At what age does someone become old and start wearing flat caps and a scarf

[Alex321]

The "open face " balaclavas were / are a very practical, if unstylish, way of keeping your neck warm. I had one or three as a kid.
However those just with holes for eyes and mouth definitely marked you out as a wrong 'un, terrorist or general undesirable.

I still use an open face balaclava on the bike when it is seriously cold.

 

[rogerzilla]

I still use an open face balaclava on the bike when it is seriously cold.

I still use one when delivering crack and crystal meth on my stolen e-bike.

 

[dicko]

For me it was 40 I also acquired a Damart jacket too.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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


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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

Mmmmm. 🤔

 

[Oldhippy]

For me, never.

 

[Time Waster]

I had one as a teenager. Bought one from a point to point. My Dad had one too. I grew out of it IIRC and it went to my sister. Proper country Harris tweed too. They are rare warm and I wore one with a school scarf when we lived on a farm in Ribble Valley through a particularly bad winter. One blizzard we got caught out in was coped in part by the flat cap which never blew off and the scarf pulled right up. We were knackered when we got home though as the knee deep snow that fell in the hour it took to walk back was hard work to fight our way through.

Flat caps are not old men's clothes and I resent the idea that they can commandeer a good piece of work clothing like this. If it really is an old man's hat then there were many cool, black, American musicians, actors and directors who were well known for wearing the flat cap. Kangol made a fortune off the back of cool kids!!!

When I was a kid German army great coats were the cool coats

 

[scragend]

I'll be going out for my dinner break* in just under an hour.

I will be wearing my flat cap, as always, and today I've brought out a scarf for the first time since last winter.

I'm 43.

* Yes, I said dinner break. When I get home this evening it will be tea time. Hence the flat cap...

 

[PK99]

Around 60 when I started regularly wearing a cap - a Stihl trade cap. When it's cold I wear a beanie. When it's hot I wear a wide rimmed safari type hat. I love being an old fart and annoying the grandkids. However, I've not reached the age where I have to keep telling people - any people - what age I am. THAT'S the true mark of someone who's old.

errrm!

 

[Time Waster]

I used to sit in the house on cold winter nights wearing either an od school scarf or the uni one I got for my first university. I did have economy 7 storage heaters and cold winters they could lose heat by 8pm!! In those days I occasionally wore a lowe Alpine mountain cap too. That was on top of so many woollen layers too!!!

In fact if I had to go out to the local shop for some food I would actually take layers off so I was not too hot. The house was actually colder than the outside when the heating went on the truly cold times.

I actually dislike scarves when out and about. I find there is no way to tie them so I find them comfortable and protective. I am afraid I go for the modern scarf that is the buff. On colder days I even wear two buffs.

Oh are you yorkshire with that tea and dinner thing? Oh dear, nevermind.

 

[wormo]

My Dad always wore a flat cap. When he died recently, we asked the funeral director to make sure he was wearing it in his coffin.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Wooly hat day today. Not yet scarf weather

 

[Sixmile]

I'm gathering quite a wooly hat collection over the last few years. Definitely my hat of choice and often my headwear for a short bike ride into town when a little nippy.

 

[Time Waster]

I was on a skiing holiday in Sweden one December/January. I got to the hotel and could not find my fjellraven 100% wool hat. I feared it was left in my van at the UK airport. Anyway that led me to trawl all the shops in town looking at hats. Bear in mind this is Scandinavia you'd think a wool hat is easy to find. Not a chance!! All were acrylic!!! The few that were wool weren't 100%, were kids sizes or adults universal / one size fits all sizes that simply were not big enough for me. They were so tight I felt like they gave me a headache!!

Eventually I found a black wool hat that was 100% itchy wool and fairluy warm. I wear it now as it has softened nicely. The annoying thing was on my last skiing day the hat fell out of my final set of thermals of the trip. Somehow it had got into my suitcase and got tangled up and hidden in there.

So I do like to have a few wool beannies as I dislike the synthetic ones most main outdoors brands offer. They are just so practical as they can be worn with or without a hood up. Plus that thin Swedish wool one is so compact it stuffs discretely in a pocket without bulking it out too much. You can't go wrong with a nice thin wool hat and a nice thick double skin wool hat. And a thick single layer wool hat and... you gert my drift. A lot of wool hats!! I just have never found or wanted to a wool hat with a peak. You know those beannies with a peak to them. i do have my limits with woollie hats!!

 

[NorthernSky]

I used to sit in the house on cold winter nights wearing either an od school scarf or the uni one I got for my first university. I did have economy 7 storage heaters and cold winters they could lose heat by 8pm!! In those days I occasionally wore a lowe Alpine mountain cap too. That was on top of so many woollen layers too!!!

In fact if I had to go out to the local shop for some food I would actually take layers off so I was not too hot. The house was actually colder than the outside when the heating went on the truly cold times.

I actually dislike scarves when out and about. I find there is no way to tie them so I find them comfortable and protective. I am afraid I go for the modern scarf that is the buff. On colder days I even wear two buffs.

Oh are you yorkshire with that tea and dinner thing? Oh dear, nevermind.

sounds like a flat i used to live in. it was gas but the house was so old putting the heating on for hrs barely raised the living room temp. i just got used to putting hats and scarfs on in the house. then like you say you'd go outside and the heat would hit you

i haven't worn a scarf in a long time though, Buffs are the way forward.