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09-03-2008, 10:21 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit, michigan | | | The 10-degree hat tilt.
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Can someone please give me a logical reason for this. You know what I'm talking about, the kids that wear their hats tilted slighty up and then rotated roughly 10 degrees in either direction.
Does anyone here wear their hat like this or knows someone who does? I would be dying to know exactly why. A serious answer though, none of these "because they are brain damaged" answers. |
09-03-2008, 10:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: bronx, nyc | | | and.....
answer the pants below the buttocks question as well
inquiring minds want to know
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09-03-2008, 10:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Most of my hats' bills are curved so they're lower on the right side due to the sun being to my right most of the time I'm working outdoors. Then when wearing sunglasses, I'm forced to move the hat a bit to the right to block out the sun. This is why *MY* hats are crooked, the rest of the world looks like dumbasses.
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09-03-2008, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Glendale, CA (LA County) | | | "If it doesn't hurt, it's not fashion" Or failing hurt, be foolish, or impractical.
Sensible, practical, comfortable? Bah! that's what parents and teachers wear.
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09-03-2008, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by baalroo  please explain t-shirts, ties, khakis, polos, anything dyed any "unnatural" color, hats worn "straight," hats worn indoors, pants worn above the belly button... it's ALL pointless, grow up. | Rather than pointless I'd call it a throwback to tribal identity. It's a uniform piece for the informal "culture" with which it's identified. It grants a sense of solidarity to (and with) that group of individuals. Kind of like leather jackets and safety pin earrings with punks, khakis and button down shirts with IT professionals, a certain level of dressing up with ladies of society. These are all unspoken dress codes which in general are required when associating with these groups as a peer.
It's not pointless. You just don't identify with it because you are not part of that group. Since you are part of a different group, seeing that stuff makes you annoyed. It's just human nature and probably has its roots in a survival mechanism. |
09-03-2008, 10:49 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | | Kids just like to look stupid. |
09-03-2008, 10:55 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit, michigan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by msquared Rather than pointless I'd call it a throwback to tribal identity. It's a uniform piece for the informal "culture" with which it's identified. It grants a sense of solidarity to (and with) that group of individuals. Kind of like leather jackets and safety pin earrings with punks, khakis and button down shirts with IT professionals, a certain level of dressing up with ladies of society. These are all unspoken dress codes which in general are required when associating with these groups as a peer.
It's not pointless. You just don't identify with it because you are not part of that group. Since you are part of a different group, seeing that stuff makes you annoyed. It's just human nature and probably has its roots in a survival mechanism. | This is the kind of answer I'm looking for. |
09-03-2008, 11:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Rhode Island | | coming from a 15 y/o who hates hats (i have a semi afro which works well w/ me being a bassist)
tipped hats a sure sign of a "bro" (a person who likes Vitamin Water, and such bro bands as Dave Matthews or the new artist Shwayze)
hope this helps 
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09-04-2008, 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by rokkitt old people want to know | who cares, though, seriously?
your parents said it about you. their parents said it about them.
as for a serious answer, msquared nailed it. |
09-04-2008, 01:05 AM
| | | | You know, I have a ton on students that rock the "slanted, FLAT BILLED hat;" and I say, to quote the great film The Big Lebowski, "8 year olds, dude, eight year olds..."
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09-04-2008, 01:22 AM
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09-04-2008, 01:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Tsal This. | hahaha well played, sir.
what a fashion-challenged young whippersnapper. |
09-04-2008, 02:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Wabash River Valley | | | There was substitute teacher in my school district back home who used to work as a prison guard before he turned into a grumpy old man. He said that the sagging pants came from prison where it meant that you were willing for......well......you know......Bubba. |
09-04-2008, 02:44 AM
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09-04-2008, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Toasted Fashion. | Trend. Quote: |
Originally Posted by armywalaby There was substitute teacher in my school district back home who used to work as a prison guard before he turned into a grumpy old man. He said that the sagging pants came from prison where it meant that you were willing for......well......you know......Bubba | I believe that originated in San Quentin, but I'm not positive on that. |
09-04-2008, 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Spector_Ray Trend. | Fashion is a trend, trends are fashion. 
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09-04-2008, 05:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | It's how all the kids wear them on the little bus. Not really, it's just fashion. |
09-04-2008, 06:09 AM
| | | | I saw someone like this in my econ. class last week. I kid you not his hat made at least two full rotations around his head by the time class was over. I guess people just don't realize what a hat is for anymore.
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09-04-2008, 06:18 AM
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09-04-2008, 06:32 AM
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