By now you have an idea about why you need to begin wearing men's hats (if you're a guy, that is). It begs the question, should all guys wear a hat?
Obviously some men just will not wear a hat. Some men are prima donnas in that way, and they think that a nice hat will mess up their gorgeous flowing mane. I've never been able to understand that thinking but that's a different story.
Similarly, many men will find that owning a single hat is just not an option. They'll need to buy ten or twenty to fit the occasion.
I remember reading Theodore Geisel's biography (Dr. Seuss) and he said that when he and other writers were stumped with writer's block, with a twinkle in his eys, Geisel would open the closet door and pull out a large selection of hats. He'd then say, "we need to put on our thinking caps. Choose one." It's a great story that illustrates the need for owning more than one hat.
The first thing I'd recommend is that you toss all of your baseball caps. Our society is positively inundated with caps. How incredibly boring and mundane! We need some class. We need style.
That does it, I'm coining a new slogan: Scrap the Cap! Okay, perhaps it's not the most creative slogan that ever existed, but it makes the point. We can do better than mere baseball caps.
I think the country music singers have it right. You'll see many of them in some sort of cowboy hat. Those hats, too, have the potential of becoming monotonous (what if everyone wore cowboy hats? That would be equally as boring as the baseball caps, despite the twelve or twenty different ways you can wear a baseball cap on the noggin).
But that's what makes the world an exciting place to live in. We have variety. We have a thousand different brands of toilet paper. Certainly we can be creative with the men's hats that are sold and marketed in the stores. That's what I think the problem is, marketing. And again, I digress.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Men's Hats, A Thing of the Past?
It has been said that men's hats are a thing of the past, something from a different era, something we'll probably never see again in our lifetimes. Or are they?
Well, you would never know it by looking around today, but until recently all men wore hats in public (women did too but that's for a different article). Check out those 1930s and 1940s baseball games. Not only were the men decked out in stylish men's hats and golfing caps, but they were wearing full suits and ties too.
When's the last time you saw a man in a suit at a ball game? It's been awhile, hasn't it? Look at how far we've fallen in public decorum! Can we not get any more creative than a baseball cap turned backwards, or worse, sideways?
Now consider this, back sixty or seventy years ago, was there an obsession with baldness like there is today? Hint: to find that information you only need to watch a few black and white movies of that era. I've watched a fair number, and I don't recall any comments about a man being or becoming bald. It just wasn't discussed in the movies.
Whether or not it was discussed in public is open for light debate. And yet you know that things haven't changed that drastically.
Again, you see in the movies that when the men take off their hats, a significant number of them were bald or balding. What does that say about our society in general?
So either the men wore hats to hide their baldness, for which there's no indication that it was a bad thing to be, or there were other reasons. I suspect it was to cover over their baldness, to adorn their heads, and to not stand out in a crowd (since everyone else would be wearing one).
For practical reasons, in the winter the men wore the so-called "men's hats" to keep their heads warm. Scientists and doctors tell us that 80% of body heat is lost through the head. Wearing a hat in the winter, while it wouldn't protect the ears, it would keep the body heat from going out the top. Then when summer came men just never removed the hats. But that's a discussion for another day.
In the next article, I'll discuss the various types of men's hats. And still to come is how to buy, care for, and wear men's hats.
fear of heights
Well, you would never know it by looking around today, but until recently all men wore hats in public (women did too but that's for a different article). Check out those 1930s and 1940s baseball games. Not only were the men decked out in stylish men's hats and golfing caps, but they were wearing full suits and ties too.
When's the last time you saw a man in a suit at a ball game? It's been awhile, hasn't it? Look at how far we've fallen in public decorum! Can we not get any more creative than a baseball cap turned backwards, or worse, sideways?
Now consider this, back sixty or seventy years ago, was there an obsession with baldness like there is today? Hint: to find that information you only need to watch a few black and white movies of that era. I've watched a fair number, and I don't recall any comments about a man being or becoming bald. It just wasn't discussed in the movies.
Whether or not it was discussed in public is open for light debate. And yet you know that things haven't changed that drastically.
Again, you see in the movies that when the men take off their hats, a significant number of them were bald or balding. What does that say about our society in general?
So either the men wore hats to hide their baldness, for which there's no indication that it was a bad thing to be, or there were other reasons. I suspect it was to cover over their baldness, to adorn their heads, and to not stand out in a crowd (since everyone else would be wearing one).
For practical reasons, in the winter the men wore the so-called "men's hats" to keep their heads warm. Scientists and doctors tell us that 80% of body heat is lost through the head. Wearing a hat in the winter, while it wouldn't protect the ears, it would keep the body heat from going out the top. Then when summer came men just never removed the hats. But that's a discussion for another day.
In the next article, I'll discuss the various types of men's hats. And still to come is how to buy, care for, and wear men's hats.
fear of heights
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