@@aacsmiles First of all, Edna Mode stole from Watchmen. Secondly, she can start with Superman, Batman, Thor, and the Vision. If she can get through them, I'll have words for her myself.
You can do whatever you want, as long as you're willing to own it. Most people want to be trend setters, but few are willing to accept the consequences of doing it
@@blackoak4978 I use a panamá hat and my husband uses a wide brim black hat most of the time when it's a sunny day and nobody cares. But when I used fishnet pantyhose and shorts a month before it became trendy (a decade ago), I was called a whore by a woman that passed by car, hahaha. I used it again with no problem after that on different occasions, most recently with a t-shirt shaped dress and on my civil wedding day, with a white dress and black long leather boots, in 2019.
I love my big hats, and my half-Irish complection demands them in the summer! Whether it's a massive black straw hat with a light veil that I added for those "extra goth" days, or an Australian leather cowboy type hat that I found secondhand, I love rocking my hats!
I agree completely. I either wear a Greek sailor's cap or a top-hat (as close to late 18th century style as can be purchased for relatively cheap haha). Wearing such an unusual hat gave me so much confidence.
I used to have a straw hat that was just perfect for the summer. I wore it everywhere. I even bought a hat pin from a lady at the local farmer's market. It did an amazing job at keeping my hat from flying away whenever the wind picked up. That is until I wore it to the beach and a really strong wind blew my much beloved straw hat off my head straight out into the Pacific Ocean while leaving me with the hat pin still attached to my head. I searched in vain for another hat like it, to no avail. I hope the mermaids are enjoying my hat.
My mom hosted a ladies luncheon a few years ago with the invitation asking everyone to wear a fun hat! It was really cute they all wore fancy hats they’ve always wanted to try wearing!
I’m in Australia and pale. I wear a hat outside every day, nobody comments. In fact our primary schools have a “no hat, no play rule” for play and lunch times. Sunscreen available to all children at school. Just makes sense.
This has only been the case in Australia for the past 20 years or so. When I was a school kid in the 1980s no one wore hats and we all got horribly sunburnt often. Interestingly, the adoption of hats in this case is 100% due to health concerns rather than related to fashion, which is possibly a rare thing in history?
My Grandpa once told me that he stopped wearing hats regularly in the mid 60’s because car roofs got so low, he had to take them off every time he got in and out of one and it became an inconvenience. I doubt he was the only one who felt that way.
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I’ve read about this, but knowing how low car roofs were in the 40s and 50s, I doubt that was the only reason!
I think there’s a lot of truth in it; I have to take off a fedora to get in and out of a car. On the other hand, baseball-style caps are pretty ubiquitous here in the USA. They don’t get in the way. And for the deeply stupid, they can be decorated with “MAGA.” Another, better President (could there be a worse one?) is often credited with the end of the classic fedora: John F. Kennedy. He was the first US President to abandon hats. His wife Jackie was of course rarely seen without one, until years later. Narrow-brimmed hats for men were still popular into the mid 60s, see Don Draper and early James Bond (like Goldfinger). Personally, I miss fedoras. They’re not much protection, and they blow away in any slight wind - but they’re cool.
@@gregorsamsa4580 I was just about to say baseball caps are seen everywhere In the us but I know a few people who have stopped wearing them because a certain orange lump made red ones a taboo for anyone who wishes to be seen as intelligent.
I can't wait for people to realise that we need protection from the sun in summer. There's something wrong with the society that thinks sunscreen is better than hats. Hopefully hats will make a come back.
I wanted to be a hat designer when I was young. I was about 8 years old and had so many drawings and sketches.. when I showed a teacher of mine.. she said hats are not in style anymore and I was wasting my time.. sadly I stoped drawing and designing hats after that. I wish I had stuck with these things when I was young and followed my passions.
My great aunt was a milliner. She could tell you what hat suited your proportions and face shape. She would adjust the size of the ribbon or brim to change the shape to be more flattering. Trying to buy a hat is really hit or miss without a pro to help you. People used to have better posture too. Their necks were longer looking because their shoulders were not up to their years.
@@treaty92 The type of hat that best suits a person is based upon their head size and body type. Here's a video that'll give you a good guideline: th-cam.com/video/29tcfKGLaxU/w-d-xo.html
I would like to do that too, but I'm a mess and I mostly wear some kind of work clothing. I get up, go to work by bike (not the best to wear something elegant there), change into workshop wear, go back, change either into home comfies or into gardening wear, come home, shower, change into pyjamas. No idea where I could put the elegant dress in there. :(
Johanna Geisel you could definitely fit some elegance in there, such as in your comfy clothes, gardening attire, and pjs. Elegant attire doesn’t always have to be seen by others, it’s just as valid to have them only for yourself, because you enjoy them. And I would say half of elegance anyway is in one’s demeanor. I wear simple but comfortable house dresses, and slap on a lovely vintage apron when I cook. It’s the little things. You could wear elegant undergarments with your work clothes and some high quality socks/stockings because you’re worth it. Maybe trick your bike out with some accessories or save up for a vintage one. Decorate your inner space and garden with things that remind you that you are elegant and lovely.
so interesting, actually, in spain "las sinsombrero" (the hatless ladies) were a group of rebel poets, independent strong women who refused to wear a hat in the mid 1920's as a symbol of incorformity and modernity
"the point wasn't to be elegant anymore, it was to be cool" is one of the saddest sentences to me. It's impossible to find women's hats in my size, or else I'd wear them all the time.
I know! In HS band I made sure to be the 1st when uniforms were handed out, or else hats lg enough would be gone. Today I'd like to where a hat but I'd have to get one online from England too expensive
Some people can't wear hats because the hats they like are too big for them. If you can't find the small pad strip to go into a hat band, try using the soft side of sticky velcro. How much you use depends on how big the hat is on you.
Well in the USA, kids aren't allowed to wear hats in school anymore(in the last 20 years at least), and if you're discouraged that young, it affects preferences later in life. Also I think the amount of focus on hair products and hair styles made people want to show off their hair more. So bye bye hats forever, as a longstanding fashion trend.
I just realized I never mentioned that hats have been discouraged for so long due to how common street gangs would be denoted by hat style or colors.(mostly in the 90s) Not that this is a good excuse. Gangs were only an issue in really big cities, yet rural town schools had to follow these rules as well for no good reason.
@@AntiNihilist it'd also a form of uniform control. One of the few non uniformed schools are allowed to enforce. Heck, I had to visit my old schools once in awhile for my younger sisters stuff and I made it a point to wear hats inside those buildings. Especially in front of teachers and school personnel who would tell me to take mine off. My little bit of rebellion.
"Imagine a 16-year old boy wearing a fedora to school" *immediately gets early 2010's flashbacks* Pretty sure my prom date wore a pinstripe fedora to prom.
@@thatbrazilianreader752 any time i may have stared at someone wearing hats it's because I'd like to be as bold as them. I really like hats but i feel social pressure too much to wear one! 😣😣
I love wearing hats and gloves. Lets get together and start a new classy , feminine wave, lets wear hats and gloves. I do and with all the variety no one seems to see it as bad. I have had amazing compliments and heard from many who love the idea.
Absolutely agree! I also find them so aligned with my tastes, both hats and gloves, that it would be impossible to me to deny me that pleasure whenever I get the chance.
@@Yue_mariin00 Fortunately, you don't have it your way because there are plenty of ladies who choose to dress in feminine fashion. Please remember that what is good for you may very well not be good for others. Feminine fashion has been a regular part of society forever, and for as long as we have any freedom left, I believe that it will be a welcome part of society for many women. Having everyone dress in non binary jumpsuits would be more like prison. I don't think even you would want to be dictated in what you wear every day and what you do with your life. I know I wouldn't. I like my freedom to hire a seamstress or buy fabric and turn it into something that I like to wear, even though what I wear is quite gendered and quite conservative. It's what I am comfortable wearing.
I got sunstroke when I was a kid from spending the day on the beach with no sun hat, it was one of the worst illnesses of my life. I will not go out in the summer sun without a hat on. I’ll take the stares over sunstroke, that’s an experience you don’t want to repeat.
There’s a lovely scene in John Buchan’s ‘The 39 Steps’ (1915) where, due to an altercation and a quick escape, he is forced to walk through a town without a hat. He is worried the police will stop him; not because he’s committed a crime, simply because being outside without a hat is suspicious. Almost impossible for a modern reader to understand this.
Today it’s actually the otherway around, if you wear a beanie and a hoodie, which is kind of a hat on a pullover u will definitely make the police suspicious. I mean if ur outfit is completely black and stuff.
Thanks for that comment, I was going to say that I will have to re-watch the movie until I noticed (1915), and searched it. I just think of Hitchcock when I think of The 39 Steps, I did not know it was ("loosely" according to Wikipedia) based on a novel. I am a big Film Noir fan and this brings to mind an image from a scene in a recently watched film where the character puts his hat on a hat peg when entering a room. Probably a frequent little action in a lot of those films. The fedoras seem to loom large in "Cry of the City" looking great on Victor Mature and even his kind of dopey detective partner. But now come to think of it, the villain of the movie, Richard Conte, did not wear a hat in that movie.
Aida Kopmels thank you so much I wear hats all the time every day. They help me regulate my temperature. They help me keep cool and the sun off my face during the summer. They help me keep warm in the very start of fall through spring. I’m actually wearing one in my thumbnail pic but you can’t see a black leather pageboy hat... I door hats. When I was little I used to take the dog cozy my great grandmother needed for our toilet paper, and wear them all summer long. I was queen of my toys and the misfit toys I was a good queen. Like Glenda the witch but a queen. My grandmother for bid me to be the good witch. 😑😏😆🤣😂 Thank you so so much that’s so sweet. I take a lot of pride in the hats that I wear upon my head. They are part of me. When I make friends with people they finally realize that I do wear hats every single day. 🤔 i’m the hot lady... and I quite like that... I have transitioned from crocheted dolls on my head too many different varieties. My favorite find are those very old but still beautiful fur caps... I even love a muff and a matching fur cap... I look for vintage always or I have some handed down to me.
MzClementine hi. Me too! I have also been wearing hats most of my 75 years my favorite being a western cowboy hat as I was a country singer musician.i enjoyed your story about your hats.
The '60s were my era. I was born in 1948, so I had the "privilege" of experiencing the transition from dressing up every time you left the house to jeans and t-shirts are fine. I wear a hat (a ball cap) while I work around the stables, but mostly I'm bare-headed. I wouldn't want to go back to the "good old days".
Karolina: Imagine a 16 year old wearing a hat School dresscode: not on my watch (Edit: so anyone wondering, I’m at an American school, and it’s so the staff can easily identify you as a student apart from a school shooter) Edit-edit: most of the comments are pretty cool and I thought they deserved to be here as well; Mallory Rivers brought up a great point about how they’ve been banned since she was in school a while back and the justification was how hats can be used for gang identification. This makes sense as hats had been banned long before school shooting were relatively common (≈90s). In elementary school (ages 5-11), I remember the reasoning as head lice. Another asks if this comment was satire, but unfortunately not. Tying into above, my school definitely cites this as the reason as it had been shot up three years ago by a former student. And we had had a different school shooting in our county a couple decades back.
Alayna Gould im in the UK and one time i decided to wear extremely dark grey, looked almost black. Out dresscode is uniform with black socks. I got kicked out of school for a day because of my almost black socks because they wernt pure black, although they looked almost identical lmao. Welcome to England.
Did they though? Latex gloves due to COVID aside, people still wear gloves regularly. Usually it's situational (people who live where there's frequent cold weather or go somewhere with cold weather wear gloves, and then there are those who wear gloves for their work) but it never really went away. It's just not as common for people to wear gloves for fashion anymore.
