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I'm about to be attentive company

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.

Threaded | Flat

I think the hat looks stylish with the brim up, anyway!

I like it!

i was prepared to most loyally disagree, but then i scrolled down and the picture appeared. oh. oh dear. well, that certainly is a hat. you look delightfully like something from moomin valley.

I like that hat. It's a hat with a job to do and it's going to do that job.

The Baba Yaga School of Cronecraft and Gizzardry called to confirm the hat has a 4:30.

Yes, definitely a Moomin hat! That was my first thought. (And wow, all those manga versions of the Moomin characters that I found while image searching are breaking my brain now--at least I found a Tove Jansson illustration.)

Make a movie in it, STAT. This image of you is made for movies.

Is the fabric oiled?

I think that's a great hat.

The hat works for you.

I love broad-brimmed hats, but there's something about that one which just doesn't work...

When a mummy hat and a daddy umbrella ....

Everyone should have a good, sturdy reprehensible hat. (Mine, alas, was wool and has become eaten by moths when I wasn't looking. I am in search of a replacement.) Yours looks fabulous at being a hat and at being reprehensible.

That's a hat with no time for fripperies. There are hats intended to be fashionable, and that hat has no such intention. Its function has wrestled its form to the ground and forced said form to cry "Uncle!"

For exactly that reason, I find it rather spectacular. It makes you look very liminal, the sort of character who has found the tattered edges where worlds intersect, and you dress for their invariably inclement weather as you set out on expeditions to gather the lost and hidden threads to keep the worlds from unraveling.