Fedoras, Mullets, or Bowlcuts? - Which are worse?

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Which are worse?

  • Fedoras

    Votes: 33 48.5%

  • Mullets

    Votes: 15 22.1%

  • Bowlcuts

    Votes: 20 29.4%
  • Total voters
    68
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Syaoran Li said:
As someone who grew up in rural Appalachia in the 90's, I can say with good authority that the mullet is worse than the fedora. The trilby is awful, but a proper fedora can be worn and look good if worn in the proper context (such as with certain types of formal or semi-formal wear), unlike the mullet. And as terrible as the trilby can be on guys, women can wear a trilby and not look like a total douchebag loser. The same cannot be said for the mullet.

People may mock the fedora now (mainly due to the trilby crowd) but actual fedoras were once respectable and cool. Mullets may have been popular in the 80's and 90's, but they were always seen as a white trash haircut even at the height of popularity.

Let me put it this way: Frank Sinatra wore a fedora, Jeff Foxworthy wore a mullet. That pretty much says it all.
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1 Frank Sinatra doesn't absolve every shitbag wannabe who tries to wear it to emulate him and fails on every level.

Also - Frank Sinatra would still be Frank Sinatra without a fedora. Bogie would still be Bogie without a fedora. They are the epitome of cool and it wasn't the fedora giving them that class - it was in them all along.

Also, also - women can wear mullets and not look like losers. They just look like someone who is wearing something fashionable in the 80's (big teased hair in a mullet fashion). Just because you think 80's fashions are tacky whereas 40's fashions are cool doesn't mean a thing. If Humphrey Bogart happened to reach his peak in the 80's he might have worn a mullet himself.

Fedoras are not automatically "respectable and cool". They're a fucking hat. In the time of the fedora, lots of people wore fedoras and it wasn't a reflection on their character or their social status if they wore one or not, it was just the hat du jour at the time.

The difference between them as I see it is that the mullet is unlikely to be a decision that someone makes specifically for the purpose of looking cool. Nobody goes "I want a mullet" and goes to the hairdresser and specifically asks for a mullet because they're under the impression that it'll make them look good and get chicks or whatever the fuck. At least I don't think so. But people who wear fedoras or trilbys or anything of that nature ABSOLUTELY think they look fly as fuck wearing that shit. It's such a try-hard aspect of clothing. Much like wearing a big leather duster when you live in the city (or a small town like fucking Akron, Ohio or some shit). It's a clothing choice that a child would make because they just saw the Matrix and holy shit long coats are cool azz, gotta wear one. Never realizing that they look like the biggest dipshit ever wearing it. That's the worst and most unfortunate thing about it all.
 
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Strelok said:
A fedora. A fedora is an active choice, you decide you want to be a living breathing neckbeard stereotype.

Meanwhile, inbred rednecks can't help being inbred rednecks. It's in their genetics.
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This dude knows what's up.

A fedora is some fat sweaty neckbeard thinking putting a slim cap on his fat fucking head makes him look good. You have to have a very specific size head and shape of face to make a fedora look good and not out of place. It's like a fat girl wearing lingerie. Nobody is attracted to lingerie alone, nobody is attracted to a fedora alone. It's supposed to accentuate the goods. If it works, it's nice and it's the cherry on top. If it's bad, it'll spoil the whole thing.

Mullets are at least the dude trying to cling to his pathetic past, not actually thinking his patheticness makes him cooler. Nobody wants to go bald so if you as a guy kept long hair, it's because you looked better with long hair; and even though guys don't get compliments that often, you know if you do or dont look good with long hair. Even a few compliments on your hair every now and then means your hair is pretty cool. Who would wanna give that up? It's not a choice to go bald or have your hair thinning. I would argue that anybody who chooses to has a mullet does so as a last resort, and that the people who actually have a mullet are not trying to "up their game" or "look better" like the neckbeards wearing fedoras do.

Neckbeards wearing fedoras are like, kids who inherited grandpa's wardrobe because it was left over and nobody wanted it, and they put it on because they think it accentuates their cool, manly, suave style, or gives them that style; mullets are a last resort of dignity. You can sympathize with someone who has a mullet or an ugly face or any other bad characteristic or trait, but since you choose to wear a fedora it's hard to not say "Dude you knew what you were doing, you could have looked at yourself before presenting yourself in public."

Spoiler: Going bald/losing my hair is like my worst fear.
 
The only reason yall are thinking a fedora can be pulled off but a trilby cant is because fat neckbeards only wear trilbies. If a fat neckbeard wore a fedora you would think it's just as gross and lame.

Since youre comparing it to like, Indiana Jones and Dick Tracey, youre thinking it's cool. My sister is a huge fan of the show White Collar because the dude in it is hot, and he wears a trilby (or whatever 'fedora' neckbeard types wear) and pulls it off. Leonard Cohen pulls it off. Youre comparing it to people who pull it off. The hat is fine, you just have to have the right head, face and body to pull it off.

96% of people who put on a trilby or fedora arent going to be able to pull it off and make it look good, and they can look in the mirror and say, "nah it doesnt look good, I'll take it off." A person who has a mullet can only look in the mirror and say "If I cut my hair, I'm gonna look like a 6th grade math teacher who molests little girls. This is the best I can ever look."

It's like saying, what's worse, being deathfat, or quadriplegic? Well you can always lose weight. You cant grow your limbs back.
 
DonaldChump said:
The only reason yall are thinking a fedora can be pulled off but a trilby cant is because fat neckbeards only wear trilbies. If a fat neckbeard wore a fedora you would think it's just as gross and lame.
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Trilbies are even worse on neckbeards because the tiny brim just emphasizes how huge and fat their heads are.
 
DonaldChump said:
Spoiler: Going bald/losing my hair is like my worst fear.
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If and when I ever start balding, Im shaving it all off and growing a goatee. There was a time when I actually used to have long hair, but it made me look more like a hippie than a metalhead and hippies suck, so I have cut it short since.
 
Like the trilby, some classy stars of earlier eras made the bowlcut look good...
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Louise Brooks made the bowl a thing in the 1920s.
 
A bad haircut often just means the person doesn't really care that much.

A fedora (whether it's a trilby or not is irrelevant) means the wearer is actively making a statement about how they believe they are more mature, intelligent, suave and just plain stand apart from the usual normies.
It's used as a surrogate personality because the wearer can't be arsed actually putting effort into personal grooming or development, but they clearly give a shit about how they're perceived, so a $12 hat is their shortcut.

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Anchuent Christory said:
It's used as a surrogate personality because the wearer can't be arsed actually putting effort into personal grooming or development, but they clearly give a shit about how they're perceived, so a $12 hat is their shortcut.
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The problem isn't the hat (well when it isn't a $12 hat anyway), it's the person it's on. Give anyone a mullet and they'll look worse for it, though.
 
If we go by appearance alone then the mullet is definitely the worst, but the fedora/trilby/whatever is the worst overall. Having a fedora as part of your regular appearance means you make that awful choice every day, while you only have to be stupid enough to choose a mullet/bowlcut once before you're stuck with it for a while.
 
The only person that I've seen that can pull off the bowlcut is Guy Gardner. Some people can pull off the mullet though.
 
Both the mullet and bowl cuts need to go. They both are unsightly and very annoying to look at. Fedora caps, depending on the style and angle its facing, can probably go well with a charcoal-grey business vests, white short-sleeved polo tops, black slim-fit pants, etc.
 
I can't help thinking of this song when going through this thread.
 
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