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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by jamiek88 on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:05PM (#29885054)
As a balding man with a round head I wish hats other than Baseball caps were acceptable.
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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by WalterBright on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:49PM (#29885509)
As a balding man, I wear an Aussie outback hat on the advice of my dermatologist. Being older, I no longer care about hat fashion.

Though I discovered that Outback hat makes walking in the Seattle rain quite pleasant!

Oh, and nobody cares what you wear on your head.

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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by geocrasher on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:13PM (#29885746)
I moved the PNW in 2012 and to deal with the incessant rain, my wife bought me a brown fedora. Nobody wears brown fedora's anymore. But I do, and you'd be shocked at the number of compliments I've received ("Nice hat!" or "I like your hat!") and the number of conversations it's started.

Wear hats. Hats are cool.

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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by firecall on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:10PM (#29885716)
In Australia it's generally totally normal to wear a random hat because of the sun!

Also carrying Sun Umbrellas is totally fine as well!

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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by OJFord on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:26PM (#29885275)
As nothing in particular I wish braces were acceptable! They make so much more sense than tightening a belt laterally to defy gravity by friction.
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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by Thorrez on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:41PM (#29886660)
Huh, I didn't know that suspenders were called braces in England/Australia. I thought you meant dental braces, and was pretty confused at first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspenders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_braces

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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by GoodbyeMrChips on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:44AM (#29889830)
> I didn't know that suspenders were called braces in England/Australia.

This has been the source of some comic misunderstandings, whereby an American bloke says they are/like wearing suspenders, and the listener then assumes they are coming out as transvestite.

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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by OJFord on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:10AM (#29890002)
Monty Python's lumberjack is I suppose about as comic in 'braces and a bra' as in 'suspenders and a bra'!
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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by laputan_machine on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:50AM (#29889482)
My lecturer for assembly / low level computing used to wear braces, I enjoyed the look (and he certainly didn't seem to care what other people thought). As others have said, where what you want!
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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by wizzwizz4 on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:14PM (#29885755)
If you want to wear them, wear them! You'll get odd looks much less than you think.
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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by vidarh on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:24AM (#29893537)
My dad took to wearing a Stetson on occasion in his late 40's, around 25 years ago. In Oslo. I'm not sure exactly which type, but one of the fedoras.

I'm not so sure most people in Oslo would have agreed it was "acceptable" but he didn't care, and it's not like anyone would call him out on it.

I'm in my late 40's now, and kinda want to wear a hat but I think I'll pick something which stands out less.

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Re:Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 189... by ushakov on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:35PM (#29885368)
you can start a new trend
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