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?

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      5 days ago

      Yes, I keep waiting for the male pattern baldness to really commit to hat wearing; it’ll be my consolation prize for getting older.

      I knew a guy going through chemo and he was always wearing these lovely Tibetan hats.