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?
I have a minnetonka outback hat. Its leather and its 20 years old, I wear it whenever I have the chance. I get comments and compliments every time I wear it.
Be the example, wear that hat you long to see.
Mine makes me sweat like a horse. I love it but the weight and heat are often deal breakers when reaching for my trek hat.
That’s fair. I wear mine in cooler months.
Perhaps I need a summer hat.
Forgot to ask; how do you treat the leather? I had been using a conditioner and cleaner on mine but it didn’t do much for water repellency. I was reluctant to oil or wax it because it already ran hot. Like I said in my previous message, I love the damn thing and it looks great.
I also wear tons of outback hats. I get plenty of compliments!