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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[–] 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm a keen wearer of hats. Balding man living in the skin cancer capital of the world. My daily is a felt pork pie hat, but I have a few fedoras in various brim widths and colours, and my most recent was a genuine Panama hat that I probably spent too much money on for special occasions that I actually haven't worn much. I somehow lost my old faithful flat cap, which still upsets me, and I have a beanie with the slogan 'bald as shit' embroidered on the front for winter. I feel a bit naked if I go outside without a hat these days.

I can recommend The Hat Store if you're in Aus. Not sponsored, just a satisfied customer.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    In summer I wear a straw cowboy hat, protects my neck and face from sunburn, cools my head. The same reason cowboys wear them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    Nice. I also have a cheap straw broad brimmed hat from Bunnings like the one pictured elsewhere in this thread if I'm going too be in the sun a lot, which I generally try to avoid. They're prefect for that.

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