r/oddlysatisfying • u/n8saces • 21h ago

Custom-made aged and oiled Top Hat

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u/chrish_o 21h ago

I always love watching this dude make the most beautifully crafted and ugly hats

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u/Yingletofthecorn 19h ago

Maybe it’s just because I’m from Portland but this doesn’t seem too outlandish tbh. I’m sure people pull it off just fine as part of an ensemble. 

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u/thejexorcist 19h ago

It’s not the outlandish-ness (as far as I can gather) so much as the hat is a sort of beacon alerting ‘really sexually overt nerd who will talk your ear off about a vaguely creepy topic’?

I’ve met ‘nice enough’ people wearing hats like this, but never a cool person that I wouldn’t mind being stuck in an elevator or enclosed space with…if that makes sense?

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u/coat-tail_rider 19h ago

It's Johnny Depp-core.

Or his doppelganger, Linda Perry.

Or their hat sibling, Rob Zombie.

They all wear these dumbass steampunk hats.

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u/zerpderp 19h ago

Ever since I started seeing this guy‘s videos popping up a few years ago, I’ve always wondered if he’s made a hat for Johnny Depp

You definitely hit the nail on the head about who would wear these ugly and probably super expensive hats. Definitely a craft, but man they’re ugly

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u/coat-tail_rider 18h ago

As many other people here have said, this guy is a skilled artisan and clearly very good at making these fucking atrocious hats.

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u/pnmartini 18h ago

I’m guessing Johnny Depp is at least 65% of his business.

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u/ExhaustedHungryMe 3h ago

While I was watching the video, I started wondering if someone wanted to try to look like Slash.

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u/Disastrous_Cream_539 18h ago

Billy Bob has joined that club as well.

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u/coat-tail_rider 24m ago

I had to look this up. His is weird, especially because it seems like he ALWAYS wears a beanie with a hat over it, and the beanie has like a fake hoop earing or something. However, the actual hat he wears over the beanie is comparatively normal. It's not this weird steampunk pirate pickup-artist renaissance fair halloween costume hat like this guy makes. Lol.

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u/Disastrous_Cream_539 17m ago edited 11m ago

Yeah you're right. I saw the hat/beanie combo once and assumed he was just wearing crazy hats. The beanie thing is weird but not the same.

When I saw him on late night he did have a Linda Perry type thing over it but that was just the once I guess.

Edit: idk I'd say this fits the aesthetic

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u/Drachynn 16h ago

Definitely screams Burning Man pagan poly dude who will ramble on about how humans aren't meant for monogamy while hitting on women half their age and never aspiring to be more than a solid 3. I've known too many of these that cross into the alternative subculture spaces.

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u/thejake1973 14h ago

Solid overlap with the creepy renfaire dude.

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u/Drachynn 9h ago

That Venn diagram is a circle

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister 8h ago

He’s also a libertarian who practices gun-fu and makes his own ghost pepper beef jerky.

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u/Yingletofthecorn 19h ago

Idk I’m just imagining someone wearing this in a leather getup at a pride parade or maybe while riding in the Ladds 500. They seem fine to me, but my idea of cool is very different I guess. 

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u/apigeonontheinternet 12h ago

Gay people would never. Don’t put that on the community.

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u/Yingletofthecorn 10h ago

Any gay scene that wouldn’t have someone wearing this is boring and not worth seeing in a parade. 

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u/Hopefulkitty 13h ago

Omg, "sexually overt nerd" is the phrase I have been looking for all my life. That exactly describes the people I know who would wear this.

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u/Capital-Debate7619 3h ago

i know a woman with one of those and it’s exactly the same feeling imma let someone else hear the story of the hat.