Women who used to wear gloves were rich and married. Most women today work for a living and so it is not practical. Also, health care and preventative medicine has gone a long way and we no longer have to wear gloves to hide syphilis or small pox.
In Australia, we love hats, caps and berets. All widths of brims, wrapped in a scarf or flowers. Noone cares whats on ur head. Just keep it practical. All my hats have a wide brim, one is straw another is cancer council approved (my fave) and I have a cpl of baseball caps. I guess the heat issue in Oz is why, as we were all raised with a "No hat, No play" policy in school. Hats and gloves serve a purpose aside from looking nice, they keep the sun off our skin and the germs off our hands.
Here in Arizona I wear a hat every day. While I try to make it at least somewhat fashionable, it's not a fashion statement. It's to keep the sun out of my eyes, the glare out of my eyes and the heat of the sun off my head. My head appreciates the shade. If some think I'm trying to be trendy, too f'in bad. There's really no 'fashion' any more anyway, just trends. So why not wear what works? Even when it rains a hat is helpful...especially if one wears glasses! So with an eye to whatever fashion might be, it's utilitarian. I favor straw fedoras or planters for summer, wear a beaver or rabbit fedora when it's wet or cold in winter....and narrow brim fedoras or trucker caps when doing outside work where brim width is an issue. Since we don't have hurricanes here, a good fit negates most problems with wind, even with a relatively broad-brimmed hat from the Yucatan. Of course since most people hardly ever venture forth from the air-conditioning, and hat's are a hassle in a car I certainly don't expect it to become a trend. But for Arizona a hat just makes sense, if one is outside much at all. If one wants to bake their brain, they should feel perfectly free to do so....not my brain. :) Stetson, Sterkowski and Snap-Lok, from Arizona. Chow!
I can remember in the early 1960s, a well-known hat shop in our area closed. My mother and I went to their close out sale where the owner explained that women weren't wearing hats anymore, and so she could not afford to keep the shop. The owner had procured a position in one of the local department stores but was extremely emotional at having to close her shop. In those days, downtowns were still vibrant and patronage of department stores was at its height. Today, even the department stores cannot survive.
It was the beehive ( hairdo) in the ‘60’s that killed off wearing hats, together with women’s lib in the ‘70’s, when constraint was thrown out the window. Hats came back into fashion thanks to Princess Di and the ozone hole- and no, that’s not the name of a punk band!😉
My favorite conspiracy is that The Hat Industry allegedly assassinated JFK because JFK depopularized hats and it was the final nail in the coffin to significantly hurt The Hat Industry.
I lost my hair to sickness, and I started making my own hats because I was SICK TO DEATH of chemo caps. They're sooooo booooring! I started a mini-trend at my church thanks to my fondness for cloche hats (a style that covers my entire head, and yet looks a little better than a scarf). Now we have several young ladies wearing hats regularly.
I prefer wigs. I cosplay, but when I start losing mine, I can easily convert. The mesh(?) or weave(?) wigs allow the scalp to breath. Cant do the cool short cuts though. Need to have longer otherwise the wig is noticeable.
Additionally, I want to add that teens are huge marketing targets and where are teens a majority of the day? School, and what do most schools not allow? Hats. They are against most dress codes due to covering people's faces, so I don't think hats will ever go into style.
I somewhat disagree Crop tops and pants with holes (and even leggings where i went) are also prohibited at school, but that doesn't mean it isn't part of modern teenager fashion, far from it actually
@@confused8365 yes but those have the obvious attribute that they increase sexualization and thus desirability in the eyes of most modern people whereas hats don't have that effect.
The hat prohibition in school came, I think, because of street gangs. It was mostly boys who wore baseball style caps. The angle and placement of the visor was a sign of gang affiliation.
@@confused8365 I would argue that no hat rules are much more easily enforced vs. crop tops which may not be obvious when the arms are down. It is clear if someone has something on their head or not, but whether pants are stretchy jeans or leggings requires more careful examination of the garment, which a lot of teachers don't want to do. Most teachers in my school enforced the no hat/hoods rule, but not any of our other rules.
The hairstyles that required wigs and hair pieces also got in the way of wearing hats. The really big change was hygienic routines included more frequent showers and shampooing your hair. hats hid greasy hair.
Omg YAAS. I get told I’m “so dressed up” if I wear a hat...and if I’m wearing a hat AND a skirt? Oh man, people look at me like I’m wearing a formal gown....while they are wearing five inch heels, extensions, and a full face of makeup to pump gas 🙄
@@marillaz4582 lol & yas to you! Same story here. Or they're wearing pajama pants/sweatpants, shirts with cartoons on them...but we're at a restaurant..😂
I've been wearing hats since my teens, and I feel naked if I leave the house without a hat on. At work I usually wear a ball cap or navy or marine cover (the Navy and Marine Corp do not call them hats!) but outside of work I'll wear my favorite fedora or a felt cowboy hat or straw hat. My two latest buys have been a bowler and a homburg, and when I wear anything other than a cap I usually hear "Hey, nice hat!" I rarely get an odd look and I've never been bullied.
I feel like where at the start of a hat revival, caps and beanies are becoming more common, and social media has made hats seem very desirable to younger generations, so it’ll probably make a comeback soon.
So I have another theory: the end of hats coincided with the advent of tan=attractive in western culture. In the mid 1870, working women wore bonnets because paleness was hottest despite working in the Midwest American sun, in part because rich fashionable ladies never had to work outside. Then by the 1970s the “Malibu Barbie” coincided the advent of blue-collar work moving inside (call centers, typists, etc), and tanning had the connotation of having time to lay about by the pool. We made the purpose of hats more redundant. That said, I love hats.
Tanning is an important aspect. It was Coco Chanel in the 1920ies or 1930ies that popularised the tan. Malibu barbie was a sign that tan had become the norm.
i’m not so sure about that. contrary to popular belief, being tan was fashionable before the 1970s because is showed that you were wealthy enough to vacation. also, the popularisation of baseball caps and trucker hats was in the 70s, so it seemed they still wanted to shade their face from the sun. idk though, i wasn’t alive and i’m not a fashion expert, it just seems like they became too formal.
Ooh yes! This would make sense - in China, the old ladies wear these full face visors to protect their skin, but they are basically a fashion trend now. @withwendy even did a DIY about how to make them and she's for the young people.
Hat wearing might be cultural/regional. Here in the South US women wear the fanciest hats to church, socials, teas, etc...We wear wide brimmed hats as protection from the sun. Cowboy hats & ball caps are also common among women and men. We LOVE hats!
When I was a kid in 1950s America, my father always wore a hat outside during the cooler months, and my mother wore one when she got dressed up. But as I recall, that more or less stopped as the 60s progressed. I myself have rarely been outside without a hat or cap for the past 40 years or so. I recently even had the great good fortune to find a felt fedora with ear flaps for cold weather.
I used to have a hat (I'm not sure what it's called. It looked like a newspaper boy hat but I'm not sure) and it had flaps on it so I wore it during the winter months. Oh MAN, did I love that hat. Wore it to death and have been looking for a proper replacement ever since.
This is the video I was waiting for! Ever since the pandemic I decided I wanted to show off my "weirdness", so I decided to adopt the look of Gracchus Babeuf (a late 18th century French Revolutionary). I went around my college campus with a top hat, adorned with a tricolor cockade. Most people reacted positively, telling me it took balls to rock a top hat in this day-and-age. Perhaps hats will make a comeback (hopefully)!
Love your channel! My Mom, who was born in 1917, always claimed that teased beehive hairdos got squished down under hats. Since this meant the hairdo was ruined, hats fell out of favor. I don’t think the USA rationed hats during WW 2 in the USA. President Roosevelt believed that keeping new women’s hats accessible, kept up the morale.
Today I saw a man in a suit with a hat that matched and my immediate thought was that he looked really elegant and nice, and that what really pulled the look together was the hat. I don’t know why, but a hat is just one of those things where if you wear it and it fits with your outfit, it adds an intentionality to your look, it feels like they didn’t just throw on whatever was convenient to go out in.
I remember in the late 50's and early 60's as a kid trying on my Grandmothers hats. She still wore them. I also remember the excitement of going to the department store with her to shop for a new one. I couldn't wait until I was old enough to wear them. By the time I was, they were gone. I still regret that.
I love hats. When I was 16, my parents came home from an estate sale with 10 grocery bags of vintage hats, and the whole lot cost them only $10. They gave them all to me. It was the best day ever. I stopped wearing them so much as an adult. First of all, I live in a hot place, but secondly, every time I wore one of my gorgeous little pillboxes or tiny 1940s/1950s hats that perched at an angle on the side of my head, people would ask me when I was serving drinks, and when the flight would land. By the 1990s, basically the only people still wearing smart little hats were flight attendants. I miss my hats, but have grown used to dressing simply. The world is a more boring place for our turning away from hats, and other sharp accessories.
I sold the ones I'd never worn. But you're right, dammit. I still have my awesome fedoras, we are actually having cool weather lately (after all these decades, we are finally having an autumn that lasts more than two weeks!), and I'm dressing more smartly. I don't go out though. I'll just have to get out and go for walks looking elegant. I can also wear them when I stream my crafting on Twitch. Might even get my butt moving and post videos on TH-cam. My vintage will find its real crowd here (or actually on my crafting channel). THANK YOU! You've inspired me.
I believe that hats were a casualty of automobile culture. The shape of modern automobiles makes hat wearing difficult: lower ceilings, lower clearances (to get into the car) and headrests. Try wearing a hat with a brim without it getting popped right off by the headrest of the car.
This also goes for men. Those annoying headrests in "modern" cars, make it impossible to wear much other than a baseball-type cap. I have 20 stetson-types that I never wear, because of the car head restraints. It's a pain to have to change it. I normally wear a "gimmie" hat whenever I leave the house, in large part to hide my "shame"---no hair. I only take it off in church.
Also cars just meant people spend less time outside on average. Prior to the car most people walked or biked together most places or wait at the station for the train so one needed a good brimmed hat. But now you walk a short distance to your car, drive, and then walk a short distance to your destination. Hat's have lost the element of practicality in that environment.
Along with the wearing of hats, society also was more aware of social graces! I remember men removing their hats when walking into a building or church, or even when a “lady” walked into the room. Those days are over unless you’re in the military. Men don’t even respect the house of God anymore-they just walk right in with their baseball hats on (which still bothers me). I have the last dressy hat my father ever wore. He gave it my husband (his only last son-in-law) and it’s 80 years old. I love hats and had them in my wedding and wear them from time to time! Wish hats would come back!
I totally agree with your statements! At my dinner table you must wear a clean shirt and you must remove your hat. At church I go as far as politely asking a hat to be removed. Ah.... oh how I wish a gentleman would remove his hat for a lady these days. This is all part of the lack of discipline and respect we see today from teens to adults. It’s getting worse too.
My husband and I were talking about why hats are considered disrespectful when a prayer is being said. The situation in question was in our home. We couldn't come up with an actual answer. Thoughts?
@@leinanifuna8994 Great question. Discipline, respect and honor is my answer. In church one would remove their hat to show respect and honor unto the Lord. One would wear a clean shirt and remove their hat at the dinner table, to show respect to the wife, mother .... honoring the one who cooked the food and thanking the ONE🙏🏽 who provided it. All while showing the young ones proper behavior. All together these are disciplines that go far beyond the moments and on to a better society that understands respect, honor and the proper ways to act. Like respecting the nations flag and partaking of the blessings of stating the pledge. In my home during a Bible study and prayer, I would want those around me to remove their hat during prayer; however I would have my husband wear a hat and demonstrate the removal during prayer.... setting the example. :)
@@leinanifuna8994 “Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved.” I Corinthians 11:4-5 NKJV This is where it comes from. This is why most western countries that were heavily Christian adopted this custom in secular settings as well as in church. 👒 🎩 So, hats are only disrespectful during prayer if worn by a man. And a women without something on her head during prayer would be equally disrespectful. (Not everyone agrees that this is what the passage means, but if you require men to take off their hats you would have to require women to put something on…to be biblically consistent.) This is where the custom comes from.
