I was out in the street Destroying straw hats Incentivised by a hat store promoter But the sentence was harsh Three days in the can For the judge was a fan of the boater
You're right--the event may have been relatively trivial, but the history is not. He explores the background and the reasons things may have happened, and ignites my desire to learn more.
The destruction of the straw hats at the end of the season reminds me of a Japanese tradition. In Japan when the flower season ends Japanese girls are expected to crush their straw flower baskets beneath their feet. The reason: to teach Japanese children that everything has an ending.
I love the skimmer. A few years back I found a nice antique original still in its box at a flea market. Paid $30 I think. Wear it usually one or two Sundays each summer. One of my favorite pieces of headgear.
To commemorate their high school's 100th year founding, my son's entire graduating class wore blue blazers and straw boaters. Their hats came from Italy and were the same style worn by Venetian gondoliers...very jaunty!
I hope hats come back. Hats are fun and practical. Baseball games= ball cap, tobogganing = toboggan, going to a meeting = Fedora, Driving a semi = trucker's hat, bass fishing = trucker's ha with 'Bass ProShop'logo, row boating = straw boater, riding = helmet, first date = not a trucker's hat, church = depends on ones religion . I am sure many more we should remember or make anew. Love this show,
Believe it or not, there are countries that practice a similar tradition. In Russia, mostly in the large cities, it's shoes. They have a specific shoe (I use the term loosely as indeed it goes on the foot so thus qualifies as a shoe) that is half shoe, half sandal. The shoe is only brought out of the wardrobe when May Holidays arrive. This is usually around the first week in May and never before. In the first week of September, when school starts, they are promptly put back in the wardrobe to await the next May holidays. Typically the men who wear these are about the age of 35 and up. The reasoning behind this shoe is sketchy at best, but definitely originated during Soviet times and still sold to this day, and this reasoning seems to be the most popular. To citizens during Soviet times, money was limited. After paying for necessary things for the month only few kopeka were left over. Their wardrobe was limited due to this and the average Soviet citizen just couldn't go out and by extra pairs of shoes on a whim. To buy a pair of daily shoes "and" a pair of summer sandals usually went beyond their means. Russia can indeed get very hot in the summer, but as a Soviet citizen you really couldn't wear a "Beach Sandal" to work. They needed something in between. Thus the half shoe, half sandal was invented. The problem is, they are incredibly UGLY. Typical designs will be "slots" covering the entire shoe, a shoe riddled with holes or a combination of both. Most Russian men do not have a sense of style and will wear these while in a business suit, and, wear white socks! You can imagine, but, it's May holidays and they "Must" wear them. Not all men as the more modern men's wives refuse to be seen in public with their man wearing them! For Westerners, these shoes have an affectionate nickname.....Cheese Grater Shoes because they remind you of a cheese grater! Over the years they are becoming less visible in public as the older generations pass away, so perhaps they will disappear in 20 years or so. But still, a part of history that "doesn't" need to be remembered!
@@johnopalko5223 Ha Ha! Crocs I believe were originally intended to be used in the garden as far as I recall. Now you have people wearing them everywhere. But man, those cheese graters....
@Michael Yup..political obsession has taken over. People dont even use names. its "that lib" or "that repub". Both sides working identically to widen the gap. Most people refuse to even converse with people of differing political opinion.
The next riot will be the MAGA hat riot I fear. When it comes to domestic terrorism, it's impossible to ignore white nationalists. th-cam.com/video/fbTNpGmZ_08/w-d-xo.html&index=3&list=PLCmmm5S6EO4d9e3pLAV_UFdSU5hUyq1I8
When the six times bankrupted conman, cowardly draft dodger, depraved pervert, pathological liar and notorious tax evader Donald John Trump finally came out of the closet as a radical white nationalist, he instantly repulsed and disgusted every single American patriot. Republicans and Democrats alike.
Are you an American patriot or are you a radical nationalist. Are you pro-America or are you pro-Donald John Trump/Vladimir Vladimirovitj Putin. It is that simple these days.
I love this channel, its so cool to learn about these events in American History that you would never hear about otherwise. They're all so interesting and they give a nice view into the ways of the past.
