I imagine more regular bathing and hair washing had an effect as well. Hats helped keep hair clean (or cleaner) when outdoors or when working. Today people often wear caps to hide their hair when they don’t have time to wash it.
I'm 69, and I still have my collection of gorgeous hats (and hatpins!) that I bring out on festive occasions. It was odd, I always thought, that women wore their hats indoors but men did not. We went to a Russian Orthodox church, where we would not be allowed inside without a hat. In my grandparents' time, women sat on one side of the church and the men on the other, and the men's side had clips on the backs of the pews. This was so that the men could hang their hats from the clip in front of them.
Well, clothing was getting simpler all around. Dresses were being made with much less fabric and fuss, like frills and ruffles. Suddenly, women's clothes could be washed regularly without fading or falling apart. Zippers took the place of rows of buttons and yards of lacing. And hats took up a lot of space: my own hat boxes are pretty accessories, but they fill up half shelf in my closet. Perhaps eliminating hats eliminated unnecessary bother.
Where do you live? If I'm allowed to ask. I own several hats which suit me well, but don't dare to wear them as nobody wears a hat. Additionally, all people present would stare at me if I wore one ...
This was fantastic! I never really thought about how and why hats disappeared. I'm kinda glad though, as I find hats don't really complement my appearance either. :)
I love hats, I love wearing hats. I’m 65 and used to wear them more all year round but still love to wear them, especially those from the 1940’s and 50’s.
I attend 1940s events and a hat is essential. I do not take it off when out as I end up with ‘hat hair’. My hair is naturally curly and is cut in layers for control so in 1940s styles it is not quite as solid as it should be. Occasionally if I don’t wear a hat (too hot) I use flowers instead.
Some of the possible reasons don't make sense. Enclosed/small cars...people used to ride in enclosed horse-drawn carriages. Elaborate hairstyles...you can't get much bigger or more elaborate than the Edwardian/Gibson girl hair, when they also wore big, elaborate hats. And you can't get much more original than a hat custom-made for each woman vs. the picture of young people in the 60s you showed where they all seemed to be sporting the same hairstyle and clothes. Just changing tastes and cultural shifts it seems. Great video!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. These are just some of the possible reasons I found in my research that people have suggested. I'm sure there were exceptions in all cases and a combination of factors that led to our cultural change.
I started wearing hats to shield my face from the sun (in addition to sunscreen and makeup). That was in my twentieth century college years. I'm still wearing them. I receive many compliments about them.
I think to say that we’ve stopped wearing hats is misleading. It’s been 60 years since the 1960’s and people still wear hats, just not to the extent as they did in the Victorian or Edwardian periods. Especially in Australia, for practical reasons (to prevent skin cancer), but caps and beanies have always been popular. And then during the 2010’s wide brimmed hats and bucket hats were in style. I think we just have the option to choose more, hence less people wearing hats in general, but we haven’t completely eradicated hats haha. Also rationing during the two wars helped with the loss of wearing hats.
I can’t speak for Australia but in the US hats are rare, even in Arizona, unless you’re hiking. Umbrellas work better than a hat for skin protection, and I’ve seen those more frequently than hats.
Men stopped wearing hats because JFK did not think he looked well in them, so did notnwear one and, because he was so popular, men stopped wearing hats. Jackie felt the same, and didnt enjoy even the little pillbox hat (created for her by a top designer). She, too, was popular and women stopped wearing hats. The death knell for women's hats occurred at the same time, namely, 1960s hair styles didn't support them., and the new youth culture didn't support them.
After a life time (I am 59 now) of wearing caps, since about 5, 6 years, I wear hats. And I love them. And I notice it's coming back. Not that much, but still. I love wearing them.
This the first time I've seen one of your videos, and I really enjoyed it. My head is too big for women's hats, and I can't wear wool caps because the fabric makes my scalp itch. If I need one, I buy a man's size. I'm 68, and I remember my father always wore a hat to and from work. I don't remember my mother ever wearing one. She and her friends follow Jacqueline Kennedy's somewhat bouffant hairstyles, which weren't suited for hats. I have no memory of nor photos of my grandmother, born 1911, wearing a hat. I am sure she would have looked cute wearing a 20s style cloche hat.
My thoughts are that sunglasses became more popular so hats didn't get used for shading the eyes. Also, I think marketing & media commercials pushed buying shampoo & hair products; pushed washing your hair daily.
This reminds me of Monty Python's "The meaning of life." Along with the ultimate meaning of existence, they also wondered why people don't wear hats anymore.
The beaver fur needed for men's hats in the 19th Century almost wiped out our beaver population. Men's hats started disappearing when JFK went hatless at his inauguration in 1960.
