Posted on 09/17/2024 3:27:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I wear hats. Always. Borsalino felts in winter, Panama in summer, caps daily.
I also wear bolo ties when not wearing a silk tie.
My advice is, develop your eccentricities early.
Very true. Between electricity, engines, and the elevator, work moved into factories and offices.
Add in folding umbrellas (1923) and the growth of the automobile, buses, and subway trains, men were less exposed to the weather.
Men wore powdered wigs at one time but no one seems to be complaining about them not doing that anymore. (Same with large buckle shoes).
Same here. I wore ball caps for years. I had to get a cancer removed from my ear. Lots of $$ and a pain in the ear. I wear a straw brimmed hat all the time now.
Get this Barmah
https://barmahhats.com/product/1087-extra-wide-brim-canvas-cooler/
I have some of their others as well. I’ve had that one 26 years. Picked it up in Sedona. Wore it boating a hundred times in Missouri, a decade in Phoenix and still use it on the outer banks.
I’ve got dozens of hats. That is the best.
I suspect your grandmothers were like mine. Very serious dinner rules.
It started as a ghetto/rap thing during the late 1980s.
My grandmother might have been one of the last of the ladies who always wore a hat to church. She must have had a dozen of them.
“I suspect your grandmothers were like mine. Very serious dinner rules.”
Poor farmers and not hoity-toity, but proper.
When he gave his inaugural speech.
Lots of men wear hats if we count backwards baseball caps.
Me? I rotate between fourchads, primarily western outback style.
And I never wear a baseball cap because they make look like Beaver Cleaver.
Who gives a rats ass. I have 50 golf caps in my collection. I always have a cap on. Looks better than my thin. What’s left, hair.
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I don’t care what anyone thinks, either. If I did care, I would ask their opinion.
I have very little hair. My hats protect the skin on top from skin cancers and abrasions. The visor somewhat shields my face from sunlight. Reasons enough for me.
Baseball caps... good gravy, are caps not hats. You can put a propeller on a cap, a logo, the beer can holders and tubes. A watch cap, beanie, dunce cap
A hat... think Fedora, pork pie, stetson, cuban, Bucket hats, berets...
Caps.. pfffft
“Because it messes up your hair and makes you look stupid. That’s easy! Next question.”
My wife has a bad hair day and I mention “wear a hatc, she replies “I don’t like hats because it messes up my hair,”
“your hair’s already messed up”
“yeah but if you put a hat on then take it off it looks terrible”
And I say “when you put on a hat it’s a hat day”
I don’t think she even owns a hat.
I’m on a first name basis with my dermatologist, I were hats.
Like everything else, blame global warming.🤣
I love hats! ... and wear them often. Always get compliments......Straw ones, caps, and all fabrics.
Ah, nothing more sexy than a western hat on a man in TN.
My hair turned white. I don’t need a hat to keep my head cool now.
JFK didn’t like his hair being mussed up with a hat. He stopped wearing them, and then most every man in the country followed his lead.
Look at the lines of cars from the 1960s compared to the 1950s. The cars got lower, so a man would have to take off his hat when driving.
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