On 4/22/2014 2:00 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 4/22/2014 7:49 AM, Chemo wrote:
>> Good manners dictates that you don't wear a hat indoors...at least for
>> men. Maybe you mum never taught you that.
>>
>
> After I picked up my brother in laws from the airport, we went to eat
> Italian. Their hats stayed firmly planted on their head. As a culture,
> we're not really big into hats but this filled me with wonderment. In
> the end, I chalked it up to them being ashamed of their bare naked
> heads. I hardly ever saw them without.

At an early age I was taught that a gentleman removes his hat when going
indoors. I still do. Back then, the typical beaseball cap style was
little used and adults wore a Fedora, driving cap and a fut winter hat.

Not sure when, but in the past mayhbe 20 years or so, the baseball style
cap has become the cover of choice and many men just never take it off.
Sure, it offers protection outdoors, or even indoors for certain work,
but I don't see them as fashion. In addition, the wool pullover caps
have become fashionable. We wore them in snowstorms, not to a fine
dining restaurant. I even see some of the "celebrities" wearing them
when on TV.

I wear a cap in winter to keep warm, in summer for sun protection, but
never indoors. I don't care if I'm bouncing light beams like a beacon
off my shiny skull. Frankly, had I know how easy it is to be bald, I'd
have done it by choice years ago.