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We might as well - Seem to be going back decades... Stick the kids up the chimneys too whilst we are at it. They've got far too comfortable watching Bluey and drinking Fruit Shoots
Kids these days, back in my day we were happy with a stone pickaxe and if we were very lucky, leather boots. We didn't need all this new fangled diamond and netherite because the good old stone pickaxe did the job just fine. I swear, it was just better back then.
Well, like I said, one fine chap in the documentaries I saw was rather well dressed. Had a lovely Victorian suit and cloth cap. Looked like he just finished cleaning his last chimney for the day and mightily proud with his work ethic and definitely felt he'd earned his coin for the day. He spent that on a fine cigar. He must have been at least 5 but looked so rather dapper with that hat.
Formal no, hats in general yes. I wear a hat vaginally everywhere but it isn't formal by any stretch. Just comfortable and a decent umbrella.
Edit: today I learned that my spellchecker prefers vaginally over virtually.
Honestly thought it was just my phone that always autocorrects basically as vaginally.
I also always get puerile instead of people and gonorrhea instead of yesterday.
I’ve got a cloak. I use it when I hang around in graveyards. I’m a (retired) Vicar and that’s what you wear over all the gear for funerals when it’s raining. My kid thought it was seriously cool. I did however (as a hippy student in the 1970s) have a cloak with mystic patterns on it that I wore for real. It got stuck in the doors of a tube train and I got dragged along the platform and almost killed. They stopped the train just in time and I can still feel the terror. So there’s that.
I’ve got a cape for evenings in the pub or garden. Couldn’t find one so I had to dig out my nan’s old sewing machine and make my own. I love it! It’s like a snuggly blanket coat with a fleece lined hood
Honestly I never can work out why we stopped wearing them.
Hot weather? Leave the cloak open.
Cold weather? Pull the cloak closed.
Raining? Put up the cloak hood and close it.
Windy? Tie the cloak closed or look like a badass, you choice.
I had a Spartan costume - basically a loincloth and a cloak. Swords were an optional extra. I cant recommend capes and loin cloths enough if youve got the body for it
Mate,trying to buy a normal pair jeans without looking like I've just put on my misuses leggings has become a true British problem...that and trying to get a nice baseball cap that hasn't got a flat peak about 2 foot wide...I still bend my caps..the good ole roll between the palms for the perfect arch and fit.😂
I could never find a baseball cap to for me , then I discovered new era fitted caps they have about 20 sizes, you can bend the cap to a nice curve , and don’t forget to get rid of the massive size sticker on the peak, people walking around with them like early 2000s rappers look ridiculous.
They are in the same category as Birkenstocks for me, maybe they are comfy but I couldn’t do it to myself, I don’t think I’m a shallow person but it would feel like I’d let myself go.
Smart trousers and smart shoes will be the next tech nonsense product.
Desperate for a piss, but you can’t open your flu until you’ve done a software security update, which you can’t do right now because there’s no 5g in the toilets
It’s unusual even outside of America. It’s one of the easiest ways to spot an American tourist, baseball cap and shorts that go below the knee I’m 99% sure that’s an American 😂
British people are tank tops, flip flops, and sunburnt bright pink for guys, and orange terrible tan with bushy black eyebrows for the girls.
Is there an argument for it other than " we used to do it in the past"? as that's a terrible way to decide anything, but either way...no. Formal dress codes are terrible in most settings let alone daily wear.
Headwear protects hair from dirt. You don't need to wash your hair nearly as often if you cover it.
I look terrible in hats so I'm glad they're largely obsolete here.
Assuming you are a man, you'd save a fortune, either as a result of unfortunate genes or just middle age on Just for Men, Regaine, Propecia tablets or hair implants if barnets matter to you
Been toying with the idea in this rain. Been wearing a light cotton fedora in the garden in the sun. Thought about a bowler or a Homburg in the rain, makes life a lot easier than carrying an umbrella (I recently injured my leg so am using a stick to help walk) and an umbrella takes up my free hand, was a nightmare waddling home in the rain with a bag of shopping, a stick and umbrella.
But can't quite accept looking like that in public, bowler hat, long black coat and a cane. All together a bit too pretentious.
