I blame these guys.
JFK
I blame these guys.
I heard that it was because so many men served in the military during WWII. I still have nightmares where I can’t find my Cover.
Nonsense. The interstate highway system did little or nothing to change the number of people who drove cars and commuted to work.
It was JFK and the swooning Camelot tale spinners in the media.
Hoodies got em.
$400 haircuts?
$400 haircuts?
The same conspiracy that got Men Without Hats were warmed up from killing off Toni Basil.
People on TV and in the movies stopped wearing hats, and society followed.
Edward Bernays was a person who tried to get movies to always show someone smoking to sell cigarettes, and he’d rent famous diamond jewelry for women to wear in movies (he’s the origin of A Diamond is a Girl’s best Friend, I think).
If you constantly see something in the media, you are likely to see it as normal and perhaps wonder why you aren’t doing it too.
I think JFK really did have an influence on going hatless. My Father, and Grand Father always wore hats when going out in public. I was in high school when JFK was killed and I don’t think any of our generation wore hats.
As a matter of fact I still like hats. I am 6’3” and definitely do not need one but still wish they were more popular.
One thing I can’t stand is guys wearing baseball caps backwards to show they are cool.
I suspect it was better hair hygiene.
Ladies’ hats, too.
Some things are always classy. One doesn't need society to pressure how one appears.
People who are regularly out doors, as they go about their daily business, still tend to wear hats.
What has gone away is the hat as an affectation among people who work indoors. If you are out in the sun all day, or out in the sprinkling rain all day, you wear a hat and it becomes part of your normal attire.
The exception is the construction worker, since he is obliged to wear a hard-hat and no one wears a hard hat once he’s off the job. But even a lot of them will have another hat to wear once the hardhat goes off.
The hat as a fashion statement died among office workers because it was just a fashion accessory and had lost its practical purpose.
I’m wearing my beaverskin stetson ( 50 ) years old everyday barring an office appointment . The Kentucky derdy is a show place for hats if you like Lady Gaga types .
I think your Father may have a piece of this mystery nailed down but there are other reasons also .
Ike never wore a hat.. and I cannot imagine Harry Truman in a top hat so I did not bother to look for an image of his inauguration. But what the hell..
I looked and damn, there he and VP Barkley both with top hats.
"Eisenhower was the first president to eschew the top hat and tails. . . . "
The long hairstyles for men of the 1960s and 1970s.
I wish the the fedora hat would come back for men. So classy and a style for every man and taste.