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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: ambriel on April 13, 2011, 07:20:45 pm

Title: Hats
Post by: ambriel on April 13, 2011, 07:20:45 pm

How many of us accidental smallholders habitually wear a hat when going about our outdoors business?

I do; a rather nice Toggi leather hat that my lovely wife bought for me after my last one blew into the harbour and sank.

This is me wearing it:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5030766558_a405ca0271.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garysutherland/5030766558/)

So come on, fess-up! :)

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: thestephens on April 13, 2011, 08:00:24 pm

still wearing my cosy ski hat! keeps my head cosy in the mornings and keeps my hair out my face when the wind is blowing a gale! sticking to my padded boiler suit too, only had the thin one on once this year!

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: ellied on April 13, 2011, 08:12:41 pm

I hate wearing hats - only dig out during the snow and icy winds, as I get earache if the wind is howling in my ears ;)

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: Beewyched on April 13, 2011, 08:40:22 pm

Yep, still wearing my fingerless gloves & thermal, woolly hat - until the weather gets better & then I'll change to my "flower-pot" 2-tone blue one for the summer  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: Fleecewife on April 14, 2011, 12:23:01 am

There is absolutely no chance of me posting a photo of myself in the hat I wear for about 9 months of the year - ie winter  ;D  I look like a mediaeval gargoyle in it, but it keeps my lugs warm  :)  The sheep don't complain  :D  Those fancy ones which perch on top of your head and have a brim like a sail would blow off in a moment up here  ::)

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: Sylvia on April 14, 2011, 07:25:08 am

I wear a hand-knitted balacava in winter and a car-boot bargain solar topee in summer (though neither of them in public, only in the privacy of my fields!! ;D)

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: tazbabe on April 14, 2011, 08:44:57 am

i feel as if i can't breath with a hat on!!!

also i have a very small head, and only child size (and therefore style)  hats fit me.

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: loosey on April 14, 2011, 09:06:19 am

I have lots of hats but I get too hot within about 20 minutes of wearing them. I love my deer stalker hat for dog walking on the beach. I often wear a baseball cap in the summer to mask my sweaty hat head from riding! :)

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: Hilarysmum on April 14, 2011, 09:26:41 am

In worst winter I wear a woolley one, for the rest of the year I just look like Worzel Gummidge on a bad hair day.

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: Rosemary on April 14, 2011, 09:31:09 am

I have three - a wooly one for winter, one a bit like ambriel's ( but not designer  ;D) for wet but not windy (stops the rain running down the back of your jacket) and a baseball cap for sunny and / or bad hair days. But often I don't bother.

I am going to a wedding in July so planning something a bit less worky  ;D

Title: Re: Hats
Post by: Fowgill Farm on April 14, 2011, 09:39:06 am

Confession time. I am a hat maniac. Have got loads.
Wooly jobs for winter by the drawer full and one cord, sheepskin lined ear flapped job for exceptional bad weather!
In summer i have a wide variety of headscarves as on sniff of the sun on my head and i'm upsidedown with sunstroke!
I also have a wardrobe top unit full of occasion hats, wedding, races christenings etc!
One of my favourite pastimes is going round the big dpt stores and trying on all the hats much to whoever i'm with embarrassment, not that i can afford them most of the time.
I just love hats  :love:
Mandy :pig: