The Lost Art of Cowboy Hat Manners: Removing your Hat in Appropriate Occasions
So now you are the proud owner of a Kenny Chesney hat. Buy it, wear it, and flaunt it is your motto. However, there are finer points in owning any of the world-famous Kenny Chesney hats that you need to learn. These will earn you not only fashion appeal, but more importantly, women appeal generated by your gentlemanly manners.
Removing Your Cowboy Hat
With regards to your Kenny Chesney hat, there are rules on when to take them off your head. Regardless if you are experiencing a bad hair day (or no hair days, most of the time), there are certain situations where removing them is both a necessity and a courtesy.
Being Patriotic
When the National Anthem is played, you need to remove your cowboy hat.This is regardless of venue, time and occasion, type of company, and attire. Even if you are the Naked Cowboy who performs music at New York’s Time Square with only cowboy boots, a hat, and a pair of briefs on, you still need to remove your Kenny Chesney hat!
The only possible exemption to the hats-off rule would be if you are wearing very fancy, very feminine hats with bows and ribbons. For sure, you will never be caught dead in these hats, which makes the hats-off rule imperative for a man’s man like you. Besides, patriotism can get you far in this world.
Respect for Religion and Institutions
You also need to remove your hat when you are going into a building, especially inside a church and government buildings like the House of Representatives and the White House. This is a sign of respect for both man and religion, as well as a necessity.
After all, you would not want your view of the altar blocked by a cowboy hat in front of you, right? And you also do not want to give the impression you are disrespectful of the institutions so many of our ancestors have died for, right? So, take off your hat!
This does not, however, apply to entertainment venues like dance halls and concerts. In these establishments, your Kenny Chesney straw cowboy hat in summer or your Kenny Chesney black cowboy hat in winter is appropriate and even necessary, in some dances. Indeed, the sight of all those cowboy hats bobbing up and down in time to the music is infectious to your feet, too!
Introduction Formalities
You also need to shed your hat when being introduced, especially if it is to a woman. This is a no-brainer. It is common courtesy to remove your hat with either hand and shake the other person’s hand with another. There are instances, though, when the woman does not like to shake hands (wait for her to offer her hand first!), but you will still need to remove your Kenny Chesney hat!
When being introduced to someone worthy of your respect and/or occupies a high place in society, take off your Kenny Chesney hat, regardless if it is stylish and you do not feel comfortable without it. When you are in the other person’s place in the future, you would want this decorum given to you.
Respect for the Dead
When attending a funeral or when passing through a funeral procession, remove your cowboy hat, too. This is a sign of respect for the deceased and a sign of condolences for the mourners. And even if it is freezing cold, you have to remove your warm Kenny Chesney black cowboy hat! You want others to do the same for you when the time comes, too.
Conversation Manners
When you are beginning a conversation, especially with someone socially important or with a lady, you need to shun your Kenny Chesney black cowboy hat. Put it back on later if the situation warrants it, but remove it at the onset of the discussion you wish to take up. This is related to giving an impression of open candidness and deference; a cowboy hat with its wide brim does shield your face from other persons.
Elevator Manners
Well, you do not necessarily have to take off your Kenny Chesney straw cowboy hat in an elevator. However, remove it as fast as lightning when a lady is on board. Even if the woman looks like a tramp, remove it still. A true cowboy should avoid judging a lady by her appearance.
Of course, the etiquette of removing your hat varies from one locality to the next. Local custom usually dictates these rules, which means that you have to be aware of any differences between what you know and what is expected of you in the local area.
These differences are often very subtle, but the consequences can be most obvious. Just take these general practices to heart, and you will often find yourself in the good graces of other like-minded individuals.
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May 20th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Hey! i like to wear cowboy hat at every occasion, i am crazy about hats…