All the men wore hats on the street,...”
Had to laugh. The guys all wear hats now but baseball caps, even though most couldn’t hit a ball if their life depended on it. I grew up in the era of men wearing “real” hats. In our small town there were two shops that kept quite busy cleaning and blocking men’s hats. Another profession that has been lost in the U.S.
When I was a teen and for a few years after that we wore white cotton gloves with everything and everywhere - and they were sparkling white. Miss those days.
I still have all my gloves, wrapped in tissue paper; including long black leather ones and opera-length. Every time I think of tossing them, I wonder if maybe they’ll come back in style.
But nothing ever really comes back. It’s always changed in some way.
I remember washing my white gloves by hand. I was a little girl and I had a selection of white cotton gloves.