DC men support their milliners

Walking from Dupont to Georgetown today I saw more men with hats than without.  And I am loving it!  Old men, young men, teens, dads, boyfriends, sons, everyone!  The winner?  Banded straw trilbies and fedoras.  Not a frayed baseball cap or trucker hat in sight.  Thank the lordie.  

HipsterDandy stealth mode.

Forgive the weird angle and all of this pic; it was my first semi-successful attempt at a stealth shot.  As inspiring as the photographs are on blogs like STREETFSN and The Sartorialist, I found I prefer to actually go up to my subjects and say hi.  After all, I have over 250 business cards that need to pull their own weight.

Ruddy; check out his website, http://www.ruddywashere.com/!

I also met Ruddy, who, after letting me record his crisply-tailored look for posterity, schooled me a bit on the world of men's fashion in DC and made me feel like a right noob.  But he did it so politely!  I loved his multi-striped newsboy cap as well; the newsboy ran a close second to the fedora in popularity today, but none of them were quite so well-patterned as this!

All in all a very successful study of Saturday sartorialism (and alliteration); there are more pix, but I'm not going to dole them out all at once!  Be patient!