I kind of agree; some people look good in some hats, mostly though people look best in hats when the hat is serving some specific function.
OTOH, I know a few people, and see quite a few more, who wear hats all the time. Know a guy who was married in a hat. Know a guy who wears a wool cap no matter how hot it is.
I assume this is just some cultural difference, though I'd be interested in hearing from any all-the-time hat wearers how they came to decide this was a good thing.
- It's easier for people to recognize you if you have a hat that you always wear. (Conversely, if you want said people to not recognize you, you can take the hat off.)
- It's also easier for people to find you in a crowd if they know you're wearing a hat.
- If you Scotchgard it, it's reasonably waterproof and can keep rain out of your face.
- Occasionally random people tell you, "Nice hat."
- If you're not wearing a suit, and you're not Indiana Jones, you shouldn't be wearing a fedora.
- Fedoras never, ever go well with a terrible patchy little goatee.
I went to a tech school, I have stared into the abyss of fedoras and it has changed me.
Also, leather fedoras are the most terrible abomination ever created.
It's not the worst theory I've ever heard.
In all seriousness, hats are great; like anything else, they'll see a comeback when the pendulum swings the other way. I smoke a pipe and shave with a straightrazor, when I don't have a beard (which is most of the time). I think I'll buy myself a good hat one of these days just to bring it back and prove old PJ wrong.
"A hat should be removed upon greeting a woman, and remain off for the rest of one's life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat".
I'm only half kidding. Hats were probably more functional when bathing was less frequent. Unless you spend a lot of time in the bright sunlight or out in the cold, today there is little reason to wear one so now they just look silly.