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I wear a black fedora just about everywhere, mostly because I think it looks cool. I later came to discover a couple other benefits, including:

- It's easier for people to recognize you if you have a hat that you always wear. (Conversely, if you want said people to not recognize you, you can take the hat off.)

- It's also easier for people to find you in a crowd if they know you're wearing a hat.

- If you Scotchgard it, it's reasonably waterproof and can keep rain out of your face.

- Occasionally random people tell you, "Nice hat."



A few more things to discover:

- If you're not wearing a suit, and you're not Indiana Jones, you shouldn't be wearing a fedora.

- Fedoras never, ever go well with a terrible patchy little goatee.

I went to a tech school, I have stared into the abyss of fedoras and it has changed me.

Also, leather fedoras are the most terrible abomination ever created.


Our success is predicated on hats being not popular, though.




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