Pickles by Brian Crane for July 02, 2023

You have a bit of a mean streak in you, Peral.

That’s probably why they don’t wear them any more!

If you’re nostalgic, retirement , at least, will let you enjoy again men fashionably walk with canes.

Loved cowboy hats.

Hats fell out of style after Jack Kennedy did not wear one to his inauguration.

I have a fedora. It does catch the wind. I rarely wear it.

Guys miss the braless 60s and 70s

♬ we can dance if we want to… ♬

https://youtu.be/0QDKLglEP5Y

I srarted wearing a hat daily in 1966, and have continued to this day. I have three fedoras, one tyrolean, two berets, a beautiful beaver hat and at least a dozen baseball caps. Hats are not that unpopular, evidenced by the fact that I have had two of them stolen in the last 10 yaers——-from church, no less. Now I keep my hat with me during the service. I have recieved many compliments on my hats, mainly the fedoras, and mostly from women. As with any attire, your hat makes a statement about you. And, BTW Opal and friend, with a good fit wind is no problem. Hats are great. Just ask the cat.

Two days ago, I replaced the panama that basically got crushed to bits a year or so ago.

Fedoras are for winter, which in these parts starts about a week before Christmas and lasts for a little under a month.

Probably why we stopped wearing the things.

Those were the days… just keep running after that hat, never a need for a fitness club.

I’m a woman and chased my hat down the street just last month lol it gets very windy here in Southern New Mexico so I’ll pull my ponytail through a baseball cap.

Most men around here wear hats, usually baseball caps and cowboy hats. I love my guy in a cowboy hat but I wish I could talk him into leaving the cap off more often when we’re going out and stuff -i understand he needs a hat to protect his face (and in the case of a cowboy hat his ears and neck) from the relentless NM sun but he really has gorgeous hair (thick and sandy)!

After JFK went hatless for his inauguration, he started a trend!

Hats are still worn, it’s just the styles that have changed. Real cowboys before the 20th century rarely wore cowboy hats, for example. More of them wore bowler hats among others. I prefer the Irish tam to almost anything, but I have a fedora (of the Indiana Jones sort, not the 60s businessman sort) that I wear fairly often still.

Being that my hair has become rather thin on top I always wear hats outside to protect my head from the sun. I got tired of baseball caps and bought a fedora last year

Just the facts, ma’am

Gimme a girl in a cowboy hat, in a pickup truck, and I’m suddenly in love.

Asked by colleagues many decades ago how do I keep my hat on in strong winds, I answered, “it’s a Tilley®️”.

Getr a hat that fits and that won’t happen!

I wear real hats and they all have chin straps.

Around 1950, Dad took be to a haberdashery and had me outfitted from fedora [my first real Stetson] to vested suit to shoes. Enjoyed wearing that combination through high school for special occasions and dates. It was the accepted mode and covered all kinds of occasions. Then came college and military and by 1962 styles of men’s dress wear had changed, and men’s hair styles had become a big thing [not always for the better] In the ’60’s as a new sales rep for NCR business machines, I was told a hat was required dress. I enjoyed selecting and buying a nice fedora only to have the very conservative division head knock it because it was a mid-tan instead of black or grey, the stultifying business machine industry standard.

Not long thereafter the ‘baseball hat’ became ubiquitous, but at least the early models offered individual sizes. Then hat manufacturers and almost every other clothing producer found the key to happiness, i.e., one size fits all. No more guessing how many of each size to make and no more overstock from unsold sizes. From that time until the present frumpiness and the ‘well, it almost fits’ standard have become the norm.

Fortunately I still have one good all weather fedora [tan], a waterproof wide brimmed crushable, and an honest to heaven Stetson from a western store in Durango, CO. The first is used regularly, the second rarely, and the third is wrapped for the memory of our trip to the Four Corners area, our last real outing.

John F. Kennedy killed the aspect of wearing a hat. Men of that ERA felt they were not fully dressed and taken seriously as a Man if not wearing a hat. Even the movies back then, the bums riding freight cars wore hats.

