Do you wear a hat?

Champagne Murphy said:
Speaking as someone who is friends with his dermatologist (simply because we spend a lot of time together (in a professional sense, you understand) and lost a sizeable chunk of nose to a BCC, I would strongly suggest wearing a hat with the biggest brim you can find. For reasons of practicality a Tilley, or reasonable facsimile of, fits the bill for me. It floats fairly well, it has chin straps, and the more recent ones are a little more tailored to avoid looking like Worzel Gummidge.
Also I have found no UV proof bags to fit over my head that I can breath through.
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Likewise. The number of keratosis make my head and face look like a relief map of the Himalayas. Wish I had taken such advice 40 years ago.
 
Cheapo beanie hats for the most part, because they keep the keep the sun off the bald spot and are cheap enough not to bother when they inevitably get blown away. When it get colder, then it's a woolly bobble hat made either by my wife or my daughter in gig club colours. Warm, cheap and because I don't have all that much hair (and what there is is kept short) it doesn't impact on the fashion stakes when I take it off.
 
Laundryman said:
Sailing, and wearing a hat, seems to be part of the uniform. Whether it's to keep out the glare, rain off your glasses, stop sunburn on your head or just to keep warm, it seems there are benefits to wearing a hat. That is unless
you have hair like mine. I look a wally in every hat I've tried and within 10 minutes wearing a hat and my hair looks like Ken Dodd. Now I know at 63 I should be grateful that I still have hair, but that doesn't make me feel any better. My wife says I should grow my hair and put it in a pony tail. That's not going to happen. Any recommendations for a hat that will achieve the results and preserve my vanity? Thanks. Alan
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FFS at 63 you even think about your appearance! Vain old phrrt. :D I'll let you into a secret - no one is looking at you. As far as young women are concerned, surely the only reason to consider appearance, you ceased to exist long before reaching 63
 
I've always worn a hat (baseball cap or straw boater) since I began losing my hair. Even so I had to have a thing surgically removed from my scalp last month, so I'll be taking even more care in future. I noticed in Kenya, there are virtually no bald men. I wonder whether they've all died of skin cancer, or perhaps baldness has been "selected" out of them.
 
Two stories.

As a lad, an older workmate mentioned in passing that wearing a hat made one go bald. I expressed disbelief, and he pointed out that most of the people we worked with who wore hats were bald or balding. As I looked around more widely, I realised that this was common, and came to believe him. It was quite a while, and after I had changed jobs, before the penny dropped and I realised the causal arrow ran the other way!:roll eyes: (And much, much longer before I ever heard of causal arrows.) I still chuckle at how green I was, and to think of him chuckling to himself at my credulity.

Years later, by the time I started sail cruising I was well on the way to going bald, hadn't accumulated my current range of headgear, and often got a badly burnt scalp. I was setting off with some friends from Burnham on Crouch, heading for Holland. It was very hot, and I remembered in the nick of time to go to the chandlers and spend some of my very limited money on a hat to protect my head. Unfortunately it blew off before we were even properly out to sea, and had to I spend the rest of the holiday with a knotted handkerchief on my head.
 
colind3782 said:
Likewise. The number of keratosis make my head and face look like a relief map of the Himalayas. Wish I had taken such advice 40 years ago.
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Ditto, just saw a dermatologist yesterday with a solar keratosis on my temple I'm back in a couple of months. I wear a tilley hat when sailing and have taken to using factor 50 P20. However when I was a lad sun cream was'nt invented ;-) It was calamine lotion after too long in the sun in the 60's & 70's
 
wotayottie said:
FFS at 63 you even think about your appearance! Vain old phrrt. :D I'll let you into a secret - no one is looking at you. As far as young women are concerned, surely the only reason to consider appearance, you ceased to exist long before reaching 63
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I don't know - some have an eagle eye when it comes to eyeing up the bulge in your trousers, however old you are......................................................


................they can spot a fat wallet every time!
 
Just in case anyone has not read previous posts I would like to admit that my head is also covered in Keratosis from sun exposure and it's not nice that people cannot help glancing at the top of my lumpy head when they are talking to me. So all you young fellows a warning take by me ...and wear a hat and use sunscreen
Second point is that hats are a good way for bald blokes to not be so obviously bald - that could be the reason some report the correlation between no hair and hat wearing ( as well as stopping the head loss of a bald pate)
 
Halo said:
Second point is that hats are a good way for bald blokes to not be so obviously bald - that could be the reason some report the correlation between no hair and hat wearing ( as well as stopping the head loss of a bald pate)
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It's not just heat loss and strong sunlight that's the problem. I remember my grandfather amusing us by complaining the flies used his bald pate as a skating rink.;)
 
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