We’ve long forgotten that it was milliners Dunn & Co who came up with the brand ‘If you want to get ahead get a hat’ in the 1940s.
But it’s the enduring appeal of the power of a slogan that it endures,
It has also become something of an unconscious personal mantra.
I’d even go as far as to coin my own slant: ‘put on a new hat, put on a new you.’
Hatta boy!
So an entirely unscientific trawl through five hats on my travels and why when I put them on I’m transported right back there.
The tail of Denver
Remember the Jimbo
Davy Crockett hats, Denver, Colorado: And a reacquaintance two years ago with an old friend, a raccoon hat in Denver www.denver.org and Go West.
I got a reputation for myself in my alma mater, chilly Aberdeen Aberdeen – a light in the north for wearing said hat.
Forward fast to San Antonio, Texas, and the Alamo town www.visitsantonio.com hosts the US Travel fair www.ipw.com in 2023.
And I’ll blend in with all the other Davy Crockett impersonators.
Does this car look big in me? The Cote d’Azur
In the Cannes
Trilby hat, Cote d’Azur: Well it is Cannes and it’s what they’ve come to expect of me out there.
A classic Fiat 500 is obligatory too. Visit www.mandelieu.com and The Boat D’Azur.
Sailor boy: In West Hollywood
Sail away in California
Hello sailor, West Hollywood: It’s nautical but nice and in Pride Week in camp WeHo you have to make an effort.
I strutted like a peacock after getting a compliment from a queen.
I was on my morning constitutional www.visitwesthollywood.com and https://www.google.ie/amp/s/jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/2020/03/19/my-weekend-with-marilyn-2/amp/
Buen Camino
Camino hat, Santiago de Compostella, Rome, Tenerife, the Austrian Tyrol: And if you’ve walked the Camino then it’s important to tell everyone after.
It also keeps the sun off your head but that’s secondary.
Visit www.CaminoWays.com, www.FrancigenaWays.com. www.CanariaWays.com and www.tyrol.com. www.topflight.ie and www.topflightforschools.ie.
And A pilgrim’s prayer, Small roads lead to Rome, A walk through the ages… Tenerife.
If the hat fits
Cowboy Jimmy
Cowboy hat, Washington DC: Like a Greystones cowboy, riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo.
It was given to me by my Portland, Oregon https://www.travelportland.com friends and I showcased it with a glittery beard in DC https://washington.org and Easy DC.
And on the hottest day of the year carting luggage around New York https://www.nycvb.com and https://www.google.ie/amp/s/jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/2020/03/28/old-new-york-hamilton/amp/.
MEET YOU IN A HAT
