General Chat

Sharron, we came across some old photos of my Mum recently, taken in the early 1960s, in many of them she was wearing a headscarf. Funny fashion.

Errol, I have decided to sing "Happy" whenever I see him, as well as wearing some strange hat or another.

I now realise why his father thrust his chest at me at Christmas whilst wearing some very baggy sweat pants and a T shirt with the BIllionaire Boys Club logo on them, hideous objects, they cost some ridiculous amount of money. I think I was supposed to be impressed. Very attractive on a seventy year old man.

M. :-0

Not been posting much recently ,but couldn't resist this one....having manners these days seems to be a thing of the past!
My late husband used to tell the grandchildren to take off their hats when they came to visit....now I'm on my own,they tell me to get into the 21st century......how rude...standards have certainly declined in all sorts of ways... :-(

Local golf club has a no hats indoors policy.

There's a tiny sign stating this.........and if you wear a hat indoors, you have to buy drinks for everyone at the bar. :-D

To the best of my knowledge, nobody has had to buy a huge round of drinks, but mentioning the rule gets the hats off quicksmart!

:-D

O.h.'s son now living in New York always has a baseball cap or beanie on in every photo of him and baby (1 today) he puts on fb or sends his dad. Even baby has a beanie on indoors sometimes. Despite comments by all the family, he will insist on wearing those horrible caps, wore them in U.K. too so didn't get the habit from America. His hair is receding now but his brother lost his hair very young and he never resorted to a cap. O.h. hates the caps.

Lizx

wearing those baseball type hats and beanies is very common in the US .....................


I can remember seeing men eating in restaurants in Texas back in 1967/68 wearing stetson hats



unfortunately!




I hate it

No one over the age of 14 should ever wear a baseball cap anywhere. They look ridiculous on grown men.

And no one over the age of 21 should wear one of those woolly things that students wear.

And no one should ever wear a hat indoors. It's silly.

I have noticed that men who wear yachting caps always know a lot. We call them knowledge hats.

My brother wears a baseball cap. :-)

When he plays in the "oldies" baseball team (he's 62)........

and when he coaches the youngsters :-D

Maryanna,

Ask him to send the cap to me please as All my hats have gone walkabout and with having snow I need a hat to go out...

My elderly parents went to a friend's funeral recently.

Apparently 'the lad', 53 years old, was wearing his usual attire, a beanie.

By all accounts it wasn't a lowly affair, must have looked odd :-0

Yet, I can't blame him. The funeral is for family foremost.

My parents of a previous generation were shocked.

My mother, born 1905, would always wear a hat and gloves, even when gardening. The garden hat was a close fitting dark blue straw. The only time she left the house without a hat was when hanging out the washing!

Jacqueline


my mother was of a similar vintage, she was born in 1903 ............

and yes, she wore a hat whenever she went out. She got dressed up "decently" just to go to the local shops.

That was how she was raised.


Even in the 50s, I wore gloves when I was going out, not always a hat because I hated them and the "rules" were not as strict for a teenager. Shoes, handbag and gloves all matched :-)



The fashion rule that our mothers obeyed, and that lasted at least into the 60s, was ladies wore hats outside and kept them on indoors (not in their own house obviously!!) ............ whether visiting friends (unless they were very close friends or it was a dinner or "evening do") or in a public place.

Outer coats would often be removed, but hats would stay on ............... for morning coffee, lunch, or afternoon tea.


Men wore hats when outside .............. usually trilbys or fedoras, but they were doffed whenever the men met a lady they knew, and were always removed when indoors .........


.......... it was inexcusable for a man to sit down inside while wearing a hat.

The lad in N.Y. has always worn baseball caps even before he started visiting there. Today was his daughter's 1st birthday, he is wearing his cap on all the party pics lol

My late Mum always wore hats, in fact, when she came through at a Spiritualist meeting, one of the first things the medium said was 'this lady looks serious and always wears hats' That's when I was sure it was my mother - and the second medium sketched a picture of the person she 'saw' while her friend spoke about her. At the end I was given the sketch and it was remarked that I look a lot like my mother which is true.

Dad always wore a trilby, sometimes a flat cap and despite cycling to and fro shift work in all weathers I don't remember him wearing a woolly hat. It will be 25 years on Friday that he died aged 79, and 20 yrs in May since Mum went at the same age they were born in 1910 and 1916. I still have a couple of Mum's warmer hats and several of my own now too.

Lizx