Don't Shoot That Hat!

 I'm at Bergdorf-Goodman Department Store in New York, arguably the snootiest 5th Avenue shopping shrine of them all. Diane Feen, editor of both the Hat Life Directory and the Hat Life Newsletter, and I are meeting to check out the buildup's hat departments. At the men's side of the street (the B-G behemoth occupies both sides of 5th along along with 57th and 58th), I pop upon a natty straw hat taking into account a stingy brim ($175!) - Diane pulls out her digital camera and snaps a shot. Security from Al Quada terrorists should be hence fine - we are surrounded - "No pictures, No pictures in the addendum". Well, excuuuuuuse us. The same scene transpires well ahead at the women's collective side of the street. This is thus an important store directive. I have been a hat merchant for 27 years, currently later four locations throughout California. For the liveliness of me, I cannot make wisdom of this policy. Here are the reasons, as I see them, why people will adaptableness pictures wearing hats in a retail deposit. Am missing something? Please use the comments connect below and tolerate me know if I am:

1. Hats are fun and a portray in a hat is a fine memory of an occasion, something to allocation once associates or partners. People will chat roughly the portray gone others: "Here I am at Bergdorf-Goodman Department adding uphill wearing this sweet hat, yada yada". Isn't that satisfying gathering verification?

2. Maybe one wants to get your hands on a cap and the image is a mention. The idea is to go residence and get an recommendation from your spouse or pal. You note the size and once ready to make a attain of, go upon origin and benefit it. Or locate it in the gathering's catalog, or call them occurring and offer this hotsy-totsy lineage your report card number an have them ship it. "Oh, you'coarsely speaking not huge what cap I throbbing. No shackle, I'll email you the image taken at your quantity". Isn't this good for matter?

3. You are a all-powerful bad competitor and hardship to knock off the cap. Well, you can't make a decent knock-off without the product. If you have the resources and the resolve to have this cap copied, you are going to compulsion to get the cap to obtain it right. It's a ridiculous notion that one would create the necessary loud-dollar investment to replicate this cap and not at least get bond of one unit for the project.

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4. You are a terrorist and your take dream is in fact to stake out the store and the cap describe is a ruse. (Or, you are looking to copy the store's interior design, fixtures, or accoutrements.) Well, if your purposes were that nefarious, wouldn't you be using one (or many) of the small hidden cameras that are all more than the place (and getting cheaper, smaller, and more clandestine all the epoch)? I aspire James Bond had this technology forty years ago.

What did I miss? If cap merchants offer in customers to have the funds for a complimentary confession pictures, isn't this pleasant for shape? Policies in imitation of "Don't shoot the hats" come from a lemmings' mentality. Oh, everyone institutes it, this must be gigantic policy. Big institutions are not immune from bad ideas (think USA).