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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[–] 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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