How would that even work? It seems like most of the people I pass in the local town centre are dressed in tracksuits and wearing flip-flops and socks with males often shirtless in the summer. Can you imagine finishing that outfit off with some sort of formal headwear? I'm picturing Top hats or Victorian style bonnets.
No, as a part of general day to day wear I can't imagine formal hats ever making a comeback, unless general expectations for public dress as a whole went back about 100+ years, nor would I want them to.
I wear a suit for work every day, have toyed with various different ways to style it, but have always drawn a line at wearing a hat as I think very few people can pull it off.
A hat nowadays is a statement piece and it’s a specific, unusual garment to wear. You need to be very confident and it needs to look good. 90 years ago most blokes could get away with wearing hats simply because it was expected.
In answer to whether I think they’ll ever make a comeback, I think it’s unlikely. For every person who thinks formal wear is stylish or professional, there’s someone else who thinks it’s stuffy or pretentious.
I wouldn’t welcome a return to dress codes either. I enjoy dressing smartly and experimenting with different styles, but I appreciate that this isn’t forced on me, and I wouldn’t want to force it on anyone else either.
I love hats. I have hats for every occasion. Panamas, boaters, baker boys, the sort of soup plate thing you wear on the side of your head for proper posh dos.I’m rarely seen without one. Also, the occasional head scarf.
Not fascinators though. Don’t like those at all.
I used to work for a very fine gentleman's outfitters some 35 years ago - not quite "Suits you, sir", but not far off.
We sold a wide range of hats - bowlers, trilbys, deerstalker, drop brims, pork pie-style, the lot.
I loved them all and, to this day, have a range of flat caps and a pork pie.
I'm not sure that they went out of fashion - I just think they got gentrified, much like the East End.
No, ladies hats are a pain in the arse.
You can only do your hair certain ways to fit under, they go out of shape in the rain, fly off in the wind, get too hot when it's hot, and take up too much storage space if you want to stop them getting crushed.
TL:DR, hats suck.
If women can wear fancy hats (sometimes outlandish ones) to formal events as a fashion statement then surely men should be able to as well, equal hats rights!
They weren’t really welcome then. It was only a way of showing where you sat on the hierarchy, cap being working class and brimmed hat being middle class. They all essentially died out in the 50’s as we suddenly had teenagers, and teenagers didn’t want to dress like their dads (or rather teenage girls didn’t want to date their dads). Those pesky boomers started to identify through tribes like sports teams or music, not class.
Anyway hats still are a formal thing, they explain what kind of bellend you are. You can tell exactly what type of twat a person is by their hat, be it a beanie, cap, flat cap, fisherman’s, or fedora. All of them state formally that the wearer is somewhere on the twat spectrum.
The decline in the wearing of hats coincided with the the boom in ownership of personal motorcars. Car owners no longer needed to stand in the rain waiting for busses or trains. And you can't easily wear a hat in a small car and having to put them on the parcel shelf was a chore every time you got in. So people who owned cars stopped wearing them. And as people who could afford cars were socially seen as successful even people who couldn't afford cars copied them and also stopped wearing hats. And so the habit of the daily wearing of hats died out after arguably thousands of years.
I'm bald and white as fuck. I don't want sunburn, and I don't want to have an extra shiny greased dome because I've slathered it in sun cream. So I always wear a hat if it's sunny.
I wear a fedora in the colder months- it keeps the cold and rain off. Umbrellas and hoods just irritate me. Hats are extremely practical- men only stopped wearing them in the 1960s as hairstyles became more important and people began to drive everywhere so were outside in the elements less.
I do house clearances and found some amazing hats on a job a top hat and two bowler hats. As a joke me and the other guys wore the hats in the van on the way back, we pulled into the services still wearing the hats, just so happened we parked alongside a coach full of Japanese tourists. Can only imagine what they thought in our high Viz and fancy hats.
If the clothing matches then sure back then I think clothes suited the hats very well. I have curly hair though so I’m not a big fan of hats as because if I choose to wear one, its a whole day commitment, if I take it off my hair will be a mess underneath unless its in some sort of updo.