Ever since I went all-in on my sun protection game, I've been a hat girl! I do it for practical reasons, but it's become a key part of my style too. It's harder to find cool hats though because hats are in so much less demand.
I was born in the 60's and I remember my mum only wearing hats and gloves to church. She died in 1974 and I do think in those last few years she had stopped wearing hats. I was only little but I do remember her church outfits. Hats and gloves make you look so elegant.
I'll wear hats to church for fancy occasions (a veil the rest of the time) but I've only ever really seen the use of gloves for work, riding, and dancing.
@OwO Covet Matter of fact, it used to be a requirement for women to cover their hair in church until relatively recently. I know a few people who still adhere to that, though they usually just wear veils that they can fold up and put away outside.
Growing up at school being told that wearing a hat indoors is disrespectful kind of made me never want to wear one. What was the point of wearing a hat to school and taking it off when I got there?
We went to a wedding and when we sat at our table at the reception, my wife leaned over and whispered, "Aren't you going to take your hat off?" I replied, "No, this hat is part of my outfit and I'm going to keep it on." I decided if guys with baseball caps can wear their hats all the time, then I can wear my fedoras as I please. I do still take my hat off in church, during prayer (in or out of church), or for the playing of the national anthem.
That's the rub, though. People who say they want their hats back aren't really prepared for the etiquette that accompanied them. You don't wear hats indoors or when eating, and then you have to carry it around. Wearing a hat "properly" is essentially asking to be handicapped half the day because your hand is occupied holding the hat you "aren't allowed" to be wearing for myriad reasons. There's a reason they fell out of favor with the working class, and that's because they're incredibly inconvenient.
@@Lawrence330 I am very old and was trained 60 years ago by old ladies who were 80 to 100 years old, all about how to wear hats, the Victorian way. Whenever anyone tried to tell my to take off my hats indoors, I would inform them that a LADY doesn't remove her hat, period, except taking a bath or washing a baby. :)
as a pagan who is transitioning to veiling, people respect head scarves a lot more than hats. people are more likely to tell you to take off a hat than a scarf, even though i wear them for the same reason. just an observation
Oh yeah I heard that one growing up in Eastern Europe. I can't see a logical explanation for that. With other garments more coverage usually means modesty, like they used to tell me to wear long skirts and cover my shoulders for church to avoid causing offence. But suddenly covering my head has the opposite effect? I don't get it
Karolina: Why don't we wear hats anymore? Me, who had to search my room for a hat before leaving the house and would buy a ton of hats if I had the space/money: This is news to me
@@madamebkrt Fast fashion is a term used to describe a highly profitable business model based on replicating catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, and mass-producing them at low cost. The term fast fashion is also used to generically describe the products of the fast fashion business model. (I stole this straight from the internet but you get the point) also, since the material is so cheap they underpay the workers incredibly low. I do understand though if your plus sized and you buy fast fashion because they have plus sized clothing for cheap. People also think that they are getting a deal, but actually since the materials are so cheap they have to keep replacing the clothing rather than buying a good quality outfit
In my graduation party a classmate decided to break from the boring men elegant fashion of the 21st century by wearing a dark red vest and a neck scarf instead of a bow tie, but also by wearing a top hat with steampunk googles. He spent the night borrowing the hat to other boys so they could take pictures wearing it!
People wore hats over the centuries to keep the dust out of their hair. When people started washing their hair more often, they no longer felt the need to protect it from dust. Another secondary reason, is the loss of formality in society. Just look at today's sport utility vehicles, casual dress and lack of desire to impress others in a formal, dignified manner.
There was a photographer in my city who took photos of people in hats. He went out on crowded streets to find as many hat-wearers as possible and by 2019 had a decent collection
I just realized something quite surprising: formal woman dress 1800 => 1900: little change (as Karolina explained in the video) formal woman dress 1900 => 2020: huge change whereas: formal man dress 1800 => 1900: quite a lot of change formal man dress 1900=> 2020: little change (in 1800 men had knee breechers, fancy colourful jackets, and no ties. While a 1900 business suit is not much different from today. black or blue jacket, matching long trousers, white shirt, tie)
To be fair men's fashion changed rapidly during the 20th century. Some would even say fell of a cliff and burst into flames. While by the earlier 18th century the styles of Beu Brummell and other such dandies had already begun to come into fashion. Said style was the birth of classic menswear as it is seen today and although different had links to the early 1900s, white tie for example was practically unchanged. However by the 2000s and onwards very few men wore a suit and those that do often wear dreadful skinny fit far from the days of the early 1900s.
@@fredbreadbun6277 I detest the skinny fit suit on men ! Makes them look like little boys suits with not enough fabric. And, INMO there's only a certain amount of modern women that can pull off the skinny clothing look. Yoga-pants is not a look ! :-O
I'm a hat girl, and I always have people say "I never look good in hats" or "youre the only person I know who can pull off a hat!" I never understand because half the time I wear headwear is to hide my gross hair lol so much easier than having to do my hair. Also... Putting a hat on even wearing jeans and a T makes it look put together... Just own it!
@@possumaintdead It must be the style of hat that doesn't suit them. I know for sure that a cloche and bucket hat don't look good on me, my face is too full to pull it off, but a panama? Hell yes. I also love berets and pillbox hats. They just need to find a hat that suits them. I also think hair is part of whether a hat suits you or not. If you wear your hair down and straight while wearing a pillbox it will just look messy but wearing it up in a chignon will look so much better.
I always tell people who say they don’t look good in hats that I don’t believe them and they probably haven’t found the right hat or worn the hat the right way. I also think it’s about confidence. If you don’t wear a hat confidently it will look out of place on you.
@@Strangeland_Elf True. Confidence is key. Wish more people were more confident and wish they'd experiment more. They'd find their style much easier if they did and hopefully find something to wear that makes them happy and feel complete.
I live in the high desert, and am very fair, so I wear hats with brims as my sunscreen. I always get positive comments from strangers too. I've even had someone tell me I am "brave" wearing a hat! I think that is really funny! I do wish more people would wear hats! BTW, your 40's hairstyle is super cute!!!
This was very interesting. I have often wondered about this topic. I love hats, used to collect them, but never felt comfortable wearing them out....the feeling of being pretentious. So I only wear hats now for practical use: sun shading in summer and warmth in the winter. Sad. Thank you for an interesting video.
I used to live in Mansfield, Ohio, many years ago, and there was a lovely black lady who wore beautiful, floor-length gowns and huge hats with flowers and feathers. Being black in a mostly white city, she would have stood out already, and her clothing made her even more distinctive. She looked like royalty. It was like seeing a tropical flower in a field of wheat. This same town had a hat shop that sold hats that were all hand made individually and imported from Italy and France. A restaurant a few doors down had a grease fire, and the smoke traveled through the ventilation system that was shared by the other stores in the strip mall, and all those beautiful hats were ruined. The owner went out of business. I felt so bad for her. I hope she was able to open another store in a better town.
@@shyeline5007I saw the last hat store closing down in Rennes (12th city in France) in 1999, but in Italy most cities will still sport at least one hat store. I even know of a hat store in Milan with top hats on display.
Yup. Ur right. My husband bought me a beautiful expensive hat for Christmas and my family wouldn't even let me wear it to dinner. They kept teasing me then finally asked me point blank when I was going to take it off.
I’ve always wondered this. Especially when I started losing my hair, wishing to myself hats were a commonplace thing. Fascinating and informative video!
I would love if we had an elegant revolution.. some pieces nowadays just lack everything. from style to fitting properly I won't even think about elegance :/
Well, one-size low-quality hats may be cheap, but they don't fit well. Good fit means the hat is made in different sizes, and then if you expect a decent quality, the hat isn't exactly cheap anymore. A good winter coat costs more, though, and a good hat may be usable even longer.
Not to confuse you, but people 100 were not "elegant". Only bourgeois were - workers in those times had mostly one or two set of clothes and it was work clothes. And it is very likely that yours ancesors were workers.
What they don’t tell you about us broad brim hat wearers: walking down the street when you pass another person wearing a hat on the more visible side, you get the “hat nod”, where you both acknowledge each other with a smile because we are a dying breed :)
My Grandmother (born 1922) once told me why she stopped wearing hats. Basiaclly she was born and raised in a more urban middle class setting during pre-war Germany where she adopted the fashion of the time including the hat. Well when she came together with my grandfather after the war they moved into a more rural town where at the beginning she still wore the fashion she was used to when she lived in the city. Which led to her becoming the target of the local people as they saw her as the "arrogant city girl" for wearing a hat (also didnt help that she and my grandfather were of diffrent confessions what was seen as rather...unconventional... to put it midley). So she stopped wearing it.
"The 16-year-old high schooler wearing a fedora to class." This was me. I saved up money when I was 14, so I could buy a wide-brimmed, felt fedora hat. A big part of it was wanting to be like Indiana Jones (though mine was black), but I also just liked it. Now, I have several fedoras, a few trilbys, and some other hats, but the one I bought when I was 14 is still my favorite (and thankfully still fits). Overall, I think hats are cool!
Your last comment about a bad hair day made me wonder if changing bathing routines (more frequent hair washing) had any affect on the sad demise of the hat?
Karolina: "Imagine a 16 year old high-schooler showing to his class in a fedora" Me, an American who was in high-school during the height of emo: *heavy breathing*
I have a male (!) friend and his signature look is a black wool fedora, and I simply love it. He is easy to find in a crowd, he lifts up his fedora when he says hi, it's just really cool. Please everybody, bring back hats
Oh ym god I asked myself that exact question lately. Thanks for this video! I would love to wear a hat since it looks elegant and retro is modern but I just can't think of any type or situation that wouldn't look ridiculous. Bring back the hats!
This reminds of an story that I heard about how Danish peasant women would snatch the top hats from the heads of wealthy men and wouldn't give them back until the man paid them a sum. The men would pay because it would have been scandalous to be seen without it.
i went to an exhibit at an art museum that had all of these paintings of hats, and really gorgeous old preserved ones from really far back, and it was one of the coolest experiences i've ever had. One of my make-soon-list projects is a newsboy cap!
Honestly brands could make so much money of bringing hats back. Imagine you want to have a hat for every ocasion so you buy one, that is easy money😂 Edit: just finished the video, rip hats. I shall miss you forever
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Yeah I often think about that 😅 I mean I don’t want to encourage mass hat production because that would be a huge environmental mess, but like it seems reasonable for those companies to try and bring hats back?
Money is the reason why functional pockets/pockets in general disappeared from women's clothing - so we would buy purses. And purses for every ocasion, for every outfit and don't forget that your shoes must match your purse and belt if you're wearing one.
@@vesnav8171 Idk, maybe I'm not buying expensive enough or high-end enough designer pants, but I just had to replace all my pants due to weight loss ( :-) ) and all of them have functional pockets. I hear the comment about non-functional pockets on women's pants, but I have had very very few pants like that in my lifetime.
@@hopegold883 because she was talking about general hat wearing culture, the fact that EVERYBODY wore a hat when leaving the house, always. Nowadays I feel we think people are a bit of a loser if you never take off a baseball cap, and certainly not everyone wears one.
Even in conservative Catholic circles in Australia women have ditched them, going lace veils if they do feel the need to cover their heads during mass.
