[kitkat]

***But very seldom do I see women wearing hats here in the States. Somewhere in the last 30 for 40 years they just went out of style, I guess.***

It was the enormous, teased, bushel-basket sized hairdos that did the hat in. I guess they couldn't make them big enough to cover the hair. Hats are back again, though, for lah-de-dah affairs if the woman looks good in them, and doesn't mind ruining her hairdo.

[silent_jonny]

It was the enormous, teased, bushel-basket sized hairdos that did the hat in. I guess they couldn't make them big enough to cover the hair

You mean "the beehive"? LOL! I remember when I was a boy, there was a lady that went to our church--she sported an ENORMOUS beehive. You couldn't see around it! It blocked the sun :)