Finally: A hat that fits my head! Next: the Loch Ness monster will speak!
For too long I have bored you with the continuing saga of my quest for a hat that fits my head, specifically a bowler (see A Clockwork Orange). I have an extraordinarily large head. It is so big that when I was born, the doctor thought my mother had given birth to a head.
It is so large that it requires its own constitution and armed forces. I should be cast as the Navigator in Dune (or Shai Hulud). It’s not the hair, though that is massive, too. According to the tape measure, the circumference of my head (at the eyebrows) is 24 inches. Two feet. No wonder I had trouble finding a hat, my head needs pants.
This year a friend gave me a wide-brimmed hat that proved extremely useful in the summer, and in June I found a sun hat that kept me from combusting at Wimbledon. But my search for a bowler had turned up nothing. I tried on around 200 hats in Melbourne and another 200 in London, but as a shop manager solemnly informed me, I am an XX in men’s sizes and they would have to order one for me.
Then this turned up.
What is this obsession with men’s hats? I don’t know, I just want one. This hat is a fedora not a bowler, which means my quest continues. But with a new hope, since something actually fit.
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November 21st, 2010 at 03:58
Oooh, I wonder whom it’s from.
November 21st, 2010 at 14:21
Looks good, it suits you.
Parang gusto ko rin ng fedora…heheh.
November 21st, 2010 at 16:43
Me, too, ifrico—and I’m hoping it’s one of Jessica’s suitors.
You look great with the hat.
November 21st, 2010 at 22:35
I think that fedora suits you better than a bowler hat but then again, I may be wrong.
I used to have thick hair that every scrunchy I tie it with, it wears it out after 5 seconds. It was so frustrating that I considered tying my hair with barbed wire. A few years later, my hair strands became more, I dunno, adaptable to scrunchies and it fits just right. I might have been the shampoo :)
November 22nd, 2010 at 22:45
*squeal* Christmas comes early for Jessica! I love the hat and it suits you. and I also like the suspenseful chronology of the pictures.
over here, so many young’uns (20 somethings) are wearing the same style of hat but in straw/fabric. ala Justin Timberlake (and Javier Bardem in Eat, Pray, Love) that my husband is sick of it. he also has a large head. since you mentioned yours is 2 feet all the way around, i’m curious about his head now. will go home and take the tape measure out. =)