I lost my hat on a busy Boston road. Luckily I got it back but I was definitely a scare.

I don’t remember my father ever having to chase his hat down the street. I do remember him dressing up in a suit and tie to go pick up his paycheque when he was working night shift.

I read that men stopped wearing hats all the time because President John F. Kennedy did not wear a hat for his inauguration. Now we have either backwards baseball caps or older styles such as fedoras worn ironically by hipsters. Not exactly progress.

Pearl is a flake….and most times so is Opal!

JFK basically ended men wearing hats

From projecting dignity and authority, to looking like a silly fool as you chase after it, all from a puff of wind.

I think men stopped wearing hats in the 60s because we finally got to wear our hair long, and hats just didn’t go with long hair.

In the late 1940s automobiles around the world started to be made with less headroom. Men had to remove their hats to ride in a car. Actors started to appear in movies without hats outside. Hatlessness for men really took off when JFK was inaugurated. He did not wear a hat after he got out of the car driving him the ceremony. On the other hand, I started wearing fedoras in 1981 after watching a film made by a Mr Lucas and Mr Spielberg. Can’t save the world without your fedora. And (spoiler) NEVER put it on a clothesline.

There is a single FIRST panel missing here! It’s always in my Sunday paper – but not here. The missing panel shows a man wearing a ball cap as he strolls by them. SHAME that they don’t show the entire strip.

You had to screw yours on in windy downtown Milwaukee when I began working there in January, 1970. And what did they do? ’Sent me to downtown Chicago.

I’ve been wearing a wide brimmed, Aussie style, suede hat for several decades now. It’s great in sun and rain. What I hate is umbrellas. I’ve been through four of them and it has a chin strap for windy days.

I despise baseball caps…baseball caps were made for baseball players. Love a nice trilby, panama or newsboy.

We have to chase ball caps down the street on windy days too.

Lots of hats to be seen in the honky-tonks.

After the movie “Oppenheimer” comes out this month, hats will make a comeback.

Since baseball caps replaced “real” hats, ear cancers have gone up.

Hid our greasy hair. Daily showers were not the norm until then.

Nobody cares what SHE thinks…..

The Grand Central #7 train subway station was the end of a long tunnel under the East River. Strong winds through the tunnel. There used to be a sign “HOLD YOUR HATS”.

Women used to also wear dress hats for going out. I kind of wish I had saved my mom’s hats to pass down to my granddaughter. Dress coats, dresses, heels, and hats. No woman would go out without them. Now? We are lucky if they wear the basics and maybe even fit semi-properly. Anyone who remembers “All in the Family” can probably remember Archie and Edith always reaching in their closet for their hats and coats.

Only time my father ever wore a hat was when he was wearing his suit. He only wore it on Sundays and when he went to vote. After JFK inauguration he got rid of it, said he hated to wear a hat

The things we men used to do to entertain you ladies.

I’ve worn a cap at a couple of graduations and a hardhat as necessary.

Other than that…. nope.

Cars ended hats. The bigger the hat, the less if fit in cars with their low roofs. So skin tight caps became the default for city dwellers. I still wear a Stetson at times because it protects my ears from sun burn and my glasses from rain.

When did women stop wearing billowy skirts? I seem to remember men liked watching them on windy days. Marilyn Monroe over the windy grate. (I didn’t understand why back then…)

Sixties? That’s usually when men start wearing hats…

ranchers, farmers, mexican laborers, cowboys still wear hats. on and off the job.

I don’t like the backwards ballcap look. Even my 35 yo son wears it that way. Looks like a doofus to me. Sorry, I’m old school.

During the ’60s, I wore Service caps, Garrison caps, and combat helmets. Do they count? (not all at once)

The last guy I ever saw wear a hat was Bear Bryant at Alabama!

They still do that.

I had to chase my baseball cap across the street not long ago.