{"id":9708,"date":"2011-02-19T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2011-11-16T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T01:48:47","slug":"to-get-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/02\/19\/to-get-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"To get ahead &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8230;. get a hat.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get ahead, get a hat&#8221; was a famous slogan of men&#8217;s hat makers in the middle of the last century when <i>every<\/I> respectable man wore a hat.  Come to think of it, a lot of not-very-respectable guys wore them, too.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for myself, I wear a hat, more correctly mostly a cap, 365 days in the average year, more in a leap year.  My choice is one of many English Tweed (sorry, <u>Scottish<\/u> Tweed) caps in my collection, though now and then you might find me under a Trilby or, on particularly eccentric days, a Sherlock Holmes Deerstalker. This one is ideal for taking street snaps as everyone writes you off as a harmless nut which, of course, you are.  Summer, as often as not, finds me sporting a <a href=http:\/\/borsalino.com\/ target=_blank>Borsalino<\/a> linen number and I confess to always having had a hankering for a straw boater but have yet to own one.  For years you could have found a Greek fisherman&#8217;s number gracing the old noggin and if I ever owned a bowler I am most certainly not admitting that here.<\/p>\n<p>The milliner is a special kind of hat maker, catering solely to the gentler sex.  No finer expression of his work &#8211; or his clientele &#8211; exists outside Degas&#8217;s priceless renditions.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not like he did it once. There are many renditions.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Degas_1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"356\" alt=\"\" \/>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Degas_2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"356\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Degas_3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" alt=\"\" \/>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Deagas_5.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Degas_4.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"368\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So show me a hat shop and you can bet on one thing.  I&#8217;m going inside.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one in San Francisco&#8217;s Little Italy and, yes, you know who I was thinking of:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Miliners.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>In the hat shop.  Panasonic G1, kit lens 1\/3rd sec., f\/6.3. ISO 320.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>1\/3rd second, hand held?  Yup.  Sometimes you get lucky, and no way I was letting this one get away.  No time to mess with the wretched little buttons on the Panny to increase the ISO, so 1\/3rd it was.  Snapped at the <a href=http:\/\/www.goorin.com\/ target=_blank>Goorin Brothers Hat Shop<\/a> on Washington Square in Little Italy, San Francisco, which has been selling hats since 1895, when Degas was still doing his thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. get a hat. &#8220;To get ahead, get a hat&#8221; was a famous slogan of men&#8217;s hat makers in the middle of the last century when every respectable man wore a hat. Come to think of it, a lot of not-very-respectable guys wore them, too. Speaking for myself, I wear a hat, more correctly mostly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/02\/19\/to-get-ahead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To get ahead &#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painters-and-photography","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14347,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions\/14347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}