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?
Yes, but the ones I see Ecuadoran women wearing look like felt fedoras, no straw panama, but I could be mistaken.
Ecuador has a ton of different indigenous communities, but the hats you’re talking about probably originate in Otavalo
It’s part of a uniform–fedora, braided hair, sweater, long skirt, black shoes. I saw it a lot near Quito, but didn’t get very far out.
Yes, lots of indigenous come to Quito for work. They are more populous in the South of the city. But you’ll see even more of that in Otavalo
Ah, then nevermind. There are a decent amount of ecuadorians near me too, but I’ve never noticed them wearing fedoras, I’ll have to keep an eye out.