Hats

[gothwalk]

Hats, I am discovering, make an unreasonable difference to your experience of weather. Yesterday, there was a vague attempt at rain while I was walking home, with no hat. I felt chilly, rained on, somewhat soaked, and rather put out, despite the fact that I was heading home for a few hours of EVE before watching the first episode of the new season of Torchwood (review coming up on dukestreet later today).

This morning, I wore my winter hat, a black trilby-sort-of-thing, through the driving rain and nasty winds walking to work. I was warm, comfortable, and felt dry, despite the fact that I was, well, walking to work in the rain.

And yet, a good half of the people I passed had wholly inadequate hoods, scarves tied over their heads, ineffective umbrellas (many of which turned inside out at each street corner), or the old classic of a newspaper over the head. The people who were wearing hats were black, oriental, Polish, or quite old. Hats are not that hard to get - why do Irish people not wear them?

Comments

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I give myself hat hair deliberately! I haven't got a decent hairdryer at my disposal at the moment, and if it dries naturally it's all randomly wavy and stupid. If I wear my hat when it's damp, it's smooth and flat on top and flicks out at the bottom, which looks much less stupid.

That'll probably change when it gets longer.

I generally love my hat (fluffy grey trilby sort of thing) and have been loving how immune to rain it makes me!