My grandpa had so many pictures of him in crowds with his brothers, on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. They always had a straw or felt hat on depending on the season. Hundreds of folks all wearing hats. When I was young I wore hats. Had a fedora for a long time. Times have changed.
I'm an old fart but I still wear a felt Fedora or a Flat Cap. I feel undressed without a hat. You can tell a lot about a man by the way and type of hat he wears. Lol.
And in the '60s a hatless JFK started a new trend and men tossed their hats into the closets of America. Nearly for good, until the advent of the baseball hat ughhh.
I love these episodes of the History Guy, especially the ones like this that present events of social history that are little known. My hat is off to you, History Guy!
I actually knew about this one before you posted it this time lol. I love your videos, I wish I had teachers more like you when I was growing up. Better late to learn this stuff than never though. Keep 'em comin'!
John Smith I am a Floridian and regularly wear a Panama. But I will readily admit that I'm a rarity. Almost everyone wears a baseball cap if they wear any headgear.
I wear a boater. My season is April 1- September 30. I don't replace it every year since it's not the $2.50 off the rack from J.C. Penney's. I've had it for well over 20 years. I paid $200 for it and paid another $100 to replace the sweat band when it separated from the mesh liner. October 1 is my felt had day, either a fedora or a Homorg.
I always wondered where that "No-white-after-labor-day" thing came from... Thanks, History guy! As long as I'm here, I have an idea for another video: Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace prize in 1970.
The straw hat riot reminds me of the Chappelle’s Show sketch “True Stories in Keeping it Real” where a gang war was started over someone lightly scuffing another man’s shoes. “Yo, man! Don’t scratch my Tims!”
Back about 1965 the junior high school I was attending had a "fairy hook riot". What we knew as fairy hooks were the little loop on the back of some shirts right between the shoulder blades. I would assume their purpose was for hanging up the shirt on a hook. The fairy hook riot never got to be an actual riot but if you were wearing a shirt with a fairy hook into school, the odds were extremely high the fairy hook would be gone when you went home from school. Some of the attempts to tear off the fairy hook resulted in the wholesale ripping of the shirt. That was the price you paid for wearing the wrong shirt to school.
Never been a hat person. Unless brutal winter weather demands it, thankfully. Never realized what a big deal hat's were to earlier generations. Thanks for some interesting obscure history.👍
I think Shakespeare's line was, "Lord, what fools these mortals be, " which seems even more appropriate. Then again I'm only going by the way Bea Arthur quoted it in an episode of "The Golden Girls." I was too lazy to look it up
On a loftier note... and somewhat on topic... As you have released several episodes centering upon your hat collection, perhaps an episode or two upon the history of & your collection of bow ties!
Hey History Guy. I’m not sure if you’re a football fan but I would love it if you did a video about the Steagles, from when the Steelers and Eagles merged for a short time.
I have a straw boater, I think I'll wear it tomorrow and see if anyone tries to knock it off. They'll probably just point and laugh at the guy in the funny hat...
If any one paragraph in US history best exemplifies the running gag on "The Simpsons" of a seemingly minor collision suddenly exploding into flames it is the straw hat riot of a century ago.
FYI, these were the hats worn by most of the 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn because Army policy at the time required the cavalrymen to buy their own hats and the "straw boater" only cost $.10 at the post sutler's.
I've seen a whole lot of silent-era comedy movies that had hat-swiping/knocking/smashing gags within them... I wonder how many of those gags were inspired by the NYC hat riots?
If you would of released this in April, I would of never believed it. Lol. Apparently when people can't find a good reason to hate each other, they'll resort to anything. Sad yet amusing.
When I was younger, 20-30 years ago, I can remember an old cowboy trying to explain hat eddicate to me. I think it went straw memorial day to labor day felt labor day to memorial day. That didn't last long with the real cowboys though, felt if it's cold straw if it's warm. Common sense won!
Love your hat episodes. People immediately recognize me in summer because i still wear my Army issued DCU Boonie cap that I wore in Iraq. In winter I switch to the gray fleece cap also Army issue. Hey they were free lol, and comfortable, and practical.
