On 2018-07-18 3:56 PM, graham wrote:
> On 2018-07-18 12:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> I go to the barber for a #4 about every 4 months. They take all of 3
> minutes to cut my hair. Hardly worth a tip!

Maybe you should get a home barber kit and so it yourself every 2-3
weeks. I have been doing that for years.
>
>> I do wear a hat in winter and if going to be in the sun a long time, a
>> cap in the summer.
>
> My Tilley hat is 30 years old and has just disintegrated from salt
> damage (sweat).

Send it back and they will replace it.
https://www.tilley.com/media/wysiwyg...Form_CA_EN.pdf



>
>> I also take the cap off indoors as I was taught that was the mannerly
>> thing to do.
>
> I feel uncomfortable with a hat on when I go into a shop for the same
> reason.

It's bad enough that some people wear baseball caps indoors, but it is
not as bad as wearing one backwards. Even worse is to wear on on an
angle. When we were kids if we wanted to look stupid we would put caps
on crooked.