I think the popularization of showers also has something to do with this. You don't notice the dirt and dust that collects in your hair when you're washing it every day rather than combing it out. It ceased being a necessity. I still think they're important for protecting your head from sunburn and keeping your hair cleaner, but most people probably don't think of them as necessary hair protection - the exception being the bonnets that some people with super curly hair wear. The crazy styles of the 40s also aided in this, because those small styles barely offered protection anyway.
...There were actually multiple people that tried wearing fedoras to school at my high school. None of the students said anything negative about it, but the teachers made them take them off because hats were against the dress code. To be fair, people also showed up at my school wearing corsets, hoop skirts, various other petticoats, capes, and leather armor. It was a very weird school. (No one said anything in front of the guy who wore armor to school, but I did hear someone in front of the boys restroom saying, "Dude, you should have come to school today - there's a guy wearing armor!" to someone he was on the phone with.)
It amazes me that out of all the offensive things that students could wear to school, teachers decided that hats were the hill to die on. I have never attended a school where hats were allowed in the classroom, but I have attended schools where there were no rules around skirt and shorts lengths. Makes no sense.
In my boring small French school, the girls that wear a simple crop top or just a short that ends under the cheeks, they get really bullied my the surveilients and the teachers. I personally tried the béret (idk the right term in English) but even if the teachers let you be, you can only wear it outside, so it's basically 30min a day... The rest of the time it is in your bag or on the table, so it's just cumbersome...
I don’t think hats ever went away, they just got more utilitarian, think baseball hats, bucket hats, beanies, and sun hats. Instead of a fashion statement, they are now for the explicit purpose of keeping your head warm or cool. They evolved as our style evolved.
I agree. I have always use hats since I was a little girl in order to protect myself from rain during winter, or from wind at midseason, or from sunlight during summer. I love a nice, beautiful hat, but you can't find a hat that's too elaborate anymore. Designs are more classic since hats are not a trend anymore. And is harder now to find beautiful and good quality hats nowadays.
I agree. I have the same reaction when I watched this video because I still see people wearing sports caps when it's sunny and beanies when it's cold. They still have a use in our daily lives and that is to protect us from the weather. We just stopped wearing overly decorative ones regularly.
Yeah as I watched this video I glanced to my large pile of hats that consist of baseball caps, bucket hats, berets, snapbacks, beanies, etc. in different styles, materials and colors to match my clothing. I have various sun hats for summer and different kinds of winter hats for cool to freezing temperatures. I just think that hats should be paired well with an outfit...while I’ve never teased anyone wearing a fedora, very few of them seem to pull it off. esp when they’re wearing jeans and t-shirts?? Idk maybe it’s also just my fashion preference. -_-
I remember from the time I was twelve, anytime I went out with my mom, she would remind me to wear my hat and my gloves. I still wear a hat most of the time. I love hats. and we most definitely need to get back to wearing hats.
Great video, I saw your channel reccomended in a Gentleman's Gazette video so I'm looking through some of your videos. 9:22 In that situation you just have to have confidence and own it. Same thing with guys wearing Fedora.
@@Carewolf even though I approve your comment, I’d like to say that mean people like to bully people who look or act different because they are an easy target. It has absolutely nothing to do with the bullied person and I hope every bullied person knows this. Just be confident no matter what 💪
That's why I got a huge respect for goths. I already draw a lot of negative attention with my 1920s outfit, which I bought for bad weather and now wear during spring and fall as it's really more comfortable. I can't imagine dressing up like a goth, wear a kilt, or Kontusz IRL.
I love my hat and changing it’s fascinator to match my outfit. My favorite fascinator to add to my hat has a dragon eye to look back at people. It actually gets compliments.
Fuck. I definitely didn't realise just How Much changed in fashion. Like compared to any other single 100 yr block in history. The "petticoats to mini dress" vs " heavy structured gown A" to "heavy structured gown B" is a REALLY intense visual contrast. Wild. I love learning!
SPOILER: According to Monty Python's film "Meaning of Life": The meaning of life can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. 1. People aren't wearing enough hats. 2. Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However this soul does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches, it has to be brought into existence by a process of self guided observation. However this is rarely achieved owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
Can i just ask in reference to your second point? When you say souls don't develop because people become distracted.. Has anyone noticed that building there before?
Another thing that made hats less important was the hand held hair dryer and the change to less structured hairstyles. Before the blow dryer, washing and setting your hair was a weekly chore that could last hours depending upon how long your hair was and the style you were going for. By Friday everyone needed a hat :D
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When WWII ended, everyone threw their hats in the air and couldn’t find them again.
No more hats
Knew it!
Of course, why didn’t I think of this before 😱
@Dana A-N Of course! How did I not make the connection sooner! 😱
I never found my high school graduation hat!
@@fritzwilhelm8258 I’m graduating in a couple of months, and this is now my greatest fear 😔
Can we talk capes? I want capes to make a comeback. Dracula wouldn't be nearly as cool without a cape.
I would like that if they start using capes or hats again that you could decide if you want to wear it or not
I love them so much!
@@Myria83 Me, too. That's it. I made goatees come back while in college, I'm going to make capes come back this fall.
Edna Mode is going to see this and chew you out.
@@aacsmiles First of all, Edna Mode stole from Watchmen. Secondly, she can start with Superman, Batman, Thor, and the Vision. If she can get through them, I'll have words for her myself.
One big point of "looking cool" is your ability to stand out in a crowd. If no one wears hats anymore, then I'd say wearing one makes you cool.
You can do whatever you want, as long as you're willing to own it.
Most people want to be trend setters, but few are willing to accept the consequences of doing it
depends on the hat imo
@@blackoak4978 I use a panamá hat and my husband uses a wide brim black hat most of the time when it's a sunny day and nobody cares. But when I used fishnet pantyhose and shorts a month before it became trendy (a decade ago), I was called a whore by a woman that passed by car, hahaha. I used it again with no problem after that on different occasions, most recently with a t-shirt shaped dress and on my civil wedding day, with a white dress and black long leather boots, in 2019.
I love my big hats, and my half-Irish complection demands them in the summer! Whether it's a massive black straw hat with a light veil that I added for those "extra goth" days, or an Australian leather cowboy type hat that I found secondhand, I love rocking my hats!
I agree completely. I either wear a Greek sailor's cap or a top-hat (as close to late 18th century style as can be purchased for relatively cheap haha). Wearing such an unusual hat gave me so much confidence.
My school literally has a rule against headwear because they say it is “disrespectful”.
It’s really stupid.
Are you sure that it's against headwear and not against wearing headwear indoors?
@@kalle911 it’s against headwear indoors
@@kalle911 Wearing hats outdoors when you aren’t allowed to wear them indoors is prohibitively impractical.
If one is to look at rules of etiquette, men should remove their hat when indoors. Just saying. No hate
@@alankent Not necessary anymore
I used to have a straw hat that was just perfect for the summer. I wore it everywhere. I even bought a hat pin from a lady at the local farmer's market. It did an amazing job at keeping my hat from flying away whenever the wind picked up. That is until I wore it to the beach and a really strong wind blew my much beloved straw hat off my head straight out into the Pacific Ocean while leaving me with the hat pin still attached to my head. I searched in vain for another hat like it, to no avail. I hope the mermaids are enjoying my hat.
And they cherish your sacrifice
RIP your hat
Oh, my heart aches for you.
@@nadacolic7775 I sure hope so. I miss that hat.
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Wearing a hella wide hat is just proper social distancing at this point.
A hat with a six feet brim? I hope it's not a windy day outside.
Keeps people from entering your bubble. lol Wide brim hats are the peak of fashion, tbh. They're fabulous.
Until someone sneezes on it, which can stay there for more than a few hours
Ive been wearing hats while grocery shopping and the social distancing thing is a great excuse to wear it. People still look 👀 tho
A hat with an umbrella
My mom hosted a ladies luncheon a few years ago with the invitation asking everyone to wear a fun hat! It was really cute they all wore fancy hats they’ve always wanted to try wearing!
awww that's so sweet! i'd love to have some luncheon nowadays
We did that too! I wore a Russian military (artificial) fur hat with ear flaps that I bought at the Berlin Wall. It was a great conversation starter!
This is beautiful!I love hats and friends with hats
Our church , yearly has a “fancy” Mother Daughter Tea. We all dress “fancy” and elegant hats are a must! F u n !!
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I’m in Australia and pale. I wear a hat outside every day, nobody comments. In fact our primary schools have a “no hat, no play rule” for play and lunch times. Sunscreen available to all children at school. Just makes sense.
Thats very smart, and I'm a guy and wear hats outside
Good to learn that. Yay Australia!
Same here in Texas where you can get a sunburn and raccoon eyes just walking to your car.
This has only been the case in Australia for the past 20 years or so. When I was a school kid in the 1980s no one wore hats and we all got horribly sunburnt often. Interestingly, the adoption of hats in this case is 100% due to health concerns rather than related to fashion, which is possibly a rare thing in history?
I have worn hats for years and years and people think it is particular to me. I assure them it is not, but a lost fashion art as well as practical.
My Grandpa once told me that he stopped wearing hats regularly in the mid 60’s because car roofs got so low, he had to take them off every time he got in and out of one and it became an inconvenience. I doubt he was the only one who felt that way.
I’ve read about this, but knowing how low car roofs were in the 40s and 50s, I doubt that was the only reason!
It may be a big contributing factor...
I think there’s a lot of truth in it; I have to take off a fedora to get in and out of a car. On the other hand, baseball-style caps are pretty ubiquitous here in the USA. They don’t get in the way. And for the deeply stupid, they can be decorated with “MAGA.”
Another, better President (could there be a worse one?) is often credited with the end of the classic fedora: John F. Kennedy. He was the first US President to abandon hats. His wife Jackie was of course rarely seen without one, until years later. Narrow-brimmed hats for men were still popular into the mid 60s, see Don Draper and early James Bond (like Goldfinger).
Personally, I miss fedoras. They’re not much protection, and they blow away in any slight wind - but they’re cool.
@@gregorsamsa4580 I was just about to say baseball caps are seen everywhere In the us but I know a few people who have stopped wearing them because a certain orange lump made red ones a taboo for anyone who wishes to be seen as intelligent.
@@strayiggytv Well, there are many other colors available, right? black, white, blue, green, ... rainbow....yellow, golden....
as a very pale person who burns easily, I finally got the courage to buy and wear a wide brimmed hat this summer and now I am never going back
Hi fellow pale people! I've found living in a fairly sun barren country and wearing hats is a great combination!
Go for it girl
I can't wait for people to realise that we need protection from the sun in summer. There's something wrong with the society that thinks sunscreen is better than hats. Hopefully hats will make a come back.
Saw this comment and was thinking "Jo March from Little Women"
I was just going to comment the same thing!! I'm finally embracing sun hats
I wanted to be a hat designer when I was young. I was about 8 years old and had so many drawings and sketches.. when I showed a teacher of mine.. she said hats are not in style anymore and I was wasting my time.. sadly I stoped drawing and designing hats after that. I wish I had stuck with these things when I was young and followed my passions.
Mood.
You should still design your hats. And wear them. You can make them a trend. Especially with social media. I believe in you😃
Move to England we have events (Ascot) where hats are a requirement. Look here on TH-cam for Royal Ascot.
People still wear hats on special occasions
@@RhiannaCH Me too. FOLLOW YOUR DEREAMS. A LESSON TOO LATE LEARNED FOR ME.
My great aunt was a milliner. She could tell you what hat suited your proportions and face shape. She would adjust the size of the ribbon or brim to change the shape to be more flattering. Trying to buy a hat is really hit or miss without a pro to help you. People used to have better posture too. Their necks were longer looking because their shoulders were not up to their years.
Now I want to learn millinary, as well as shoe making. Shoes are kinda crap now, too.
