape, gender doesn’t play into it until it comes to decoration.
I’m down with the hat circle. Count me in.
October 5, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Ditto to what Paula said. I, sadly, lack a barsolino, but I do have a black bowler.
October 5, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Photo please, Missy Jodi Kaplan… Cough it up…
October 5, 2012 at 11:27 pm
There’s one right on my profile page, standing next to that nice Mr. Kingsley.
October 5, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Every time I make a move to acquire one for myself, I get
disapprovingquestioning looks from the women in my family (everyone but me). Perhaps I should gift and then borrow. 🙂October 5, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Looks rather sassy with the sideways slant, Giselle Minoli . Have a great week-end !
October 5, 2012 at 11:29 pm
Bill Abrams Perhaps the #hatcircle should be a trading one. Peer-to-peer Netflix-style hat-sharing. 😉
October 5, 2012 at 11:33 pm
You wear it well!
October 5, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Tim King I was thinking more of a gift to one of the girls and then an inevitable borrowing.
October 5, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Well, that was the right thing to write John Oliver. How wise of you. stuart richman you are sweet and I do appreciate the reference and I, too, miss the “hat days” thus my effort to bring them back. I don’t get the baseball cap thing. Especially the ones turned backwards. What’s Up with that? ‘Splain, please… Listening…
October 5, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Bill Abrams I just figured if you borrowed enough of them, you might find a keeper. 🙂
October 5, 2012 at 11:36 pm
You are Hat Circled Tim King. I’ve got to make a list of women and men who wear hats… (aside from Queens, you know…).
Thom Miller The Unbearable Lightness of Being…GREAT movie…and I’m doing this from memory…wasn’t she wearing a hat crawling over a mirror on the floor????
October 5, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Bill Abrams Hmmm….Gift, then Borrow…great title for a book, don’t you think. You are onto something there. This is what fellas don’t know…buy a good hat, put it on then take a lady out. Then…put it on her head and tell her she looks fetching. Watch the smiles begin and everything change. Giving hats is better than giving flowers…or candy…
October 5, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Giselle Minoli As an 80s kid, I started with the backwards baseball cap, so it can’t be all that bad. 😛
One of those things that’s fine as long as you eventually grow out of it, but an adult can make one look as out of place as a beanie with a propeller. heh
October 5, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Tim King What about hat stealing? How can anyone be accused of a crime if they steal a hat? They can always say, “But, I couldn’t help myself..it’s so beautiful,” or, “I don’t know what came over me…I just had to have it…” or, “But I didn’t steal it…it just jumped onto my head!” You know, like that…
October 5, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Hello! Rod Dunne and matthew butler and John Kampsen…great weekend to you, too.
October 5, 2012 at 11:41 pm
The Hat Trick may be the sequel to Gift, then Borrow , but then someone might mistake it for a hockey book.
October 5, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Giselle Minoli When a hat is really you, it’s a part of you. That’s the significance of the gift, and also why you’ll hunt it down to the ends of the earth if it goes missing. 😉
October 5, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Giselle Minoli as the possessor of dozens of ball caps I’ll give you an old school response. I put the brim in the back when I want to shade my neck or when the brim is getting in my way because I either want to get closer to something (or someone) or I just want to have a wider field of view. Those are the “practical” reasons. I also do it just to shake me or my look up. Then it is for psychic or emotional reasons.
That said – 90% of the time the brim is forward.
October 5, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Looking good Giselle Minoli. There is definitely something about a woman in a man’s hat…or for that matter, wearing a man’s shirt…
October 5, 2012 at 11:43 pm
All right, all right Jodi Kaplan…how was I supposed to see that? You’re hiding it at the back of your head. There must be a story there about the divine Ben! You dawwwgggggg…ie…..
October 5, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Bill Abrams I thought it was because guys are insecure about their “hair.” As a shade effect, I get it….
October 5, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Katherine Bond You can’t leave out the boxers…or the cologne…or a man’s watch. Come on, now…
October 5, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Giselle Minoli Letting go of the hair certainly helped me embrace the hat. lol
October 5, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Definitely all of the above Giselle Minoli 🙂
October 5, 2012 at 11:50 pm
Giselle Minoli Ha! (or lack thereof) No, for me it is having a shade from the sun when I am standing in it for 3-5 hours at a time shooting a game. It really helps being able to point and focus. Never had hair regrets – just comes with the territory.
October 5, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Yeah, well the pic is sadly, a bit blurry and overexposed. It was pre-digital, so I couldn’t tell at the time. But I just couldn’t resist posting it.
The story is that I was taking a Continuing Ed film class with Richard Brown at NYU. He arranged a trip to London, I went, saw a screening of Gandhi and got my pic taken. He was very nice about it.
The hat is a genuine British bowler which I bought at a craft fair near the Museum of Natural History in NY. It needed repair some years later, and so when I went to England I brought it with me, found the hat maker, and had them fix it.
October 6, 2012 at 12:00 am
That is a great story Jodi Kaplan…from start to finish, particularly finding the hat maker. I sat in on a few of Brown’s classes. They were always packed to the gills… Only in New York can you take that kind of class.
October 6, 2012 at 12:29 am
+Giselle Minoli I have worn ball caps in the past when a work environment
required it, as for the backward style I have never understood it, don’t
know the reason for it, and do not care for it. As a former theatrical
lighting designer, hats of any kind are a problem for facial lighting and
ball caps worse because of the brim causing shadows on the face.
October 6, 2012 at 12:38 am
It’s a Herbert Johnson hat. If it’s good enough for the Royal Army and Indiana Jones, it’s good enough for me. 🙂
October 6, 2012 at 12:38 am
very nice!
