Do you remember...Hats?

My dad wore a fedora. My husband wears one of these:
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It looks like a gangster hat from the old days.

My son loved hats when he was 4-7 years old and had to have anything unusual or goofy. He insisted on wearing hats all of the time, except to sleep in. Just one of those phases kids go through. He was cute, though.
 

My Dad always wore a fedora when when he went out in his overcoat in the winter even after he retired. Had a white straw sort of bucket shaped hat he wore to do outside work in the summer & a white “painter’s hat for some other jobs. When I was a teen & young adult I don’t remember guys wearing anything but a wool hat in the winter & once in awhile maybe some jokey hat. Use to be only thugs wore their hats backwards.

But what I want to know is when & why did men stop taking their hats off indoors? Everywhere even nice restaurants, Performances & lectures, all those backward or frontward baseball hats or fakey looking cowboy hats. Even in dr office waiting rooms.
 

It's strange I don't remember my dad wearing a hat although I know he sometimes must have. He never went off to work, but only out the back door of our house into his Mom&Pop grocery/meat market. He had a beautiful head of hair.
Bowmore is never without a hat outside because of skin damage from the sun. He was not blessed with a beautiful head of hair. ;)
Since there's little these days to keep us entertained I give you the fashion show I insisted on. o_O
The German hat The Irish hat The conductor hat The engineer hat

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Contrary to popular opinion I didn't wear this and I can't recall any steel horse cowboy who did.



Anybody who wore this mess didn't work for AMTRAK. Everybody in the operating department called that logo the "pointless arrow".

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Fyrefox said:
There was a time when a man, to be considered fully dressed, wouldn't venture outside without wearing a hat. Now I'm not talking ball caps, or worse yet, ball caps worn backwards; I'm talking real hats of recognizable style. Watch old black-and-white movies, and you'll see men wearing them. Watch old newsreels, and you'll find a sea of hats wherever a crowd of men are depicted. My father wore a hat going to or returning from work every day, even in summer heat. It was expected, and was part of the male uniform of the day. Even boys wore caps. Can you imagine Indiana Jones without his rakish fedora? I don't think so...

Do you remember when men routinely wore hats, those relics of a dressier age? What memories do you have of them?

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My dad always wore a fedora when he was dressed up.
 
I remember the days when I used to waste hrs doing hair and makeup and trying to decide what to wear for a date. Lots of wasted life right there. LOL
 
I was once sat at the side of a river in Scotland, fishing, minding me own business, when there was this big bang, and me 'at flew off me napper into the river.
It turned out that there was some drunken grouse shooters about, anyway, me napper is still sort of intact, though me 'at is like a colander......😊
 
Ferocious said:
I was once sat at the side of a river in Scotland, fishing, minding me own business, when there was this big bang, and me 'at flew off me napper into the river.
It turned out that there was some drunken grouse shooters about, anyway, me napper is still sort of intact, though me 'at is like a colander......😊
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Better your hat than your head.
 
bowmore said:
My hat does not have the "pointless arrow". I have a logo pin for the Fillmore and Western tourist RR that I volunteer on.
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That's a pretty cool setup. Your homepage is very professional too. Some of the Florida rail museums should only look as professional. Radio equipped it says on the side of the diesel. Do you know what frequency you're on? I don't see it listed in the Radioreference database for Ventura County.

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Nice
 

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