We haven't stopped wearing them; they're just not mandatory anymore. It changed in the '60's, when clothing, sex and many other things went through a revolution.
I'm happy to live in a time when hats are not a social obligation. Fewer things to purchase, maintain, and keep track of. I have one broad-brimmed for sun protection and that's it.
I really like hats, and for me they are necessity especially in Summer to prevent from heat. But even in Summer they are quite rare even if people do suffer from heat stroke and despite medical professionals warn of going into hot sun without head cover. Too bad hats are out of fashion today.
the hat needs to protect the face but also the neck in summer..this is why legionnaires’ hats had a peak at the front and a curtain shading the neck.. this kept the brain stem protected and why the legionnaires did not get heat stroke, even while marching for ever across deserts .. they were a part of school uniform for primary students but bucket hats seem to be popular nowadays..
Dont discount wartime rationing in the decline of hats! WW 1 came to help put a stop to some of the biggest hats. Big hats as well as bigger skirts were seen as unpatriotic because of the need for military uniforms(and hats)
Very interesting, I never that a "hatter" and a "milliner" were terms for similar but different jobs, I always assumed that they were just different terms for the same thing :=). I wonder if another reason hats became "endangered" as it were :-) was also a result of expense? After all with the Great Depression and the war it wasn't seen as "proper" or "appropriate" to waste money something that was by that point frivolous. Either way fun vid :=)
@@Historidame You're very welcome :=) and yes while I don't know if its true I wouldn't be surprised if it was a contributing factor :=) I'm curious, do you focus on a specific period of history for your videos or is it just whatever period strikes your fancy? Keep it up :=)
Не нося шапки, защото не ми отиват на лицето, нося и очила, което усложнява картинката. Имам гъста коса, която ме спасява през зимата и лятото. Но много харесвам стилните шапки.
I still wear hats. I have several for winter weather and, of course, sun hats. My biggest beef with them, is what they do to my hair and any attempts I might have made, to style it. Although between the wind and never ending drizzle in winter and sweating and sunscreen in summer, it doesn't always make a big difference 😅
@@Historidame I sew an elastic band on mine, that goes behind the head, under the hair. If it's placed just right, it's not uncomfortable and keeps the hat in place fairly well. There are also sunhats, that have no 'top', you kinda wear them like a hairband, with your hair piled up on top of your head and not covered. Not as elegant, but when I wear a sunhat just for practical purposes I kinda prefer those - they're not as hot. And my hair is dense enough, that I don't have to worry about sunburn on my scalp. But yeah...I had to run after and 'rescue' mine from traffic a couple of times as well 😉
I imagine more regular bathing and hair washing had an effect as well. Hats helped keep hair clean (or cleaner) when outdoors or when working. Today people often wear caps to hide their hair when they don’t have time to wash it.
Same with people not wearing cologne or perfume. We shower. We don’t stink. I assume.
I don’t have a head for hat’s either, but I still wish they would make a comeback.
Same. I’m lucky to see lots of cowboy hats in Texas, though.
I'm 69, and I still have my collection of gorgeous hats (and hatpins!) that I bring out on festive occasions. It was odd, I always thought, that women wore their hats indoors but men did not. We went to a Russian Orthodox church, where we would not be allowed inside without a hat. In my grandparents' time, women sat on one side of the church and the men on the other, and the men's side had clips on the backs of the pews. This was so that the men could hang their hats from the clip in front of them.
@deborahberger5816 thanks for sharing. In your opinion, why did people stop wearing hats?
Well, clothing was getting simpler all around. Dresses were being made with much less fabric and fuss, like frills and ruffles. Suddenly, women's clothes could be washed regularly without fading or falling apart. Zippers took the place of rows of buttons and yards of lacing. And hats took up a lot of space: my own hat boxes are pretty accessories, but they fill up half shelf in my closet. Perhaps eliminating hats eliminated unnecessary bother.
My dear, I am 68 and have worn a hat almost every single day since age 15.
I aspire to be even half as stylish as you someday 🤘
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🌸 I wear them, not at work but when I’m out 😊
@@sunitafisher4758 👒
Where do you live? If I'm allowed to ask. I own several hats which suit me well, but don't dare to wear them as nobody wears a hat. Additionally, all people present would stare at me if I wore one ...
Mad as a hatter. I always wondered about that phrase.
Supposedly the fumes from the glues made the mad or something. I can’t recall exactly.
@@olorin4317 Yeah, mercury was used by hatters
This was fantastic! I never really thought about how and why hats disappeared. I'm kinda glad though, as I find hats don't really complement my appearance either. :)
I love hats, I love wearing hats. I’m 65 and used to wear them more all year round but still love to wear them, especially those from the 1940’s and 50’s.