I wish I knew your aunt. I love hats but I have a large head so they are hard to find in my size and I’m never quite sure about which one looks best
@@treaty92 The type of hat that best suits a person is based upon their head size and body type. Here's a video that'll give you a good guideline: th-cam.com/video/29tcfKGLaxU/w-d-xo.html
My great uncle was also a milliner!! Yay for milliners!!! ❤️❤️❤️ 🎩 👒 ❤️❤️❤️
@@treaty92 me too! WHY are berets so small. I can never get that slouchy look
“The point of fashion wasn’t to be elegant anymore, it was to be cool”
I pledge to do my part in bringing back elegant stately matron vibes
and hats
This matron raises her glass to you.
Yes please
I would like to do that too, but I'm a mess and I mostly wear some kind of work clothing.
I get up, go to work by bike (not the best to wear something elegant there), change into workshop wear, go back, change either into home comfies or into gardening wear, come home, shower, change into pyjamas.
No idea where I could put the elegant dress in there. :(
ah yes, a fellow matron of elegance and hsts
Johanna Geisel you could definitely fit some elegance in there, such as in your comfy clothes, gardening attire, and pjs. Elegant attire doesn’t always have to be seen by others, it’s just as valid to have them only for yourself, because you enjoy them. And I would say half of elegance anyway is in one’s demeanor.
I wear simple but comfortable house dresses, and slap on a lovely vintage apron when I cook. It’s the little things.
You could wear elegant undergarments with your work clothes and some high quality socks/stockings because you’re worth it. Maybe trick your bike out with some accessories or save up for a vintage one. Decorate your inner space and garden with things that remind you that you are elegant and lovely.
so interesting, actually, in spain "las sinsombrero" (the hatless ladies) were a group of rebel poets, independent strong women who refused to wear a hat in the mid 1920's as a symbol of incorformity and modernity
Uuuu, interesting!
I had no clue, thanks a lot!
iba a comentar justo eso! nice
Interesante! no lo sabía
Did they rebel against other dressing norms of the time as well?
"the point wasn't to be elegant anymore, it was to be cool" is one of the saddest sentences to me. It's impossible to find women's hats in my size, or else I'd wear them all the time.
Same problem for me, they all are way to small. Why???
Lock & Co make some nice hats (although they are quite expensive).
I know! In HS band I made sure to be the 1st when uniforms were handed out, or else hats lg enough would be gone. Today I'd like to where a hat but I'd have to get one online from England too expensive
Some people can't wear hats because the hats they like are too big for them. If you can't find the small pad strip to go into a hat band, try using the soft side of sticky velcro. How much you use depends on how big the hat is on you.
@@lindapratt5102 This is rather the opposite of the problem I have, but thank you.
Well in the USA, kids aren't allowed to wear hats in school anymore(in the last 20 years at least), and if you're discouraged that young, it affects preferences later in life.
Also I think the amount of focus on hair products and hair styles made people want to show off their hair more. So bye bye hats forever, as a longstanding fashion trend.
i will never understand why ! it makes no sense
No hat no play in Australia because skin cancer
I find this so strange as an Australian 😅
I just realized I never mentioned that hats have been discouraged for so long due to how common street gangs would be denoted by hat style or colors.(mostly in the 90s)
Not that this is a good excuse. Gangs were only an issue in really big cities, yet rural town schools had to follow these rules as well for no good reason.
@@AntiNihilist it'd also a form of uniform control. One of the few non uniformed schools are allowed to enforce. Heck, I had to visit my old schools once in awhile for my younger sisters stuff and I made it a point to wear hats inside those buildings. Especially in front of teachers and school personnel who would tell me to take mine off. My little bit of rebellion.
"Imagine a 16-year old boy wearing a fedora to school"
*immediately gets early 2010's flashbacks*
Pretty sure my prom date wore a pinstripe fedora to prom.
Oh noez that hit home and hit hard 😂
M'lady.
Oh no, not the white knights!
@@TheCimbrianBull **Tips fedora** Evenin', m'lady!
everyone had a pinstripe fedora in 2010 XD Or at leat it felt like it. I didn't have one but I desperatly wanted one. The 2010s were a weird time
me seeing people wearing really revealing clothing: meh
me seeing people wearing hats: that's bold
Everytime I wear a hat, people stare at me like I'm crazy lol
@@thatbrazilianreader752 any time i may have stared at someone wearing hats it's because I'd like to be as bold as them. I really like hats but i feel social pressure too much to wear one! 😣😣
I feel more shy wearing revealing clothing than wearing hats. I like hats.
Paula Batista I love hats! People do look, but their reaction is almost always positive. I wish they’d come back big time!
Exactly
I love wearing hats and gloves. Lets get together and start a new classy , feminine wave, lets wear hats and gloves. I do and with all the variety no one seems to see it as bad. I have had amazing compliments and heard from many who love the idea.
Absolutely agree! I also find them so aligned with my tastes, both hats and gloves, that it would be impossible to me to deny me that pleasure whenever I get the chance.
why does it have to be feminine why cant it be for everyone
as a non binary person i think we should just stop gendering clothes already
yes!! I would so be on board with that.
@@Yue_mariin00 femine doesnt mean "women only", and theyre allowed to see their own clothing as feminine
@@Yue_mariin00 Fortunately, you don't have it your way because there are plenty of ladies who choose to dress in feminine fashion. Please remember that what is good for you may very well not be good for others. Feminine fashion has been a regular part of society forever, and for as long as we have any freedom left, I believe that it will be a welcome part of society for many women. Having everyone dress in non binary jumpsuits would be more like prison. I don't think even you would want to be dictated in what you wear every day and what you do with your life. I know I wouldn't. I like my freedom to hire a seamstress or buy fabric and turn it into something that I like to wear, even though what I wear is quite gendered and quite conservative. It's what I am comfortable wearing.
I got sunstroke when I was a kid from spending the day on the beach with no sun hat, it was one of the worst illnesses of my life. I will not go out in the summer sun without a hat on. I’ll take the stares over sunstroke, that’s an experience you don’t want to repeat.
There’s a lovely scene in John Buchan’s ‘The 39 Steps’ (1915) where, due to an altercation and a quick escape, he is forced to walk through a town without a hat. He is worried the police will stop him; not because he’s committed a crime, simply because being outside without a hat is suspicious. Almost impossible for a modern reader to understand this.
Today it’s actually the otherway around, if you wear a beanie and a hoodie, which is kind of a hat on a pullover u will definitely make the police suspicious. I mean if ur outfit is completely black and stuff.
@@DarkMoon-kq1tm
„U will definitely make the police suspicious if your outfit is completely black and stuff“
Not just the outfit, pal.
@@rainpooper7088 Ow. Truth bomb.
There is? I would love to see that scene
Thanks for that comment, I was going to say that I will have to re-watch the movie until I noticed (1915), and searched it. I just think of Hitchcock when I think of The 39 Steps, I did not know it was ("loosely" according to Wikipedia) based on a novel. I am a big Film Noir fan and this brings to mind an image from a scene in a recently watched film where the character puts his hat on a hat peg when entering a room. Probably a frequent little action in a lot of those films. The fedoras seem to loom large in "Cry of the City" looking great on Victor Mature and even his kind of dopey detective partner. But now come to think of it, the villain of the movie, Richard Conte, did not wear a hat in that movie.
Let's make a pact to compliment anyone we see wearing a hat!
@@gw437 I agree, a compliment would embarrass me, but a smile would be great!
Including the Police?
Aida Kopmels thank you so much I wear hats all the time every day. They help me regulate my temperature. They help me keep cool and the sun off my face during the summer. They help me keep warm in the very start of fall through spring. I’m actually wearing one in my thumbnail pic but you can’t see a black leather pageboy hat...
I door hats. When I was little I used to take the dog cozy my great grandmother needed for our toilet paper, and wear them all summer long. I was queen of my toys and the misfit toys I was a good queen. Like Glenda the witch but a queen. My grandmother for bid me to be the good witch. 😑😏😆🤣😂
Thank you so so much that’s so sweet. I take a lot of pride in the hats that I wear upon my head. They are part of me. When I make friends with people they finally realize that I do wear hats every single day. 🤔 i’m the hot lady... and I quite like that... I have transitioned from crocheted dolls on my head too many different varieties. My favorite find are those very old but still beautiful fur caps... I even love a muff and a matching fur cap...
I look for vintage always or I have some handed down to me.
MzClementine hi. Me too! I have also been wearing hats most of my 75 years my favorite being a western cowboy hat as I was a country singer musician.i enjoyed your story about your hats.
I'm afraid that a compliment could too easily be considered harassment, or at least annoying
The '60s were my era. I was born in 1948, so I had the "privilege" of experiencing the transition from dressing up every time you left the house to jeans and t-shirts are fine. I wear a hat (a ball cap) while I work around the stables, but mostly I'm bare-headed. I wouldn't want to go back to the "good old days".
Thank you for this perspective!
When I use hats in public, I usually get lots of compliments. Of course I am not young any more, but even young people seem to like my hats!
That's the attitude! And age is just a number
@@barbaraalauro It's not just a number
Karolina: Imagine a 16 year old wearing a hat
School dresscode: not on my watch
(Edit: so anyone wondering, I’m at an American school, and it’s so the staff can easily identify you as a student apart from a school shooter)
Edit-edit: most of the comments are pretty cool and I thought they deserved to be here as well; Mallory Rivers brought up a great point about how they’ve been banned since she was in school a while back and the justification was how hats can be used for gang identification. This makes sense as hats had been banned long before school shooting were relatively common (≈90s). In elementary school (ages 5-11), I remember the reasoning as head lice.
Another asks if this comment was satire, but unfortunately not. Tying into above, my school definitely cites this as the reason as it had been shot up three years ago by a former student. And we had had a different school shooting in our county a couple decades back.
Hahaha, that is so true!
@Dana /: My friend wore a hair clip to school that had a 2inch by 1 inch top hat on it and got a citation, American principals are evil!
sad 16 year old sounds
I sometimes wear hat for school and most of my teachers don't care about it. one of my teachers once told me that I have cool beret
Alayna Gould im in the UK and one time i decided to wear extremely dark grey, looked almost black. Out dresscode is uniform with black socks. I got kicked out of school for a day because of my almost black socks because they wernt pure black, although they looked almost identical lmao. Welcome to England.
Next question: Why did we stop wearing gloves?
Maybe ill do a comeback with corona🤷🏻♀️
Did they though? Latex gloves due to COVID aside, people still wear gloves regularly. Usually it's situational (people who live where there's frequent cold weather or go somewhere with cold weather wear gloves, and then there are those who wear gloves for their work) but it never really went away. It's just not as common for people to wear gloves for fashion anymore.
And tiaras ))
because of smartphones tbh
Women who used to wear gloves were rich and married. Most women today work for a living and so it is not practical. Also, health care and preventative medicine has gone a long way and we no longer have to wear gloves to hide syphilis or small pox.
In Australia, we love hats, caps and berets. All widths of brims, wrapped in a scarf or flowers. Noone cares whats on ur head. Just keep it practical. All my hats have a wide brim, one is straw another is cancer council approved (my fave) and I have a cpl of baseball caps. I guess the heat issue in Oz is why, as we were all raised with a "No hat, No play" policy in school. Hats and gloves serve a purpose aside from looking nice, they keep the sun off our skin and the germs off our hands.
I love Lack of Color brand hats!
