After reading the thread on grooming how do you feel about proper etiquette concerning hats?

RadishRose said:
They think they're hiding their baldness.

A lady does not remove her hat indoors if it is part of her ensemble.

A gentleman removes his hat indoors, when meeting a lady, or at least "tips" his hat to her. If a gentleman or a lady is in formal military dress uniform they do not remove their hats.

I can't remember about the military in dress uniform removes the hat in church or not.
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I was married for many, many years to a military man.

Military personnel, even in formal military uniform, MUST remove their hats ("covers") indoors with the exception of while attending military funerals in uniform.
 

Sunny said:
I wonder how hats achieved such ritualistic significance? Both removing them for certain occasions (men indoors, dining with others, hearing the national anthem played), and being required to wear them for others
(religious requirements for some, formal upper class attire at horse races) probably have long historic reasons behind them. They stand for a lot more than just "well, that's how I was brought up, that's what they did in the good old days, etc." I bet an entire sociology book could be filled up with the historic significance of hats.
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Good Point Sunny....I've never thought about it before but yes there must be some historical significance behind the removal of hats... or as you say having to wear them in certain circumstances. I remember when I was a child all adults had to wear hats in church on Sundays..so hats were big business then.. hardly anyone wears a hat in church now..hardly anyone GOES to church now..at least here...
 

hollydolly said:
Good Point Sunny....I've never thought about it before but yes there must be some historical significance behind the removal of hats... or as you say having to wear them in certain circumstances. I remember when I was a child all adults had to wear hats in church on Sundays..so hats were big business then.. hardly anyone wears a hat in church now..hardly anyone GOES to church now..at least here...
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That's interesting. Men always removed their hats and women always wore hats in Roman Catholic churches. What religion required hats on all people?
 
Big Horn said:
That's interesting. Men always removed their hats and women always wore hats in Roman Catholic churches. What religion required hats on all people?
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Orthodox Jews are always covered, men by their Kippah and married women by their Sheitel.

I don't think I have ever seen an Amish person with a bare head. I have seen the men lift their hat to wipe their brow or whatever, but have never seen a Plain Womens bare head.
 
My husband only wears a hat if he is out in the sun and then it's one with a wide brim. He takes it off on the porch and doesn't make it into the house with it on his head. I don't mind at all if men wear a hat in a house or restaurant. I know one lady who would always make a big show about demanding men take their hats off in her house. I think I heard somewhere once that it's rude to point out someone else's rudeness. I just hate to see people poking and picking at others all the time. Save that for the big stuff, like if he tracks mud in the house.

Several years ago I read somewhere that tight brimmed hats, which I guess is about any hat, make the hair follicles over heat and after a few years of this they start falling out. True or False? I don't know but I do know that usually when a guy takes off his cap he is bald. At lest in my neck of the woods. I wonder if that is why the director, Ron Howard, usually wears a cap?
 
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