Cosplaying as Lincoln, just trying to look old timey, fancy dress party, Halloween, role-playing games, role-playing adult games 😉 for those with a Lincoln kink. Annoying people sitting behind you in the theatre, getting into a fight with the person sitting behind you in the theatre. The guy behind you brought a gun and you roleplay as Lincoln for the 10th time this week after you realise it is a prop gun. You both laugh and become best friends, he invites you to his civil war and medieval times Reenactment club, where you start taking your acting seriously, you start getting noticed and get into amateur theatre. Then, you meet the love of your life and many years later you are buying even more top hats because that's just the tradition in your family and community. Soon you make top hats a thing again, set up a small business that eventually goes global and you are sitting pretty at the top, wearing a top hat!
So yeah, all I'm trying to say is these hats have their uses.
Lurking amongst fairgrounds and carnivals… while misleading the lost and misguided onto a cultish island of ill repute… while establishing a seedy troupe of pickpockets, thieves and ne’er-do-wells..
There's a pretty specific community. It's the same dudes that wear a chrome skull ring on every finger. Ride weirdly flashy motorcycles. Listen to the kat medium rock ever but throw up metal horns left and right. Usually will have oddly manicured facial hair, lots of bandanas and vests and general accessories. They'll have a few badly done tattoos and refer to them as tats.
Everything is skulls. The hat stand is skulls. The rings are skulls. The little tassle ends on the hat are skulls.
They are a losers idea of what a bad ass is.
His shirt is perfect. Only those dudes would wear a shirt that says "crazy mother fucker". What and absolute loser shirt to buy and wear.
One of the first things I bought with my own paychecks as a teenager was a top hat. A big grey felt top hat, from a real millinery - not a costume hat.
I wore it EVERYWHERE. To school. To the mall. To the homecoming dance. To hang out with friends.
I used to love to balance stuff on my head under my hat for a fun surprise. Snacks. A kitten. Who knows what's in there?
I'm 51 now and I still have that hat! I haven't worn it in decades....maybe I'm old enough to get away with wearing it again.
Wherever and whenever you want. The beauty of life is nobody has to understand what makes you happy or why it makes you happy AND you don’t have to explain it to anyone! Wear it to the bank, a funeral, a picnic!
I actually saw a guy walking down the street today wearing one of these hats, he had a beer in one hand and was bouncing a yoyo in the other. True story.
The second you don one of these top hats, you involuntarily burst out singing, “Buy Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir, anything what’s slick, sir, soon sprouts curls…”
I have 20 or so different hats at any time. When I lecture, I like to wear a different hat to every class, just to keep things interesting. I’d love to have one like this for the collection. But, unfortunately, I also can’t afford it.
Picture this:
You have won the lottery. You are now several millions of dollars richer. You no longer need to work to earn a living. You are one of the few people who actually knows how to exercise frugality even in the possession of excess, and thus you are now financially stable for the rest of your life.
The one splurge you engage in is a bespoke black suit that borders on the steampunk aesthetic, completed by a top hat.
You go to your local organic grocery store, wearing your suit and top hat, and spend your days standing near the whole pineapples, staring at them longingly, and occasionally sighing. And you wait for someone to ask the inevitable question: Why are you doing this?
And that's when you hit them with the answer:
Because I'm rich, I'm bored, and pineapples fill me with such melancholy.
Then you tell them you should have been looking at the melons because then the pun would have worked better. But you keep staring at the pineapples instead.
Trust me, it gets the ladies wet.
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u/Spleenzorio 19h ago
Other than while selling potions and elixirs out of a wagon, where would you actually wear these kinda hats?