I still have my boonie from Iraq as well, in desert MARPAT. I cut the brim very short, as was the fashion in my unit, largely because it pissed off my 1stSgt, who was a chode. I wear the boonie for fishing and camping and the like. I also have my black fleece beanie, which I kept even when they started issuing out the tan ones - the tan were for boots, black fleece made you look salty. I wear that in the winter. My day to day hat is a New York Mets hat, also in desert MARPAT, that I bought the year that MLB had the desert MARPAT hats for Memorial Day.
Sounds like something Al and his bros , Mayer Lansky, Dutch Shultz, the Costello bros, Bugs, and a host of other NY Gangsters might have enjoyed as young toughs
In Texas the rule is still socially inforced when it comes to cowboy hats. From memorial day to labor day one should wear white straw cowboy hat and a felt cowboy hat from labor day to memorial day.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel That's interesting and even more so given that our word for orgy come from the Greek orge which means anger and wrath. I thoroughly enjoy your history lessons!
The discussion of what was acceptable to wear in public in the early 1900s reminded me of my maternal grandparents. My grandpa was born in 1903 and died in 1986. I never saw him outside without a hat or cap, the type he wore depended on the season. I also never saw him inside or out wearing anything but long pants and a long sleeve, buttoned, collared shirt, no matter how hot it was. The most he would do if working out in the heat was turn up the cuffs to just above his wrist. My grandmother lived until 2000 (age 92), and I never saw her wear anything but knee length dresses. They carried that early 1900s sense of modesty and decorum in the way the spoke, dressed, and conducted themselves in public throughout their lives.
New york for me was bad enough but losing my hat was the final straw
Lmao Classic...
David Baldwin Well done.
I see what you did there...
clever, very clever!......
@@ralphsanchico2452 ... ... Hahahahahahaha
I was out in the street
Destroying straw hats
Incentivised by a hat store promoter
But the sentence was harsh
Three days in the can
For the judge was a fan of the boater
Brilliant 😆
Good one . It's not all that often you see "Incentivized" used in poetry.
I'm amazed on how you can turn a rather trivial story into a really interesting one, teaching us all a bit of forgotten history
You're right--the event may have been relatively trivial, but the history is not. He explores the background and the reasons things may have happened, and ignites my desire to learn more.
ha. teachers pet.
salvatornado You clean the erasers.
@@bradleyweiss1089 sounds about right
My hat's off to you for another excellent episode.
I'm calling your father for that response. ;-)
My Grandfather said " if you want to get ahead get a hat"
Three days in jail for that one Sir 😂
The destruction of the straw hats at the end of the season reminds me of a Japanese tradition. In Japan when the flower season ends Japanese girls are expected to crush their straw flower baskets beneath their feet. The reason: to teach Japanese children that everything has an ending.
@Channel Banned
That makes sense, nice info.
I love the skimmer. A few years back I found a nice antique original still in its box at a flea market. Paid $30 I think. Wear it usually one or two Sundays each summer. One of my favorite pieces of headgear.
You saw the ads in the video they were a 1.95.
"What are you in for?" "I smashed a man's hat just to hear it crunch."
'Hat smashing' I was born too late
"My word, man!"
I smashed a hat in Reno just to hear it crunch.
Now when I hear that whistle blowin’
It gets my knickers in a bunch.
Right up there with littering.
That is pretty clever -- what's the worst reason to smash a man's hat
To commemorate their high school's 100th year founding, my son's entire graduating class wore blue blazers and straw boaters. Their hats came from Italy and were the same style worn by Venetian gondoliers...very jaunty!
That's a really cool thing for the class to do
I hope hats come back. Hats are fun and practical. Baseball games= ball cap, tobogganing = toboggan, going to a meeting = Fedora, Driving a semi = trucker's hat, bass fishing = trucker's ha with 'Bass ProShop'logo, row boating = straw boater, riding = helmet, first date = not a trucker's hat, church = depends on ones religion . I am sure many more we should remember or make anew.
Love this show,
My favorite subscription on TH-cam... Thanks for keeping me informed and entertained~!
Believe it or not, there are countries that practice a similar tradition. In Russia, mostly in the large cities, it's shoes. They have a specific shoe (I use the term loosely as indeed it goes on the foot so thus qualifies as a shoe) that is half shoe, half sandal.
