Why don't men and women wear hats anymore?

Pwindedd · 10-04-2011 4:03pm #1

Just watching a film here, set in the forties - how smart the men look in suits and hats.

Anyways got me thinking that nobody seems to wear hats any more. Even weddings now it's very rare to see a lady in a hat - it's all fascinators and sparkly clips.

I'd like to wear hats but my head is too big for most ladies hats and I can never find one to fit.

Anyone else for a hat revolution?

Pauleta · 10-04-2011 4:04pm

Hair products are more easily available

mikemac · 10-04-2011 4:07pm

Something very classy about the mens hats you see in black & white films
Humphrey Bogart and later Gregory Peck could always pull off that look

I'm not nearly cool enough

Pwindedd wrote: »

Anyone else for a hat revolution?

But I'm with you!

Sunnyisland · 10-04-2011 4:07pm

Maybe its just the fashion of our times.

landsleaving · 10-04-2011 4:08pm

What's a fascinator?

starbelgrade · 10-04-2011 4:09pm

I have a collection of hats, but I only usually wear them in winter when my head is cold.

KeithM89_old · 10-04-2011 4:10pm

Id love to wear a hat but it would ruin my afro.

landsleaving · 10-04-2011 4:11pm

Pwindedd wrote: »

Anyone else for a hat revolution?

Skip to about 7.30 for hat revolution scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqguzDeejFk

smk89 · 10-04-2011 4:12pm

Saw a freak on Friday wearing a wollen hat. On the sunniest day of the year.
Hipster to the bone he was!

mink_man · 10-04-2011 4:13pm

t-hat would be an ecumenical matter.

Sinfonia · 10-04-2011 4:13pm

Pwindedd wrote: »

Just watching a film here, set in the forties

Nyaahhh see? If we weah deez hats, de coppas won't catch on to us, see? Nyeeahh

Pwindedd · 10-04-2011 4:14pm

landsleaving wrote: »

What's a fascinator?

Its like a hat with a feathers and stuff in it - but without the hat part!

brianthebard · 10-04-2011 4:15pm

landsleaving wrote: »

What's a fascinator?

A silly thing women wear to the races and such.

OP some people link the downfall of hats with JFK's inauguration, since he was the first US president not to wear one at that event. I think its a little simplistic, and is more likely linked to wider fashion trends, although perhaps that event serves as a useful marker in hat chronology so to speak...

OutlawPete · 10-04-2011 4:17pm

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Mint Sauce · 10-04-2011 4:18pm

I have 4 or 5 OP, been wearing them all winter only up untill about a month ago.

WoollyRedHat · 10-04-2011 4:19pm

OutlawPete wrote: »

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Sure all he has to do is shave off that goatee, turn into a black and white setting and stand non-chalantly on some stairs and it's the same image!

Sinfonia · 10-04-2011 4:19pm

Pwindedd wrote: »

Its like a hat with a feathers and stuff in it - but without the hat part!

How....fascinating...

jonnny68 · 10-04-2011 4:20pm

There are still people out there who wears hats and tweed suits

:cool:

The Chap Manifesto

1. THOU SHALT ALWAYS WEAR TWEED. No other fabric says so defiantly: I am a man of panache, savoir-faire and devil-may-care, and I will not be served Continental lager beer under any circumstances.

