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.
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.