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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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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