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?
“Hat guys” wear bucket hats and flat caps these days
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“Flat” or “curved” is the absolute peak of fashion impoverishment.
eta: I actually do have one of those if I’m going to be in the sun; it’s entirely utilitarian.
This one?
Doesn’t shade the ears unfortunately.
What’s your question exactly?
That’s a handsome hat.
I was refering to the fact that you can wear flat-billed baseball hats or curved-bill baseball hats and that is largely the limit of your structural choices for headwear.
“flat cap” is the name for the hat in the above image.
I wear a couple hats like that. One is from the Canadian air cadets and the other is a souvenir from Peru.
Quite nice. Keeps the sun and rain off very well.