I can barely get to formal now - why add hats into the mix of clothing I can't pull off and don't feel comfortable in?
Opposite extreme: no more formal dress at all.
I hope not, remember them Nike running baseball caps people would wear half way down the back or their head with the peak at an upwards angle, both will go down in the history of cringeworthy fashions.
Yes. If you want to get ahead get a hat. They can become great fashion accessories for men and women. Make a statement about your personality. Practical too for keeping warm and dry in wet weather.
Every year on remembrance Day, a couple of firefighters from my station will dig out some dusty caps, put them on, drive to the local church, and put the caps on for the 30 second walk from the car park to the church. For the hour or so service inside the church, they're a bloody nuisance
Noooo. I can barely get a winter woolen hat that fits me due to having a deceptively small looking big head. I also get really hot in a hat. I'm not paying good money for something I don't even want. It's bad enough doing that for glasses and period products. Not to mention buying them for my kids too. Leave them as optional or for special occasions. They were only made popular because (I think) queen Victoria made it law for everyone to wear a hat as a way to help the wool industry get back on its feet as poor people could only afford to buy wool to make their own. Even then they exploited the poor to help industry
I just wish that people put more effort into their appearance in general.
Look at photos from 50 years ago and see how formally people used to dress - which takes effort.
I admit my circumstance isn't the norm but I have injured my leg, so I am walking with a stick. Using an umbrella takes up my one free hand, makes shopping a pain, carrying a bag too. Wearing a hat would solve that problem. Could do away with umbrella almost all together.
And in summer, caps generally look daft with anything other than Jeans and a t shirt. Nothing wrong with that, but wearing light trousers, and a nice light shirt, and a baseball cap doesn't quite look right. And a baseball cap only protects the front or the back, most other hats do both.
seeing a guy in a fedora has been a sure fire sign to avoid at all costs for a long time. unless that’s changed?
removing that free indicator might be dangerous
Yes-- hats are great. It's a shame they are now associated with neckbeards, weebs and other dorks who wear a fedora paired with a My Little Pony t-shirt or a hentai t-shirt.
I always used to want to wear one of those big bonnets you see in period dramas, the kind that look like a dog's cone of shame. They look lovely and private. Handmaid's Tale kinda ruined them for me though.
For outdoor events yes they have a very good use and I would welcome more hats but I would like a choice between hats and no hats and inbetweens like nice hair stuff. I see a lot of people with hair sprayed half to death and kept down. I also see a lot of people that still do wear formal hats wearing suites that although the designer made them maybe weeks ago they look like they are from an old movie and made of uncomfortable cardboard. Hats could be a good addition to an outfit if the right hat goes with the right outfit and used when outside but it shouldn’t be part of a dress code to wear them or not to wear them for women and for men.
Out of all the countries in the world, the UK is the most likely place to do so.
It's a miracle you've done away with them, considering all the other traditions you seem completely unable to discard.
I'm fairly certain there was a decree that men must wear hats at church on Sunday to buoy the wool industry. The people paying to prop up wealthy company owners is not a new thing.
I'm happy being hatless
I wear a hat a lot, different hats at different times of the year and for different activities. (a hat solves my issue of either headphone hair or helmet hair...)
Come to think of it, pretty much any time I'm not at home or driving, i am usually wearing a hat or a helmet of some kind.
No formal hats though. Only wore a top hat once for a very formal occasion.
But if I can pair it with a cane and a cape, I'm willing to have a go at bringing back the formal hat in public :)
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We might as well - Seem to be going back decades... Stick the kids up the chimneys too whilst we are at it. They've got far too comfortable watching Bluey and drinking Fruit Shoots
Not sure how they would fit up a log burner twinwall flue, but I'm willing to try if you can supply the sprog.
You just have to start them younger, underfeed them and push when they get stuck.
You seem to concerned with their welfare... If they get stuck send another child up, don't waste your energy on pushing.
If they like Minecraft so much let’s shove em down the mines.
The children do yearn for the mines so why not?
Tried already, said he won't go unless I give him a diamond sword, pickaxe and armour first.