Here in Arizona I wear a hat every day. While I try to make it at least somewhat fashionable, it's not a fashion statement. It's to keep the sun out of my eyes, the glare out of my eyes and the heat of the sun off my head. My head appreciates the shade. If some think I'm trying to be trendy, too f'in bad. There's really no 'fashion' any more anyway, just trends. So why not wear what works? Even when it rains a hat is helpful...especially if one wears glasses! So with an eye to whatever fashion might be, it's utilitarian. I favor straw fedoras or planters for summer, wear a beaver or rabbit fedora when it's wet or cold in winter....and narrow brim fedoras or trucker caps when doing outside work where brim width is an issue. Since we don't have hurricanes here, a good fit negates most problems with wind, even with a relatively broad-brimmed hat from the Yucatan. Of course since most people hardly ever venture forth from the air-conditioning, and hat's are a hassle in a car I certainly don't expect it to become a trend. But for Arizona a hat just makes sense, if one is outside much at all. If one wants to bake their brain, they should feel perfectly free to do so....not my brain. :) Stetson, Sterkowski and Snap-Lok, from Arizona. Chow!
and the SLIP, SLOP, SLAP message. Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat
I can remember in the early 1960s, a well-known hat shop in our area closed. My mother and I went to their close out sale where the owner explained that women weren't wearing hats anymore, and so she could not afford to keep the shop. The owner had procured a position in one of the local department stores but was extremely emotional at having to close her shop. In those days, downtowns were still vibrant and patronage of department stores was at its height. Today, even the department stores cannot survive.
It was the beehive ( hairdo) in the ‘60’s that killed off wearing hats, together with women’s lib in the ‘70’s, when constraint was thrown out the window. Hats came back into fashion thanks to Princess Di and the ozone hole- and no, that’s not the name of a punk band!😉
It’s sad. You make a great point.
My favorite conspiracy is that The Hat Industry allegedly assassinated JFK because JFK depopularized hats and it was the final nail in the coffin to significantly hurt The Hat Industry.
Lmao wild
TBH, that's not the weirdest conspiracy theory I've heard in the past couple of weeks...
@@Marilyn_Monster isn't jackie kennedy popularize pillbox hat?
Would the Hat industry be called.... 🕶😎 Big Hat? 😏
@@fadlurohman8194 haha yeah that's why it's my favorite absurd conspiracy. It's just so strange.
I lost my hair to sickness, and I started making my own hats because I was SICK TO DEATH of chemo caps. They're sooooo booooring! I started a mini-trend at my church thanks to my fondness for cloche hats (a style that covers my entire head, and yet looks a little better than a scarf). Now we have several young ladies wearing hats regularly.
You are a style setter you are!! Very good work. Keep going.
I prefer wigs. I cosplay, but when I start losing mine, I can easily convert. The mesh(?) or weave(?) wigs allow the scalp to breath. Cant do the cool short cuts though. Need to have longer otherwise the wig is noticeable.
Queen? Yes! 💛
Get well soon June.🙏
I hope you're doing ok. I love hats.
Additionally, I want to add that teens are huge marketing targets and where are teens a majority of the day? School, and what do most schools not allow? Hats. They are against most dress codes due to covering people's faces, so I don't think hats will ever go into style.
I somewhat disagree
Crop tops and pants with holes (and even leggings where i went) are also prohibited at school, but that doesn't mean it isn't part of modern teenager fashion, far from it actually
@@confused8365 yes but those have the obvious attribute that they increase sexualization and thus desirability in the eyes of most modern people whereas hats don't have that effect.
The hat prohibition in school came, I think, because of street gangs. It was mostly boys who wore baseball style caps. The angle and placement of the visor was a sign of gang affiliation.
@@confused8365 I would argue that no hat rules are much more easily enforced vs. crop tops which may not be obvious when the arms are down.
It is clear if someone has something on their head or not, but whether pants are stretchy jeans or leggings requires more careful examination of the garment, which a lot of teachers don't want to do.
Most teachers in my school enforced the no hat/hoods rule, but not any of our other rules.
The hairstyles that required wigs and hair pieces also got in the way of wearing hats. The really big change was hygienic routines included more frequent showers and shampooing your hair. hats hid greasy hair.
"Where did all the hats go?"
The Royal Family.
Hahahahaha : D
They stole all the fishing nets to make them
People remembered cousins to royal families hats more than one wore by Kate and Meghan.
Probably the ones keeping them in business.
haha thanks, this comment made me giggle :)
People with bedazzled butt jeans: "Girl, that hat is too much"
Lol so true
OMG Hysterical!
hahaha dying!
Omg YAAS. I get told I’m “so dressed up” if I wear a hat...and if I’m wearing a hat AND a skirt? Oh man, people look at me like I’m wearing a formal gown....while they are wearing five inch heels, extensions, and a full face of makeup to pump gas 🙄
@@marillaz4582 lol & yas to you! Same story here. Or they're wearing pajama pants/sweatpants, shirts with cartoons on them...but we're at a restaurant..😂
I've been wearing hats since my teens, and I feel naked if I leave the house without a hat on. At work I usually wear a ball cap or navy or marine cover (the Navy and Marine Corp do not call them hats!) but outside of work I'll wear my favorite fedora or a felt cowboy hat or straw hat. My two latest buys have been a bowler and a homburg, and when I wear anything other than a cap I usually hear "Hey, nice hat!" I rarely get an odd look and I've never been bullied.
I feel like where at the start of a hat revival, caps and beanies are becoming more common, and social media has made hats seem very desirable to younger generations, so it’ll probably make a comeback soon.
Second half of 20th century: *OFF WITH THEIR HATS*
👏👏👏
It was JFK in America..
I laughed way more than I should have
Excellent pun
Sir, you win.
So I have another theory: the end of hats coincided with the advent of tan=attractive in western culture. In the mid 1870, working women wore bonnets because paleness was hottest despite working in the Midwest American sun, in part because rich fashionable ladies never had to work outside. Then by the 1970s the “Malibu Barbie” coincided the advent of blue-collar work moving inside (call centers, typists, etc), and tanning had the connotation of having time to lay about by the pool. We made the purpose of hats more redundant.
That said, I love hats.
Tanning is an important aspect. It was Coco Chanel in the 1920ies or 1930ies that popularised the tan. Malibu barbie was a sign that tan had become the norm.
i’m not so sure about that. contrary to popular belief, being tan was fashionable before the 1970s because is showed that you were wealthy enough to vacation. also, the popularisation of baseball caps and trucker hats was in the 70s, so it seemed they still wanted to shade their face from the sun. idk though, i wasn’t alive and i’m not a fashion expert, it just seems like they became too formal.
Ooh yes! This would make sense - in China, the old ladies wear these full face visors to protect their skin, but they are basically a fashion trend now. @withwendy even did a DIY about how to make them and she's for the young people.
When John F Kennedy who did not wear a hat was president many American men took their cue from him.
I think the Rock & Roll culture also had something to do with it, with hats being associated with the more conservative establishment.
Hat wearing might be cultural/regional. Here in the South US women wear the fanciest hats to church, socials, teas, etc...We wear wide brimmed hats as protection from the sun. Cowboy hats & ball caps are also common among women and men. We LOVE hats!
I love hats, and in the summer I always wear hats. When it is cold soletimes even in the winter. I simply find them so elegant.
When I was a kid in 1950s America, my father always wore a hat outside during the cooler months, and my mother wore one when she got dressed up. But as I recall, that more or less stopped as the 60s progressed. I myself have rarely been outside without a hat or cap for the past 40 years or so. I recently even had the great good fortune to find a felt fedora with ear flaps for cold weather.
I used to have a hat (I'm not sure what it's called. It looked like a newspaper boy hat but I'm not sure) and it had flaps on it so I wore it during the winter months. Oh MAN, did I love that hat. Wore it to death and have been looking for a proper replacement ever since.
some people be wearing hats because THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER
I call it the "giant nuclear reactor in the sky"
Not anymore, there’s a blanket!🎵🎶
The glowing death orb
I know da reference
Pew pew kill your hair.
This is the video I was waiting for!
Ever since the pandemic I decided I wanted to show off my "weirdness", so I decided to adopt the look of Gracchus Babeuf (a late 18th century French Revolutionary). I went around my college campus with a top hat, adorned with a tricolor cockade. Most people reacted positively, telling me it took balls to rock a top hat in this day-and-age. Perhaps hats will make a comeback (hopefully)!
Love your channel!
My Mom, who was born in 1917, always claimed that teased beehive hairdos got squished down under hats. Since this meant the hairdo was ruined, hats fell out of favor.
I don’t think the USA rationed hats during WW 2 in the USA. President Roosevelt believed that keeping new women’s hats accessible, kept up the morale.
people's roots growing out without the hairdressers open right now might cause hats to come back...
Why are you calling me out isn't it enough that everyone in my house laugh at my messed up hair because of quarantine 😭
What I came to say.
You are right! Good reason. I’ve never covered my gray, so I’m making that a “thing.”
Hahaha i love your comment!
Haha true! Or box dye. lol
Karolina: "Why did we stop wearing hats?"
Texans: "Wait... we did what now?"
I appreciate a wide-brimmed western style hat for shade in the sun (I sunburn easily) and keeping my head, neck, and glasses dry in the rain.
I am definitely a "hathead."
Muslim women: *laughs in headcover*
All men with thinning hair: "Who stopped wearing hats?"
Emos wearing beanies: I’m sorry, we did what?
Today I saw a man in a suit with a hat that matched and my immediate thought was that he looked really elegant and nice, and that what really pulled the look together was the hat.
I don’t know why, but a hat is just one of those things where if you wear it and it fits with your outfit, it adds an intentionality to your look, it feels like they didn’t just throw on whatever was convenient to go out in.
I remember in the late 50's and early 60's as a kid trying on my Grandmothers hats. She still wore them. I also remember the excitement of going to the department store with her to shop for a new one. I couldn't wait until I was old enough to wear them. By the time I was, they were gone. I still regret that.
I love hats. When I was 16, my parents came home from an estate sale with 10 grocery bags of vintage hats, and the whole lot cost them only $10. They gave them all to me. It was the best day ever. I stopped wearing them so much as an adult. First of all, I live in a hot place, but secondly, every time I wore one of my gorgeous little pillboxes or tiny 1940s/1950s hats that perched at an angle on the side of my head, people would ask me when I was serving drinks, and when the flight would land. By the 1990s, basically the only people still wearing smart little hats were flight attendants. I miss my hats, but have grown used to dressing simply. The world is a more boring place for our turning away from hats, and other sharp accessories.
you should wear them again. join us historybounders and have fun you wont be alone!!!
Be true to yourself!
Who cares. I hope you still have your hats:)!!!
I sold the ones I'd never worn. But you're right, dammit. I still have my awesome fedoras, we are actually having cool weather lately (after all these decades, we are finally having an autumn that lasts more than two weeks!), and I'm dressing more smartly. I don't go out though. I'll just have to get out and go for walks looking elegant. I can also wear them when I stream my crafting on Twitch. Might even get my butt moving and post videos on TH-cam. My vintage will find its real crowd here (or actually on my crafting channel). THANK YOU! You've inspired me.
@@cometkatt Maybe it was just me who got boring. I'll do it! Thank you.
I believe that hats were a casualty of automobile culture. The shape of modern automobiles makes hat wearing difficult: lower ceilings, lower clearances (to get into the car) and headrests. Try wearing a hat with a brim without it getting popped right off by the headrest of the car.
This also goes for men. Those annoying headrests in "modern" cars, make it impossible to wear much other than a baseball-type cap. I have 20 stetson-types that I never wear, because of the car head restraints. It's a pain to have to change it. I normally wear a "gimmie" hat whenever I leave the house, in large part to hide my "shame"---no hair. I only take it off in church.
@@elultimo102 Oh yeah, I'm fortunate that I prefer wearing flatcaps, they rarely if ever get in the way.
Caps don't have a brim nor stick up.
Factory workers wore flat caps.
@@elultimo102
I've never even thought of headrests on cars before, either way I'm glad they're around
Also cars just meant people spend less time outside on average. Prior to the car most people walked or biked together most places or wait at the station for the train so one needed a good brimmed hat. But now you walk a short distance to your car, drive, and then walk a short distance to your destination. Hat's have lost the element of practicality in that environment.