The shoe is only brought out of the wardrobe when May Holidays arrive. This is usually around the first week in May and never before. In the first week of September, when school starts, they are promptly put back in the wardrobe to await the next May holidays. Typically the men who wear these are about the age of 35 and up.
The reasoning behind this shoe is sketchy at best, but definitely originated during Soviet times and still sold to this day, and this reasoning seems to be the most popular. To citizens during Soviet times, money was limited. After paying for necessary things for the month only few kopeka were left over. Their wardrobe was limited due to this and the average Soviet citizen just couldn't go out and by extra pairs of shoes on a whim. To buy a pair of daily shoes "and" a pair of summer sandals usually went beyond their means. Russia can indeed get very hot in the summer, but as a Soviet citizen you really couldn't wear a "Beach Sandal" to work. They needed something in between. Thus the half shoe, half sandal was invented.
The problem is, they are incredibly UGLY. Typical designs will be "slots" covering the entire shoe, a shoe riddled with holes or a combination of both. Most Russian men do not have a sense of style and will wear these while in a business suit, and, wear white socks! You can imagine, but, it's May holidays and they "Must" wear them. Not all men as the more modern men's wives refuse to be seen in public with their man wearing them! For Westerners, these shoes have an affectionate nickname.....Cheese Grater Shoes because they remind you of a cheese grater!
Over the years they are becoming less visible in public as the older generations pass away, so perhaps they will disappear in 20 years or so. But still, a part of history that "doesn't" need to be remembered!
Hmm. Sounds like the Soviet equivalent of Crocs.
@@johnopalko5223 Ha Ha! Crocs I believe were originally intended to be used in the garden as far as I recall. Now you have people wearing them everywhere. But man, those cheese graters....
"A part of history that doesn't need remembered." That could be said about many fashion ideas of the past.
You try fashion when shoe made in horse powered tractor factory.
I was looking for the Russian equivalent which has a labor & otherwise class struggle to equal American.
Those damn 1922 millenials, smashing hats and running amuck!
@Michael Yup..political obsession has taken over. People dont even use names. its "that lib" or "that repub". Both sides working identically to widen the gap. Most people refuse to even converse with people of differing political opinion.
The next riot will be the MAGA hat riot I fear.
When it comes to domestic terrorism, it's impossible to ignore white nationalists.
th-cam.com/video/fbTNpGmZ_08/w-d-xo.html&index=3&list=PLCmmm5S6EO4d9e3pLAV_UFdSU5hUyq1I8
When the six times bankrupted conman, cowardly draft dodger, depraved pervert, pathological liar and notorious tax evader Donald John Trump finally came out of the closet as a radical white nationalist, he instantly repulsed and disgusted every single American patriot.
Republicans and Democrats alike.
Are you an American patriot or are you a radical nationalist.
Are you pro-America or are you pro-Donald John Trump/Vladimir Vladimirovitj Putin.
It is that simple these days.
𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀 2020
𝐌oscow's 𝐀ccessory 𝐆one 𝐀gain 😂
Personally speaking, I've had it up to the brim with these shenanigans.
Sounds like they all were mad as a hatter.
I love this channel, its so cool to learn about these events in American History that you would never hear about otherwise. They're all so interesting and they give a nice view into the ways of the past.
Hmm...maybe you should sell History Guy straw hats.
"When straw hats are outlawed, only outlaws will have straw hats."
Funny!
My grandpa had so many pictures of him in crowds with his brothers, on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. They always had a straw or felt hat on depending on the season. Hundreds of folks all wearing hats. When I was young I wore hats. Had a fedora for a long time. Times have changed.
I'm an old fart but I still wear a felt Fedora or a Flat Cap. I feel undressed without a hat. You can tell a lot about a man by the way and type of hat he wears. Lol.
I still wear a panama hat when I go out. I reckon it's fine as I live in FLA.
And in the '60s a hatless JFK started a new trend and men tossed their hats into the closets of America. Nearly for good, until the advent of the baseball hat ughhh.
Baseball caps are incredibly practical for bald men such as myself. Not as a fashion, but a protection device.
