What Happened to the Hats?

[BOBK]

Ok...I know that hat usage is still happening with a certain crowd, but really...compared to even the late 1800s nobody wears a, lets say, fedora, as a standard piece of clothing.

There was a time when neither a man, nor a woman would be caught without their hat.

Given that the general use, historically speaking -that is, of hat wearing was to protect from the sun, why have we been molded, over some period of time, into NOT wearing a hat?  Why would we suddenly unlearn a most vital fact, which we obviously knew before?

Who was responsible for this change?  Anybody ever consider it?

Just wondering.  

[Swedish_Seb]

In the 1800s being pale meant you didn't work, i.e. you were rich.
Nowadays you're supposed to be tanned so you look like rich people in magazines with glossy pages.

[Lostroth]

i go outside to the garage to put the garbage out....i put on my hat. i always wear a hat. in winter i wear a toque over top of my hat. i hate having the sun in my eyes.

[Lazerblade]

I wear a hat everywhere I go. It's one of my essential accessories. I use my hat to contain everything I carry in my pockets during the day when I go to bed at night. And after my shower, I put everything in my pockets except my comb, which I use to comb my hair, then pocket it, then put my hat on. However, where I now work I'm not allowed to wear my hat all day. Although, if I had a fedora, I might be able to get away with it. I want a fedora too, like the 20's mobsters wore. Or the 30's news reporters. Whichever.

[Fixxxer]

I wear a hat quite a bit. All day at work and when I'm too lazy to do anything with my hair.

[Mutt_Dog]

I constantly wear a hat....usually a ball cap...but I can't wear my Cowboy hat to work....or I would!

[farmboy]

not a fan of hats, honestly.  if i'm outside, i'm doing something athletic and hats have a bad tendency to get in the way (ever tried heading a soccer ball with a hat on?) and make my brow excessively sweaty.  plus i always felt like baseball caps made me look like dumbo.

[Swedish_Seb]

I constantly wear a hat....usually a ball cap

A ball cap is not a hat, Josh, That's why it's called a cap.

but I can't wear my Cowboy hat to work....or I would!

Aw shiet, now I'm gonna have nightmares...

[AirForceOne]

If you wear a hat too much you get bald 

[farmboy]

I constantly wear a hat....usually a ball cap

A ball cap is not a hat, Josh, That's why it's called a cap.

wikipedia says you're wrong.

[Swedish_Seb]

If you wear a hat too much you get bald 

And make your dandruff go bezerk.

wikipedia says you're wrong.

Wikipedia-wikischmedia.

[Rainier]

I'm always wearing a hat or beanie. Actually got a good collection of them come to think of it.

[MaddGIJoe]

I used to always wear hats, but then I started to not like them on me... but whatever.

[Mutt_Dog]

Oh Sebby....A cap and a hat are two in the same!

[Lazerblade]

Hats don't make you go bald:

Hats cause baldness.

A hat — tight or otherwise — doesn't cause hair to go the way of the dodo; hair thinning and hair loss are simply natural parts of the aging process. The mistaken belief hat wearing brings about this condition (we found mention of this belief in a book published in 1929) began during an era when hat-wearing was the rage for men, and people mistakenly concluded one caused the other. The contradictory evidence that plenty of hat-wearing men retained full heads of hair well into advanced age was, of course, ignored.

Source: Snopes

Baldness is genetic and/or age-specific, and often aided by habits such as over-brushing or combing. Length of hair typically contributes to thinning due to split ends. Etc...

Wear hats and worry not.

[BajaBravo]

Hats began to fall out of fashion back in-and-around 1947. Interestingly enough, an Extraterrestrial space craft crashed in Roswell New Mexico July 7th that same year. Coincidence? I THINK NOT! The government wants us to believe that hats are as fashionable as ever, but we all know the truth. The real question is this: Did the Roswell Aliens, who clearly did not wear hats, utilize their advanced technology to manipulate the human race's love of head-wear? Or was it our re-evolution to a hatless society that caught the attention of our intergalactic friends in the first place? The answer is out there.






I hope you have a sense of humour... 

[MaddGIJoe]

Ha, nice one Baja +1 rep for the old Canadian man.

[Mutt_Dog]

Oh damn, hells about to break loose...MGIJ called Baja "old".

[BOBK]

hahahahahahahah Baja...

what's really cool about it is that my older son needed to do a short story for his English class, and we were going to make up a wild story, I mean tell the truth about Roswell like you did.  It was the gradual decline of hat usage, not the detonation of the A-bomb that brought their inquisitive little hive minds to our blue world.

The truth is up there.

[Swedish_Seb]

Nononono, you've got it all wrong. The government, with the aliens' help, made us stop wearing hats so that their mind-control machines would work better.