Flash Back

[caddyman]

Suddenly this morning it was 1961 or thereabouts. This didn’t become evident until I had left The Carpathia and got on the Tube.

I know that the weather is warm and that shorts and loose shirts are the order of the day, but quite when these shirts became Hawaiian again, I don’t know. And the straw hats. Suddenly the world is filling up with straw Trilbies and Homburgs; particularly the latter:


They're trying to pass this off as a Cuban Straw Fedora, but it's clearly closer to a Homburg!

Where, oh where is the Panama Hat? Are we to suffer a Cliff Richard revival? What of the Shadows and endless recitals of Apache?

Comments

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

I quite liked the Shadows I did and you have just reminded me of The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt...

*wonders off looking for a very old cassette*

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Yes, he looks very Rodney Dangerfield - which is to say that this "look" has never gone out of style here.

[fredlums.livejournal.com]

If there is a Cliff Richard revival I will have to emigrate preferably to Mars although even that may not be quite far enough!

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

i'm actually going to buy an optimo from

http://panamahatsdirect.com

very very soon. whaddya think?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Do it!

I have one - a roll up version. It's grand.

Generally speaking, I am a fedora man myself, but for some reason fedora-style panamas don't suit me.

We needs a picture of the panama and you smoking the biggest stogie you can find whilst hunched menacingly over keyboards...

i'm fond of this icon.

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

it is sad, IMHO, as the optimo panama in the photo in my icon is the second i purchased, which i bought on the first date i had with a woman i am still very much in love with. however, she does not speak to me now and the hat is damaged beyond wearability, so i must invest in the SUPER AWESOME HAND-WOVEN ECUADORIAN PANAMA which i'm sure will be the most ultimate hat of any kind i've ever worn.

i promise to you, Sir Bryan, that i will have a very fine photo of myself with keyboard implements and a smoking device of some kind taken soon after my my receipt of this hand-made marvel of traditional haberdashery.

i will warn you i may not be able to comply with the stogie request as i gave up cigars when the got stupid expensive about 10 years ago, but i may consider picking up a Marsh Wheeling (the only cigar i will still smoke) to celebrate the birth of my new headgear.