The fedora was superior and still is.
@Hunter D I do the same as you.
We Texans still wear our Cowboy hats. However bareheads and baseball caps are more common, even here.
JFK had great hair. He knew better than to hide it.
Very entertaining theme today and a piece of history. Well done as usual
I love these episodes of the History Guy, especially the ones like this that present events of social history that are little known. My hat is off to you, History Guy!
Hat's off to you Sir.
Thank you for yet another great upload 😎
Never hire a man who rolls his own or wears a straw hat. He’s either rolling a smoke or chasing his hat.
But you can trust a man who tucks his shirt into his underpants (if the word on the street can be believed)
My father always said he wouldn't hire a pipe smoker because they spent all their time fussing with their pipe.
@@denniswhite166 Smoking a pipe,is a full time job.
Hmmm, I roll my own smokes and work my ass off. The pipe smokers though, yes lazy.
@@painmagnet1 woe woe woe. Thems fighting words. I work my ass off doing stone masonry and i was just about to step outside and smoke my pipe😅
I actually knew about this one before you posted it this time lol. I love your videos, I wish I had teachers more like you when I was growing up. Better late to learn this stuff than never though. Keep 'em comin'!
Is it only me or others also, after seeing the headline, thought to themselves "What have you done now, Luffy?!"
"STRAW HAT!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
In Florida we wear straw hats year round and couldn't care less what New Yorkers think.
I'm in Florida and I never see anybody wearing a straw hat.
Well, you don't have the changes of season like we do in the northeast. BTW, I'm from Buffalo and we don't care what New Yorkers think either.
But half the folks in Florida are retired New Yorkers !!!
John Smith I am a Floridian and regularly wear a Panama. But I will readily admit that I'm a rarity. Almost everyone wears a baseball cap if they wear any headgear.
At 10:17 how did the whole backdrop change in a snap? History guy you never cease to amaze
I wear a boater. My season is April 1- September 30. I don't replace it every year since it's not the $2.50 off the rack from J.C. Penney's. I've had it for well over 20 years. I paid $200 for it and paid another $100 to replace the sweat band when it separated from the mesh liner. October 1 is my felt had day, either a fedora or a Homorg.
This would make a great movie!
Another excellent video. Thanks!
I should not be laughing, but the English in me is just too strong. "Ahh, the colonies.. They never grow up"
Truth.
I always wondered where that "No-white-after-labor-day" thing came from... Thanks, History guy!
As long as I'm here, I have an idea for another video: Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace prize in 1970.
This video is the reason why I love you channel
The straw hat riot reminds me of the Chappelle’s Show sketch “True Stories in Keeping it Real” where a gang war was started over someone lightly scuffing another man’s shoes.
“Yo, man! Don’t scratch my Tims!”
Have never hears this story. Thank you...
Who knew flash mobs weren't an internet thing... people have always been weirdos 😂🤣 Thanks for this one, was very interesting!
I grew up just outside Huntington, IN. I did not know that, a lot of the old shop fronts were still there but names have changed.
Great episode, I really enjoy these types of stories.
I wonder if we'll reach a place in time where historians will look back at the crip and blood conflicts and attribute it to the color of the scarfs?
Red or blue, Cuz or Blood, it just don't matter...
@@lordflashheart3706 what doesn't matter?
@@jiveturkey9993 It kind of sounds like a lyric
@@jiveturkey9993 sorry, I forget that not everyone is familiar with Ice T's classic "Colors".
@@lordflashheart3706 oh okay. Now I get it. Yes I am familiar with that song it just didn't connect in my brain.
Back about 1965 the junior high school I was attending had a "fairy hook riot". What we knew as fairy hooks were the little loop on the back of some shirts right between the shoulder blades. I would assume their purpose was for hanging up the shirt on a hook. The fairy hook riot never got to be an actual riot but if you were wearing a shirt with a fairy hook into school, the odds were extremely high the fairy hook would be gone when you went home from school. Some of the attempts to tear off the fairy hook resulted in the wholesale ripping of the shirt. That was the price you paid for wearing the wrong shirt to school.
In the 1980's homosexual males were derogatorily referred to as "fruits." By then the shirts' loops had become known as the "fruit loop."
