I have quite a few of the things. Woolly ones, straw ones, big ones and small ones, felt ones and faux fur ones. Many of them hang in a row on the pegs in the Boot Room. I look at them, occasionally try one on, then put it back on the rack. Occasionally I put one into my coat pocket, just in case and if the weather is really cold I will even put one on my head before I go out to walk the dog.
However, unless it is freezing cold, or absolutely tipping down with rain, sleet, or snow, I whip the hat off at the earliest possible moment. Nothing wrong with the hats, they look neat and presentable, but I dislike having my head cocooned in warmth.
The joy of being able to snatch my hat off, then feel the wind blowing my hair around (slight exaggeration, my hair is fairly short) almost makes it worth the trouble of putting the hat on in the first place.
How about you? Are you a hat wearer?
This photograph has absolutely nothing to do with hats. It is one of my favourite walks though, always done on a day when wearing a hat is not necessary.
Got quite a few, mostly wooly and baseball but have an NT brimmed hat for the garden
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DeleteI wear my hats in my pocket, but the warmth is exquisite when I succumb.
ReplyDeleteThen you must succumb more often, Joanne. It is the reverse for me, exquisite coolness/cold blast when I rip my hat off!
DeleteI have a woolly one for out here in the garden in Scotland as the sea breeze can be...well a bit breezy and I struggle to see with hair in my face. In summer I swap it for a fishing style hat to keep the sun off my head.
ReplyDeletePractical! I have a lot of back reading to do on your blog - something I look forward to doing this weekend.
DeleteI will warn you there is some sad news on there - you will no doubt have seen something on the national news about our little village in Scotland.
Deleteif it's windy and cold just 10 minutes outside without a hat and I get ears humming and neck ache - so I'm never out without one this time of year
ReplyDeleteThen you most definitely need to keep well wrapped up and snug!
DeleteI wore a hat all day last Friday because it was so cold. DIdn't take it off inside in the museums because I'd have terrible hat hair. That's the biggest trouble I have with hats - hat hair!
ReplyDeleteHat hair, I understand!
DeleteI always wear a hat to shade my eyes as I find the New Zealand sun too bright even in winter.
ReplyDeleteThe sun - a rare commodity around here, Susan! That hat sounds like a perfectly sensible arrangement.
DeleteI love knitting hats, but rarely wear one. My fine hair does not take kindly to confinement. However, I have discovered ear warmers and have knitted quite a few - it seems to do the trick.
ReplyDeleteEar warmers sound like a good option...though how on earth you manage to knit, while zipping around and doing all that you cram into a day, I will never know. You are amazing.
DeleteI have one cotton hat that I wear in summer when bush hogging the back acreage. My mom has crocheted a new hat every year for my winter wear, along with the scarf to match, and I find that I take the scarf and wrap around my ears, while the hat stays on the shelf in the closet... silly, I know... but that's just how it is, none the less. Perhaps I should tell her about Susan's ear warmers!
ReplyDeleteWhatever works for you, wyomingheart! Hats and scarves crocheted with love, lucky you. You sound like another very busy person.
DeleteI have few knitted hats and a couple of summer ones. Never wear them. Hate the way my face looks without my hair and of course it squashes my hair and I look even worse when I take off the hat. Have to wear a crash helmet. At least you can't see my face at all with that
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten about you and your motorbike exploits - you amazing woman! Does your crash helmet get really hot in the summer as you whizz around your beautiful Greek island?
DeleteI don´t have any hats, unless you count hoods on jumpers. Should really get some summer hats for when the sun is beating down and can easily burn your scalp, just don´t seem to get round to it though lol xcx
ReplyDeleteA burnt scalp sounds painful - wear your hat, please!!
DeleteHats always made my scalp itch so I never bothered, unless of course it was extremely cold. Mostly though I used a head scarf.
ReplyDeleteOh, the days of head scarves! I used to enjoy wearing them when I was a teenager. I completely understand about the itchiness - I often begin to wonder whether I have picked up some visitors from my grandchildren...scratch, scratch!
