Or an Orthodox Jew or someone who wears headwear for religious reasons. This doesn’t include hipster douchebags who enjoy dying on the hill of “You can’t tell me what to do!” That doesn’t work for anyone over the age of about nine. In anyone older than that, it’s just petulant and dickish.
You folks need to read this thread: Is it rude to remind adults to say ‘Please’ ?. That applies to telling people to take off their hats, or really comment on any stranger’s sartorial choices. It’s 100 percent none of your business.
I always find it bizarre when people desperately grasp to some arbitrary subset of a decades or centuries old behavioral code while conveniently forgetting all of the other parts of that code, and the fact that the code even when it was extent only applied to members of that particular culture. Sort of like that guy with the Leviticus tattoo.
Your restaurant really has no place whining about hats if it lets men in without a jacket and tie and your waiters are dressed in polo shirts.
Behavioral codes change over time and vary between subcultures. And this is a good thing. If the price for the gradual end of racism and sexism and homophobia is that everyone wears hats all the time, that’s a trade off that is laughably easy to accept.
Wha? What if the price of wearing hats all the time is a 300% increase in shipwrecks? Not so easy to accept now, is it.
No, but I can still judge them for it.
There’s no obvious correlation between those things. But there is between intelligent adults deciding new behavior is helpful and old behavior is not.
I see no obvious correlation between haberdashery and racism either. Provide evidence for your supposition or admit that mine is just as likely.
I just did. The correlation is that when people are intelligent and think for themselves, they realize there is a rational basis and a real world benefit to overcoming racism.
Whereas there is no rational basis or real world benefit to not wearing a hat. It is merely a cultural artifact.
While the intent behind the gesture itself is still meaningful, the adherence to an arbitrary particular manifestation of it is not. Especially outside the context of which it was created, and in the absence of other tropes of that context.
Yes, I too like to dress up my flouting of societal norms in progressivism.
Wear your hat indoors if you must, but let’s not turn it into some sort of stand, ok.
I don’t think anyone has had to make a “stand” about wearing a hat indoors since about 1971. This alleged social norm has been obsolete almost since I was born.
I’ve never even heard of it. Is it a local custom?
sniffs Maybe where you’re from.
If you’d like, I’ll take a poll for the next week and let you know the number of people I see wearing hats indoors. I expect it will be quite low.
No.
Only if you take the time to count people who have hats and take them off.
Hats other than baseball caps are coming back into fashion (have been in fashion for a while, really), but the wide majority of people still don’t wear them. Simply observing people without hats tells you nothing unless you know they have a hat in their possession at the time.
It’s been so long since I wore my own hat that I forget what I did, but I’m pretty sure I left it on inside most of the time and only took it off when I wanted to, not because social norms demanded I did.
Not sure, it might still be popular in the south or midwest, but where I live it’s something only people over 60 care about, usually the same ones still using various bigoted epithets. 
Although they do still seem to enforce it in courts and some churches. But since the judge and priest are forced to wear much more ridiculous outfits, I can’t complain too much.
Since I expect the answer to be zero, I’m not really concerned about whether they have a hat or not.
Note that I do feel it is important to take off your hat when it actually is rude to wear it, such as when it physically obstructs someone’s view, or it’s close quarters and it’s poking somebody. In those sorts of cases it’s a rational decision.
Then such a poll would be meaningless for this purpose.
So people who don’t wear hats at all are all automatically following a rule about removing hats indoors?
I bought a nice hat a few days ago and it should arrive in today’s mail.
I was sitting at a bar having a beer. On TV (no sound) I saw a guy wearing a very cool hat. I had no idea who the guy was, then his name appeared on screen. It was a guy named Cedric the Entertainer. Never heard of him until then.
So I opened my iPad and searched “Cedric the Entertainer hat” and found out the dude has a hat business. Looked at a few and placed my order. 
Removal indoors will be taken under advisement.
To derail a derail, I don’t think that orthodox jews need to wear headgear indoors. I think it’s purely an outdoors thing to show humility to god. I think orthodox jews have amazing style
If I were a resteraunter, I wouldn’t have the balls to tell you to take your hat off because you’re obviously a mad man who has gone completely rampant and I don’t want to tangle with you.
What I MIGHT do is provide you with a compolsory giant white safety over-hat, to ensure that whatever your hat is doing doesn’t fail in doing it while you dine. You will be absolutely safe in wearing this large white foam safety hat that resembles a bum.
Please, take your hat off when you’re dining. It’s just common courtesy.
Dang, somebody should tell his web designer that having clickable popup images in the Gallery is completely pointless when the popup images are exactly the same size as the thumbnails.