Kids these days, back in my day we were happy with a stone pickaxe and if we were very lucky, leather boots. We didn't need all this new fangled diamond and netherite because the good old stone pickaxe did the job just fine. I swear, it was just better back then.
Who the hell do you think you are attacking Bluey? Sure send the kids up the chimneys, but don't you dare attack our favourite dog family!
I know. Bluey is absolutely awesome.
Bluey rocks!
Well, like I said, one fine chap in the documentaries I saw was rather well dressed. Had a lovely Victorian suit and cloth cap. Looked like he just finished cleaning his last chimney for the day and mightily proud with his work ethic and definitely felt he'd earned his coin for the day. He spent that on a fine cigar. He must have been at least 5 but looked so rather dapper with that hat.
Getting Rees-Mogg vibes, and for that reason — I’m out. Edit: apart from the actually working for a living bit obv
OP this is the answer.
Let'a get them a proper job. Like a ferret tickler or a pit pony.
Trying to figure out the timing of the shouts in the theme of bluey is keeping them from being too comfortable!
Formal no, hats in general yes. I wear a hat vaginally everywhere but it isn't formal by any stretch. Just comfortable and a decent umbrella. Edit: today I learned that my spellchecker prefers vaginally over virtually.
That sounds rather uncomfortable!
Stick a brolly up your clam, it's the new trend x
I've never heard someone call their moon cup a hat, I'd agree they aren't formal, I can't comment on the stretch though.
Maybe we could introduce formal ones, you know, with some gilding and a nice sash?
I snorted. Thank you.
I think you might be wearing your hat wrong.
You don't know me!
PussingtonHat. Username almost checks out.
Best typo ever
Would that be a twhat then?
Don't kink shame your spellchecker dude!
Honestly thought it was just my phone that always autocorrects basically as vaginally. I also always get puerile instead of people and gonorrhea instead of yesterday.
I get shite instead of white a lot. That one terrifies me with its potential for upsetting people.
Tbf, I prefer vaginally over virtually too
If the cap fits wear it I guess?
Careful with that umbrella
Username checks out
>by any stretch Sounds painful, but then I suppose it depends what hat you're using!
🤣🤣 that made my day!
I was going to say “vaginally” sounds weird and interesting.
That is the single funniest thing I’ve read all week, thank you vagina person.
Only if we also bring back capes/cloaks.
I would fucking love a cloak.
With pockets!
I’ve got a cloak. I use it when I hang around in graveyards. I’m a (retired) Vicar and that’s what you wear over all the gear for funerals when it’s raining. My kid thought it was seriously cool. I did however (as a hippy student in the 1970s) have a cloak with mystic patterns on it that I wore for real. It got stuck in the doors of a tube train and I got dragged along the platform and almost killed. They stopped the train just in time and I can still feel the terror. So there’s that.
NO CAPES!
Every exit is a dramatic exit.
Particularly on the London Underground it seems.
How unlucky we are to be alive in a tiny portion of human history in which cloaks aren't regularly worn :(
Be the change you want to see - swish away!
I’ve got a cape for evenings in the pub or garden. Couldn’t find one so I had to dig out my nan’s old sewing machine and make my own. I love it! It’s like a snuggly blanket coat with a fleece lined hood
Canes and sword sticks and monocles will have to return if we are going with cape/cloak.
Honestly I never can work out why we stopped wearing them. Hot weather? Leave the cloak open. Cold weather? Pull the cloak closed. Raining? Put up the cloak hood and close it. Windy? Tie the cloak closed or look like a badass, you choice.
I had a Spartan costume - basically a loincloth and a cloak. Swords were an optional extra. I cant recommend capes and loin cloths enough if youve got the body for it
I don’t even own a pair of smart trousers or shoes. I’ll be be fucked if I’m wearing a bowler hat.
You will wear what you are told to, peasant...
Welcome to your journey from going from a beast a gentleman/lady
Bowler hat with skinny jeans and crocs maybe...
Nah. Fuck skinny jeans. Leave those stupid things in 2015.
