Men's fashion is dreadfully boring, but one thing we used to have was a profusion and proliferation of different hats we could wear.

I know the m'lady meme and mall ninjas have forever cursed the fedora (as well as the actually, that's a trilby crowd), but those memes postdate the decline of the hat by several decades.

Currently, we only have baseball caps and beanies in common circulation, with impractical-for-sidewalk-use cowboy hats being the only extant outlier.

Does anyone long for the return of the hat and/or have any insight into what caused their decline?

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[–] [S] 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yes, but the ones I see Ecuadoran women wearing look like felt fedoras, no straw panama, but I could be mistaken.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Ecuador has a ton of different indigenous communities, but the hats you're talking about probably originate in Otavalo

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    It's part of a uniform--fedora, braided hair, sweater, long skirt, black shoes. I saw it a lot near Quito, but didn't get very far out.

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