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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[–] 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Women don't wear hats much either. I only do at the beach, or sometimes the Korean Grandma visor to do yardwork, but never really for fashion. I do have a witch hat, I guess that is for looks but certainly not fashionable. It's too hot here to really wear anything warm; and like OP, once I put head and hair in a hat I'm not whatever the standard size is.

I don't really love hats on guys, it makes me think they are hiding balding. I like bald guys fine, the hiding it is what I don't like.

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    I don't really love hats on guys, it makes me think they are hiding balding. I like bald guys fine, the hiding it is what I don't like.

    Have you considered that they might be wearing a hat because their head is cold?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Not around here, no. To keep the sun off, yes. Those are generally deeply unfashionable hats like my grandma visor is on me, though. Or those baseball caps.

    I think OP was talking about hats as a fashion accessory though.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I don't really love hats on guys, it makes me think they are hiding balding. I like bald guys fine, the hiding it is what I don't like.

    Intellectually, I know that's preposterous. I hope you know that's preposterous too.

    But now this anecdote will exist as a speck of dust in the corner of my unconscious: the possibility that someone's assuming my hat-wearing form is trying to hide my very-obvious baldness. I now wear my hat in defiance of your assumptions, and that's heavier than I planned for my hat fashion.

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