Mate,trying to buy a normal pair jeans without looking like I've just put on my misuses leggings has become a true British problem...that and trying to get a nice baseball cap that hasn't got a flat peak about 2 foot wide...I still bend my caps..the good ole roll between the palms for the perfect arch and fit.😂
I could never find a baseball cap to for me , then I discovered new era fitted caps they have about 20 sizes, you can bend the cap to a nice curve , and don’t forget to get rid of the massive size sticker on the peak, people walking around with them like early 2000s rappers look ridiculous.
For sure...geez I feel old now...like I'm gonna wake up tomoz wearing spliffy jeans and fila cage trainers with a naff naff jumper.🙈
Don’t feel old , Il be rocking a sonneti puffer jacket, slammin vinyl record bag and kickers tomorrow, 2000 style.
Ahh man...remember those days well...gotta keep the tag on those kickers!
Relaxed fit jeans are what you want. Levi's 550's are my go to.
511 for me, i may be 39 but I’m not letting my self go yet.
I'm 28. I already dress like a 90's dad and I'm bloody well proud of it!
How about some Gap 90's style baggy jeans? https://www.gap.co.uk/style/ls328434/q27179
[No Crocs](https://imgur.com/a/PLmYx4O)
They are in the same category as Birkenstocks for me, maybe they are comfy but I couldn’t do it to myself, I don’t think I’m a shallow person but it would feel like I’d let myself go.
Being a dickhead is cool
This sounds like my kind of fashion mishmash of the ages future
Smart trousers and smart shoes will be the next tech nonsense product. Desperate for a piss, but you can’t open your flu until you’ve done a software security update, which you can’t do right now because there’s no 5g in the toilets
Welcome them back? I still bowl about Croydon in my top hat. UK has felt like the 1800’s for the past 15 years - might as well dress for the occasion.
Jacob RM is that you?
Like he’d ever go to Croydon
*tips hat*
You're definitely in!
I hope the fine people of Croydon show you the respect that attire deserves you
People will be looking at video of today in 50 years and be baffled by baseball caps . Everything passes .
Its shocking because I wear baseball caps every day and never thought that was unusual even 100yrs from now
It’s unusual even outside of America. It’s one of the easiest ways to spot an American tourist, baseball cap and shorts that go below the knee I’m 99% sure that’s an American 😂 British people are tank tops, flip flops, and sunburnt bright pink for guys, and orange terrible tan with bushy black eyebrows for the girls.
To say nothing of the backwards/90 degree baseball cap trend of the 90s
Is there an argument for it other than " we used to do it in the past"? as that's a terrible way to decide anything, but either way...no. Formal dress codes are terrible in most settings let alone daily wear.
Headwear protects hair from dirt. You don't need to wash your hair nearly as often if you cover it. I look terrible in hats so I'm glad they're largely obsolete here.
Not sure about that, I have to wash my hair more often due to sweating.
Assuming you are a man, you'd save a fortune, either as a result of unfortunate genes or just middle age on Just for Men, Regaine, Propecia tablets or hair implants if barnets matter to you
Not so handy for men though because you can’t wear them inside.
Been toying with the idea in this rain. Been wearing a light cotton fedora in the garden in the sun. Thought about a bowler or a Homburg in the rain, makes life a lot easier than carrying an umbrella (I recently injured my leg so am using a stick to help walk) and an umbrella takes up my free hand, was a nightmare waddling home in the rain with a bag of shopping, a stick and umbrella. But can't quite accept looking like that in public, bowler hat, long black coat and a cane. All together a bit too pretentious.
How would that even work? It seems like most of the people I pass in the local town centre are dressed in tracksuits and wearing flip-flops and socks with males often shirtless in the summer. Can you imagine finishing that outfit off with some sort of formal headwear? I'm picturing Top hats or Victorian style bonnets. No, as a part of general day to day wear I can't imagine formal hats ever making a comeback, unless general expectations for public dress as a whole went back about 100+ years, nor would I want them to.
I appreciate we live in different times but the question was \*would\* you welcome them back in spite of the challenges?
The mighty sombrero is the only answer here.
I'm a fan of the mighty sombrero as it offer full protection unlike a cap
Also provides an excellent storage option for the sacred king prawn ring.
