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<h1>The Big Hat Discussion</h1>
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[Quoted: <a href="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/">llizard</a>, Unquoted: <a href="http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/">VK</a>]
Wide hats are also nice... :)
> But fly off when bicycling. :^D
Not mine:
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(but I had to look in ten shops before I found one that didn't feel like
it was sitting somewhere on top of my head instead of _around_ it...)
>Does "_around_ it" mean too large or too small? Most hats I find a way
>to large for my head and I can't see.
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I have a big head and most hats sort of sit on top of it with nothing
holding them in place, easy victims for the wind... :(
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Alternative pictures in version 2.0 of the same letter:
I have a big head and most hats sort of sit on top of it, with nothing
holding them there and protecting them from the wind....
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>:^D I can't tell which version I think is funnier.
A good hat should get down far enough to fit _around_ the head:
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>Quite right. I had the perfect wide brimmed straw hat that I was wearing
>one day last summer when there was an unexpected deluge of rain. It
>shrank when it dried and now it pinches my forehead and leaves a mark
>when I jam it on my head. I, of course, have not found the perfect hat
>to replace it and so continue to wear it. :^D
I have a hat like that, but I found that I have an old saucepan which is
just a little bit wider than my head so I wet the hat and forced it to dry
on the saucepan. It worked =)
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That saucepan is now no longer a saucepan but a hat size improvement tool.
>That's a great idea. I will search the saucepan drawer and see if there
>is a potential hat size improvement tool.
(I was lucky - I only have one saucepan... well, HAD one saucepan, right
now I don't have a saucepan so I borrow one from somebody else when I
need one... :D )
>:^D Only one saucepan!! And now no saucepan except a borrowed
>saucepan!!! You'll starve.
I live in a "student corridor" remember, twelve students, one kitchen...
>Ai yai yai. I'd forgotten. You'll starve for sure! :^D
Parallell thread:
> >Wide hats are also nice... :)
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> But fly off when bicycling. :^D
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Not mine:
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> Oh *that* kind of wide hat. I thought you meant:
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They are nice too, but not to use on bike
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> I have one like yours too that I pin a handkerchief to the back so it
> looks like a Foreign Legion hat.
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:D
I used to have one with mosquito net:
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>How excellent! I should look into getting one of those. :^D
I just tried to use it as a "hair clip"...
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That way there should be no risk of it falling off.... :D
>But what if the hat is so securely fastened to your hair that it pulls
>your hair out in a high wind? :^D
No, what wold happen would be that the front part tries to fly away but is
stopped by the back part and the whole thing would just flop over my
head.... :D
> But what if the wind was so strong that the front part gets flipped back
> and tears the hair out of your head? :^D
no, all it would do would be to tear the hat away from the head... :D
>along with your hair if the wind was very very strong:
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> I actually attach a barette to
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> because my hair, even though it is very long, doesn't hold the hat on
> well enough in the wind. (not enough hair?)
???
There is a hole at the back of those things and I pull my hair through
that.... (well, actually I open the clip and then shut it again around the
hair)
>Yes I do the same thing but in a high wind, the hat just slips down my
>hair. If I attach a metal barette to the clip part and fasten it to my
>hair, then the hat stays fixed to my head.
It isn't "tied" to the hair in any way.... If the hair has thickness 1
unit then the opening that it goes through is about 3 units big...
> Yes I do the same thing but in a high wind, the hat just slips down my
> hair.
:D I suspect the same thing would happen to me, but at least it would
slide down to somewhere near me, not fly away across the road or into a
ditch or something...
> Before I started fastening mine with a barette, I had one slide down my
> hair and then fly in the wind across the road and under the wheel (dirty)
> of a car before I could rescue it.
ok, then that method wouldn't work for me either ..... but it feels nice,
and it keeps my hair out of the way... =)
>:^)
More parallellism:
> If I attach a metal barette to the clip part and fasten it to my
> hair, then the hat stays fixed to my head.
I haven't done that :D [what is a "metal barette"?]
> Maybe you call it a slide?
????? (picture?)
>back view of head:
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yes, I got that part, but what does it look like (details)? and how did
you get that to stick to the hat?
>Sorry, I thought you didn't recognize the word "barette". I hook it into
>the loop of the hat.
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>back of hat:
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> \/ and hair.
a bit of both really (and the little square doesn't really explain any
more than I had already guessed...)
Does it look something like this?
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>Yes. (Well done. I gave up trying to make that very thing.)
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>I had to do it upsidedown because I'm too lazy to turn your barette
>around. Does that make it any clearer?
Yes :D
But doesn't that feel a bit uneven?
>No, you can adjust the hat and/or barette. There is no rule that says a
>barette has to be at right angles to the hair.
What about the rule that says that it is uncomfortable when something is
uneven...
>:^D Is this an aesthetic or a physical judgement?
Very physical! (I can't see the back of my neck but I can *feel* it and I
go crazy if something feels uneven...)
>:^D It can be adjusted so that it all fits. Did I say that you do not
>put your hair through the loop of the hat? Only the barette is used to
>hold the hat to the hair.
hmmmm....????
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>No need to take all that extra time to gather hair together to put
>through hole in hat. You can just jam the hat on your head and fasten
>the barette to some of the hair on the back of your head.
:D (didn't this whole thing start with the hair going through the loop?)
> :^D Oh, didn't I mention that I find it incredibly uncomfortable to put
> my hair through the loop and that's why I devised the barette method in
> the first place?
No, I don't think you did, :D (I think it is very comfortable, especially
when I should have washed my hair yesterday and want a reason to keep
wearing the hat indoors....)
>:^D
:)
I'm bad!
>It's supposed to be very good for the health of your hair to let it stay
>oily....
>Sometimes, I'm bad too. It gets really scary if someone asks me if I
>have just washed my hair because the comb lines are so visible. :^D
Forking off again:
> No need to take all that extra time to gather hair together to put
> through hole in hat. You can just jam the hat on your head and fasten
> the barette to some of the hair on the back of your head.
hmmmm.... maybe..... but it would still be uneven....
> No, not so much that you notice. :^D
I think I would probably notice.... :D
>Then you are like the princess and the pea?
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:P
I WOULD notice! There is not twelve, and twelve more, mattresses
between my head and my hat! :D
>:^D
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