I remember that. No hook on a tee shirt.
Marvellous!!!!! What an amazing story. Thanks again and incidentally September 15 is my birthday 👍👍
the photo at 04.13 is of italian author emilio salgari , creator of sandokan and many other characters
Sometings never change.
The only TH-cam channel that I like before the History Guy speaks.
Hey History Guy - You need a straw boater hat up there on your wall!
Wow, so someone tell the dudes that visited area 51 recently that This is why the Aliens arn't here. We'll start a fight over anything
So it's the aliens that are behind the destruction of straw hats! How could we have been so blind?
Thanks for a good start to my Monday, Hat's off to you Sir!
Man, you couldn't make this stuff up!
More hat history episodes, please.
th-cam.com/play/PLSnt4mJGJfGhaqf9Nk_fkzRlQNrsB2iMb.html
Three days in jail or a spanking, a strange punishment in an era whose violence has been previously documented. Thank you, Sir.
You should already have a PBS time slot of your show weekly....for real
Dark times indeed for old Hatty Hattington, head Hatter of the Harlem Hat Society...
...I'll let myself out...
Different styles can look quite different on a person. We need to bring back some old styles.
New Yorkers don’t need a reason to do stupid, it’s their city’s past time.
NYC got the nickname "Gotham" from Washington Irving, after a village in England that, by legend, was entirely populated by fools.
7:35 That is the first time I have ever heard of hats referred to as skypieces.
Someday I'm going to use that phrase. No one will know what the heck I'm talking about, but I will be satisfied.
It used to be a thing in Britain, classicly the rich wore top hats, the workers wore flat caps and the foreman wore a bowler.
Never been a hat person. Unless brutal winter weather demands it, thankfully. Never realized what a big deal hat's were to earlier generations. Thanks for some interesting obscure history.👍
your head needs radiation protection more and more. Really, it does.
The more things change,the more they stay the same.
History Guy, you would ROCK a straw hat, with the bow tie you would look like you stepped out of the 20's:)🇬🇷☮️
You there, young man. Ten cents to you for every straw hat you smash. 🤔 yeah I can see that being a thing.
How strange these mortals be.
I think Shakespeare's line was, "Lord, what fools these mortals be, " which seems even more appropriate. Then again I'm only going by the way Bea Arthur quoted it in an episode of "The Golden Girls." I was too lazy to look it up
So I took off my hat and said imagine that!
On a loftier note... and somewhat on topic... As you have released several episodes centering upon your hat collection, perhaps an episode or two upon the history of & your collection of bow ties!
Much less history there- i mostly buy them on eBay.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel thank you for your reply. Still though, an episode upon the history of the necktie, bowtie, cravat, etc. would be interesting.
great work, sir
This hat has long been associated with vaudeville. I’ve seen some of our Sesame Street friends wear these hats on the vaudeville stage.
I never go out without wearing a hat.
You should make a history of hats, it's a fascinating item of clothing.
I never knew my favorite type of hat had such an interesting history. I wish boater straw hats would come back in style.
Hey History Guy. I’m not sure if you’re a football fan but I would love it if you did a video about the Steagles, from when the Steelers and Eagles merged for a short time.
Loved this video.
@The History Guy In regard to clothing and riots, you probably should do a segment on the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in the 40's.
I have a straw boater, I think I'll wear it tomorrow and see if anyone tries to knock it off. They'll probably just point and laugh at the guy in the funny hat...
If any one paragraph in US history best exemplifies the running gag on "The Simpsons" of a seemingly minor collision suddenly exploding into flames it is the straw hat riot of a century ago.
FYI, these were the hats worn by most of the 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn because Army policy at the time required the cavalrymen to buy their own hats and the "straw boater" only cost $.10 at the post sutler's.
People do crazy things!
Calvin Coolidge that notorious risk taker and fashion icon.
"The Susquehanna Hat Company??? That's the kind of hat I was wearing when I was killed..." :)
Just try wearing a MAGA hat in NYC and see if the NY Times comes to your defense.
I guess the tradition of hoodlums knocking off people's hats is still alive.
The Puns in the comments! Oh god they are too much!