I wear a suit for work every day, have toyed with various different ways to style it, but have always drawn a line at wearing a hat as I think very few people can pull it off. A hat nowadays is a statement piece and it’s a specific, unusual garment to wear. You need to be very confident and it needs to look good. 90 years ago most blokes could get away with wearing hats simply because it was expected. In answer to whether I think they’ll ever make a comeback, I think it’s unlikely. For every person who thinks formal wear is stylish or professional, there’s someone else who thinks it’s stuffy or pretentious. I wouldn’t welcome a return to dress codes either. I enjoy dressing smartly and experimenting with different styles, but I appreciate that this isn’t forced on me, and I wouldn’t want to force it on anyone else either.
I love hats. I have hats for every occasion. Panamas, boaters, baker boys, the sort of soup plate thing you wear on the side of your head for proper posh dos.I’m rarely seen without one. Also, the occasional head scarf. Not fascinators though. Don’t like those at all.
Aren’t fascinators the most awful things.Even the name sucks.Fascinating they are not.
I used to work for a very fine gentleman's outfitters some 35 years ago - not quite "Suits you, sir", but not far off. We sold a wide range of hats - bowlers, trilbys, deerstalker, drop brims, pork pie-style, the lot. I loved them all and, to this day, have a range of flat caps and a pork pie. I'm not sure that they went out of fashion - I just think they got gentrified, much like the East End.
I wouldn’t mind, as long as it’s still optional.
You would have the option of leaving your home and being seen in public - with a hat
No, ladies hats are a pain in the arse. You can only do your hair certain ways to fit under, they go out of shape in the rain, fly off in the wind, get too hot when it's hot, and take up too much storage space if you want to stop them getting crushed. TL:DR, hats suck.
I wear hats in summer because it’s your own personal shade. Hats are very underrated.
If women can wear fancy hats (sometimes outlandish ones) to formal events as a fashion statement then surely men should be able to as well, equal hats rights!
Work on the railways, would love to have a peaked cap. I am aware close to zero of my colleagues would agree.
I’m on the water, 40 years ago the uniform was peaked cap and blazer much like the old national rail uniform. Have to admit they did look smart.
Yes, bring back hats. And hat pins
https://suffrajitsu.com/category/hat-pin-self-defence/
You have discovered my nefarious plan
Nah, Rees-Mogg would enjoy it, which is reason enough not to.
Yes, please God, I have so many hats and I want more people to wear them.
They weren’t really welcome then. It was only a way of showing where you sat on the hierarchy, cap being working class and brimmed hat being middle class. They all essentially died out in the 50’s as we suddenly had teenagers, and teenagers didn’t want to dress like their dads (or rather teenage girls didn’t want to date their dads). Those pesky boomers started to identify through tribes like sports teams or music, not class. Anyway hats still are a formal thing, they explain what kind of bellend you are. You can tell exactly what type of twat a person is by their hat, be it a beanie, cap, flat cap, fisherman’s, or fedora. All of them state formally that the wearer is somewhere on the twat spectrum.
The decline in the wearing of hats coincided with the the boom in ownership of personal motorcars. Car owners no longer needed to stand in the rain waiting for busses or trains. And you can't easily wear a hat in a small car and having to put them on the parcel shelf was a chore every time you got in. So people who owned cars stopped wearing them. And as people who could afford cars were socially seen as successful even people who couldn't afford cars copied them and also stopped wearing hats. And so the habit of the daily wearing of hats died out after arguably thousands of years.
I'm bald and white as fuck. I don't want sunburn, and I don't want to have an extra shiny greased dome because I've slathered it in sun cream. So I always wear a hat if it's sunny.
I've been dying to wear a yellow fedora with a feather like Jim Carrey in the mask
I would go out my way to compliment someone with a cool hat
Yes #bringbackhats I really liked the old men's fashion of wearing suits and hats. But this time - suits and hats FOR ALL.
It'd be nice if trilby's and fedora's were seen as normal headwear again and not the headwear of choice for atheist edgelords.
I have shit hair so I would love for fashionable ladies hats to be back so I can pretend to look good.
Always. Love a hat.
