Hats on safari

[HankBuck]

Usually, I wear a baseball cap, but sometimes you need to fashionable, and wear hats that match the animal you are hunting, in order to sneak into the herd, undetected...

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@Safari Dave - gotta give you credit…You’ve got a lot of “confidence” to wear that hat while on Safari ——-only a “leopard band” could command more attention.

 

[Safari Dave]

Then you're eccentric, a safari is the place to "let it shine."

My Mom & Dad bought me that hat after I saw it and thought it was cool when I was about 16 years old at the old Abercrombie & Fitch store in Atlanta at Phipps Plaza. It is a Willis & Geiger.

How could I not take it on my first safari???


(I've toned it down a bit since)

Even though I do spend more time in a baseball cap, a wide brimmed is preferred when the sun is intense.

I've picked up a pith helmet, monocle, and knee high leather boots to stuff pants into for the next one!

 

[Jon Glajchen]

Fedora inherited from my grand father. Christys' Rollaway 11

 

[HankBuck]

Then you're eccentric, a safari is the place to "let it shine."

My Mom & Dad bought me that hat after I saw it and thought it was cool when I was about 16 years old at the old Abercrombie & Fitch store in Atlanta at Phipps Plaza. It is a Willis & Geiger.

How could I not take it on my first safari???


(I've toned it down a bit since)

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Even though I do spend more time in a baseball cap, a wide brimmed is preferred when the sun is intense.

I've picked up a pith helmet, monocle, and knee high leather boots to stuff pants into for the next one!

@Safari Dave — well Dave that “explains it” and if my Parents bought me something like that then you can bet “I would wear it too” on my Safari….YOU are a GOOD SON !

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

If it is not a pith helmet, then I favour the Stewart Granger look, with a cream puggaree. Craig Boddington had a nice one.
I have managed to recreate it by fitting a puggaree to my Akubra Angler. I like the angler the best out of their range because of it's modest crown, the others sit too tall.

 

[Safari Dave]

Oh, I knew I looked the part of a real "dude ", but I didn't care.

I still have the hat, and I might even wear it to Africa again.

(If anyone has a piece of old leopard skin, PM me)




I'd really like to find an old full length leopard skin coat at an estate sale and have a tailor turn it into a motorcycle jacket!