• Flying SquidM
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    586 months ago

    I wish fedoras didn’t have the reputation they do. My wife thinks I look sharp in a fedora.

    • @captainlezbian
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      426 months ago

      People don’t think some guy and his wife look like losers when he’s wearing a fedora. People think a single guy in a graphic tee with a fedora looks like a loser. Go dress sharp, the only people whose opinions of your appearance matter seem to like it when you wear one.

      • Flying SquidM
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        246 months ago

        What about a guy in a graphic tee with a fedora with his wife?

        • @KrankyKong
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          276 months ago

          Depends on how greasy they both look.

          • Hugucinogens
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            I mean, no matter how greasy they look, they’re together, good for them.

            I think it depends on how shitty they’re behaving.

          • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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            66 months ago

            From all the sex they’re having? Because you’re there too on the sex tarp?

            • @KrankyKong
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              46 months ago

              Wtf is a sex tarp, and why would anyone need one?

              • @AngryCommieKender
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                A tarp you have sex on because you’re having a greasy orgy

              • @radicalautonomy
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                36 months ago

                I shared a house with a partner during the pandemic. She was a gusher. So to save having to wash and replace her sheets all the time, she’d lay a dog blanket down any time she was having sex. And we are polyamorous, so she was having a fair amount between me and her two other partners.

                • Flying SquidM
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                  56 months ago

                  This was way more personal information than I was hoping to get from anyone today.

              • TheLowestStone
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                36 months ago

                Wait a second. You don’t have a sex tarp?

    • Karyoplasma
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      196 months ago

      There is a saying in German: Haste Hut an, biste gut an.

      It translates to “If you are wearing a hat, you are dressed well.”

        • @hikaru755
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          196 months ago

          The German saying says “Hut”, which is a less broad term than the English “hat”. And it definitely does not include that.

    • no bananaOP
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      I personally wear hats. A fedora is one of them. It can be hard to dress for, but I tend to underdress rather than overdo it because wearing it casually doesn’t make me look like an internet meme. Helps to be a bit older, too.

      • Flying SquidM
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        186 months ago

        I just feel like an asshole when I wear one now. Or more of an asshole than usual anyway.

        • @[email protected]
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          The trick is what you wear with it. Yeah, if you wear it with an edgy t-shirt, cargo pants, and a trench coat people will think you’re an asshole. If you instead wear it with, for example, a casual button down shirt, sturdy slacks, and in colder weather a light leather jacket, people will think you look like Indiana Jones. I know because that’s how I usually dress and random people compliment me on that. As long as the outfit suits the hat, people will see it in the way you mean it.

          There’s no saving the Trilby hat though, there’s no outfit that makes it work. Edit: I was wrong. Even the Trilby can be cool.

          • @AngryCommieKender
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            76 months ago

            I wear a trilby and get compliments frequently. People tell me I look like: The Blues Brothers, Inspector Gadget, Dick Tracey, and one guy called me Inspector Clouseau.

            • @[email protected]
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              56 months ago

              Damn, you’re right. I didn’t think about the Blues Brothers, who do in fact look very cool in trilbys. I guess it just requires the right accompaniment like any hat. I apologize.

          • Flying SquidM
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            46 months ago

            You know what I like? The bowler. I’ve never had one, but I like bowler hats.

            • @[email protected]
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              56 months ago

              My brother has a bowler. It can look damn stylish with the right clothes, and downright silly with the wrong ones. I can’t wear one though, I look silly in them no matter what I wear it with.

        • @[email protected]
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          76 months ago

          Wear the fedora, don’t be an asshole, then you’ll change their perception an interaction at a time. Fuck the strangers

          • Flying SquidM
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            116 months ago

            You’re telling me not to be self-conscious in public? You’re almost 47 years too late for that one I’m afraid.

            • @froh42
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              46 months ago

              Groaan, my 17y old sun is currently intentionally growing a mullet.

              Can’t the trauma be enough? I already grew up in the 80s.

        • no bananaOP
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          36 months ago

          I mostly wear it when it’s hot and sunny. The wide brim is very useful in the sun.

    • @[email protected]
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      96 months ago

      I wouldn’t worry about it. The people who have weird prejudices against fedoras don’t get outside very often.

      • Flying SquidM
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        Whenever I hear the word ‘trilby’ it immediately makes me think of the song Gone to the Dogs by Squeeze because it has the line “in old overcoats and trilby hats.”

          • Flying SquidM
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            Dude, it was a song from the 90s. I mean I know that doesn’t make me young, but…

        • @AngryCommieKender
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          No, but I do appreciate his reviews

          Edit: though it would have been nice to be able to tell my old employer to kick rocks

          • @maniclucky
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            I’ve had to stop listening to his review. Not because I don’t like them, but because I’m way too impressionable with negative reviews and it turns me away from too many things. I miss it.

            Edit: spelling and grammar