So why did hats go out of fashion?

Cabaal

If you go back to 1900 basically every male adult in the likes of Ireland, UK and US wore a hat of some sort, fast forward to now and hardly anyone does.

I'd understand style of hats changing but being dropped practically altogether?

brianthebard

Proletarianisation of the bourgoisie? Increase in number of cars?

BlitzKrieg

Monkeyfudge has a great theory that its JFK's fault.

First president not to wear a hat.


Add to that the rise in hair fashion, celebrities who dont wear hats but show off those oh so wonderful hair styles, pretty much knocked the hat industry down alot of steps.

Cabaal

I await Monkeyfudge's theory,

I wouldn't feel so out of place wearing a hat if they were back in fashion

Show_me_Safety

these sort of hats are hip to the groove these days!

PrivateEye

Proletarianisation of the bourgoisie?

Interesting :pac:

Workers, you have nothing to lose (but your hats), and a world to gain.


I have a Fred Perry flatcap I've taken to in a big way, in fact I don't know how I managed without it. In a hurry/hair in a bad way? NO WORRIES, flatcap that head.

monkeyfudge

Cabaal wrote: »

I await Monkeyfudge's theory,

Yeah. Apparently Kennedy didn't wear a hat to his inauguration. The average joes watching then said to themselves 'If he's not wearing a hat, then I'm not wearing a hat.'

You can usually date a photo before or after 1961 by seeing if everyone in the photo is wearing hats or not.

Cabaal

Nobody else in the photo wearing hats either though

Gordon

In fairness they could have taken them off out of respect.

Galvasean

I heard there's a link with hat wearing and baldness...

Also, here is what the modern hat looks like:

Gordon

Gordon wrote: »

In fairness they could have taken them off out of respect.

I was right.

Cabaal

Galvasean wrote: »

I heard there's a link with hat wearing and baldness...

From what I understand thats an urban myth, its up there with chewing gum staying in your stomach for 7 years

BlitzKrieg

Gordon wrote: »

I was right.

hmmmmm

Cabaal

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

hmmmmm

thats a photoshop job
:pac:

BlitzKrieg

i know

Scarinae

James Bond wore a hat in the early films



He would toss it onto the hat rack whenever he walked into the room where Miss Moneypenny was - and he never missed

brianthebard

PrivateEye wrote: »

Interesting :pac:

Workers, you have nothing to lose (but your hats), and a world to gain.

Hat wearing used to be a sign of the class system, but it began to go out of fashion as a symbol of your rank in the sixties I believe and the age of high consumerism.

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Yeah. Apparently Kennedy didn't wear a hat to his inauguration. The average joes watching then said to themselves 'If he's not wearing a hat, then I'm not wearing a hat.'

You can usually date a photo before or after 1961 by seeing if everyone in the photo is wearing hats or not.

In the interests of historical accuracy I must say that this is incorrect. Behold, Kennedy with top hat, just like every president before him; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/inauguration-attire-bring_n_155843.html

Cabaal

So am I right in thinking that the whole thing ended with Lyndon B. Johnson then? (he was after Kennedy).

If not then it had to be Nixon

Nevyn

It was to do with respectability and modesty and when they became shackles imposed by
'The Man' the things which epitomised those values were discarded.

I remember when most women wore hats or at the very least headscarves to mass on a Sunday and were not allow to dark the church door with their heads uncovered.

If you want to wear your had then wear it and everyone else bedamned tbh.
Why be a conforming non conformist ?

Dord

I couldn't find any photos of Nixon wearing a hat during his term as president but it seemed that he wore one when he was vice president.

by8auj6csd3ioq

Cabaal wrote: »

I await Monkeyfudge's theory,

I wouldn't feel so out of place wearing a hat if they were back in fashion

Do you feel out of place now and do you wear one anyway?

Cabaal

Julian Ambitious Sidecar wrote: »

Do you feel out of place now and do you wear one anyway?

Not bought one yet
Been looking though