Wearing hats indoors

[Hapworth]

What's wrong with showing a little class? But I suppose you're right, if someone wants to wear their ignorance on their sleeve like a badge of honor it is none of my business....

Easy there. It's no longer commonly considered a display of class issue -- the culture has indeed changed and since this is one of those arbitrary things that's truly neither here nor there in terms of how humans behaviorally interact with other humans, there isn't much at stake noting the change in times, announcing what you prefer, and letting it go by.

A little class includes not calling people ignorant or anything else over negligible differences...

 

[Hapworth]

There are two times in a man's life when that is acceptable.

1) He is a catcher in a baseball game, and has his catcher's mask on over the hat.

2) He is welding or using a cutting torch and has the face shield on over the hat.

Other than that, NO!

What if you're a professional arm wrestler and need to flip the switch?

 

[zzzippper]

Easy there. It's no longer commonly considered a display of class issue -- the culture has indeed changed and since this is one of those arbitrary things that's truly neither here nor there in terms of how humans behaviorally interact with other humans, there isn't much at stake noting the change in times, announcing what you prefer, and letting it go by.

A little class includes not calling people ignorant or anything else over negligible differences...

Because 14 year olds do it does not mean the culture has changed.

 

[Hapworth]

Because 14 year olds do it does not mean the culture has changed.

Widen the aperture -- it's a big country.

 

[Erno86]

One way to pick a fight in a bar...is to knock someone's hat off there head.

It use to be the Al Capone's mystique...by wearing a Fedora cap --- inside or out --- during the Prohibition Days.

I like to wear a hat/cap in a public library, so as to make it harder for a librarian to see if I'm catching any z's --- I'm currently in a public library --- wearing my official Indiana Jones fedora, because it's snowing outside; but I usually wear a Baltimore Ravens sun visor cap.

Besides outdoor gun ranges, I especially like to wear a hat in an indoor gun range, so as too ward off any errant brass from raining down on my head.

Of course...I wear a hardhat on all my survey construction sites, indoors or out.

 

[NCTexan]

I believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion in what has class or what does not.

o·pin·ion
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noun: opinion; plural noun: opinions
a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

I sure have my opinions on these matters... and it makes it "right" for me. BTW, everyone is certainly free to be "wrong" if they don't agree with me.

 

[Arik]

It used to also be ignorant to not have a table cloth or not have a long table cloth. It was also in ignorant to call white meat "breast" or dark meat "leg and thigh" it was very rude. All 3 were thought of in sex terms and we can't have that in a civilized society. Could you imagine seeing someone's knee? Oh the horrors! I know that if I see a knee I can barely contain myself from raping every female in arms length.

Society norms have changed. Knees are no longer the sex symbols they once were and neither are table legs or cooked chicken

 

[walkinghorse]

Todays world is different than when I was young, way different than before that. Back then you did not see pregnant women out much, kids were not usually in restaurants, people dressed up to travel by airplane, train,,or even in cars. People with physical issues, medical issues, deformities (OK not PC with that, but?), different cultural dress codes, different color skin, were not out and about in many different areas of society.
To me one of the big factors for change was the culture changenthat came about during and after WWII. This changed the world in ways that are still occurring.
The world is not going back, and despite what some may think, maybe it is not downhill, maybe not uphill, or not even level, but it is changing as it has since the beginning.
Putting the soapbox up now.

 

[zzzippper]

Widen the aperture -- it's a big country.

The aperture is wide open and the picture is filled with, um, "individuals" wearing their John Deere gimme hats indoors.

 

[Laketime]

In my part of the country where I live now,the whole grooming thing isn't very important to folks here.So no one removes their hat here for nothing.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Not so very long ago a gentleman would not be caught out in public without his powdered wig on. Anyone still wear one? Take a look at a dollar bill and the formal portrait of George Washington. No civilized man with manners would have sat for or wanted to be portrayed in a portrait sans wig.

And sport coats...These are not dress attire but casual "sporting" attire. To be worn with pants that fit like Urkels did.

