I wear a hat because I have no hair and get a cold swede. I chose the hat on purely on whichever one makes me look less of a ****.
Pretty sure a lot of people wear a hat to feel "dapper" as mentioned as well as almost essential in cold or hot conditions for baldies like me. Nothing wrong with either IMHO.
I'm now too old for those.
I think the end of universal hat wearing has a lot to do with the end all sorts of universal dress for men - all the men of a certain profession or class pretty much dressing the same. Men would dress the same whether they were 17 or 70 and pretty much whether it was summer or winter and whether they were at work or on holiday. It not all that long ago that [i]all [/i]the men arriving for work in the city would have pretty much suit, bowler hat and and umbrella and [i]all[/i] the men arriving at the factory gates would have a flat cap. These days even in an office where you'd be expected to wear a suit and tie you'd not all be dressed the same.
That said though I expect that, short of state occasions, in a few years there won't be many situations there won't be many instances where blokes will wear ties, or at least be expected to.
I think part of it is also that most towns now have more than one mens clothes shop, with more than one type of hat.
for baldies like me
That's another thing; I think it's harder to carry off a hat with longer hair (unless you're Slash).
Beanie, pretty much all year round, just in different weights
I'm another Tilley hat (a TH5 made of Hemp) wearer, I wear one nearly all the time when working outdoors, shades my eyes keeps me cool in the summer and warm in the winter. When I'm at work I wear a flat cap when its cold as its easier when getting in and out of the van.
Cougar - Moderator
for baldies like me
That's another thing; I think it's harder to carry off a hat with longer hair (unless you're Slash).
For the record slash does not carry off a hat. He looks like a prick. 🙂
What's with the wearing of hats indoors? Especially beanies?
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Don't you mean esecially Bennie's ?
yunki - Member
I'm not buying any of this 'oh my hat's jolly practical' guff.. you wear a hat because you believe that it makes you look dapper..fact
Go on then, I'll bite... I wear a hat on a regular basis because my skin, with it's Celtic heritage, does not get on particularly well with the UV levels here in New Zealand. I look like a twazzock while wearing it (more of a twazzock than usual, if you were being unkind) and I know it. I have one of those heads that does not and cannot 'carry off a hat' to nick that expression up there ^. A hat means I can get away with less sunscreen (I dislike sunscreen more than I dislike hats).
No amount of millinery could make me look dapper 🙁 .
Always wear a hat when I'm out. Australia innit? You soon get over the "I look like a pilchard" wearing a hat when you've had "ohmygoodgod my head it burning" once or twice. The sun is so bright, even in winter, that just sunnies aren't good enough as the sneaky sun finds the gaps and gets ya.
Got a selection of caps, boonies and a summer Tilley hat which makes me look like something from Brokeback mountain but does the job of keeping the sun off my head ears and neck. Yee haaar.
Hat iz happy.
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I lay awake last night worrying about this..
I wonder, could it have been video? We are aware that there is a popular theory that video had a rather terminal effect on the radio star.
I wonder if video may have also in some way contributed to the demise of the hat?
I as WillH only wear hats due to weather or for protection myself. I have a round face and hats are not kind to this at all! I would look a dick in a fedora or trilby. I also don't dress in a way that would suit another hat. I'm either business smart/business casual or jeans, shirt jumper/jeans t-shirt. I don't have any personal style a hat would go with.
Baseball cap outdoors in the sun, beanie or waterproof cap with ear flaps in the cold and helmet on the bike.
Hat on here every time I'm out, same as aphex, crispy sunburnt ears many years ago means I don't mind looking like a pillock.
I look like a pillock regardless, and I'd rather look like a pillock without a sunburnt bonce.
I did enjoy the Steeleye Span, thx.
Ed Stewpot though - what a dick. With or without a hat.
Not a hat wearer here except for practical reasons i.e. thinning hair.
But I have to be honest that I think flat caps on anyone under 60 just look ridiculous. Certainly a 20 year old just looks daft wearing one!
In summer I wear a hat a lot, central Spain is not ideal when you're fair skinned... and a wooly hat is pretty essential for winter mornings, too.
People used to wear hats because they used to spend much longer outdoors on their daily business.
I have a huge black cowboy hat, bought it in yellowstone 10 years ago and wore it in the american sun but back home its tucked up in its box in the garage, damned shame. bring back the hat !
Usually wear a cap under my helmet on the bike
Usually wear a flat cap when it's cold
Often wear a Tilley hat when it's hot
Always pack a fleece beanie just in case
Have a top hat that doesn't get much use
Don't much care for my trilby, it's too Cheltenham Festival for the rest of my wardrobe.
My bald bonce is protected from the sun by this sweat-stained workhorse...
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Come winter, though, I prefer a hoody. Maybe it was the rise of the hoody that heralded the decline of the hat.
After having a couple of dodgy looking moles removed a few years ago I now have a range of hats for the summer. Better safe than sorry.
