Wearing hats indoors

[old bear]

A gentleman does not put his feet on the table and removes his headgear when he enters a building.

The only exception I can think of, would be a uniform L/E on a call entering a building.

 

[tops]

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

You have now stepped over the line of civility. My gimmie caps are Ford and Kubota. I would be ashamed to be seen wearing a JD cap or riding a JD tractor. Larry

 

[GatorFarmer]

A gentleman was a particular class. Below a nobleman, above everyone else many times with a minor title. To be a gentleman one had to NOT work, particularly with their hands. A gentleman was expected to have income from inheritance and estates, even investing was questionable at times, though gambling was accepted. You would never be without servants. It would be unseemly to answer your own door, cook your own meal or even dress yourself.

Don't believe? Read your Boswell's Life of Johnson.

 

[keith44spl]

I remove my hat indoors....except when serving a warrant or a gunshow and I'm under arms.



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[J. W.]

I've just accepted the fact that manners, dignity and respect are things of the past. The world is now populated by heathens and mankind is "de-evolving".


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[rwsmith]

I think the first break....

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.

When young businessmen started wearing suits with running shoes. IBM probably still requires a grey suit.

Update: I just read that IBM quit with the old dress code. Somewhat, at least.

 

[Herknav]

I find it ironic that everyone's griping about not having passed down a set of "rules" that nobody can agree on in the first place. We should consider ourselves lucky that we live in a country and a time in history where this is seemingly the biggest problem of the day.

 

[snake803]

Sign out side the Officer's Club Bar , in the BOQ, in Charleston, SC...

"HE WHO ENTERS COVERED HERE, BUYS THE BAR A ROUND OF CHEER"

There was a big brass bell behind the bar and when it rang, somebody was buying.. same thing if you put your hat on the bar ....

I never had to, but every once in a while a non-reader did...
JIM.......................

 

[finesse_r]

A gentleman does not put his feet on the table and removes his headgear when he enters a building.

The only exception I can think of, would be a uniform L/E on a call entering a building.

There is a major difference in putting your feet on someone's table and in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference between raising up one of your cheeks and passing loud smelly gas than in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference in being verbally or physically rude to someone and in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference in picking your nose at the table and in wearing a hat at the table.

There is a major difference in showing up with a runny cold, coughing and spraying germs all over the place and in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference in letting a door slam in someone's face rather than holding it open for them and in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference in being a manners policeman and in wearing a hat indoors.

To my way of thinking my wearing a hat affects no one unless I am in a theater in which case I would not wear one. If someone chooses to be offended because I have a hat on, that is there problem not mine.

At least I don't wear my pants down where my butt crack is showing and I don't scratch my crotch in public and I don't adjust the hang of my privates in public and I don't blow smoke on others and I don't wear offensive colognes or perfumes and I don't go out all sweaty and smelly, so I consider my wearing a hat to be no problem at all or at the very worst the smallest possible violation of southern tradition.

I also don't let my dog run loose and I don't drive aggressively and I don't go around borrowing things and not returning them and I don't spread rumors and I don't lie or cheat.

How anyone can possible upset themselves because I have a hat on, is beyond my comprehension. I figure they have never been around truly rude people and must be saints themselves, or such arrogant slobs they have to point out the slightest possible social infraction that others make to make themselves feel better.

I mean a hat just sits on my head. It does not make sounds; it does not give off foul odors; it is certainly more attractive than my ugly head; it is not unsanitary; when I wear a hat I wear very nice cowboy style hats or sometimes baseball type caps, but they are all pretty nice head gear.

I have no idea how the social norm of not wearing a hat or cap indoors got started, but it is time for it to die a natural death.

Waving got started to show others your hand was empty and non-threatening. Taking a hat off must have been some way of showing you were not bald to the weaker, fairer sex back before women's lib turned women into men wantabees. However it got started there is no rational for it today.

So if women can burn their bras, I say it is time men were allowed to wear their hats and caps indoors as well as out of doors. Lets have some equal rights for men since no one objects to women wearing hats indoors.

Strike a blow for freedom and wear that hat indoors!

 

[labworm]

When out dinning, if no one is bothering me in any way, I could care less how they are dressed or whether or not they are wearing a hat indoors.

First the "Grammar Nazi's" now the "Dress Code Mafia".

The land of the free, I just love it.

 

[Salty RI]

I can't believe this has gone on for three pages on wearing hat's indoors, goes to show ya, we don't have anything better to do. Hay where did I leave my hat.

 

[Coldshooter]

W C Fields and hats indoors

W. C. Fields would never trust a bank if he saw a teller wearing a hat. He said if the teller is in a hurry to leave he wasn't going to put his money there.

 

[StrawHat]

I was taught to remove my hat when under a ceiling. The exception being the milk shed. to this day, when I enter a building I look up. If I see a ceiling, my hat goes under my arm. A Church without a ceiling is still a Church so the hat comes off there.

Someone once said that the fall of any country rarely comes from overt action, merely disrupting the norm is enough to cause chaos.

 

[Ranger17]

as i type this from my home office, where it is below 0 outdoors and feels chilly indoors, yes my Gander Mt cap is on. Most hair (nature's natural insulator) is gone so the hat helps. But yes it does come off when at the table unless eating fast food, and wherever i may be that the anthem is being played.

