The current state of modern men with hats.

No one is stopping you from wearing anything. You can wear a Fez covered in glitter if you want.

I ignore fashion and wear hats for good sun protection because Australia... Trend to opt for a legionnaire large enough to cover the face if needed.

Something like this:

Cars. Blame cars for the lack of hats.

The car has a roof and climate control. Hats are much less needed for staying comfortable when moving around outside if you're taking a car.

Any type of hat that has a brim on the back cannot be worn in a car with headrests. Many cars lack the headroom for tall hats. You have to remove your hat to get in the car. Its enough of an inconvenience to cause its decline.

The one kind of brimmed hat that is common today is the baseball hat. The brim is only in the front; the hat isn't tall. You can just wear it in the car without thinking about it like most other garments.

So unless you're content being the "hat guy," (you can definitely make the hat work) your only option is to abolish the automobile as the primary mode of transport. Good luck!

You know you can still buy hats, right? Like any kind of hat you want. They're still made. It's just, we spend much less time outside, and outside is also much less dusty.

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.

They need to bring back nacho sombreros with queso in a divot at the top

Fashion should be about your expression, not about what is popular. If you long for something, wear it. The only thing that really made the fedora/trilby toxic was that a bunch of people jumped on a hype train because they viewed it as a short cut to being fashionable. Making it inherently inauthentic. The speed at which they ditched those hats only proved the point that they were wearing it not for themselves, but for the opinion of others.

Authenticity will always be fashionable. Not everyone will like your style/fashion. What matters is that you love your style more than anyone, because then the opinion of others won't matter.

People still make those old hats. Measure the size of your dome. Find one you love. Wear the shit out of it.

I like the humble Ushanka

Wear whatever you want. People are boring dipshits on average anyways, so why value their whining.

I want tricorns to come back in style

I just think they are neat.

"Hat guys" wear bucket hats and flat caps these days

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I wear a bucket hat. Keeps the sun off my head. Do I care what I look like?

Not at all. It's colorful too.

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.

I’d have to find that excellent video again but essentially the answer is pretty simple: cars. Basically the purpose of the hat pretty much disappeared over night once everybody started riding inside them (sun and rain protection). Moreover, they were very impractical to keep on while driving so people stopped taking them out with them and yeah, poof.

Anyway, this summer I did what I said I would never and bought myself a magnificent, expensive Panama hat. And yes, it so happens to be a fedora (I know, I know). I love it, I instantly got a dozen compliments on the first week, and I decided I would single handedly revive the fashion. Join me.

I have a minnetonka outback hat. Its leather and its 20 years old, I wear it whenever I have the chance. I get comments and compliments every time I wear it.

Be the example, wear that hat you long to see.

The anti-hat people can fuck off, I wear what I like, although most of the timt it's a Greek fisherman hat, and I own them in about eight different colours. I do have a trillby and occasionally wear it.

I bought this beauty from a gent on the Internet. I have hat for days.

I wear a flatcap every day. I consider this to be a hat, for all intents and purposes.

A wildcard vote for the bunnings hat:

Fashion? Why?

I do wear a wide brimmed hat to shade my face and neck on sunny days. Exposure to sun causes cancer.

You have to do it fashionably. Most men can't do that. They wear a fedora without a skincare routine, they don't wear fitting clothes and often don't work to smell nice.

The result is similar to people who drive shitty cars with a stylized paint job. It just looks worse than a regular paint job now.

Because having a hat is a huge pain in the ass.

No, my hair is glorious.

I already wear a hat pretty much every day.

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

This really depends on what types of events you attend and the people you associate with. I rarely see baseball caps (and almost never a cowboy hat), but I routinely see flat caps.

Check out whatever merch shops have at whatever events you attend. Most sell hats of some sort, and probably more than just baseball caps.

Or, better yet, just wear whatever you want to wear without worrying about how others see you. Making your fashion choices based on how others will see you will never make people respect you.