Re:Readers reply: when and why did men stop wearing hats?
by denton-scratch on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:20AM
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> So, keeping your "low status" hat on would be OK?
Baring your head is the sign of humility. It doesn't matter which hat you have to doff.
In the UK, a "low status" hat would have been be a flat-hat, or flat cap. It used to be a worker's hat; it was also worn by countrymen - farmers, country landowners, gamekeepers and the like - but not in town.
Nowadays I often see expensive tweed flat-hats on the heads of fashionable, well-to-do townies. To me, that look is poncey.
In the past, maybe. I don't think it does so much now (at least in my part of the US). If it signifies anything besides aesthetics, it's signifying that the person is part of some defined group. Status doesn't enter into it.
> while disporting the mark of your superiority.
So, keeping your "low status" hat on would be OK? (I'm assuming that there is such a thing -- that some hats are "high status" implies that there exists the opposite).