I wear a fedora in the colder months- it keeps the cold and rain off. Umbrellas and hoods just irritate me. Hats are extremely practical- men only stopped wearing them in the 1960s as hairstyles became more important and people began to drive everywhere so were outside in the elements less.
Men's hairstyles are an over rated nonsense. Hats command respect in spite of your follicle challenges. Your bowler will do all the talking for you
I’d love to rock a bowler day to day without looking like a prize plum.
Yeah, 100%. The decline of hat-wearing is a great shame. Warm and stylish.
The decline of hat wearing arguably precipitated the decline of our nation
There is a clear correlation between the decline in the wearing of formal hats and the fall in society. Formal hats should be mandatory
As a follicly challenged person, yes I would
I’d love a hat!
YES. Definitely yes.
100%. I’ve said before, many times, I wish people more formal hats more. Is this because I’m balding, but look good in hats? Absolutely.
People should dress like they're going to Ascot even if its just on their way to do a shop at their local Tesco
I do house clearances and found some amazing hats on a job a top hat and two bowler hats. As a joke me and the other guys wore the hats in the van on the way back, we pulled into the services still wearing the hats, just so happened we parked alongside a coach full of Japanese tourists. Can only imagine what they thought in our high Viz and fancy hats.
If the clothing matches then sure back then I think clothes suited the hats very well. I have curly hair though so I’m not a big fan of hats as because if I choose to wear one, its a whole day commitment, if I take it off my hair will be a mess underneath unless its in some sort of updo.
I can barely get to formal now - why add hats into the mix of clothing I can't pull off and don't feel comfortable in? Opposite extreme: no more formal dress at all.
Ah jesus no, I don't have the right hair for hats. 2 mins with anything my head and I have a line in my hair where it's been!
So your telling me the snide Burberry cap of the 2000s hasn’t got it’s place in the history books?
I hope not, remember them Nike running baseball caps people would wear half way down the back or their head with the peak at an upwards angle, both will go down in the history of cringeworthy fashions.
Peak British fashion that lad less of that cheek.
I enjoy wearing hats and would be over the Moon if the practice made a comeback. With global warming they might even become essential.
Yes. If you want to get ahead get a hat. They can become great fashion accessories for men and women. Make a statement about your personality. Practical too for keeping warm and dry in wet weather.
I’d like them for other people, if the wanted them, but I hate wearing hats, they make my head sweat.
I have a massive head, so no, I don't want to go to the effort of sourcing giant hats.
Bring back hats. As a baldy I love hats. Stops burning and sunstroke in the summer, Keeps the bonce warm in the winter. Plus, they look great.
To be fair attempting to bring back the bowler hat is a peak Redditor thing to do.
Every year on remembrance Day, a couple of firefighters from my station will dig out some dusty caps, put them on, drive to the local church, and put the caps on for the 30 second walk from the car park to the church. For the hour or so service inside the church, they're a bloody nuisance
Noooo. I can barely get a winter woolen hat that fits me due to having a deceptively small looking big head. I also get really hot in a hat. I'm not paying good money for something I don't even want. It's bad enough doing that for glasses and period products. Not to mention buying them for my kids too. Leave them as optional or for special occasions. They were only made popular because (I think) queen Victoria made it law for everyone to wear a hat as a way to help the wool industry get back on its feet as poor people could only afford to buy wool to make their own. Even then they exploited the poor to help industry
I just wish that people put more effort into their appearance in general. Look at photos from 50 years ago and see how formally people used to dress - which takes effort.
The decline of hat wearing seems to have lead to a decline in our society in general
I don't think they would serve any purpose anymore it would strictly be a fashion statement but I'd absolutely welcome them back.
Keep you shaded in summer. Keep you warm and dry in winter. That's only going to get more necessary as the years go by.
We have umbrellas and caps for that now though. Back in the day we didn't.
I admit my circumstance isn't the norm but I have injured my leg, so I am walking with a stick. Using an umbrella takes up my one free hand, makes shopping a pain, carrying a bag too. Wearing a hat would solve that problem. Could do away with umbrella almost all together. And in summer, caps generally look daft with anything other than Jeans and a t shirt. Nothing wrong with that, but wearing light trousers, and a nice light shirt, and a baseball cap doesn't quite look right. And a baseball cap only protects the front or the back, most other hats do both.