October 6, 2012 at 12:43 am
I love this look! You carry it so well.
October 6, 2012 at 12:44 am
stuart richman Try shooting baseball players and coaches at noon!
October 6, 2012 at 1:34 am
stuart richman as actors we could only wear them as a costume item…and as a jewelry designer…well forgetting about wearing them so I get the shooting thing. But a brim IS good for shading the eyes. I have every sort of hat for every season.
Thank you Eve Aebi that is very kind of you. Hello Marilyn Perry how nice to see you here..and Grace O’Malley I LIKE that photo of you a lot.
Yllona Richardson me, too. I particularly like to drive in my “Gatsby.” Sort of fits and keeps me warm because I like to keep the car cool, especially driving long distance!
October 6, 2012 at 2:33 am
I was a hat man for many years, but with a pony tail going three quarters down my back now its bandanas instead.
October 6, 2012 at 7:28 pm
I adore hats, I have several (I have a profile pic with one of them). I also got a really gorgeous hat for my husband last christmas, plus the lovely Indiana Jones hat he wears in summer-time. Love hats on ladies and gents.
October 6, 2012 at 8:18 pm
looking good lady Giselle Minoli ! xo
October 6, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Well, James Barraford if you want to get away with wearing a hat and having a ponytail three-quarters the way down your back you just might have to get yourself a horse. And a shotgun. No sure, but you know what I mean…
October 6, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Daniela Huguet Taylor that is a great photo of you in a hat on your profile page. But what I really love is that photo of your eyes close-up. Beautiful. What kind of hat did you get your fella?
October 6, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Miss Jessica Turner What a nice surprise to see your name as I was responding to Daniela Huguet Taylor. How ARE you? Acting? Writing? Nursing? Being brilliant, I have no doubt about that… My bad. I have been woefully out of touch with you. Serious apologies…
October 6, 2012 at 8:25 pm
No apologies needed Giselle Minoli . You were off being fabulous, something I support wholeheartedly. I’m writing and nursing. Acting TBC once I’ve found an agent I like.
October 6, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Giselle Minoli much as I would love to claim those eyes for my own, they are my son’s. 🙂
My husband’s second profile pic shows the lovely hat, Tomas J. Luis , not sure of the names, sorry, a lover but not an expert.
October 6, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Daniela Huguet Taylor what a great looking husband you have there in Tomas J. Luis, whom I’ve just Circled! Love his hat, the smile, the whole shabang. But how incredibly sweet that your son’s eyes are on your profile. That says a lot about you, my dear. A tremendous amount. My husband and I just had a conversation about going to Spain. Is it freezing in January? I haven’t been there in years.
October 6, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Tomas J. Luis is a great man, not sure how I managed to snag him, hehe. Spain is, generally speaking, not freezing in January, but of course, it depends quite a bit on where in Spain you go to.
October 6, 2012 at 11:34 pm
LOL Giselle Minoli I’m half First Nation, so the imagery of myself on a horse with a shotgun is a tad John Ford-ish in my mind… of course, I’d be shot off my horse and dragged bouncing along the ground in that version.
October 7, 2012 at 12:33 am
My mother always told me that her father (who died before I was born) would trade his borsalino on Memorial Day for a straw boater, which he wore until Labor Day. Happy hatting, dear Giselle Minoli
October 7, 2012 at 6:09 pm
James Barraford What is up with the resurgence (or maybe they never waned) of cowboy Western shows on TV? Tombstone is in perennial re-run mode, and now there’s Into the West (basically, every living things dies either by gunfire or an arrow). It really is an American “thing.” I’d pay to have a photograph of you on a horse. Ditch the dragging and bouncing part, though, K?
October 7, 2012 at 6:10 pm
I’d help pay for that Giselle Minoli
October 7, 2012 at 6:12 pm
I can picture it Linda Bernstein. That entire era of “dressing,” – ladies in their hats and gloves and men in their hats with their pocketwatches…I don’t know, it was sexier. I like the imagination and what it brews up. I don’t like being “shown” everything. I could go on…but that’s another post altogether…
October 7, 2012 at 6:38 pm
+Giselle Minoli I was just reflecting on dressing up while ironing this morning. I don’t mind suits ad ties, I kind of like them and the effect they have on people. They are costumes that have an instant effect – especially, in surroundings where not the norm. And they have an effect on me while wearing them. The problem for me is the time and expense it takes to care for them.
Jeans take so much, and wear their rips and fades as badges of an active life. A frayed suit or even one that is wrinkled tells a different story. Similarly, jeans and Ts are wash and wear. Whereas my dress-up clothes need the attentions of dry cleaners.
A hat like your Borsalino needs it’s own shelf or box or drawer and a brushing. And I imagine it would be heartbreaking to see its felt stained by a little red wine or soy sauce. Compare my caps, which are washable and capable of living with a stain or two.
October 7, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Bill Abrams I have three costumes: Exercise clothes (which I basically live in), executive dress clothes and clothes I fly in. Taking care of good clothes is expensive. Alas, there’s no way out for me with my job. But the rest of the time, I’m with you. It’s casual. But there’s always a hat nearby…. 😉
October 7, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Giselle Minoli The only horse I’ll ever ride is a high horse.
October 7, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Lol James Barraford
October 8, 2012 at 10:26 pm
I finally saw this tonight–wow! Inspiration!
October 9, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Good morning, jane mizrahi and Kena Herod. Thank you both for your sweetness. Kena..I have something to post for you (and your daughter)…if I can find the time, hopefully later today…
October 9, 2012 at 1:31 pm
I look forward to it–I just spent a wonderful holiday weekend with her!
October 11, 2012 at 12:10 pm
I’m glad for you Kena Herod. Check your Notifications this morning my friend….