Walking the dog on the beach in the winter has also taught me the value of a decent hat for the winter. Nobody likes a cold head 😉
if it's A) cold, i need a hat.
if it's B) hot, i need a hat.
if it's C) sunny, i need a hat.
if it's D) rainy, i need a hat.
if it looks like it might be A/B/C/D in the next few hours, i'll take a hat just in case.
i have lots of hats.
flat caps are surprisingly versatile, so i have one of those too, nothing ironic about it.
I have plenty of hats, because I am a dapper gent.
I also quite like wearing ties, although regretfully I'm not old enough to carry off a cravat.
Everywhere I go people stop and stare in awe...
I keep a cap folded in a compartment of my laptop bag for when I'm in Africa and find myself out in the sun. Just walking from the car to the office can be unpleasant and a few years ago I had a solar keratosis removed; the consultant warned me to keep my head covered up.
I used to wear a trilby quite a lot when I was a kid. 😀
I thought it made me look liike one of The Clash: Hat, donkey jacket, black trews, DM's, silk scarf.
In reallity I just looked like a spotty wazzock in his dad's old hat.
Since starting to go bald, I wear a flat cap in the winter.
A natty green waterproof number from Failsworth Hats.
Who come from Failsworth.
Keeps me warm and dry - proper woolly hats make me too hot.
It used to be illegal in this country for working class people not to wear a hat. People were also banned from wearing any fabrics considered 'above their position in life'.
Maybe the beginning of the end for the hat in Britain was when they stopped fining working class people for not wearing one, so then the move towards choice became available.
I am guessing social pressure was also quite heavily applied between then and more recent times. I can still remember discussions between women about the social repercussions/criticisms of not wearing a hat to weddings.
They still have similar sartorial discussions on here from time to time
Slash does NOT look like a dick.
*flounces.
ahwiles - Member
if it's A) cold, i need a hat.if it's B) hot, i need a hat.
if it's C) sunny, i need a hat.
if it's D) rainy, i need a hat.
if it looks like it might be A/B/C/D in the next few hours, i'll take a hat just in case.
i have lots of hats.
flat caps are surprisingly versatile, so i have one of those too, nothing ironic about it.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
My personal favourite, that actually looks ok, and is really comfy to wear, is one of these:
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Lots of people wearing this style of cloth cap now, traditional, but a modern spin on it.
Mine cost me £6, from a stall at our local folk festival.
Next time it comes around, I'm buying a couple more, in different colours.
Beanies. Ideally woolly ones, but synth ones are OK too
I have yet to find a hat which doesn't enhance me looking like a twazzock. Maybe I need to find an old-fashioned milliner and try on enough too find the one that will work.
Though, TBH, at 5'7", nothing too wide brimmed or I'll look like a ginger gangster….
Teasel are you Phil Harding?? !
People were noticeably more skinny until the nineties, look at any old newsreel from the 70s or 80s and you'll see that on the whole people were still thin; I guess they spent more time outdoors walking. Now they say that 40% of adults are obese, largely through lack of exercise. You don't need a hat when you spend most of the day slumped in front of the TV.
Teasel are you Phil Harding?? !
In a Tyler Durdenesque kind of way I suppose it's entirely feasible...
fleece hat for "just going outside" - walk, or garden, wood splitting.
Proper rain, or summer, Ozhatz or similar leather broad brimmed hat - keeps sun off my face, off my balding pate (when it's sunny) and rain off same if it's tipping down (having had a bit more than a suspicious couple of moles, have to be cautious).
Oh, and the broad brimmed hat is /ideal/ for holding a form to a midgie net and still be able to function in Scotland in summer !
Hat joke:
Last week Prince Charles came to open a new Chamber of Commerce in Bury, Lancashire. He turned up wearing a Davy Crockett hat but nobody mentioned it.
After Charlie had cut the ribbon and done his speech, the chairman of the Chamber stood up to thank him for coming and all that, then added: "One more thing Sir; may I just ask, why are you wearing a Davy Crockett hat?"
(Prince Charles voice here:) "Well," replied Charlie, "Last night I telephoned my father the Duke. He asked me where I was going today and I told him Bury, in Lancashire. Now I admit I am a little hard of hearing but I'll swear he replied: "Wear the fox hat!""
🙂
Although technically a raccoon is not vulpine but...
Hats aren't dead, that's a myth. They just changed a bit.
Personally, I'm a confirmed beanie hoarder. They work miles better than hoods. There's always a hat or two of varying thickness in my car/bag/coat pocket for walking the dog / chopping wood / walking around town. I also own a small selection of ridiculous hats to make me easily identifiable on a ski slope. I wouldn't wear these in a social situation though, I'd look like a chump.
If you want to get ahead get a hat!
[i]Men of my grandfather's generation just wore a hat, the same way they wore trousers and a shirt.[/i]
Of my two Grandfathers, one always wore a hat and the other never did - the one that never did was unusual for his generation. My Father never has, and he's 80 y/o this year.
The best thing about cold weather is being able to wear a hat on the way to work, I feel I can re-join the human race again!
