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Who Killed Men's Hats?
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| May 4, 2012
| Robert Krulwich
Posted on 05/13/2012 7:42:53 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
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To: Salamander
Oooh! Eye candy! Thank you for the ping.
To: Eyes Unclouded
Ike never wore a hat.. and I cannot imagine Harry Truman in a top hat so I did not bother to look for an image of his inauguration. But what the hell..
I looked and damn, there he and VP Barkley both with top hats.
"Eisenhower was the first president to eschew the top hat and tails. . . . "
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:37:15 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Errant
No, I know who he is. I see other people doing the same ‘shtick’. All hat and no cattle. It reminds me of the gansta outfit sop.
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:37:34 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: Snickering Hound
She was one ofthe first girls I looked at and thought she needed to eat a few burgers.
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:37:58 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: Eyes Unclouded
Who Killed Men's Hats? The long hairstyles for men of the 1960s and 1970s.
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:39:42 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: Eyes Unclouded
I wish the the fedora hat would come back for men. So classy and a style for every man and taste.
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:40:01 PM PDT
by
OSHA
(One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
To: Theoria
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:40:33 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: Eyes Unclouded
"You got a problem with my hat? Well, do ya, punk?"
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:40:54 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Eyes Unclouded
Men who didn’t have the guts to wear hats despite what the culture said.
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:42:47 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(I am the margin of error.)
To: Eyes Unclouded
Until cars became the dominant mode of personal transport, there was no architectural reason to take your hat off between home and office. More on the connection between hats and being regularly out in the weather:
People who take trams to work walk several blocks to the metro station, and then the several blocks from the metro to their office.
And they do it every day, whatever the weather, rain, shine, snow, sleet, whatever. So, the hat has a practical purpose. When you start driving, you're out of the weather from your front door to the parking garage to the office. Average office workers simply aren't out in the weather for longer than it takes to walk from the parking lot to the lobby door. That killed the hat.
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:45:35 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Errant
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:45:35 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: Cicero
No longer. Good.
Clothing ought to be practical, not overly fanciful / idiotic. Function over fashion.
To: Theoria
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:48:45 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: agrarianlady
I suspect it was better hair hygiene.I think you might have a point there. It wasn't until the latter part of the 20th Century that washing your hair daily was something most people did. I guess why bother if nobody is ever going to see it.
To: agrarianlady
I suspect it was better hair hygiene.I think you might have a point there. It wasn't until the latter part of the 20th Century that washing your hair daily was something most people did. I guess why bother if nobody is ever going to see it.
To: James C. Bennett
Clothing ought to be practical, not overly fanciful / idiotic. Function over fashion. I couldn't agree with you more! And one usually leads to the other.
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:54:03 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:59:39 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: Eyes Unclouded
Kennedy & Eisenhower, I believe.
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posted on
05/13/2012 8:59:49 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: Errant
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posted on
05/13/2012 9:09:34 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: bigbob
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posted on
05/13/2012 9:10:10 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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