2 THOU SHALT NEVER NOT SMOKE. Health and Safety "executives" and jobsworth medical practitioners keep trying to convince us that smoking is bad for the lungs/heart/skin/eyebrows, but we all know that smoking a bent apple billiard full of rich Cavendish tobacco raises one's general sense of well-being to levels unimaginable by the aforementioned spoilsports.
3 THOU SHALT ALWAYS BE COURTEOUS TO THE LADIES. A gentleman is never truly seated on an omnibus or railway carriage: he is merely keeping the seat warm for when a lady might need it. Those who take offence at being offered a seat are not really Ladies.
4 THOU SHALT NEVER, EVER, WEAR PANTALOONS DE NIMES. When you have progressed beyond fondling girls in the back seats of cinemas, you can stop wearing jeans. Wear fabrics appropriate to your age, and, who knows, you might even get a quick fumble in your box at the opera.
5 THOU SHALT ALWAYS DOFF ONE'S HAT. Alright, so you own a couple of trilbies. Good for you - but it's hardly going to change the world. Once you start actually lifting them off your head when greeting, departing or simply saluting passers-by, then the revolution will really begin.
6 THOU SHALT NEVER FASTEN THE LOWEST BUTTON ON THY WESKIT. Look, we don't make the rules, we simply try to keep them going. This one dates back to Edward VII, sufficient reason in itself to observe it.
7 THOU SHALT ALWAYS SPEAK PROPERLY. It's quite simple really. Instead of saying "Yo, wassup?", say "How do you do?"
8 THOU SHALT NEVER WEAR PLIMSOLLS WHEN NOT DOING SPORT. Nor even when doing sport. Which you shouldn't be doing anyway. Except cricket.
9 THOU SHALT ALWAYS WORSHIP AT THE TROUSER PRESS. At the end of each day, your trousers should be placed in one of Mr. Corby's magical contraptions, and by the next morning your creases will be so sharp that they will start a riot on the high street.
10 THOU SHALT ALWAYS CULTIVATE INTERESTING FACIAL HAIR. By interesting we mean moustaches, not beards.

http://thechap.net/content/section_manifesto/index.html

senorwipesalot · 10-04-2011 4:31pm

Heres the latest in headwear for bald guys.

MOD Edit: Porn link removed.

Poster banned.

Pwindedd · 10-04-2011 4:33pm

Post 18 - Love it !

Post 19 - Yuk, just plain yuk!

spitfireIRL · 10-04-2011 4:33pm

only way to wear a hat

landsleaving · 10-04-2011 4:35pm

spitfireIRL wrote: »

only way to wear a hat

I'd like to caution others who are considering this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1EPP6uts0

OutlawPete · 10-04-2011 4:40pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Sure all he has to do is shave off that goatee, turn into a black and white setting and stand non-chalantly on some stairs and it's the same image!

Oh really?

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Agricola · 10-04-2011 4:46pm

I wear a beanie alot in winter but thats more a utility thing. As soon as I go indoors, its off. I dont get these fashion victims who wear these massive david beckham style woolen hats while inside!

Wearing a fedora or something would be a different matter. In todays day and age its only really for doctors or older gentlemen of a jaunty persuasion.

WoollyRedHat · 10-04-2011 4:47pm

OutlawPete wrote: »

Oh really?

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Aha, I see the problem now, what you bought is actually not in actual fact the hat you see the man with the goatee standing posing on the stairs wearing!

Superbus · 10-04-2011 4:51pm

Agricola wrote: »

Wearing a fedora or something would be a different matter. In todays day and age its only really for doctors or older gentlemen of a jaunty persuasion.

That phrase is so beautiful it makes me want to cry.

later12 · 10-04-2011 4:56pm

My father has a chimneystack top hat which is probably about a hundred years old. Because this would never fit anybody in the family (heads were a lot smaller when these hats were worn) it was given to me to wear at fancy dress parties and so on. Well through the earliest years of primary school, I fell in love with it to such an extent that I decided to sneak it into school one day, and when the teacher's head was turned to the blackboard, I promptly donned my top hat so that when she turned around, one of her children looked like the Artful Dodger.

Even worse, because the top hat was slightly big for me, it tilted slightly, so I would walk around looking like a slightly camper version of that.

This is why I don't wear hats.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 10-04-2011 5:08pm

brianthebard wrote: »

A silly thing women wear to the races and such.

OP some people link the downfall of hats with JFK's inauguration, since he was the first US president not to wear one at that event. I think its a little simplistic, and is more likely linked to wider fashion trends, although perhaps that event serves as a useful marker in hat chronology so to speak...

Complete urban myth.