Men’s fashion is dreadfully boring, but one thing we used to have was a profusion and proliferation of different hats we could wear.

I know the m’lady meme and mall ninjas have forever cursed the fedora (as well as the actually, that’s a trilby crowd), but those memes postdate the decline of the hat by several decades.

Currently, we only have baseball caps and beanies in common circulation, with impractical-for-sidewalk-use cowboy hats being the only extant outlier.

Does anyone long for the return of the hat and/or have any insight into what caused their decline?

    • FluidBeef@quokk.auEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Why though? It’s a normal thing people’s bodies do. I also don’t get the whole “oh no a bald patch you must instantly go full cueball” attitude people sometimes have.

      • radiouser@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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        9 days ago

        My reply was mostly tongue-in-cheek on my part. I’m actually really happy with being bald these days (finally) but it took a while and it’s a wild transition. Losing a full head of beautiful hobbit hair after having it for a quarter of a century is a pretty jarring adjustment when it happens in just a year or two.