I'm about to be attentive company

[sovay]

Postscript: I have just inherited a reprehensible hat. It's my grandmother's rain hat. My mother has no idea how old it is, except definitely older than me. For close to a quarter of a century, she hasn't been able to bring herself to throw it out and earlier this evening it was pouring torrentially. We both remember my grandmother looking good in it, but my mother thinks that's because my grandmother basically looked good. If I hadn't folded the brim up, I'd look like a mushroom.

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[moon_custafer]

Is the fabric oiled?

[sovay]

Is the fabric oiled?

No! Everything about this hat would make so much more sense if it were oilskin. It is not. If it was ever even waxed, it wore off long ago.