Cowboy Hats

[Mr Tim Buktoo]

Been watching yellowstone the last couple of weeks. Do yanks in certain parts go around wearing cowboy hats in their day to day duties? Is it exaggerated in film and media?
Would the equivalent of Bobby and JR Ewing in these days go around wearing cowboy hats in the office? Or is it just for farmers? Does that word even exist in the USA. Farmers? Strange place.

[MungoMan]

Been watching yellowstone the last couple of weeks. Do yanks in certain parts go around wearing cowboy hats in their day to day duties? Is it exaggerated in film and media?
Would the equivalent of Bobby and JR Ewing in these days go around wearing cowboy hats in the office? Or is it just for farmers? Does that word even exist in the USA. Farmers? Strange place.

I'll let Americans / US residents speak for the US, but here in Straya the western-style hat and its local counterparts are still alive and well, particularly in beef and sheep grazing areas.

This is fairly recent



This, not so much

[Carter's Choice]

Yes I can confirm that lots of people wear Cowboy hat style hates unironically in regional and outback QLD. They are mainly the iconic Australian brand Akubra, which are farmers/graziers hats. They serve a very obvious and important function, to keep the sun off one's face and head, but it did take me a while to get used to. Way out west it was very common practise. I now live 2 hours from Brisbane and whilst it's not as common as out west you still definitely see them around.

[Tilly Orifice]

They're great, aren't they? Everybody should have one.

[Jambanja]

Yes I can confirm that lots of people wear Cowboy hat style hates unironically in regional and outback QLD. They are mainly the iconic Australian brand Akubra, which are farmers/graziers hats. They serve a very obvious and important function, to keep the sun off one's face and head, but it did take me a while to get used to. Way out west it was very common practise. I now live 2 hours from Brisbane and whilst it's not as common as out west you still definitely see them around.

I wore an Akubra for years when farming, great hats

[Niegs]

I think Albertans also wear them.

I live in farm country in Ontario, but baseball caps are pretty much all you see... though I saw a dude driving a massive tractor on Sunday wearing a beaten old wool flat cap. Mennonites seem to work in wide-brimmed straw hats.

[Carter's Choice]

Yes I can confirm that lots of people wear Cowboy hat style hates unironically in regional and outback QLD. They are mainly the iconic Australian brand Akubra, which are farmers/graziers hats. They serve a very obvious and important function, to keep the sun off one's face and head, but it did take me a while to get used to. Way out west it was very common practise. I now live 2 hours from Brisbane and whilst it's not as common as out west you still definitely see them around.

I wore an Akubra for years when farming, great hats

They are. Very hardy and obviously great for keeping the harsh Australian sun at bay. In inland/outback areas going outside without a wide brimmed hat is a rookie move that will lead to serious health issues in the short term As an aside, Akubras are also pretty expensive.

[Niegs]

Yes I can confirm that lots of people wear Cowboy hat style hates unironically in regional and outback QLD. They are mainly the iconic Australian brand Akubra, which are farmers/graziers hats. They serve a very obvious and important function, to keep the sun off one's face and head, but it did take me a while to get used to. Way out west it was very common practise. I now live 2 hours from Brisbane and whilst it's not as common as out west you still definitely see them around.

I wore an Akubra for years when farming, great hats

They are. Very hardy and obviously great for keeping the harsh Australian sun at bay. In inland/outback areas going outside without a wide brimmed hat is a rookie move that will lead to serious health issues in the short term As an aside, Akubras are also pretty expensive.

Expensive, but I imagine they last for life? I was interested in the really wide brimmed ones when I lived in Canberra. I think it was the Territory ... $200 is a lot for a hat, but I think it'd be worth it to have a proper one.

[Fangle]

I have distant cousins who ranch in Montana, and still use them and use horses. Even the town folk wear them.

[Thommo]

I lived in New Mexico and saw heaps of people wearing big fuck off cowboy hats.

I also own an Akubra hat and wear it to the kids rugby or when I'm out in the yard or out fishing. Terrific hats that last a lifetime.

Mine looks like this. Similar style.

[Guy Smiley]

Got to know two Texan sisters while I lived in Freo. They and all of their friends wear cowboy hats for any occasion. And boots. I ran into one of them in Melbourne as she was leaving Aus and got to meet a bunch of Victorian country friends of hers...

hat wearers, to a man.

I admit to having an Akubra years back. A black Squatter, a low crown wide brim one. They just make sense in Australia.

[andyrandy]

You get shot in some areas if you're not wearing one.

[Openside]

I only ever wear a pink one on hen nights

[Glaston]

I only ever wear a pink one on hen nights

I hope its the same shade of pink as the Oboe.

[mat the expat]

Plenty of cowboy hats in Townsville

[MSG#]

I have an Akubra knocking around somewhere. Must be 30 years old. Snowy river if I remember correctly.

[SaintK]

I have an Akubra knocking around somewhere. Must be 30 years old. Snowy river if I remember correctly.

