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?

  • spudsrus@aussie.zone
    10·
    2 天前

    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:

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 天前

    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.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 小时前

      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?

      • RBWells@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 小时前

        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.

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 天前

      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.

      • RBWells@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 天前

        Yes I know it’s my problem, not the hat wearing man’s problem. It’s from seeing guys on stage using hats that way, I think.

  • modus@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 天前

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

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 天前

    I don’t like hoods or umbrellas so I wear hats in bad weather. Or strong sun.

    Baseball caps are ok for bad weather since it stops the rain getting on my face, but if it’s really tipping it down I’ll often wear a waterproof, waxed-cotton bucket hat I have. In good weather I have my trusty tarp hat which is awesome.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 天前

        I have a waterproof hoodie that looks like cotton. Unfortunately it doesn’t breathe or stretch like cotton, and most importantly the hood doesn’t stand up enough to keep the rain off

  • Hildegard (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    231·
    3 天前

    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!

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 天前

      I wore these as my main winter hat for the longest time but had to switch to beanies when I worked in the trades. Now I’m struggling to justify the cost since I spend a lot less time outdoors in the winter…

      But man, I love these hats.

  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
    52·
    3 天前

    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.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOP
      11·
      3 天前

      I know. And every time I try to find a hat in a store, they are all too small. So I guess that leaves online, but that’s a different experience to trying on the exact hat you’re going to buy.

      I’ve played with the idea of buying a hat stretcher to broaden my thrifting possibilities…

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 天前

        I once found a Sterkowski flat cap in my exact size at a thrift shop. Been riding that high ever since. I also ordered online from them once with good results. Those are caps rather than hats, but it scratched the same itch for me.