I’d have to find that excellent video again but essentially the answer is pretty simple: cars. Basically the purpose of the hat pretty much disappeared over night once everybody started riding inside them (sun and rain protection). Moreover, they were very impractical to keep on while driving so people stopped taking them out with them and yeah, poof.

Anyway, this summer I did what I said I would never and bought myself a magnificent, expensive Panama hat. And yes, it so happens to be a fedora (I know, I know). I love it, I instantly got a dozen compliments on the first week, and I decided I would single handedly revive the fashion. Join me.

you might like the hat historian on youtube

Wear the hat you want to see in the world!

No, and I hate that it somehow became socially acceptable to wear them inside.

Eh. In winter I wear my wool fedora. Rest of the year I wear flatcaps as smart casual, snapbacks with street style or my Tilly when I’m up and about outside the city.

I have good hair so I never really got into hats until recently. I realized I don’t mind getting wet when it’s raining a little, except I want protect my glasses from getting rained on. So I bring a hat but skip the jacket, unless it’s raining heavily. I feel like carrying around a jacket isn’t worth the trouble. Plus my apartment has a covered garage. I can only get so wet in the few seconds it takes to get inside from parking. Plus most of my jobs have had covered parking.

Personally I don’t like how hoods block your peripheral vision. I have a fondness for the old hat + trench coat combination, although I own neither. I just like a waterproof baseball cap.

I already wear a hat pretty much every day.

Last when it was too hot outside for my noggin (which happens rarely hereabouts, even though I’m balding), I tore a square of white cloth from the rag heap in garage (meant for motor oil and suchlike), folded into a doube triangle, and tied the whole mess onto my noggin (apex goes behind, hypotenuse on the forehead, knot behind again).

What’s that called? A bandana? Probably not a turban.

I’m a keen wearer of hats. Balding man living in the skin cancer capital of the world. My daily is a felt pork pie hat, but I have a few fedoras in various brim widths and colours, and my most recent was a genuine Panama hat that I probably spent too much money on for special occasions that I actually haven’t worn much. I somehow lost my old faithful flat cap, which still upsets me, and I have a beanie with the slogan ‘bald as shit’ embroidered on the front for winter. I feel a bit naked if I go outside without a hat these days.

I can recommend The Hat Store if you’re in Aus. Not sponsored, just a satisfied customer.

Cars. Blame cars for the lack of hats.

The car has a roof and climate control. Hats are much less needed for staying comfortable when moving around outside if you’re taking a car.

Any type of hat that has a brim on the back cannot be worn in a car with headrests. Many cars lack the headroom for tall hats. You have to remove your hat to get in the car. Its enough of an inconvenience to cause its decline.

The one kind of brimmed hat that is common today is the baseball hat. The brim is only in the front; the hat isn’t tall. You can just wear it in the car without thinking about it like most other garments.

So unless you’re content being the “hat guy,” (you can definitely make the hat work) your only option is to abolish the automobile as the primary mode of transport. Good luck!

I do not care at all about fashion. I throw on a ballcap if it’s sunny and I’m doing yardwork or it’s raining and I want to keep the rain off my glasses. More rarely, if out in intense sun for a long time, I have a couple of other hats. That’s the extent of the time I’m wearing hats (and that’s more because I need to than ever want to).

Depends on where you live. Sunhats are pretty normal around the world. Other types of men’s headwear are commonplace in specific countries, and some religions have religious men’s headwear.

Fashion? Why?

I do wear a wide brimmed hat to shade my face and neck on sunny days. Exposure to sun causes cancer.

It’s sad because hats are so practical, I was at an outdoor event on the weekend getting toasted in the sun with just a trucker hat, because I didn’t have the balls to wear my much more practical and protective cowboy hat

You know you can still buy hats, right? Like any kind of hat you want. They’re still made. It’s just, we spend much less time outside, and outside is also much less dusty.