As long as it hasn't got a feather sticking out of it

[MSG#]

I have an Akubra knocking around somewhere. Must be 30 years old. Snowy river if I remember correctly.

As long as it hasn't got a feather sticking out of it

Has corks hanging from it.. Is that good?

[SaintK]

I have an Akubra knocking around somewhere. Must be 30 years old. Snowy river if I remember correctly.

As long as it hasn't got a feather sticking out of it

Has corks hanging from it.. Is that good?

Corks are fine. Well at least they're better than the pheasant feathers worn in the hats by those upper class "Daphne's" in the West car park at Twickenham on international day
Goes perfectly with the tailored Barbour and Hunter wellies

[Dan54]

I tried an cowboy type hat for when I was buggering around outside etc when I first came to Aus, great for keeping sun off a man, but threw it away as found them annoying to drive in, I like to sit back in seat and the headrest kept lifting hat off, I just went to cap/flat caps.

[Kiap]

I tried an cowboy type hat for when I was buggering around outside etc when I first came to Aus, great for keeping sun off a man, but threw it away as found them annoying to drive in, I like to sit back in seat and the headrest kept lifting hat off, I just went to cap/flat caps.

Dan, you don't drive a Volvo, do you?

Have you ever had any ahh, ... altercations ... while driving?

Judge's potshot at Volvo drivers stirs up a storm

• ... On Tuesday, Justice Robert Hall sentenced 33-year-old former jockey Warren Keith Watts to 150 hours of community service with no conviction for breaking the jaw of Ronald Parry-Jones on the Gold Coast in July, 2000.
  
  The judge said in Southport District Court that he sympathised with Watts, who struck Mr Parry-Jones after the elderly man had confronted him over being honked at and told to pull over.
  
  "I'm often annoyed by Volvo and Kingswood drivers in their hats who drive more slowly and timidly than I think they should," said Judge Hall, 61.
  
  Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said it was wrong to categorise any one group as being bad drivers.
  
  Volvo Car Australia public affairs manager Graeme Adam said the judge was "caught in a time warp" by singling out Volvo drivers. "Today's Volvo drivers drive convertibles or other high-performance models, are in their mid-40s and are a long way from this kind of non-existent stereotype," he said.
  
  "If I could get a dollar for every time I stood in the street and looked for someone wearing a hat, driving a Volvo slowly, I think I'd finish up very poor."
  
  Older Persons Speak Out chairwoman Val French said it was dangerous for judges to judge in terms of stereotypes. A spokesman for the judge declined to comment.
  
  AAP

https://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/jud ... 13j5m.html

[Niegs]

I tried an cowboy type hat for when I was buggering around outside etc when I first came to Aus, great for keeping sun off a man, but threw it away as found them annoying to drive in, I like to sit back in seat and the headrest kept lifting hat off, I just went to cap/flat caps.

Assuming the passenger seat was reserved for your loyal dog, you could have got one of these rigs ...

... for the dash:


... for the back of the seat:

[mat the expat]

Somebody knicked my decent titfer I bought from an old guy at the Murrambatemen fair.

Getting one of these as a replacement:

[Dan54]

I tried an cowboy type hat for when I was buggering around outside etc when I first came to Aus, great for keeping sun off a man, but threw it away as found them annoying to drive in, I like to sit back in seat and the headrest kept lifting hat off, I just went to cap/flat caps.

Assuming the passenger seat was reserved for your loyal dog, you could have got one of these rigs ...

... for the dash:


... for the back of the seat:

mate I see no point in wearing a hat that I have to take off while driving, and to be honest I never even thought of doing it , just put on a hat when I leave house and take it off when I get home unless I in someone's house etc.

[Niegs]

I guess I'm just the opposite, pardner. As soon as I get in my pickup, the hat comes off whichever it is I was wearing.

[mat the expat]

I guess I'm just the opposite, pardner. As soon as I get in my pickup, the hat comes off whichever it is I was wearing.

The same - can't wear a hat in a car.

[C69]

I wear a cowboy hat when it is sunny tbh.
It is a soft leather foldable one.

[Jambanja]

I guess I'm just the opposite, pardner. As soon as I get in my pickup, the hat comes off whichever it is I was wearing.

Me too
On the farm in Zim I traveled everywhere by motorbike, so the Akubra went against my chest and the air pressure held it there, the only problem with that was because I was constantly taking it on and off, eventually I wore out the pointed bit at the front of the hat, it did take many many years though
The protection you get from a wide brimmed hat is far superior to caps

[Dan54]

I guess I'm just the opposite, pardner. As soon as I get in my pickup, the hat comes off whichever it is I was wearing.

I guess I'm just the opposite, pardner. As soon as I get in my pickup, the hat comes off whichever it is I was wearing.

The same - can't wear a hat in a car.

Just goes to show huh fellas, as I said never think of taking hat off in car, probably because I'm so bloody absentminded sometime I would forget the bloody thing when I got to where I going to. But on reflection I can understand now why I see so few Akubras in cars.

[Gumboot]

Just remember to never leave your hat on a bed.