Why Have Most People Stopped Wearing Hats?

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• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  TL;DW “after WWII people sought more relaxed casual attire, spent less time exposed to the elements and rode in cars more where hats were cumbersome”

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yup. I do notice how many people don’t even think to wear hats for sun exposure anymore and end up regretting that pretty quickly.

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  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I always thought it was also because Kennedy didn’t like hats. He felt bad, so he still carried a hat because his friend was a hat maker.

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    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Interesting

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    less time exposed to the elements

    That’s my take. Convincing my little kids to at least bring a hat when we canoe or hike, like I’m torturing them. Last hike we got rained on, “Why you keep wiping your face like that? OH, bet you wish you had brought your new hat!”

    They’re cooking in the sun while I dip my hat in the river and slap it on. No problems here!

    My wife is far wiser. Despite being a city girl, like, never-been-in-the-woods-before city girl, she learned quick. We easily have 20 hats between us. And spares at camp, in the car, in the truck, everywhere.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    hoods are superior to hats anyway. I will never buy a jacket or coat without one.

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• AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My hypothesis is cars. Most hats are a pain in the ass with a car

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, he mentioned that. Makes a lot of sense to me.

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    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I just realized this was a video and not a discussion thread. My bad, lol

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  • fishpen0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve definitely noticed significantly more people still wear hats in the city. Walking all over the place and taking trains and busses means way more outside exposure day to day so could explain why more people still wear hats around here.

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  • No1@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hmmmm. If there were only some way of being in a car with a hat without having it on your head.

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    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Depending on the size of your car and how many people are with you it’s a pain in the ass.

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• kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hats are back

  Fashion has declared it to be so

  …I am fashion, for the first and only time ever.

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• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Most people aren’t bald.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  hoods are superior to hats anyway. I will never buy a jacket or coat without one.

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  • fleabomber@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe in the winter. Sun protection don’t need a coat.

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  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hooded cloaks will make a comeback once the heatpocalypse turns into the next ice age

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    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hell yeah bring back that medieval roguish look.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No good in the rain, too hot in the sun.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Great historical video

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I saw that in my feed and thought, “because it’s a needless pain in the ass most of the time unless it has utility?”

  When every man and woman had to wear a hat whenever they went out and those hats did very little to do things like keep them warm or cool (especially women’s hats)… what’s the fucking point?

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