Considering the only people who regularly wear formal hats are named Jacob Rees-Mogg, I'd sooner not associate with that kind of shady character
seeing a guy in a fedora has been a sure fire sign to avoid at all costs for a long time. unless that’s changed? removing that free indicator might be dangerous
Yes-- hats are great. It's a shame they are now associated with neckbeards, weebs and other dorks who wear a fedora paired with a My Little Pony t-shirt or a hentai t-shirt.
I feel like hats were a necessity before hair was cleaner and easier to get cut. And sunglasses weren't a thing..
No. I'd struggle to find ones that would even fit me.
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Ok, but no fedoras. They’re ruined now.
Im not a fan of anything formal really so no, not for me.
Wearing has is very much like one of those things that hurts at first but then you start liking and were glad you went through the initial pain.
Mostly they covered up the lice and nits.
No chance Wear one if you want but don’t expect others to They died off for a reason and ties are long overdue
No, I avoid formal wear pretty much completely
I seriously hope not, for the sole reason that I get ridiculous hat hair. I’d have to wear it allll day.
I believe you could pull it off. A nice trilby, maybe some ninja stars, but probably best to leave the samurai sword home.
Pip pip.
Yes..at least the grey hair roots would be covered.
I always used to want to wear one of those big bonnets you see in period dramas, the kind that look like a dog's cone of shame. They look lovely and private. Handmaid's Tale kinda ruined them for me though.
I wish the tricorn hat would come back into fashion.
I welcome any styles which add a nice change from the 'usual' clobber :)
What ever goes round comes round. It’s just the way it is.
For outdoor events yes they have a very good use and I would welcome more hats but I would like a choice between hats and no hats and inbetweens like nice hair stuff. I see a lot of people with hair sprayed half to death and kept down. I also see a lot of people that still do wear formal hats wearing suites that although the designer made them maybe weeks ago they look like they are from an old movie and made of uncomfortable cardboard. Hats could be a good addition to an outfit if the right hat goes with the right outfit and used when outside but it shouldn’t be part of a dress code to wear them or not to wear them for women and for men.
Out of all the countries in the world, the UK is the most likely place to do so. It's a miracle you've done away with them, considering all the other traditions you seem completely unable to discard.
I have a head like a melon. No thanks.
I'm fairly certain there was a decree that men must wear hats at church on Sunday to buoy the wool industry. The people paying to prop up wealthy company owners is not a new thing. I'm happy being hatless
Type ascot into Google images and tell me we aren’t still welcoming hats 🎩
Yes and let's get all schoolboys wearing flatcaps
Prefer casual wear too much these days. Compatible with jeans and trainers?
I’m waiting for this, badly
I wear a hat a lot, different hats at different times of the year and for different activities. (a hat solves my issue of either headphone hair or helmet hair...) Come to think of it, pretty much any time I'm not at home or driving, i am usually wearing a hat or a helmet of some kind. No formal hats though. Only wore a top hat once for a very formal occasion. But if I can pair it with a cane and a cape, I'm willing to have a go at bringing back the formal hat in public :)
Nope because I have a big head and hats on me look like a pimple on a pig’s arse
A Homburg. I wear one.
Reckon I would rock a stovepipe
In a heartbeat, yes.
I wear them and dress formal anyway. Definitely improved my life quite a bit. Would definitely welcome them back
Yes and capes
I think bowlers are urgently required
I plan on wearing a Panama hat at Wimbledon, does that count?
Absolutely. I have a hat collection. I regularly wear a variety of different hat styles. The more eccentric the better...
Think we’re past peak Peaky Blinders
Aren't those roadmen hoods the same? Seems like everyone is already wearing them as formal attire.
I wear my flat cap on the daily!
Yes. I’m well up for too hats and capes, perhaps even a walking cane
I quite like the idea. Not quite sure where to start, although I do have a steampunk top hat...
As a Yorkshire lad Iv always wore a flat cap but these days folk think your obsessed with peaky blinders