I've honestly been thinking about this question and I'm so grateful you answered it for all of us ^-^
I attend 1940s events and a hat is essential. I do not take it off when out as I end up with ‘hat hair’. My hair is naturally curly and is cut in layers for control so in 1940s styles it is not quite as solid as it should be. Occasionally if I don’t wear a hat (too hot) I use flowers instead.
Great video! Makes me think of the episodes of I Love Lucy when she was so excited to buy a new hat.
Thank you!
They are hot, itchy, and sweaty...
I also have the same question. Thank you for putting this altogether.
I could take or leave hats, but every time I touch a dirty, sticky public door handle, I really wish we would bring back glove wearing!
Some of the possible reasons don't make sense. Enclosed/small cars...people used to ride in enclosed horse-drawn carriages. Elaborate hairstyles...you can't get much bigger or more elaborate than the Edwardian/Gibson girl hair, when they also wore big, elaborate hats. And you can't get much more original than a hat custom-made for each woman vs. the picture of young people in the 60s you showed where they all seemed to be sporting the same hairstyle and clothes. Just changing tastes and cultural shifts it seems. Great video!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. These are just some of the possible reasons I found in my research that people have suggested. I'm sure there were exceptions in all cases and a combination of factors that led to our cultural change.
I just finished binge watching all your videos. Thank you for such lovely and well put together content. Never stop creating!
Thank you!
I started wearing hats to shield my face from the sun (in addition to sunscreen and makeup). That was in my twentieth century college years. I'm still wearing them. I receive many compliments about them.
Thanks for the amazing content!Keep going!😊
This was great - didn't know I loved hat history so much
Thank you! I had a lot of fun making it :)
Great channel,stunning history!❤👍
Thank you!
The hatpin was also a defense weapon.
I think to say that we’ve stopped wearing hats is misleading. It’s been 60 years since the 1960’s and people still wear hats, just not to the extent as they did in the Victorian or Edwardian periods. Especially in Australia, for practical reasons (to prevent skin cancer), but caps and beanies have always been popular. And then during the 2010’s wide brimmed hats and bucket hats were in style. I think we just have the option to choose more, hence less people wearing hats in general, but we haven’t completely eradicated hats haha.
Also rationing during the two wars helped with the loss of wearing hats.
I can’t speak for Australia but in the US hats are rare, even in Arizona, unless you’re hiking. Umbrellas work better than a hat for skin protection, and I’ve seen those more frequently than hats.
We didn't in Colorado USA. We have cap season in warm weather and beanie season in the cold.
Same thing with gloves
Men stopped wearing hats because JFK did not think he looked well in them, so did notnwear one and, because he was so popular, men stopped wearing hats. Jackie felt the same, and didnt enjoy even the little pillbox hat (created for her by a top designer). She, too, was popular and women stopped wearing hats. The death knell for women's hats occurred at the same time, namely, 1960s hair styles didn't support them., and the new youth culture didn't support them.
Not the reason in the UK.
Heuston
Lol I barely have enough money for underwear, shoes, pants, and a shirt. No way i got cash to burn on a hat
Same 💀💀💀
We all the same
i hate anything on my head, mainly becuase i have bushy hair which makes me too hot, my head is too large for most hats anyway
After a life time (I am 59 now) of wearing caps, since about 5, 6 years, I wear hats. And I love them. And I notice it's coming back. Not that much, but still. I love wearing them.
Aw, gosh, Ma'am, I'm so sorry I vomited down your decollete, it was the dead stuffed kitten on your hat.
Could the wars have helped to? I mean they needed fabric for other things.
Yes, the rationing of fabric was so severe during WWII that men's trousers were required to be made without cuffs. It was the end of the cuff trend.
This the first time I've seen one of your videos, and I really enjoyed it. My head is too big for women's hats, and I can't wear wool caps because the fabric makes my scalp itch. If I need one, I buy a man's size. I'm 68, and I remember my father always wore a hat to and from work. I don't remember my mother ever wearing one. She and her friends follow Jacqueline Kennedy's somewhat bouffant hairstyles, which weren't suited for hats. I have no memory of nor photos of my grandmother, born 1911, wearing a hat. I am sure she would have looked cute wearing a 20s style cloche hat.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! My head is also too big for a lot of women's hats. 😅
My thoughts are that sunglasses became more popular so hats didn't get used for shading the eyes. Also, I think marketing & media commercials pushed buying shampoo & hair products; pushed washing your hair daily.