Along with the wearing of hats, society also was more aware of social graces! I remember men removing their hats when walking into a building or church, or even when a “lady” walked into the room. Those days are over unless you’re in the military. Men don’t even respect the house of God anymore-they just walk right in with their baseball hats on (which still bothers me). I have the last dressy hat my father ever wore. He gave it my husband (his only last son-in-law) and it’s 80 years old. I love hats and had them in my wedding and wear them from time to time! Wish hats would come back!
Manners change with priorities.
Chivalry is hard to see as good manners when you recognize the misogyny in it's bones.
I totally agree with your statements! At my dinner table you must wear a clean shirt and you must remove your hat. At church I go as far as politely asking a hat to be removed. Ah.... oh how I wish a gentleman would remove his hat for a lady these days. This is all part of the lack of discipline and respect we see today from teens to adults. It’s getting worse too.
My husband and I were talking about why hats are considered disrespectful when a prayer is being said. The situation in question was in our home. We couldn't come up with an actual answer. Thoughts?
@@leinanifuna8994 Great question. Discipline, respect and honor is my answer. In church one would remove their hat to show respect and honor unto the Lord. One would wear a clean shirt and remove their hat at the dinner table, to show respect to the wife, mother .... honoring the one who cooked the food and thanking the ONE🙏🏽 who provided it. All while showing the young ones proper behavior. All together these are disciplines that go far beyond the moments and on to a better society that understands respect, honor and the proper ways to act. Like respecting the nations flag and partaking of the blessings of stating the pledge. In my home during a Bible study and prayer, I would want those around me to remove their hat during prayer; however I would have my husband wear a hat and demonstrate the removal during prayer.... setting the example. :)
@@leinanifuna8994 “Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved.”
I Corinthians 11:4-5 NKJV
This is where it comes from. This is why most western countries that were heavily Christian adopted this custom in secular settings as well as in church. 👒 🎩 So, hats are only disrespectful during prayer if worn by a man. And a women without something on her head during prayer would be equally disrespectful. (Not everyone agrees that this is what the passage means, but if you require men to take off their hats you would have to require women to put something on…to be biblically consistent.) This is where the custom comes from.
Ever since I went all-in on my sun protection game, I've been a hat girl! I do it for practical reasons, but it's become a key part of my style too. It's harder to find cool hats though because hats are in so much less demand.
I was born in the 60's and I remember my mum only wearing hats and gloves to church. She died in 1974 and I do think in those last few years she had stopped wearing hats. I was only little but I do remember her church outfits. Hats and gloves make you look so elegant.
I’m sorry that you lost your mother so early:(
I'll wear hats to church for fancy occasions (a veil the rest of the time) but I've only ever really seen the use of gloves for work, riding, and dancing.
*YESSS*!!!✌️👌👍👏😄
@OwO Covet Matter of fact, it used to be a requirement for women to cover their hair in church until relatively recently. I know a few people who still adhere to that, though they usually just wear veils that they can fold up and put away outside.
I can't wear hats to church, it would be too distracting since I'm the one preaching😆
Growing up at school being told that wearing a hat indoors is disrespectful kind of made me never want to wear one. What was the point of wearing a hat to school and taking it off when I got there?
We went to a wedding and when we sat at our table at the reception, my wife leaned over and whispered, "Aren't you going to take your hat off?" I replied, "No, this hat is part of my outfit and I'm going to keep it on." I decided if guys with baseball caps can wear their hats all the time, then I can wear my fedoras as I please. I do still take my hat off in church, during prayer (in or out of church), or for the playing of the national anthem.
That's the rub, though. People who say they want their hats back aren't really prepared for the etiquette that accompanied them. You don't wear hats indoors or when eating, and then you have to carry it around. Wearing a hat "properly" is essentially asking to be handicapped half the day because your hand is occupied holding the hat you "aren't allowed" to be wearing for myriad reasons. There's a reason they fell out of favor with the working class, and that's because they're incredibly inconvenient.
@@Lawrence330 I am very old and was trained 60 years ago by old ladies who were 80 to 100 years old, all about how to wear hats, the Victorian way. Whenever anyone tried to tell my to take off my hats indoors, I would inform them that a LADY doesn't remove her hat, period, except taking a bath or washing a baby. :)
as a pagan who is transitioning to veiling, people respect head scarves a lot more than hats. people are more likely to tell you to take off a hat than a scarf, even though i wear them for the same reason. just an observation
Oh yeah I heard that one growing up in Eastern Europe. I can't see a logical explanation for that. With other garments more coverage usually means modesty, like they used to tell me to wear long skirts and cover my shoulders for church to avoid causing offence. But suddenly covering my head has the opposite effect? I don't get it
I think the automobile also impacted hat wearing. Riding in open carriages and on horseback requires a hat to block out glare from the sun.
Karolina: Why don't we wear hats anymore?
Me, who had to search my room for a hat before leaving the house and would buy a ton of hats if I had the space/money: This is news to me
The 1601-1699 versus 1901-1999 comparison was mind boggling it really is insane how quickly things have evolved this past century or two
When Karolina said that it really resonated with me too. Like something clicked in my mind lol
It's kind of scary. It would be nice if our fashions became a little more refined.
@@madamebkrt not to mention fast fashion now. I literally see new trends on social media every week because of fast fashion
@@johnlennonade4712 What exactly is fast fashion?
@@madamebkrt Fast fashion is a term used to describe a highly profitable business model based on replicating catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, and mass-producing them at low cost. The term fast fashion is also used to generically describe the products of the fast fashion business model. (I stole this straight from the internet but you get the point) also, since the material is so cheap they underpay the workers incredibly low. I do understand though if your plus sized and you buy fast fashion because they have plus sized clothing for cheap. People also think that they are getting a deal, but actually since the materials are so cheap they have to keep replacing the clothing rather than buying a good quality outfit
In my graduation party a classmate decided to break from the boring men elegant fashion of the 21st century by wearing a dark red vest and a neck scarf instead of a bow tie, but also by wearing a top hat with steampunk googles. He spent the night borrowing the hat to other boys so they could take pictures wearing it!
Lending *
hats can definitely be cool.
that dude sounds cool as hell
People wore hats over the centuries to keep the dust out of their hair. When people started washing their hair more often, they no longer felt the need to protect it from dust. Another secondary reason, is the loss of formality in society. Just look at today's sport utility vehicles, casual dress and lack of desire to impress others in a formal, dignified manner.
There was a photographer in my city who took photos of people in hats. He went out on crowded streets to find as many hat-wearers as possible and by 2019 had a decent collection
I just realized something quite surprising:
formal woman dress 1800 => 1900: little change (as Karolina explained in the video)
formal woman dress 1900 => 2020: huge change
whereas:
formal man dress 1800 => 1900: quite a lot of change
formal man dress 1900=> 2020: little change
(in 1800 men had knee breechers, fancy colourful jackets, and no ties.
While a 1900 business suit is not much different from today. black or blue jacket, matching long trousers, white shirt, tie)
To be fair men's fashion changed rapidly during the 20th century. Some would even say fell of a cliff and burst into flames. While by the earlier 18th century the styles of Beu Brummell and other such dandies had already begun to come into fashion. Said style was the birth of classic menswear as it is seen today and although different had links to the early 1900s, white tie for example was practically unchanged. However by the 2000s and onwards very few men wore a suit and those that do often wear dreadful skinny fit far from the days of the early 1900s.
@@fredbreadbun6277 I detest the skinny fit suit on men ! Makes them look like little boys suits with not enough fabric. And, INMO there's only a certain amount of modern women that can pull off the skinny clothing look.
Yoga-pants is not a look ! :-O
Fred Breadbun Most men have a suit at hand since it's needed during formal celebrations like weddings and bals.
@@dundee6402 Yes but it's is no longer everyday wear for most men, as it once was at the turn of the last century.
@@kylemoran4343 I very much sympathise with your views. Skinny fit is quite vile.
I'm a hat girl, and I always have people say "I never look good in hats" or "youre the only person I know who can pull off a hat!" I never understand because half the time I wear headwear is to hide my gross hair lol so much easier than having to do my hair. Also... Putting a hat on even wearing jeans and a T makes it look put together... Just own it!
Palomino ___ My sister always said I have a “hat head”-they look good on me. They oddly don’t look good on her or my other sister. It’s kind of weird.
@@possumaintdead It must be the style of hat that doesn't suit them. I know for sure that a cloche and bucket hat don't look good on me, my face is too full to pull it off, but a panama? Hell yes. I also love berets and pillbox hats. They just need to find a hat that suits them. I also think hair is part of whether a hat suits you or not. If you wear your hair down and straight while wearing a pillbox it will just look messy but wearing it up in a chignon will look so much better.
I always tell people who say they don’t look good in hats that I don’t believe them and they probably haven’t found the right hat or worn the hat the right way. I also think it’s about confidence. If you don’t wear a hat confidently it will look out of place on you.
@@Strangeland_Elf True. Confidence is key. Wish more people were more confident and wish they'd experiment more. They'd find their style much easier if they did and hopefully find something to wear that makes them happy and feel complete.
Bumble Grumble The only hat I can wear is a beret lol with the right outfit ofc
I live in the high desert, and am very fair, so I wear hats with brims as my sunscreen. I always get positive comments from strangers too. I've even had someone tell me I am "brave" wearing a hat! I think that is really funny! I do wish more people would wear hats! BTW, your 40's hairstyle is super cute!!!
This was very interesting. I have often wondered about this topic. I love hats, used to collect them, but never felt comfortable wearing them out....the feeling of being pretentious. So I only wear hats now for practical use: sun shading in summer and warmth in the winter. Sad. Thank you for an interesting video.
I used to live in Mansfield, Ohio, many years ago, and there was a lovely black lady who wore beautiful, floor-length gowns and huge hats with flowers and feathers. Being black in a mostly white city, she would have stood out already, and her clothing made her even more distinctive. She looked like royalty. It was like seeing a tropical flower in a field of wheat.
This same town had a hat shop that sold hats that were all hand made individually and imported from Italy and France. A restaurant a few doors down had a grease fire, and the smoke traveled through the ventilation system that was shared by the other stores in the strip mall, and all those beautiful hats were ruined. The owner went out of business. I felt so bad for her. I hope she was able to open another store in a better town.
Why do we export hats to the States but I cannot find one.single. hat shop either in Italy or France-
@@shyeline5007 I live in Italy, there's a hat shop in my town, and I don't exactly live in a big city...
@@shyeline5007 where do you live? I'm from Germany and you mostly see them in side alleys and stuff but I'm also from the biggest city so yeah
@@mjrhmekssh italy lmao. Should be a hat country
@@shyeline5007I saw the last hat store closing down in Rennes (12th city in France) in 1999, but in Italy most cities will still sport at least one hat store. I even know of a hat store in Milan with top hats on display.
the 2020's will bring back the Cloche hats to cover up quarantine-self-inflicted bangs and shaved heads
It's now the screaming 20s lol, gotta mirror the roaring 20s, right?
@@annemathis6650 I had not heard that yet! Too funny, kudos!
Honestly yeah🤧
Delfina Garcia thank you for this reminder
Lmao true
Yup. Ur right. My husband bought me a beautiful expensive hat for Christmas and my family wouldn't even let me wear it to dinner. They kept teasing me then finally asked me point blank when I was going to take it off.
I’ve always wondered this. Especially when I started losing my hair, wishing to myself hats were a commonplace thing. Fascinating and informative video!
I would love if we had an elegant revolution.. some pieces nowadays just lack everything. from style to fitting properly I won't even think about elegance :/
Especially now that it is cheap to get accessories. It wouldn't need to have connotations of snobbery anymore.
