Why Did We Stop Wearing Hats? 

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 don’t have a head for hat’s either, but I still wish they would make a comeback.

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.

My dear, I am 68 and have worn a hat almost every single day since age 15.

Mad as a hatter. I always wondered about that phrase.

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.

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've honestly been thinking about this question and I'm so grateful you answered it for all of us ^-^

Thanks for the amazing content!Keep going!😊

I just finished binge watching all your videos. Thank you for such lovely and well put together content. Never stop creating!

Great channel,stunning history!❤👍

Great video! Makes me think of the episodes of I Love Lucy when she was so excited to buy a new hat.

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.

I also have the same question. Thank you for putting this altogether.

The hatpin was also a defense weapon.

They are hot, itchy, and sweaty...

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.

We didn't in Colorado USA. We have cap season in warm weather and beanie season in the cold.

Same thing with gloves

Love the video!

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!

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.

Lol I barely have enough money for underwear, shoes, pants, and a shirt. No way i got cash to burn on a hat

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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.

I’d love to see a history lesson on shoes 😊

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!

Could the wars have helped to? I mean they needed fabric for other things.

Aw, gosh, Ma'am, I'm so sorry I vomited down your decollete, it was the dead stuffed kitten on your hat.

60s revolution and freedom

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 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!

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.

So interesting

I love to wear hats!

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 wear my fishing hat when outdoors for long,. I dont want to burn my face.

Extinct mid/late Sixties. Also, nearly universal central heating

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.

Great

a lot of cultures still wear hats

Better question: Why did we stop painting like that?

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 :=)

I am 67 and I wear hats throughout the year. I love my 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 😅

What hat-pinned to the hat?

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.

Year-round hat wearer!✋🏻Warm in winter, shade in summer, and stand out fashion in society.

Love hats ❤wear fedoras summer and winter 🤠

I wear a hat too

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.

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.

Hats are everywhere , think baseball hats ,

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)

Air conditioning killed hats

Have we stopped wearing hats? 😂

I am 61 and have NEVER worn a hat. Prefer a hood