I also wear a hat…used to be baseball type , but I realised the error of my ways.
I’m now too old for those. 😉
Now I favour the “train driver” or “communist worker” stylee.
Sun protection and baldy pate disguiser!! 😀
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 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 all the men arriving for work in the city would have pretty much suit, bowler hat and and umbrella and all 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’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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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….