Maj.Nick Danger
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Matthew Dalton said:Is it really that we have bigger heads than they did back then? Or is it that there's less 7 1/2 hats and larger around from that era for sale today because it's a popular size?
That is probably the fact of the matter. The most common sizes may have been literally worn to death.
I recall seeing a documentary show on PBS about medievel armor in which the curator of the collection at The Tower of London was interviewed. He said that the common belief that men were much smaller back then, was a myth. He said that the common sized stuff simply wore out or was destroyed in battles. Only very small, and also very large sizes survive today because they were not worn as much.