Posted on 05/06/2012 3:44:19 AM PDT by Daffynition
A hundred years ago — and that's when this picture was taken, in 1912 — men didn't leave home without a hat. Boys wore caps. This is a socialist political rally in Union Square in Manhattan. There may be a bare head or two in this crowd, but I think those heads are women's.
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Ha Ha! You got THAT right!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 ... MST3000.
THANK YOU, thank you, thank you. I will see if it is on the intra webby thing and pee my pants all day!
O’Rourke you are an a$$!
I’m walking quite often in all kinds of good and bad weather. My hat of choice is a traditional western hat, natural fur or treated to resist rain and snow.
The wide brim also blocks the sun from my eyes and gives some shade.
Indoors the brim redirects that dang overhead air conditioning that never turns off. It’s relief from opresdive overhead lighting as well.
It’s not a matter of style O’Rourke you boob. It’s a matter of form following function.
What amazes me more is that all men wore suits at all times. I hate wearing suits, because they’re expensive, uncomfortable, and restricting. And what the hell is a tie?!
Jack Kennedy certainly helped advance the trend, but I think it was a part of a broader cultural phenomenon informed by intellectual alienation and radical egalitarianism beginning in the early '60s, in which "youth" was revered over old age (and wisdom).
It was greatly hastened by the folk music movement, the Beatles' arrival in America and by the rapid rise of the same dope-smoking lefty Peace Creeps who now (having become old people themselves, but absent any acquired wisdom) run the government and the schools, and also dominate the entertainment industry.
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Exactly. JFK represented the new cool back then.
At the end of the article, the author says his father wanted to blame “someone” (for the loss of business).
In reality his father wanted to blame a REPUBLICAN. So had to come up with contrived and convoluted rationalizations to preserve the status (in his own eyes) of St. Jack the Great.
To play off John Lennon, Imagine if all the time, effort, treasure and labor put into the various socialist movements were actually used in work to create wealth. There'd be no poverty, crime would be down and society would be more peaceful, harmonious and decent.
Sozi's, it's called "opportunity cost".
I'll go to the orginal site and see what the other signs say. And notice how well dressed the men are?
I've heard that story too, but I just searched and the only pictures I googled of Ike that had a hat were from the military or playing golf.
It looks like the third word on that sign is OBLITERATE.
Educate
Agitate
Obliterate
Yep, that’s an Alinsky rally!! (still going on today)
1. The workers fight the wars ---- Bosses reap the profits"
2. One Big Union
3. 40 Militiamen [could not read the rest]
To me any man with a hat is suspect of being a criminal!
No one but some liberal from the east would ever wear a hat!
There has always been and always will be idiots who don’t want to grow up and take responsibility for their lives, who will think of the government as mommy and daddy who must support them financially and emotionally. And if they don’t get their way they stamp their feet and scream and cry like little babies “Waahh agitate! Waaah! Anarchy!” That’s my theory why a lot of these twerps are trust fund kids who come from rich families, they never had to grow up because everything was always done for them, and when they sudddenly find themselves as adults they turn to the government as the new mommy and daddy “Waaaaah! I’m not happy...Why isn’t everyone rich like me? I feel guilty and it’s all YOUR fault! Waaaaaah!”
For the Sozi's concerned about peace, there seems to be implicit violence in the signs. One appears to have something like "put to the Sword" and another says "let the fight begin in earnest". I guess as long as no profits are involved, violence is ok.
I have collected many hats over the years, from an engineer’s cap to the high dome wide flat brim hat worn by some “chiefs” in old westerns. Even have an original Indiana Jones hat. My favorites are my dad’s everyday hat and my mom’s dress hat.
The hat, IMHO, gives each of us an impression of its wearer, especially ladies hats, for the ones that wear them, now, do stand out from those around them, and they are delightful.
Deformalization of the dress code killed hats. Fedoras and such look great with suits, but they look stupid without them. Worse for the hats’ fate is that suits like fine without hats. So in a day and age when most folks don’t wear suits (last time I did was to be best man about 5 years ago) there’s just plain no reason for hats. I will admit society looked nice back then. By the same token I refuse to put a noose around my neck everyday, so don’t expect my help bringing formal everyday wear back, button down shirts is as much formality as you’re getting out of me.
