Your hairline/do you wear a hat?

[aging_rocker]

I have a few hats, for when it's sunny or cold. Occasionally I'll wear one for 'outfit' purposes, but never to just hide the pinkness. I'm comfortable with my slaphead look.

 

[Tonetele]

I wear a straw Panama hat as I live in Australia. Here, it isn't getting below 22C and that's pre-dawn. Skin cancer and a growing bold spot are good reason to wear a hat. Caps are not sufficient as the back of ears can get growths.

 

[Stanford Guitar]

Thick head of hair, but I still love a hat.

 

[Smokin OP]

Receding hairline, thinning hair, & fair skin. I wear some sort of wide brim hat to protect my face & scalp.

 

[Kandinskyesque]

My hair has started falling out over the past 6 months due to medication. It's a bit of a nightmare to be honest. I've had long hair ever since getting it all shaved off in 1984 due to a brain op.
The only exception was in '92 for my wedding and '07 when I was 40 for a charity. My head is like a map of London Underground with scars so I've spent the last few months acquiring some hats.
So far this is my favourite...

 

[micpoc]

I shave my hair to within 1/8” of its life and only wear a hat to keep warm (very rare) or shield from sunlight (occasionally).

Guys wearing hats inside—or, worse, onstage—are real head scratchers to me.

 

[rarebreed]

I'm 69 and still have a full head of hair, though it's not as dark as it used to be. The gray has taken over. During the cold months I almost always wear a baseball type hat, mostly some camo pattern as I like to hunt.

 

[dougstrum]

Have not had hair on top of head for a long time
In warm weather hard keep me from getting sunburn
In winter they keep me warm.

 

[Chester P Squier]

I still have all my hair at age 73. Some of it still has color.

I wear a baseball cap when driving, to keep the sun out of my eyes.

 

[brindlepicker]

Wore a cap to keep the combover in place outside and at work til about 3 years ago. Now just for sun.Dad used Well Comb til he was about 90- wasn’t going that route.

It was a run in at a walk in salon joint on a $8 men’s cut on tuesdays and some miscommunication with the Russian immigrant lady that got me my first buzzed cut so just stuck with it and buzz it to #2 myself.

Save about $20/month, already married, don’t have to comb or use much shampoo.

 

[teletail]

Sadly at 64 I'm thinning pretty bad on top. The rest is pretty long. I don't wear a hat. It doesn't fool anyone and you look pretty ridiculous wearing a hat everywhere. Losing your hair - it sucks, but it's part of life.

 

[Twofingerlou]

Glad I’m not the only one that does the buzz route to save some money!

 

[Dennyf]

In my mid-30s I discovered I had a little round patch of bare skin on the top/ back of my head. That day, I got a set of clippers, put on the No. 3 comb, and ran it over my head. Been doing that for over 30 years now. Never have worn a hat indoors.

 

[Old Deaf Roadie]

I am the old guy with a pony tail. It suits me here in Oregon. I wear a ball cap when my hair is not tied back to help with the wind, and I wear a boonie hat with a wide brim when I am experiencing a bright clear sky.
There is no shame in being bald or thinning. Just tell people you lost a strand for every piece of exceptional wisdom you have doled out.

 

[Bruxist]

I have been shaving my head since 2008. I wear a hat when it is cold or I want to block the sun, but it does not fool anyone.

When my hair was just thinning, I would not have been able to hide it with a hat at work. Now, I work from home and no one cares.

 

[trapdoor2]

I'm in the "I like hats" category. I wore a camo bush hat all through high school. I wear ball caps, bowlers & drivers (my favorites), boaters, etc.

In the summer I wear a panama (Stetson "airway"). Fall is ball cap weather. Below freezing, I'll put on a wool knit toboggan.

I never cared about my hair. I had a crew cut until I was 12. When I let it grow out, it was essentially untamable...and it was gone by 40.

 

[DaddyG]

I am now 75 years old, and started to thin out in the past 5 years. I lost any vanity I had about my here when I met my current and forever woman. We are relaxed old people. But I have always worn hats end I like them. But I didn't always wear them when I was outside and should have been in the hot sun. Well last year I had an operation to remove a melanoma from the crown of my scalp, it left a big bald spot but that's fine, I am alive and I will continue to wear hats when I am in the Sun.

 

[Telecaster88]

Every man in my family goes bald, so I've been aware of my eventual fate since I was a kid (I'm 53 now and quite bald). I do wear a hat often, not because I'm embarrassed of my noggin, but because it's either cold as hell in the winter, or sunburningly hot in the summer. My dad had a lot of problems with cancerous skin cells on his scalp, so I'm trying to keep mine out of the sun for that reason as well.

 

[teletimetx]

I could say that hats make me look stupid.

So I’ll say it: it’s not the hats, stupid.

My wife seems to care what I look like, but she has a penchant for lost causes.

 

[39martind18]

My hair has thinned somewhat since my 20s, and I'm wearing it shorter, but at age 71 it hasn't
turned twice: turned gray (there's a few of them, but not many), and/or turned loose. Hats are worn for protection from sun and cold, but also for "look effect." Ball caps for sun protection, insulated tweed flat cap with fold-up earflaps for cold protection, Panama straw hats for outside summer performances, and cowboy hats as needed for effect: do I like hats? Yup.