General / Off-Topic Why don't we wear hats like before?

Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
Hats are great, and loads of fun. But nobody ever wears them anymore in the tropics. It's a fashion crime.

My grandfather wore a felt fedora, suspenders, and crisply ironed kakhis. Broadway cigarettes and a shotgun. He radiated old Hollywood, selling rum like Bogart in his bar.

Now, you can't even find a hat in the shops. People cover their heads with hoodies. It's a disgrace.
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Robin of Spiritwood said:
Hats are great, and loads of fun. But nobody ever wears them anymore in the tropics. It's a fashion crime.

My grandfather wore a felt fedora, suspenders, and crisply ironed kakhis. Broadway cigarettes and a shotgun. He radiated old Hollywood, selling rum like Bogart in his bar.

Now, you can't even find a hat in the shops. People cover their heads with hoodies. It's a disgrace.
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Make it fashionable?
 

Yaffle

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Yaffle
A few years back I went to a Silk Road art exhibition at the Royal Academy. One of the Chinese maps of Europe had a symbol on the UK, which when I looked it up on the legend it meant "hat wearing nation".

Times clearly have changed indeed.
 

EUS

EUS
Be bald, you'll be wearing hats again in no time, ok maybe not a fedora.
Especially in hot & sunny or cold weather.
Nothing is worse than a sunburn on your head, it's like having a fever.
I'm just happy I decided to let go of wearing ties everyday, awful waste of money and silk.
 
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Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
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Stinja

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I wear multiple different types of headwear, as they still perform useful functions to protect you from various effects.

If wet I wear an Australian bush hat, as paired with a good waterproof jacket, it act like an umbrella keeping you face neck etc dry, and both hands free.
Sunny, then a canvas bush hat.
Skateboarding, cycling and motorcycling I wear appropriate helmets.

But I guess the more general population has a much reduced need. Daily life is fairly safe, we have umbrellas, and there's no peer-pressure from fashion (men wearing suits + hats to conform).
 

=71st=RuSh

=71st=RuSh
I live in Cancun, and I only wear caps, if the sun is too hot, I put a t-shirt over my head and the cap on top! :D
 
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who?

who?
Hats rule.

I've gone from zero hats to lots of hats in a few years. Started with a work night out that had a "1920s mobster" theme, so we were all out in suits 'n' fedoras. Never felt so awesome in my life. I'm sure everyone other than our group thought we were a bunch of pillocks. But that's the best part of being gansta. You just don't care.

Since then I've started a huge collection. A few baseball caps. LOTS of beanies. Sometimes I put one on, and stick my head out into the cold, just 'cause I can.
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Ive always loved the Tricorn hat. Once at a fancy dress i got to wear one, it felt magnificent.
Always loved the old trilby hat, you can get away with them today.... but im just not trendy enough.
 
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ethelred

ethelred
Probably apocryphal but President Kennedy didn't wear a hat and that killed the fashion for wearing them.

These days people don't dress that formally most of the time so hard (excepting casual hats) are rarely worn.

Peaky Blinders has led to a small resurgence of the Newsboy, hopefully in a few years we can go full Homberg.
 

Captain Jack Sparrow

Captain Jack Sparrow
I never wore hats much but would rather see them than the stupid beanies. The beanie craze is annoying. Hate beanies. Side note, I hate that most people in a lot of the US don't bother wearing nice clothes in public any more. Lot of laziness in appearance in most of America.
 
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