Why New York Women Wish They Lived in the ‘Mad Men’ Era

New York Post ^ | May 14, 2015 | Heather Robinson

[CatherineofAragon]

"Hats were normal American men’s fashion until a certain President didn’t wear one for his Inauguration and that killed the American hat fashion overnight.

You can easily find commentary on that from the time that it happened. Eisenhower wore a hat. John Kennedy, inaugurated on a bitterly cold morning in January 1961, didn’t."

Interesting...I didn't know that.

[Tax-chick]

True, the shoes in the middle are bad, and they make her knees really stand out.

[CatherineofAragon]

"True, the shoes in the middle are bad, and they make her knees really stand out."

I had to look again...yep, you're right.

That heaviness at the bottom throws everything out of perspective...for me, at least.

[Pelham]

Well hat makers at the time believed it because American men stopped wearing hats in the early ‘60s. But here’s another interesting take:

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/05/04/152011840/who-killed-mens-hats-think-of-a-three-letter-word-beginning-with-i

[jjotto]

I definitely agree with that! As cars got “longer, lower, wider”, hats got more difficult to deal with. Men switched to baseball or driving caps unless it was a more formal occasion. I saw this with my grandfather.

[Army Air Corps]

Yowza. I am quite taken with options one and two.