A ways before that, the only civilized tomes were printed in Latin and everyone educated was expected to learn it. English was among the Vulgar tongues.For quite some time after that upper class people spoke French.

That accursed movable type printing press and letting the peasants learn to read messed things up.

Further back only barbarians wore pants. Literal barbarians...proper civilized Romans wore a toga. That is when not lounging around nude with other men at the bathhouse.

I like pants personally. Less drafty and have pockets. I don't own a wig. And I keep my ugly ex German Army hat on when I am out and about, because it is cold outside.

 

[PA Reb]

Outdoors, indoors and at State Dinners in the White House, my hat stays on. Just like open carry, if someone doesn't like it, though ............!

 

[wbraswell]

I met relatives, on Sunday, at Red Lobster for a birthday dinner for one of them. The 3 men in their party all had on ball caps the whole time. This is 3 generations from 3 different families. One in his eighties, one in his fifties and one in his twenties. Heatherns, they all knew better.

 

[rwsmith]

A sharp.....

A sharp, "GENTLEMEN, REMOVE YOUR COVER." Gets quick results in the military.

PS Many rules about hats or no hats or some kind of cover like a shawl go back to biblical times and either had to do with modesty, or holy respect. I remember ladies who refused to go to church without a hat.

 

[red14]

This is what my dad used to say, and I still use it.

Is your head cold?

Is the sun in your eyes?

Then take your hat off in my house.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

The executives at Apple, the most successful company in the history of mankind by measure of market cap, delivers their global presentations of new products while dressed in blue jeans and shirt tails hanging out. It must give heartburn to the stuffed shirt class clinging to their suit and tie dress codes for business.

 

[JcMack]

I hate taking my hat off and setting it where, on the table or seat next to me? Lets say I could even find a restaurant with a hat rack. Assume that every old fart hangs his hat on the rack coming in the restaurant. We get up to leave after dinner and there's 20 old farts milling around the hat rack trying to figure out which Mossy Oak / Realtree camo cap is his. Keep your hat on in the restaurant and it won't fall off the seat onto the floor when you get up to pee.

 

[Shorty 45 MK2]

I admit that I'm a big hat/cap wearer but it comes off at social events or at the table. (Wal-Mart don't count.) Sometimes I slip and wear it inside but not at others houses. (just watch next time I go to someones house I'll forget. )

Oh, and sun glasses come off even outside if talking to someone.

 

[Onomea]

I used to wear fedoras to the office, along with a suit, when I was working for a living. In retirement I have taken to wearing ball caps when out walking because the fedoras make my head hot.

The ball caps are convenient in that they can easily be folded up and put in a pocket when my head gets hot or when entering a restaurant. Can't do that with a fedora.... (So I don't get why folks with ball caps would not have a place to put their caps if they took them off.)

I was surprised to see Emily Post say that one could leave one's hat on in the elevator. Did not know that.

In my neighborhood, some men will touch the brim of their hats, ball cap or otherwise, in greeting. I think it a nice custom.

My mother taught me, as a young boy, that the essence of courtesy is consideration for other people. I think taking off one's hat is just making an outward demonstration of one's intention to be considerate of others.

If men do not take off their hats in situations where I would, it does not upset me. Live and let live. Different strokes, etc. But I do recognize a kindred spirit when I see a man who does.

 

[hangnoose]

WELCOME TO THE NEW MILLENIUM.

I've been a hat guy since losing my natural insulation up top. I also wear a hat indoors (at home) to stay warm with underwear, a Tee shirt, a wool vest, and nothing else on. I certainly wouldn't sit at a restaurant table with a lid on, the counter is optional as putting it on the counter is kinda gross. I remember squashing a Marine drill Sargeant's hat in an overhead bin on an airplane with my suitcase once, they REALLY take their hats seriously. Just last night the wife and I went out to a reasonably upscale place (for here) and a nearby table of 4 under 30 y/o couples there, ALL the guys had hats on. 3 wore wool caps and the 4th a ball cap. I wanted to go get my new (from Christmas) Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat to class the place up, but the warden said NO! BIGGER pet peeves like pants down around the thighs and jeans ripped up ON PURPOSE bother me more.