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In the UK, braces are what we call those elasticated bands,
which clip or button unto a pair of trousers at the front and back,
then extend over the shoulders, and in so doing prevent the
trousers
from descending unexpectedly.
Hat Braces are simply a set of modified braces which connect the
trousers to the rim of one's hat, again at the front and back. With
Hat Braces in place, no hat will ever blow away again on a windy
day.
Customised reinforcing frame to prevent hat shape distortion
available as an optional extra.
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What if the wind is sufficiently strong that hat blows away with you still attached ? Tell us that, eh, Mr Clever ? |
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This is entirely laudable. [+] |
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[+] //rim// sp. "headband" |
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In the USA, the description of braces appears to apply to
something known as "suspenders". |
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Just the bottom half though, the top half is called srednepsus. |
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In the Ozarks, there's a description of someone so skinny that he had
to fasten his suspenders to his hat. No one lately, of course. |
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Suspenders, or braces, are invisible to the naked eye, mostly,
and that is their beauty. Unless the person wishes for them to
show, they stay hidden behind a vest or top coat. So yours
would travel up to the hat and that part would be there for all
to see. I think that might take away from the point of wearing
them. I dunno. |
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I feel like these should connect at the center point of the torso, such that the front strap runs along the wearer's nose. |
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It's an important distinction. Trouser braces use shoulder straps to hold trousers up, but as the hat needs to be held down, a single strap front and back is sufficient. |
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Head turning may be difficult while wearing Hat Braces. Perhaps what is needed is a swashplate, mounted at neck height and disguised as a ruff, with a bearing race to transmit the tension through the rotary coupling. |
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^ Excellent addition, [mit]. |
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How about if we just make the hat very heavy? So very heavy that
putting it on gives the wearer such a headache that they decide to
stay home out of the wind. |
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[blissmiss], I wear suspenders, and I seldom keep them covered up.
But then, I live in the Ozarks. |
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In the UK, only women wear suspenders to keep up their
stockings and to torture men with the occasional glimpse. |
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Yes, worrying thought to imagine [baconbrain] wearing stockings and suspenders and not much else... |
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"The horror ... the horror ..." |
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You're so brazen, [baconbrain]. And hey, I live about 50 miles
from the Ozarks so we are kin. Sort of. |
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