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Posted: 4/2/2020 8:54:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My wife had to have an outdoor wedding in July in the south. Everyone was miserable in the heat except 2 people - my 80 year old grandmother and my wife's 90+ year old old great great uncle. Both were wearing long sleeves including dress coats or jackets and the heat didn't seem to phase them. Lol that is called poor blood circulation. I bet they were extremely cold during the winter ??. All jokes aside I wear long sleeves when working outside in the humid south and always have. The sweat cools better. |
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Posted: 4/2/2020 9:02:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Long sleeve shirts are much cooler than short sleeves in the summer. I wear wrangler western khaki shirts or blue denim. Sometimes I wear FR shirts which are even thicker. I wear rain brim hard hats even when I don’t have too to stay cool. I have filson wool packer hats but they don’t have enough air flow for south Texas heat. You are correct, light and loose sleeves will keep a person cooler than short sleeves that let the sun heat your skin. The other side of long and loose sleeves is that they can get caught in machinery. The old generation did have a reputation for missing fingers and hands. As agriculture and the blue collar trades mechanized long sleeves lost popularity. |
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Posted: 4/2/2020 9:14:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You are correct, light and loose sleeves will keep a person cooler than short sleeves that let the sun heat your skin. The other side of long and loose sleeves is that they can get caught in machinery. The old generation did have a reputation for missing fingers and hands. As agriculture and the blue collar trades mechanized long sleeves lost popularity. Part of the advantage, vs t-shirts, is the air circulation between buttons. I used to get some strange looks combining. (back when combines were all open station) I'd wear a light colored hoodie with the hood pulled up tight. It wasn't really that much hotter and I didn't get all the chaff down my collar. |
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Posted: 4/2/2020 9:14:35 PM EDT
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As was stated earlier, when JFK was elected he didn't wear a hat. That was the beginning of the end, of hat wearing. Also, with the addition of the free ball caps with advertising, it didn't make sense or cents, to purchase a hat.
 If you look at the family pictures in the 1960s, hat wearing was going out of style. Back in the 1930s and 40s hat wearing along with ties were a part of a man's attire.Mobjack |
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Posted: 4/2/2020 9:47:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 7th post nailed it! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: When feed, seed, fertilizer, tractor and implement companies started giving away logoed baseball caps to their customers it spelled the end of farmers spending money to buy fedoras. 7th post nailed it! When I was a kid I had a Super Crost hat my grandpa gave me. When I got older I bought myself a fedora because it reminded me of him. Still have the fedora, I'd kill for a Super Crost trucker hat. So get both. |
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Posted: 4/2/2020 9:54:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When I was a kid I had a Super Crost hat my grandpa gave me. When I got older I bought myself a fedora because it reminded me of him. Still have the fedora, I'd kill for a Super Crost trucker hat. So get both.  eBay They have green ones too |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 8:02:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryMaybe kill was too strong a word. Fair to good, 35 bucks I might have to pick up a patch and sew it to some velcro. I'll have to do a better search. I never would have thought they'd be out there. |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 8:17:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: JFK, didn't wear hats, killed the habadashery, that's why the Hatters Society had him killed. First Kennedy conspiracy theory I have heard that makes sense. 
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Posted: 4/3/2020 8:25:04 AM EDT
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I really don't know what this hat is that my granddad is wearing. It might have started life as a fedora.
 Attached FileAbout 1948 but knowing him goodness knows how long he owned it. He seldom threw anything away though he retired it for this Jones style hat in the 60s. He wore a straw hat in the Summer.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 8:30:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In related news I just ordered another one of these as my old one is starting to look a little ratty, great summer hat. http://content.backcountry.com/images/items/900/COL/COL3771/NATA.jpg That's the perfect summer hat right there. |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 8:31:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My grandfather was like cigar store Indian brown lol... No idea how he didn't die from skin cancer. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If you're in the sun everyday, you need to wear long sleeves and a hat. I'm not talking about the work softball game all day, I mean sun up to sun down from when you could walk to when you couldn't outside in the sun. Your skin won't last like that in the open. Not many people live like that anymore My grandfather was like cigar store Indian brown lol... No idea how he didn't die from skin cancer. Sun is good for you. |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 8:36:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most of the ranchers I know only where their cowboy hats while hating or going do social events. It's usually ball caps on the warm days, Stormy Kromers on the cold ones. I could see hating this one...   |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 8:39:04 AM EDT
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around here it is usually straw hats for farmers working outside. Amish rubbed off on everyone, and they are pretty practical hats in general.
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Posted: 4/3/2020 8:58:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/3/2020 9:05:09 AM EDT
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I bet I have 50 or 60 farming ball caps in a box somewhere. Both of my grandpas farmed, and my dad farmed until I was 14. John Deere, seed corn brands, chemical brands, etc.
Mom's dad wore straw hats gardening or around the cabin, but on the farm it was ball caps. He was a seed rep himself. Dad's dad wore ball caps around the farm, he was also a gunsmith and a vet so more hunting & shooting brand hats besides the normal stuff. |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 9:10:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: JFK, didn't wear hats, killed the habadashery, that's why the Hatters Society had him killed. This right there, minus the last part. |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 9:14:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryReminds me of my wife's grandfather. Worked on heavy machinery until the day he died. Wore overalls and a fedora. Great guy, miss him a lot. |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 9:17:16 AM EDT
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Both my wife’s father and grandpa wore straw as well as my grandpa. Her’s in CA, mine in KS and MO
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Posted: 4/3/2020 9:17:43 AM EDT
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All my depression era family members wore wide brimmed straw sun hats. There is a picture of me somewhere in work boots, overalls and a straw sun hat in I would guess the early 80s.
I think the difference was they lived on a "farm" and lived pretty much the same life style their entire lives. They got indoor plumbing and electricity in 1954. The 2nd floor of the old farm house didn't have electricity untill the early 2000s when I put it in. |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 9:21:56 AM EDT
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That wasn’t a farmer thing in the 50’s, that was a man thing in the 50’s.
In the Dakotas when I was growing up, the ranchers wore cowboy hats and the farmers wore seed company ball caps. |
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Posted: 4/3/2020 9:31:42 AM EDT
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I wear a straw hat and a long sleeve Columbia PFG shirt working in the greenhouse and when out moving the chicken tractors here in VA. Living at the beach, there's plenty of people in their 30s already dealing with skin issues and skin cancer from being young and invincible. I don't play with the sun and keep covered.
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