As for being a gentlemen, i may still try to hold doors open for others but the inconsideration of many others sure makes it hard to continue doing so (is it that hard for someone to just say "thanks"??)



oh, forgot that i always remove my hat when at the range... already too dang many things on my head there (reg glasses, safety glasses, earmuffs) for the hat to work for me lol.

 

[gregintenn]

I am a classless slob.

I just posted this inside a house while wearing a ball cap.

I do not wear a cap in the shower, bed, while in church, or at a wedding or funeral.

I take it off for the national anthem.

Most other times, I am under a "gimme cap".

 

[sigp220.45]

There is a major difference in putting your feet on someone's table and in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference between raising up one of your cheeks and passing loud smelly gas than in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference in being verbally or physically rude to someone and in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference in picking your nose at the table and in wearing a hat at the table.

There is a major difference in showing up with a runny cold, coughing and spraying germs all over the place and in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference in letting a door slam in someone's face rather than holding it open for them and in wearing a hat indoors.

There is a major difference in being a manners policeman and in wearing a hat indoors.

To my way of thinking my wearing a hat affects no one unless I am in a theater in which case I would not wear one. If someone chooses to be offended because I have a hat on, that is there problem not mine.

At least I don't wear my pants down where my butt crack is showing and I don't scratch my crotch in public and I don't adjust the hang of my privates in public and I don't blow smoke on others and I don't wear offensive colognes or perfumes and I don't go out all sweaty and smelly, so I consider my wearing a hat to be no problem at all or at the very worst the smallest possible violation of southern tradition.

I also don't let my dog run loose and I don't drive aggressively and I don't go around borrowing things and not returning them and I don't spread rumors and I don't lie or cheat.

How anyone can possible upset themselves because I have a hat on, is beyond my comprehension. I figure they have never been around truly rude people and must be saints themselves, or such arrogant slobs they have to point out the slightest possible social infraction that others make to make themselves feel better.

I mean a hat just sits on my head. It does not make sounds; it does not give off foul odors; it is certainly more attractive than my ugly head; it is not unsanitary; when I wear a hat I wear very nice cowboy style hats or sometimes baseball type caps, but they are all pretty nice head gear.

I have no idea how the social norm of not wearing a hat or cap indoors got started, but it is time for it to die a natural death.

Waving got started to show others your hand was empty and non-threatening. Taking a hat off must have been some way of showing you were not bald to the weaker, fairer sex back before women's lib turned women into men wantabees. However it got started there is no rational for it today.

So if women can burn their bras, I say it is time men were allowed to wear their hats and caps indoors as well as out of doors. Lets have some equal rights for men since no one objects to women wearing hats indoors.

Strike a blow for freedom and wear that hat indoors!

This is the first time in my years on this forum that I wish I could "Like" a post more than once.

 

[Harrison]

It is the custom, in fact regulation, that if you are bearing arms you do not remove your hat/cap indoors. When out and about I am usually carrying, so why would I remove my cap?

 

[Philadelphia Patriot]

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 ............!

I wear a baseball hat all day everyday when outside the house. Got used to it when I got tired of getting oil, dirt, snow, trans fluid and other junk on my head at work. So i just got used to wearing one. I wear indoors too including restaurants. That being said I'm usually not at some sort of a social gathering in the restaurant. I hate having to eat and leave. My place is at the bar. I didn't wear them to funerals or weddings or formal birthday parties or anything formal. But I'm not taking it off cause I'm at the mall or the local bar or just cause something has a roof.

The original reason was for the Knight to remove his helmet and show he's not a threat. If someone can't see my face or thinks I'm a threat because of a baseball cap that's not my problem

I agree with the above. If I'm at a formal setting or at work (my work attire is business casual - slacks and a polo) my hat stays at home. Aside from that, I wear my hat everywhere when I am not home or at someone else's house, although I occasionally will wear it in a home if I am not staying there too long. I stopped caring about people's opinions a long time ago. It's a free country.

Also I still hold the door open for people, say please and thank you, address others as sir and ma'am, say hello/good morning/hi to people I pass who I don't know, say excuse me if I need to get around somebody, and say God bless you to those who sneeze. I also always remove my hat during the National Anthem too.

 

[Rustyt1953]

For all dignified events I go hatless. I take my cap off for the national anthem. I wear a ball cap often, not to be disrespectful but because of the scars from an accident. I keep it on not so much for me but for others as they feel uncomfortable looking at me.

I am not ashamed, it is just easier this way.

Besides, my DD-214 says I earned the right to choose when and where I wear a hat.

 

[Pilgrim]

I don't now why so many people NEED to wear caps at all.

Seems many people won't even go outside without a cap on. Why?

If you're outside in the hot sun all day, ok, prevent the burning. If you are outside in the freezing cold all day, ok, keep yourself warm. I'll go along with the scarring thing. But overall, how many people meet that criteria? There is no reason to wear a hat other than that.

I've never worn a hat for any other reason, except when Uncle Sam told me I had to, and I'm mostly bald and shave off the rest. I was rasied that when you go inside, you take it off. Always remove it for the flag and anthem.

Most hats, especially ball caps, serve no purpose at all except for head protection.

I don't get it.

Just too old to accept the new **** and worry about the social hole we're all falling into, I guess.

Don't even get me started on wearing them backwards.