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My half-baked theory: it's hair. Lots of hair and hats don't go - the hat feels wrong, wears wrong. If your hair length fluctuates your hat size changes. A h
by bdunbar 14y ago
My half-baked theory: it's hair.
Lots of hair and hats don't go - the hat feels wrong, wears wrong. If your hair length fluctuates your hat size changes. A hat that fit you last month no longer fits right.
Keep your hair habitually short, and hat wearing is more practical, and comfortable.
- philwelch 14y ago1961 was too early for hair to be that long then. Sure, maybe the counterculture was starting to get shaggy, but longer hair didn't really come into its own until the late 60's and 70's. And by the 00's it had pretty much gone away.
- bdunbar 14y agoPoint taken. But I didn't have in mind 'hippie hair' but even moderate length hair. For me, any hair that hangs down below the level of the hat brim makes a hat unwearable. But I was brainwashed by the Marines, so my mileage may vary.
- philwelch 14y agoWell yeah, but Beatlemania didn't start until the late 60's (the Beatles came to America in 1964) and at the time their haircuts were considered scandalously shaggy. If you think of the range of hair lengths, for men, in 1961 it wasn't much different from what's acceptable in the military or in the 1950's. But in the 1970's, shaggy Luke Skywalker hair was fairly normal, moreso than it is today for instance.