DeleteI'm not a hat or gloves person. On a bitterly cold day, I can start my dog-walk wearing both, but within 10 minutes, hat and gloves are stuffed into pockets because my head and hands feel like they are being boiled.
ReplyDeleteI had to buy a hat for a rather posh wedding. I put it on in the car, forced myself to smile for the photos, then wandered upstairs to a gallery where regimental uniforms were on display. I wonder how long it was before the rather fetching turquoise fascinator was discovered, adorning the mannequin of a Regimental Sergeant Major. Lol, lol. (Well, I had drunk a couple of glasses of bubbly by then . . . )
Perhaps we are twins! I wear scarves because I can't bear for my neck to be cold, but gloves and hats super-heat me, most unpleasant! I bet the Regimental Sergeant Major had never looked so good. Ah, the things we do 'under the influence'!
DeleteI have always, always, wanted to wear a hat. I love hats!! The wide brimmed feminine straw hats, bonnets, cowboy hats, caps, knitted hats. But, I feel like I stand out like a sore thumb any time there is a hat on my head. :) The picture is beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteI can imagine that you would really suit the wide brimmed and feminine style though, Mel. The little glade in the photograph is hidden away in the middle of farm land, luckily there is a public access footpath through there (not much used) so I get to walk and enjoy the beauty of the place.
DeleteI love to see hats on other people but struggle with them myself. I can't bear things on my head. I can just about cope with a hood in wet weather. I do have to give in during the Summer and wear a sunhat otherwise I can easily get ill from too much sun. I do love scarves and gloves especially in the winter. Your photo is beautiful:)
ReplyDeleteA nice hat can really create a lovely image, finish off an outfit, can't it? You wold love to walk through that beautiful glade, Rosie. I was absolutely amazed, the first time I found it. I was walking my old Toby through farmland, a few fields in from the road I turned a corner, climbed a stile, and found this glorious place. Initially I thought I had strayed off the track, but no, it cuts right through what feels like a truly stunning private garden, then back out into fields!
DeleteWoolly hat with big fake fur pom pom. It's slightly too big and falls over my eyes. I have a stylish fedora type hat but the slightest breeze and it blows away. I have to wear a hat in cold weather otherwise I get a headache but I can understand the delight in being hat free.
ReplyDeleteA woolly hat with pom pom sounds perfect. You wouldn't want that fedora to blow off and get covered in Lincolnshire mud!
DeleteThat photo is perfection!
ReplyDeleteNope, not a hat wearer. Don't know why, exactly. It just feels better, without one. :-)
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You would love that magical glade, wow. Birdsong, trickling water, shelter from the wind and from too much sun. Faeries live there.
DeleteI am a hat wearer and feel naked without one. I have many to match most of my clothes and for every occasion. Beautiful photo.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds very chic and well organised, Lorraine.
DeleteHi Elaine, I like a woolly hat to pull on and keep my head warm when the temperatures are really low in the depths of winter. It's also good to hide my hair, when I have a bad hair day!
ReplyDeleteHa! We all have those, don't we, Jacqui! I think I just have a very well insulated head, well that is the polite version, others may call it something else.
DeleteThey can itch...they make my hair flat...I look silly in them...but some days just have to be hat days! x
ReplyDeleteEven I have to concede on that one, but my hat days are few and far between, despite all those hats on pegs!
DeleteI'm in the YES to hats camp. I am the only one that still wears a hat to church each Sunday. Each week I get lots of comments about my varying hats & style of such. When out walking not only is a hat or in Canadian terms a toque required but gloves/mittens, scarves, boots & about 2 layers underneath ... OK not in all parts of Canada, but definitely in our region of Ontario.
ReplyDeletehello Patio Postcards! Again, you sound very chic and well presented, I am totally with you on the mittens/gloves, scarves and boots - and the layers, in cold weather, but our cold is nothing like your extreme cold. Not sure that I could handle that. Stay warm and stylish!
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