I suspect that veterans returning from service in the 40s/50s may have resisted hats having been required to wear "covers"in prescribed situations.
I suspect that veterans returning from service in the 40s/50s may have resisted hats having been required to wear "covers"in prescribed situations.
Well, we have articles in hat maker's magazines here on the Lounge complaining that Americans were beginning to give up hats as early as the 1930s, so if this happened in the 50s after WWII it was just continuing a trend.
My father was a WWII vet and never wore hats. Except maybe a ball cap when we went hunting or fishing. He did have a full head of thick hair all his life.
My grandfather was a WWI vet and I have very few memories of him without a nice hat. I can remember him in bed wearing his pajamas and a nice fedora while he listened to a baseball game on the radio. He was bald from an early age though.
I have Akubra's equivalent to the Open Road, the Campdraft (two of them, actually), and a few weeks ago a female cashier at a local supermarket asked me, "Do you know how to do that line dancing stuff they do at those country bars?" lol...I haven't ever had a "cowboy" or "Indy" comment. But I don't have an Open Road yet...