To the men who always wear a hat does this include indoors at work? I know plenty of people who are both losing, lost and have all of their hair and while some of them always wear hats or caps very very few wear them once they are inside.
Only baseball hats and thinking now very few where I work - large national corporation - are worn inside. And those are usually when they are just coming into the office, but they seem to take them off once they get to their desk.
Hair or not it is kind of interesting when I think back to those guys who are defined by their baseball caps over the years.
My late mother tried everything in her power to get me to wear caps, but my head is large and they never looked right.
I’m going bulbed (as my daughter calls it), and I wear a hat not so much to hide that fact, but rather keep from getting melanoma on the top of my big bulbed head.
When I wear a hat it makes me look 6 months younger. Do not hate.
Like so many, I wear one for sun protection in summer and cold protection in winter. But I don’t on summer evenings or indoors. My oldest (about to be 25) grandson always wears a hat (except when he is acting–he is trying to break in to theater). It seems to be his signature. I don’t know any other reason for it.
“It’s their signature” as Hari Seldon puts it, is the gist. You start out with an innocuous reason for it. With very long hair (down to my waist), my reason for wearing bandannas is that it keeps my hair from whipping around wildly and getting in my face if it is windy or I feel like having the car windows down. It’s amazing how easily my hair will whip around in a small breeze and how much a simple bandanna contains it. Wear it enough though, and people expect it. You leave it off and people start commenting on it being gone, like you’re some kind of side show. So you put it on so they’ll shut up about it. It feels nice on your head and becomes associated with going out. You style it appropriately with your outfits since you wear it so often. People make a bigger deal out of it if it’s missing. Fellow bandanna wearers turn it into some kind of club situation. Now you wear it all the time because it’s easier to deal with that way and it’s part of your look. You’re trapped in bandanna land. But hey, at least your hair is out of your face.
I could have started this thread. In fact, I have considered doing so.
I hate hats, and I can’t for the life of me relate to the mindset of grabbing a hat as I head out the door or get dressed for the day.
OK, sometimes a nice fedora can make a certain dude (not me) look snappy. But any male over the age of 18 who wears a ball cap out in public - unless his business is playing baseball - automatically gets a WTF and a raised eyebrow from me.
And any grown-assed man who wears a ball cap *backwards * (and is not a catcher) gets both eyebrows.
My boyfriend always wears a baseball cap. I don’t particularly like that he does - I was shocked that he wears it when we eat, I would have thought his mother told him not to do that. Then again his hats are always gross from being worn so much so I suppose it’s better than having a gross hat on the table.
He isn’t suffering hair loss, in fact he has long hair. (To be honest I think NOW he is starting to lose some hair…) But he has crippling social anxiety and his hat is his security blanket. In the fall and winter he adds a hoodie (hood down) to the mix. I’ve seen him sweat buckets at a party rather than take his hoodie off.
It’s his way of hiding.
Some guys wear hats even when it’s inappropriate. A funeral director I know told me about a young woman’s funeral, in a church. She had been murdered. Some friends attended, one guy in a backwards facing baseball cap. Not proper for church, but the family was to broken up to say anything. So the funeral director told him, quietly and discreetly, to take it off. Got a dirty glare, but took it off.
I’ve worn a hat ever since high school days. I do it partly for comfort, and partly because I refuse to be one of those pathetic people who compulsively wear sunglasses.
Judge not…etc…right?
*"I’m no Puritan, but they didn’t dress, if you want to call it that, this way when I was a
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kid. Girls running around without a thing on their heads, not even on to … heads bare-
naked, like an animal.
*It was a good thing Dad hadn’t lived to see it. He never let our sisters come to the table
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without a hat, even if Pat and I were the only unmarried males present."
I recognize that. It’s from Heinlein’s Time For the Stars, correct?
When I am outdoors, and the sun is out, I must wear a hat and long-sleeved shirt due to Actinic Keratosis.
Kinky Friedman: Good cowboys and Jewboys always wear a hat indoors.
I always wear a hat. I walk outside every day, and it keeps the sun off my face. One of my few positive physical attributes is a great “hat face.” When I put on a hat, it just looks great.
I recently went to a free market where the rule was “only one hat.” But when I picked up a second hat and asked if I could have it, the lady at the table looked away so I could take it.
Some years ago a dermatologist I saw for a benign skin lesion casually commented “A hat is your friend”. He apparently saw a lot of skin cancers and precancers affecting the scalp (and we generally don’t routinely scan all parts of our scalp for signs of trouble).
If I’m outdoors during mild weather I wear a baseball-style cap for sun protection (current model is an Astros cap), and in winter a knit hat for sun and cold protection.
Sometimes (especially after a noir film festival) I’m attracted to the idea of wearing '40s-style headgear, but you really need a suit (or long overcoat) to pull it off.
Similar here, but due to vitiligo. Hat and sunglasses when I’m on the water, mowing the lawn, etc.
I wear a hat every day. Have for probably 30 years. I just feel more comfortable with it on.
I’m slightly superstitious, so I get a pair of Red Sox hats at the beginning of each season. If they win, same hat, lose, switch hats.
I build stuff for a living, and I keep my pencil tucked into my hat.
I’ve got friends I’ve known for 20 years who never saw me without a hat until I was a groomsman at a wedding.
I couldn’t find my good* Red Sox** hat this year, you have seen what happened to them as result.
- Good=old most beat up hat that i wore when they humiliated the Yankees by coming back from 3 games down in the ALCS to win the pennant.
** I’m not that much a Sox fan, but I an huge Yankee*** hater, and nothing is better than seeing the Yankees*** lose to the Red Sox.
*** Always spit to clear one’s mouth after mentioning that team.
A very old thread I started in 2007: Do You Have A Hat Face?
Hats either make a person look really cool or like a total dork.
I wear my wool fedora when I go out on cold/rainy days because it keeps my head and face warm and dry.
I also tend to wear old-school khaki trenchcoats in cold weather, so the hat-and-coat combo makes me look like a film noir private eye. 