Hat!

[lethargic_man]

aviva_m and curious_reader tell me it's not really safe to wear a capel in the street in Germany, so it strikes me I need a hat to cover it for when I am going to shul there on Shabbos (once the temperature is high enough it's no longer need a woolly hat I need!).

I've mentioned this to various people, and they've suggested a baseball cap, which I flat out rejected. I might have worn baseball caps occasionally fifteen years ago; but it's really not me now. My mother suggested a sun-hat, but I wear the one I have on sufferance, and only in hotter climes: northern Europe really does not cut it!

So what, then? A fedora is smart (grey, of course: I wouldn't want to be taken, if wearing it in London, for a black hat); but wouldn't go well with my summer jacket, which is too short and too informal. (My mother also thinks it really wouldn't suit me, but what does she know?)

A straw boater would certainly suit this outfit, but might look a bit silly not in the height of summer.

Any other thoughts, anyone?

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

You could be british an wear a hoodie.

I've worn an Aussie-style hat to extremely disapproving glances from passers-bye; that might be a valid option. I'm also finding it very useful when it's raining...

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Straw fedora, or, new grown-up jacket.

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Or kappchen!

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

What's that/those? (Googling suggests it's a cake, but unless you want me to eat my hat (again^*), I must have misunderstood.

* I did that once already (http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.arts.sf.composition/msg/33a75720945bfe16?hl=en&dmode=source), at papersky's New Millennium party ten years ago.

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Yekkische hat as worn by Jen's Boyfriend of Cute.

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Or a jacket or raincoat with a hood. If you have not got one already borrow one and buy one. Prices are cheaper in Germany.

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

A Jewish man who used to live in Germany told me that people change their attitude when he told them he was Jewish.