Please make more videos i love your videos so much ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you! I'm gonna be a little slower at getting them out for now since I started working full time, but I will definitely keep creating :)
I’d love to see a history lesson on shoes 😊
I do have the history of high heels on my video idea list.
I wear a hat almost every day: I live in a region that is cold in the winter and hot in the summer-to me, an hat is a necessity but they are also fun!
60s revolution and freedom
This reminds me of Monty Python's "The meaning of life." Along with the ultimate meaning of existence, they also wondered why people don't wear hats anymore.
The beaver fur needed for men's hats in the 19th Century almost wiped out our beaver population. Men's hats started disappearing when JFK went hatless at his inauguration in 1960.
Why? Because they were often being gone with the wind. Hoodies are more practical. When being put away while indoors.
I wear my fishing hat when outdoors for long,. I dont want to burn my face.
I still love to wear hats
We haven't stopped wearing them; they're just not mandatory anymore. It changed in the '60's, when clothing, sex and many other things went through a revolution.
I'm happy to live in a time when hats are not a social obligation. Fewer things to purchase, maintain, and keep track of. I have one broad-brimmed for sun protection and that's it.
TL;DW: it was mostly cars. And also fashion and post war attitudes
I really like hats, and for me they are necessity especially in Summer to prevent from heat. But even in Summer they are quite rare even if people do suffer from heat stroke and despite medical professionals warn of going into hot sun without head cover. Too bad hats are out of fashion today.
the hat needs to protect the face but also the neck in summer..this is why legionnaires’ hats had a peak at the front and a curtain shading the neck.. this kept the brain stem protected and why the legionnaires did not get heat stroke, even while marching for ever across deserts .. they were a part of school uniform for primary students but bucket hats seem to be popular nowadays..
Dont discount wartime rationing in the decline of hats! WW 1 came to help put a stop to some of the biggest hats. Big hats as well as bigger skirts were seen as unpatriotic because of the need for military uniforms(and hats)
That's a great point! :)
I love to wear hats!
Love the video!
Thank you!
Extinct mid/late Sixties. Also, nearly universal central heating
Thanks. I don't have a hat head.
I am 67 and I wear hats throughout the year. I love my hats.👒
Very interesting, I never that a "hatter" and a "milliner" were terms for similar but different jobs, I always assumed that they were just different terms for the same thing :=). I wonder if another reason hats became "endangered" as it were :-) was also a result of expense? After all with the Great Depression and the war it wasn't seen as "proper" or "appropriate" to waste money something that was by that point frivolous. Either way fun vid :=)
Thank you! Expense during the Depression would make a lot of sense, that's a great point. :)
@@Historidame You're very welcome :=) and yes while I don't know if its true I wouldn't be surprised if it was a contributing factor :=)
I'm curious, do you focus on a specific period of history for your videos or is it just whatever period strikes your fancy?
Keep it up :=)
@@jaymartin8273 Honestly, It's whatever strikes my fancy, which often happens to be the 1800s - early 1900s.
@@Historidame Ah neat, was just wondering :=) well regardless of which period strikes your fancy next keep it up :=)
a lot of cultures still wear hats
Better question: Why did we stop painting like that?
What hat-pinned to the hat?
Hair
Не нося шапки, защото не ми отиват на лицето, нося и очила, което усложнява картинката. Имам гъста коса, която ме спасява през зимата и лятото. Но много харесвам стилните шапки.
Love hats ❤wear fedoras summer and winter 🤠
Year-round hat wearer!✋🏻Warm in winter, shade in summer, and stand out fashion in society.
So interesting
Thank you!
Great
Thanks!
I wear a hat too
Hats are everywhere , think baseball hats ,
I still wear hats. I have several for winter weather and, of course, sun hats. My biggest beef with them, is what they do to my hair and any attempts I might have made, to style it. Although between the wind and never ending drizzle in winter and sweating and sunscreen in summer, it doesn't always make a big difference 😅
See, I'd love to wear hats more often in warmer weather, but the wind always blows them off my head.
@@Historidame
I sew an elastic band on mine, that goes behind the head, under the hair. If it's placed just right, it's not uncomfortable and keeps the hat in place fairly well.
There are also sunhats, that have no 'top', you kinda wear them like a hairband, with your hair piled up on top of your head and not covered. Not as elegant, but when I wear a sunhat just for practical purposes I kinda prefer those - they're not as hot. And my hair is dense enough, that I don't have to worry about sunburn on my scalp.
But yeah...I had to run after and 'rescue' mine from traffic a couple of times as well 😉
I am 61 and have NEVER worn a hat. Prefer a hood
Have we stopped wearing hats? 😂
Air conditioning killed hats