[rarestia]

Even among ladies and gentlemen who wear hats, they’re not worn indoors as a matter of etiquette.

THANK YOU, Oberon! This classless hack thinks it's more important to "look good" than to adhere to long-established acceptable social etiquette norms.

As a matter of fact, hats were originally used to keep soot and ash out of the faces of gentlemen and ladies during the Industrial Revolution. They were purposeful accoutrements that lent to style.

While we don't live in a world covered in soot anymore, hats are still en vogue in some circles, but the old standards of etiquette still apply!

[grasshopper2]

This classless hack thinks it's more important to "look good" than to adhere to long-established acceptable social etiquette norms.

Traditional etiquette dictates that gentlemen must remove hats indoors; ladies keep their hat on.

But this is now so old fashioned as to been largely forgotten as well as other rules of etiquette such as men holding doors for ladies, giving up seats in trains and allowing ladies to exit elevators first, etc as a result of the gender equality fanaticism of the past 30 years. http://www.emilypost.com/common-courtesies/479-hats-off-the-who-what-when-where-of-the-hat

[GonzoGOP]

As a matter of fact, hats were originally used to keep soot and ash out of the faces of gentlemen and ladies during the Industrial Revolution. They were purposeful accoutrement's that lent to style.

They go back a lot farther than that. The top-hat as a fashion statement predates the industrial revolution by a good century. And I don't think the guys in Texas were ever worried about soot. Hats are for rain and sun. Since most styles came from England during the Industrial revolution rain gear became normal, even where rain wasn't an issue. As for the farmers and cowboys, its the sun they are worried about. About the only hat designed to keep out soot is the railroad engineer's hat and the welder's bandanna. And those have never been in style.

[alexander_busek]

As a matter of fact, hats were originally used to keep soot and ash out of the faces of gentlemen and ladies during the Industrial Revolution.

I had thought that hats went back much farther than that...

"Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace."

- Daniel 3:21.

Seems you were right about the soot and ash, though.

Regards,