Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Late teens for a cap on the bike or walking, 20s for a trilby.
At what age does someone become old and start wearing flat caps and a scarf
- Thread starter fossyant
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BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Lancastrians
Or pretending to be
Tim Brooke-Taylor is from Buxton, there’s still a Solicitors in the town, trading as ‘Brooke-Taylor’
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Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
I’m in my (very) late 50s, & only bought my first ever flat-cap in January, on Skipton market
This was primarily as l bought a waxed jacket (not a Barbour, mine was less than £45, with delivery)
It looked slightly odd with a woolly hat, so bought a brown waxed ‘f-c’ to match
I still have 2 ‘Aussie’ hats, both Akubras
(no…. there’s no bottle-tops or corks)
A ‘Snowy River’, & a ’Sombrero’
The latter being ‘bashed’ as it’s phrased, in the classic Les Hiddins shape
This was primarily as l bought a waxed jacket (not a Barbour, mine was less than £45, with delivery)
It looked slightly odd with a woolly hat, so bought a brown waxed ‘f-c’ to match
I still have 2 ‘Aussie’ hats, both Akubras
(no…. there’s no bottle-tops or corks)
A ‘Snowy River’, & a ’Sombrero’
The latter being ‘bashed’ as it’s phrased, in the classic Les Hiddins shape
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
You could be a stuntman for Victor Meldrew.
FrankCrank
Old layabout
Are clogs also a prerequisite for those north of Watford?
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
At 65, don't do scarves, don't really do hats much, apart from the black straw hat I wear for Morris dancing.
I do wear a straw coloured one when on holiday in very sunny places, and of course I wear a helmet on the bike, sometimes with a cap under it to keep the sun/rain out of my eyes.
I can't honestly see myself ever going down the flat cap route. I may start wearing scarves if I start to feel the cold more when I get old.
I do wear a straw coloured one when on holiday in very sunny places, and of course I wear a helmet on the bike, sometimes with a cap under it to keep the sun/rain out of my eyes.
I can't honestly see myself ever going down the flat cap route. I may start wearing scarves if I start to feel the cold more when I get old.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
I have several flat caps to match whatever jacket etc I'm wearing, been a regular cap wearer since I was about 50 ish give or take. Hair is short and thinning, so its practical. Also wear specs so a cap keeps any rain of them, I cant abide umbrella's hence the cap route. Never wear scarfs.
Well I'm 66, wear a floppy hat when it's sunny to keep my bald head from burning. When it's cold I wear a beanie hat. I might start wearing a flat cap when I'm old, as in about fifty years time, but only if I'm forced to. Don't do scarfs only really old buggers or Isadora Duncan use them.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Only on the western side of the Pennines!
There used to be a clog-maker not far from Todmorden, that exported all of its produce over the border into the 'badlands' (Lancashire)
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
I think location has more to do with it than ages
Time Waster
Veteran
Are bowlers or boaters in summer for those south of Watford? Or should that be fake tans and that gawdawful estuary/eastender/Essex accent?
BTW someone I knew from down south reached 50s or older without ever visiting northern England. Been to Edinburgh but nowhere else north of Birmingham. She genuinely thought northern England was terraced houses with washing hung across the road between the windows. All because she saw terraced houses on corrie credits and photos of northern street that had washing like that.
We kind of let her off her prejudices because she was Cheltenham ladies college type, posh bint!
She never went there, being daughter of lower middle class, but she originally married a guy who made money in the city and got them into that set, plus daughter went there. A daughter who told stories like the time flying to New York in first class the stewardess refused to serve her champagne! She was 13 or 14 and that made her absolutely indignant that she was wronged. Entitled both her and her mum.
