That’s my number-one reason. I almost never wear a hat, except on those rare occasions when it rains (haven’t needed a hat for this reason in Burbank in over a year, I think, since our last couple of rainstorms happened while I was stuck inside my office).
I do, however, try to remember a straw hat when I go to an amusement park or otherwise have an all-day outing in the sun. I hate scalp sunburns. But those sunny day-trips have been rarer than rain lately.
I got one of those fat heads as well. No “one size fits all” hats ever fit me, and even XXL ones tend to be uncomfortably tight when my hair is longish (which it is these days).
Drop shadow. Booya.
That certainly accounts for the edges, but does that also explain the effect along the crown, particularly where the red-and-black zigzag stands out from the yellow?
just came inform y’all of a little-known tid-bit:
Crenquis and I immediately recognized the cropped image in the OP as the most famous fedora pic on the internet
BUT
did you know that it is the IMDB pic of the actor that was Sam’s friend Gordon from Freaks and Geeks?
These days mostly for Sun. I’m fair enough that I burn through my hair, and I generally don’t do well with heavy Sun beating down on me.
In the past brim hats were kind of a thing In the punky groups I ran with. I regularly wore a bowler until my mom backed over it in her truck. That was over 10 years ago though. I do own a nice porkpie, but I tend to look like the world’s only blonde hasid if I wear it with anything nicer than jeans so I don’t wear it often.
JPEG has a surprisingly 3D look to it
Drop shadow helps, but I’ve noticed that high contrast red-on-black boundaries give a pseudo-3D effect on LCD monitors.
Cool, this is the first time I’ve noticed it. It’s a nifty effect!
A flatcap. You can wear one with just about anything and they have a lot less baggage.
As best as I can tell it happens when neighboring regions have much higher luminance, like white or yellow. Red (particularly darker red) appears to be behind the high value regions.
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As a 7 7/8ths hat wearer, there are no hats I’ve found under a couple hundo that are anywhere near “fashionable” when worn by me. My current hat is a floppy faux-straw cowboy hat that was $50 bucks. Even XXL hats typically only go up to 7 1/4 - 7 1/2.[/quote]
Yeah, this just annoys the crap out of me too. Though I’ve found that Duluth Trading Co XXL hats run about 7 3/4, which just fits me. They’re a good source for fishing and general outdoor hats. But nothing stylish and certainly not anything you’d call a dress hat.
Boy, you ain’t kidding. Page 2 in particular shows some real Saturday-Afternoon-Grandpa chapeaux.
But they all look pretty good to me.
my buddy bought this in the wrong size and kicked it down to me. I’d have never thought to get one if he hadn’t, but I fucking love this thing.
I know that he seemed very familiar the first time that I ever saw that pic…
Now I see it:
c: gordon crisp | Tumblr
oh, cool. that guy is cool.
1000 tips of my fedora I give unto you m’lord
fuckin’ lol
No, it doesn’t.
I’ve noticed this a long time ago on some forgotten audio editing app that showed bright red and blue waveforms on black. They always seemed to be strangely out of the picture plane, with the blue looking farther away than the red. And this was on a CRT monitor. Maybe it has something to do with the old “cool colors recede, warm colors pop” color theory cliché?
Couldn’t find the exact image, but I can see a weaker version of the same effect on these random images. Can you?
I work in bush regeneration (kinda reverse forestry; we restore degraded wilderness areas). A wide-brimmed hat is required PPE in my job.
What that means, however, is a cloth hat that is as indestructible as possible. Leather hats are too hot, felt hats are too fragile. Not a Fedora or Trilby to be seen.
This is literally my signature hat. I feel lucky it has not gone the way of the Fetrilbora
I wear one of these pseudo-military caps during the winter. I think of it as my Castro hat.