I should be going to bed... yet here I am watching a video about hats.
I've seen a whole lot of silent-era comedy movies that had hat-swiping/knocking/smashing gags within them... I wonder how many of those gags were inspired by the NYC hat riots?
I blame the Susquehanna Hat Company on Bagel Street.
the Susquehanna Hat Company was on Floogle Street.
It was on Bagel St. where that woman's husband was killed by a safe.
If this didn't come from the History Guy, I would not believe it.
These people must've been mad as hatters...
Perhaps the most interesting thing Calvin Coolidge ever did.
If you would of released this in April, I would of never believed it. Lol. Apparently when people can't find a good reason to hate each other, they'll resort to anything. Sad yet amusing.
When I was younger, 20-30 years ago, I can remember an old cowboy trying to explain hat eddicate to me. I think it went straw memorial day to labor day felt labor day to memorial day. That didn't last long with the real cowboys though, felt if it's cold straw if it's warm. Common sense won!
‘Grosgrain’ is pronounced GROW-grain, not GROS-grain (Alterations tailor here-I’ve made the same mistake).
Just looked it up and Google says you are right.
Thank you.
"Grosgrain" contributes to the origins of the word 'grog'.
vinepair.com/articles/the-definitive-history-of-grog/
Good to know!
Imagine such uncivilized behavior in NYC today. Shocking!
Lol... I hear ya... Wink wink..he he he
Have you been there recently?
This is Awesome!!
Susquehanna hat company! Niagra falls, slowly I turn, step by step...
Love your hat episodes. People immediately recognize me in summer because i still wear my Army issued DCU Boonie cap that I wore in Iraq. In winter I switch to the gray fleece cap also Army issue. Hey they were free lol, and comfortable, and practical.
I still have my boonie from Iraq as well, in desert MARPAT. I cut the brim very short, as was the fashion in my unit, largely because it pissed off my 1stSgt, who was a chode. I wear the boonie for fishing and camping and the like. I also have my black fleece beanie, which I kept even when they started issuing out the tan ones - the tan were for boots, black fleece made you look salty. I wear that in the winter. My day to day hat is a New York Mets hat, also in desert MARPAT, that I bought the year that MLB had the desert MARPAT hats for Memorial Day.
They sure knew how to accurately describe hooligans.
Weird and pretty dumb for mobs of people going around smashing people's hats. Thanks HG I love the channel.
Weird & pretty dumb for mobs of people to block D.C. street intersections & stall traffic, all in the name of preventing greenhouse gases.
@@IndianaJoe0321 got 'em
Hahah @@jeffm3283 I see what you did there
Sounds like something Al and his bros , Mayer Lansky, Dutch Shultz, the Costello bros, Bugs, and a host of other NY Gangsters might have enjoyed as young toughs
A genius selling technique. Could you talk about Ataturk or Edward Bernais?
In Texas the rule is still socially inforced when it comes to cowboy hats. From memorial day to labor day one should wear white straw cowboy hat and a felt cowboy hat from labor day to memorial day.
The paper shown advertised - Men....your straw hats. Then below it stated it would not hurt their purse, how word meanings have changed...
They have! One of the headlines described the riot as an "orgy." That term is generally used differently these days...
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel That's interesting and even more so given that our word for orgy come from the Greek orge which means anger and wrath. I thoroughly enjoy your history lessons!
The discussion of what was acceptable to wear in public in the early 1900s reminded me of my maternal grandparents. My grandpa was born in 1903 and died in 1986. I never saw him outside without a hat or cap, the type he wore depended on the season. I also never saw him inside or out wearing anything but long pants and a long sleeve, buttoned, collared shirt, no matter how hot it was. The most he would do if working out in the heat was turn up the cuffs to just above his wrist. My grandmother lived until 2000 (age 92), and I never saw her wear anything but knee length dresses. They carried that early 1900s sense of modesty and decorum in the way the spoke, dressed, and conducted themselves in public throughout their lives.
Unbelievable foolishness!
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Sounds like a creepy Scarecrow Gang from the Wizard of Oz took on New York - 😎
You should have worn a boater whilst presenting this video and at the end changed to a bowler or homburg.
Don't have one.