Well, one-size low-quality hats may be cheap, but they don't fit well.
Good fit means the hat is made in different sizes, and then if you expect a decent quality, the hat isn't exactly cheap anymore.
A good winter coat costs more, though, and a good hat may be usable even longer.
Bring it on!
I really want this to be a thing ;A;
Not to confuse you, but people 100 were not "elegant". Only bourgeois were - workers in those times had mostly one or two set of clothes and it was work clothes.
And it is very likely that yours ancesors were workers.
What they don’t tell you about us broad brim hat wearers: walking down the street when you pass another person wearing a hat on the more visible side, you get the “hat nod”, where you both acknowledge each other with a smile because we are a dying breed :)
I wanna experience that so badly
@@rubym6178 same
I tip my hat too you.
Yeaah haha as a hat wearer i can confirm. It feels so nice.
My Grandmother (born 1922) once told me why she stopped wearing hats.
Basiaclly she was born and raised in a more urban middle class setting during pre-war Germany where she adopted the fashion of the time including the hat.
Well when she came together with my grandfather after the war they moved into a more rural town where at the beginning she still wore the fashion she was used to when she lived in the city. Which led to her becoming the target of the local people as they saw her as the "arrogant city girl" for wearing a hat (also didnt help that she and my grandfather were of diffrent confessions what was seen as rather...unconventional... to put it midley). So she stopped wearing it.
I was a teenager during the cool late 60’s, early 70’s. It was great fun. A special time to revisit when in need of playfulness and fortitude.
Last time I was this early we still wore hats.
Cant believe she tricked me to learning history when I came here for fashion
"The 16-year-old high schooler wearing a fedora to class."
This was me. I saved up money when I was 14, so I could buy a wide-brimmed, felt fedora hat. A big part of it was wanting to be like Indiana Jones (though mine was black), but I also just liked it. Now, I have several fedoras, a few trilbys, and some other hats, but the one I bought when I was 14 is still my favorite (and thankfully still fits). Overall, I think hats are cool!
i think fedoras are underrated
@@idkanymore790 They really are!
Your last comment about a bad hair day made me wonder if changing bathing routines (more frequent hair washing) had any affect on the sad demise of the hat?
Karolina: "Imagine a 16 year old high-schooler showing to his class in a fedora"
Me, an American who was in high-school during the height of emo: *heavy breathing*
*tips fedora* M'lady ;)
That explains a lot from my school days.
I wore a fedora when I was 16.
I wore fedoras that was a trend
@@lorenaelizabethch585 - I wore it when it wasn't a Trent.😎🕵
I have a male (!) friend and his signature look is a black wool fedora, and I simply love it. He is easy to find in a crowd, he lifts up his fedora when he says hi, it's just really cool. Please everybody, bring back hats
Wiktoria Małolepsza I bet he’s a nice guy (m’lady)
@@zoebug2277 I bet he frequently experiences euphoria.
@@zoebug2277 those people are usually wearing trilbys but they don't know the difference so they call it a fedora.
But he won't be easy to spot if other people wear hats too
Is his name Neal Caffrey?
In the Andes, hats is an easy way to distinguish ppl from different cultures within the quechua and aymara continuum.
Oh ym god I asked myself that exact question lately. Thanks for this video! I would love to wear a hat since it looks elegant and retro is modern but I just can't think of any type or situation that wouldn't look ridiculous. Bring back the hats!
The automobile killed them. The roofs got lower, leaving no room to wear a hat.
Thing is, now cars are taller again. We can bring hats back.
@Jollyprez
So true. Cars got lower. No room for hairdos or hats. I am Sooo going to get a taller roofed car.
the car made the flatter hats popular, but wasn't what killed it.
@@jesse-5318 Or a sunroof.
No, the roof line got lower reflecting fashion, not the other way around.
This reminds of an story that I heard about how Danish peasant women would snatch the top hats from the heads of wealthy men and wouldn't give them back until the man paid them a sum. The men would pay because it would have been scandalous to be seen without it.
😂😂😂
No need to prostitute! Genius
Here's a comic about it satwcomic.com/run-your-hats-off
Smart
An entrepreneur
Hi Karolina, I absolutely love hats from any era. My grandpa´s wore it every time he went away from home. Absolute thanks for this!
i went to an exhibit at an art museum that had all of these paintings of hats, and really gorgeous old preserved ones from really far back, and it was one of the coolest experiences i've ever had. One of my make-soon-list projects is a newsboy cap!
Honestly brands could make so much money of bringing hats back. Imagine you want to have a hat for every ocasion so you buy one, that is easy money😂
Edit: just finished the video, rip hats. I shall miss you forever
Yeah I often think about that 😅 I mean I don’t want to encourage mass hat production because that would be a huge environmental mess, but like it seems reasonable for those companies to try and bring hats back?
Money is the reason why functional pockets/pockets in general disappeared from women's clothing - so we would buy purses. And purses for every ocasion, for every outfit and don't forget that your shoes must match your purse and belt if you're wearing one.
@ With the addition of face masks, maybe hats will return. Next video: Gloves...
@Cela Whitney crap! Can yall see me? 😂 thought I turned that thing off...🤣🤣🤣
@@vesnav8171 Idk, maybe I'm not buying expensive enough or high-end enough designer pants, but I just had to replace all my pants due to weight loss ( :-) ) and all of them have functional pockets. I hear the comment about non-functional pockets on women's pants, but I have had very very few pants like that in my lifetime.
Church ladies all over Brooklyn and the Bronx would like a word.
And why weren’t baseball caps mentioned?
@@hopegold883 because she was talking about general hat wearing culture, the fact that EVERYBODY wore a hat when leaving the house, always. Nowadays I feel we think people are a bit of a loser if you never take off a baseball cap, and certainly not everyone wears one.
Even in conservative Catholic circles in Australia women have ditched them, going lace veils if they do feel the need to cover their heads during mass.
I think the popularization of showers also has something to do with this. You don't notice the dirt and dust that collects in your hair when you're washing it every day rather than combing it out. It ceased being a necessity. I still think they're important for protecting your head from sunburn and keeping your hair cleaner, but most people probably don't think of them as necessary hair protection - the exception being the bonnets that some people with super curly hair wear. The crazy styles of the 40s also aided in this, because those small styles barely offered protection anyway.
This was very interesting and informative. I always wondered about why people stopped wearing hats. Thank you for making this!
...There were actually multiple people that tried wearing fedoras to school at my high school. None of the students said anything negative about it, but the teachers made them take them off because hats were against the dress code. To be fair, people also showed up at my school wearing corsets, hoop skirts, various other petticoats, capes, and leather armor. It was a very weird school. (No one said anything in front of the guy who wore armor to school, but I did hear someone in front of the boys restroom saying, "Dude, you should have come to school today - there's a guy wearing armor!" to someone he was on the phone with.)
I admire those people at your school so much! 😁
It amazes me that out of all the offensive things that students could wear to school, teachers decided that hats were the hill to die on. I have never attended a school where hats were allowed in the classroom, but I have attended schools where there were no rules around skirt and shorts lengths. Makes no sense.
XD
In my boring small French school, the girls that wear a simple crop top or just a short that ends under the cheeks, they get really bullied my the surveilients and the teachers.
I personally tried the béret (idk the right term in English) but even if the teachers let you be, you can only wear it outside, so it's basically 30min a day... The rest of the time it is in your bag or on the table, so it's just cumbersome...
I'm gonna buy a suit of armor to wear to school now
I don’t think hats ever went away, they just got more utilitarian, think baseball hats, bucket hats, beanies, and sun hats. Instead of a fashion statement, they are now for the explicit purpose of keeping your head warm or cool. They evolved as our style evolved.
I learned the word “utilitarianism” from your comment!! I never knew that was a thing. Thank you for the lesson!
I agree. I have always use hats since I was a little girl in order to protect myself from rain during winter, or from wind at midseason, or from sunlight during summer. I love a nice, beautiful hat, but you can't find a hat that's too elaborate anymore. Designs are more classic since hats are not a trend anymore. And is harder now to find beautiful and good quality hats nowadays.
I agree. I have the same reaction when I watched this video because I still see people wearing sports caps when it's sunny and beanies when it's cold. They still have a use in our daily lives and that is to protect us from the weather. We just stopped wearing overly decorative ones regularly.
@@shoshishoshi127 but they aren't that beautiful as before.
Yeah as I watched this video I glanced to my large pile of hats that consist of baseball caps, bucket hats, berets, snapbacks, beanies, etc. in different styles, materials and colors to match my clothing. I have various sun hats for summer and different kinds of winter hats for cool to freezing temperatures. I just think that hats should be paired well with an outfit...while I’ve never teased anyone wearing a fedora, very few of them seem to pull it off. esp when they’re wearing jeans and t-shirts?? Idk maybe it’s also just my fashion preference. -_-
I remember from the time I was twelve, anytime I went out with my mom, she would remind me to wear my hat and my gloves. I still wear a hat most of the time. I love hats. and we most definitely need to get back to wearing hats.
Great video, I saw your channel reccomended in a Gentleman's Gazette video so I'm looking through some of your videos.
9:22 In that situation you just have to have confidence and own it. Same thing with guys wearing Fedora.
*Girl walking around with a hat*
Someone: weird flex but okay
@Jack K because they are funny.
@Jack K Why are you so compelled to hate on someone's joke?
Jack K How many fedoras do you own?
@Jack K
Not everyone thinks like you, Jack! Σ(ಠ_ಠ)
@Jack K you aren't the God of jokes no one gives a shit what you think is funny or not
Karolina: "I was bullied for wearing hats"
Me: "Oohhhhh, I'm gonna start wearing hats everywhere! Suck it, you hat haters! You can't touch this!!!"
People only bully you because you look too good in a hat. They can suck it.
Amen to that!
@@Carewolf even though I approve your comment, I’d like to say that mean people like to bully people who look or act different because they are an easy target. It has absolutely nothing to do with the bullied person and I hope every bullied person knows this. Just be confident no matter what 💪
That's why I got a huge respect for goths. I already draw a lot of negative attention with my 1920s outfit, which I bought for bad weather and now wear during spring and fall as it's really more comfortable. I can't imagine dressing up like a goth, wear a kilt, or Kontusz IRL.
Bullies just wanted an excuse to make their bullying a little more justified, which is stupid to begin with.
This is very interesting. If my history classes had been more like this (about culture) and less about war, I would have enjoyed them more.
I love my hat and changing it’s fascinator to match my outfit. My favorite fascinator to add to my hat has a dragon eye to look back at people. It actually gets compliments.
Fuck. I definitely didn't realise just How Much changed in fashion. Like compared to any other single 100 yr block in history. The "petticoats to mini dress" vs " heavy structured gown A" to "heavy structured gown B" is a REALLY intense visual contrast.
Wild. I love learning!
it's a pity you can't learn to avoid unneccessary expleteives.
It's a pity you don't know how to spell expletives.
SPOILER: According to Monty Python's film "Meaning of Life":
The meaning of life can be reduced to two fundamental concepts.
1. People aren't wearing enough hats.
2. Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However this soul does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches, it has to be brought into existence by a process of self guided observation. However this is rarely achieved owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
Yes yes, but, enough hats for what purpose? 😆. Love Monty Python!
Can i just ask in reference to your second point? When you say souls don't develop because people become distracted..
Has anyone noticed that building there before?
Goodness me! Your videos seem so densely packed and informative, thank you very much!
Another thing that made hats less important was the hand held hair dryer and the change to less structured hairstyles. Before the blow dryer, washing and setting your hair was a weekly chore that could last hours depending upon how long your hair was and the style you were going for. By Friday everyone needed a hat :D