Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT Tilley Hats!
From: "A.H.SCHMIDT" <horsts@actek.com.au>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:01:11 +1000

TSL wrote:

>
>
> Not to say they are are a new thing...  but it is precisely this last
> comment that refers to the monopoly that 'baseball caps' have become.  It
> bothers me  -  not hats but baseball hats.  I think many people want to
> cover their heads for one reason or another.  But would you not consider it
> unfortunate that 'style' for whatever its worth has been snuffed out by the
> baseball cap?  The Universities  some everyone has a white baseball hat!  A
> fedora would look funny on them.  I know a hat shop owner and we discuss
> hats.  He's trying to convert the baseball hatters into...something
> else...The headcovering is being compromised for the sake of plainness.
> Also other hats change the whole dress of the person, we would assume.

What about the funny little green hats with a feather on them?

Regards, Horst Schmidt