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?
I’m not sure where you are but, around here it’s pretty common to have some kind of hat. As you mentioned it’s usually a baseball cap but, we do have sunblockers(I think thats the name?), fisherman caps and occasionally straw hats.
I have never been a hat guy though, I occasionally will wear a ball cap but it’s only if I’m going to be outside a lot.
Yes, outside of trucker/baseball caps, we do seem to fulfill the utilitarian need to shade our heads and shoulders from the sun in the most boring ways possible. Women do wear some delightfully large straw hats to garden and to go to the beach.