I bought a new bicycle. After looking at various bikes for about a month – both on-line and in bike shops – I decided on a beach cruiser. I purchased a Huntington Beach Bicycle Company (HBBC) Old Skool with seven gears from O’Wheelies in Mandeville, LA. The ability to “step-though” the frame to get on the bike played an important …
Hats (Part I): Are you covered…. Most people may not realize it, or think it’s something made up for Hollywood movies, but wearing hats used to be an everyday occurrence for men. Long before the popularity of ball caps, men used to wear Bowlers, Fedora’s, flat caps and cowboy hats as part of their daily clothing. Now it has become …
Pappy’s Rules for hats… The following rules have nothing to do with the etiquette of wearing hats that I mentioned in “Where have all the hats gone…” In fact, what follows are not rules per se, but more guidelines that I believe in. Rule 1. Everyone can wear a hat but every hat doesn’t “fit” every wearer or occasion. There …