Cowboys still wear hats. My cowboy has a whole collection of them.
It was JFK. The guy was actually an incompetent jerk, but the media made him into a fashion model.
Eisenhower and the Interstate highway system? Nonsense. It’s a bad joke. People drove to work before that, and most commuters get to work without driving much on the Interstate.
Car roofs got lower after men ditched their hats.
A noose for the soul.
Case in point, my son flew to a job interview and met with company CEO, CFO, execs wearing his best suit and shoes/sans hat. He said, early in the interview they told him they hope he didn't *always dress like that.* :)
Was more about being able to shuffle troops and heavy equipment around the CONUS quickly and efficiently - think pre C5A's - without being dependent on rail which could be bombed. Ike also saw how Hitler had been able to lower unemployment and create an economic demand for the passenger car with his Autobahn which in turn created an economic halo effect.
THX for the image. [of 100 years ago]
I loved that cowboy too. Thanks for the picture!
-— A noose for the soul.-—
You speak true.
Actually, JFK killed men’s fedoras as fashion accessories.
Er....have you noticed the name of that "park"?
I wear hats that go with my suit. Always.
A dress hat (not cap) adds a little class.
http://www.thefedorastore.com/Scala-Hats-s/12164.htm?gclid=CL2k2434668CFTSytgod2GoR2A
SOMEONE KILLED MEN WITHOUT HATS??!?
I love that band.
I love that pic. It looks like Father Merrin of the Exorcist meeting the demon.
People who go without hats have never worked out in a bean field or cattle farm all day long. Where I have lived, going without a hat will get you your brain baked.
Well, first of all you can’t drive a car or truck with a hat on anymore! The roofs of cars came down for aerodynamics and the hats stayed home. No more head room.
You’re right.
You are both wrong. It is a nice myth but I grew up in the 1950s and hats were already dying out even then. All the men in the movies wore suits and hats but real life men didn't. Some men wore hats but most of them didn't wear a hat as an item of dress apparel. Kennedy may have helped finish the hat off but it was already going away by the time he was elected.
More men wear baseball caps these days. Not for dressy occasions, but for most casual events, and especially outdoor events.
I should add: My husband has an Irish tweed hat that he likes to wear in the winter. Fedora style.
We have a very nice furnace contractor — an Austrian man — who came by to discuss our need for 2 new furnaces and an air conditioner a few years ago. He’d sold us these appliances and had already installed them and was discussing the outcome of the contract when we were writing him his final check. He came in on a Sat. morning and sat down at our breakfast table and talked with us for more than an hour.
After Hans left, we realized that he’d sat on my husband’s Irish hat the whole time, squashing it flat. But, we popped it open with a fist and straightened it out, and my husband still wears it. It’s a little crooked, but only we notice that. We got a good laugh out of it.
I should add: My husband has an Irish tweed hat that he likes to wear in the winter. Fedora style.
We have a very nice furnace contractor — an Austrian man — who came by to discuss our need for 2 new furnaces and an air conditioner a few years ago. He’d sold us these appliances and had already installed them and was discussing the outcome of the contract when we were writing him his final check. He came in on a Sat. morning and sat down at our breakfast table and talked with us for more than an hour.
After Hans left, we realized that he’d sat on my husband’s Irish hat the whole time, squashing it flat. But, we popped it open with a fist and straightened it out, and my husband still wears it. It’s a little crooked, but only we notice that. We got a good laugh out of it.
Well, I saw a small explosion of fine hatwear in North Berkeley yesterday, but it was Kentucky Derby Day and people were all decked out.
Oh yeah! ... But she was Steele back then.
At the quiet part of the Mass, my brother and I would open and snap shut the few empty ones.
Sounded like a gun shot!
The Nun's would freak!
That said, I have always hated the feel of a hat on my head. Never wore one as a kid, got in trouble all the time in the Corps for forgetting to "cover". Still hate them now I am bald and need it for sun exposure.
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