And the fedora is a truly unfortunate article of clothing - at its best, it’s basically the pocket protector of the new millennium (a clear sartorial shorthand that the wearer is of the most socially inept and malajusted level of nerd), and at its worst (and increasingly so as time passes) it’s become the unbuttoned shirt and gold chain of the new millennium (a clear sartorial shorthand that the wearer is an onerous sleazebag).
And in either case, it’s a truly embarrassing and irritating affectation.
Funny, when I was in an extremely nerdy university in the early 2000s, years before OKCupid even existed, fedoras - in real life - were already pretty clearly the exclusive headgear of only the most dire and socially maladjusted of nerds. You know, the folks who thought the word ‘conversation’ meant ‘competition to make the most obscure Monty Python quote,’ or who thought it was a good idea to pair their fedora with a black trenchcoat (other elements of the Ultimate Dork Armor included a black t-shirt with white text on it, an unkempt beard, and an unfortunate greasy ponytail - avail yourself of all of them and become the king of the student lounge in the CS department!).
Fedora wearers were the people who made me, a thoroughly self-identifying nerd, realize that there was indeed a dark side to nerdiness. A very real personality tarpit of mixed arrogance, entitlement, and total inability to read social cues.
Critiquing a woman on her physical appearance is entirely different from critiquing a person based on an obnoxious affectation they have elected to employ.
I’m not going to make fun of a woman’s body-type, but I’m certainly going to look critically at someone who parades down the street in a codpiece.
The fedora is a horrible, anachronistic affectation, and still makes people look silly even when it doesn’t make them look like a misogynist or whatever. You might as well be traipsing around in full steampunk gear, or a ruffed collar, or a codpiece.
There is a whole sartorial universe between ‘jeans and a t-shirt’ and wearing a fedora. You do realize you can wear a ‘snazzy tie and dress shirt’ without capping it off with a dopey hat that makes you look like you’re wearing a Sam Spade Halloween costume, right?
Cripes, all of the fedora hate in this thread is making me want to wear one. Fuck people telling me what to wear or that something is no good because it’s not in fashion. I hate all of this fashion bullshit.
I am curious about one thing though. If Leshem stated that he “marched with the women in the ’70s” with “flowers in his hair" yet he was born in 1963, did he march with these women when he was 8 years old or something? Even if he was 17, it would have been 1980. I seriously doubt that he ever did any of those things. Mark him down as LIAR as well
I actually kinda want a pocket protector. Not because I need one (I prefer pencils), but because FUCK YEAH, I’M A NERD, DEAL WITH IT.
Here’s something I don’t often get to say about clothing choices: you are objectively wrong, by the only criterion that really matters, which is the number of compliments I get from complete strangers while dressed up with my fedora. I once made a good enough impression that the bouncer mentioned it when I returned three days later wearing street clothes, so I must have done something right.
Other things I occasionally wear (not necessarily at the same time) that fetch a lot of random compliments: a black leather trenchcoat, suspenders, a Utilikilt. YOUR MIND HAS JUST BEEN BLOWN.
I suppose my experience may not be universal, though. It’s possible I’m just lucky enough to live in a city full of NERRRRRRDS.
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Sure, but they don’t force-feed Red Bull to Henrik Stenson while telling him that Phil Mickelson banged his mom in the back of a Volkswagen (I had to look up player names and as far as I know, that didn’t happen).
