Why did we stop wearing hats?

[Onyx]

We are dealing with the concept of Fedoras for men's wear but I wasn't aware that hats were banned in schools.

The vast majority of schools anyway.

 

[rightwinger]

They usually trace it to JFK who didn't normally wear one

 

[whitehall]

We are dealing with the concept of Fedoras for men's wear but I wasn't aware that hats were banned in schools.

The vast majority of schools anyway.[/QUOTE
Why on earth would public schools ban the wearing of hats?

 

[westwall]

In every old movie, you could see similar images as the above. I was just wondering, what happened that most people stopped wearing these kinds of hats. and when?

I still do! But then I'm old!

 

[Nosmo King]

Celebrities control fashion. JFK did not wear a hat and so goes the fashion. In 1934 Clark Gable starred in Frank Capra's It Happened one Night. There was a scene in which he took off his shirt and did not wear an undershirt. Later that year, it was noted that there had been a sharp downturn in men's undershirt sales.

 

[yiostheoy]

Social conformity and social conditioning.

Hats have been banned in schools for several generations, so we are raised up not used to wearing them. If someone tries to wear a casual wear heat in public, they look out of place, so therefore no one does it.

I don't mind looking out of place.

I also don't mind being the only one armed with a full sized 45ACP under my cut-off sweatshirt either.

 

[Onyx]

I don't mind looking out of place.

I also don't mind being the only one armed with a full sized 45ACP under my cut-off sweatshirt either.

Aren't you cool?

 

[yiostheoy]

Why do people still wear ties?

I only wear ties to weddings or funerals.

Never even to church (Mass) either.

Certainly never to work.

 

[yiostheoy]

I don't mind looking out of place.

I also don't mind being the only one armed with a full sized 45ACP under my cut-off sweatshirt either.

Aren't you cool?

Yay though I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil,
For there is nothing on this Earth that I cannot kill.
I don't care about "cool".
I care about alive.

 

[Nosmo King]

I don't mind looking out of place.

I also don't mind being the only one armed with a full sized 45ACP under my cut-off sweatshirt either.

Aren't you cool?

Yay though I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil,
For there is nothing on this Earth that I cannot kill.
I don't care about "cool".
I care about alive.

Then I guess the appropriate comment is; aren't you scared?

 

[Slyhunter]

Sun Glasses made hats obsolete.

 

[Onyx]

Yay though I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil,
For there is nothing on this Earth that I cannot kill.
I don't care about "cool".
I care about alive.

 

[skye]

I adore fedoras .... I think men wearing fedoras are so dandy!!!!I have some pictures with fedoras myself ...but I love caps too ...vintage caps

me here wearing a cap (I cut my hair though, long hair is not so fashionable now....I have a wavy bob now )

 

[skye]

This sort of cap....a 1920s kind of cap


does anybody here collects vintage hats?

 

[Moonglow]

This sort of cap....a 1920s kind of cap


does anybody here collects vintage hats?

My grandfather did..

Darn okie sod busters...

 

[skye]

That's beautiful (((Moonglow)))

Thank you!

 

[Moonglow]

That's beautiful (((Moonglow)))

Thank you!

He looks more like a gangster farmer....That pic is from 1937, with Grandmother and aunt Peggy....

 

[skye]

That's beautiful (((Moonglow)))

Thank you!

He looks more like a gangster farmer....That pic is from 1937, with Grandmother and aunt Peggy....

Gorgeous picture! and if it's from 1937 hundred times better!

Thank you again!

 

[Moonglow]

My other grandparents were farmers also, until the war...My Papa wore nothing but cowboy hats....

 

[Moonglow]

Americans don't toil in the sun like they used to, therefore hats are worn less... I wear a baseball style hat everyday....but they are not good for working in the hot sun, since they don't cover parts of the head or neck that is need shaded......