As a Englishman its always amazed me that you never see Americans wearing hats.Even in the movies ive never seen an American don a hat.Does anyone know where i can see an American wearing a hat?
2007-02-13 02:52:33 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They are making a come back. Just not the formal ones of yore. YBIC
2007-02-13 02:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
By "hat" I take it you mean bowlers, fedoras, etc.? A formal hat? They are pretty much a thing of the past. But hats as practical objects, to shield you from the sun or keep your head warm, sure. Baseball caps are very common among every informally dressed man. They cut across all sociocultural groups and often are used to create an image of who the person wearing it is -- is it a John Deere or Cubs hat? That tells you plenty. And in cold climates, woolly or furry hats of various kinds are worn by quite a few men (don't know why they're not all wearing them, frankly). And then there are cowboy style hats -- again, it's all about image and sun protection.
But formal hats, like you'd wear with a suit? No, that's so yesterday! Women also rarely wear hats, except in the black community, where there's still a tradition of church hats -- many of them really fabulous -- and in the summer, where straw hats are worn for sun protection at the beach or resort. There are women who like to wear baseball hats, but it's tough on hairdos.
2007-02-13 02:59:16 · answer #2 · answered by Corinnique 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Americans wear hats some more than others depending on what part of the US you are in. Along the West Cost of the US they tend not to wear hats that much other than baseball caps. In the Mid-West of the US they tend to wear cowboy hats and baseball caps. Not sure about other parts of the US. But it seems like wearing hats other than Baseball caps is going a bit out of style.
2007-02-13 03:47:20 · answer #3 · answered by R M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mostly you see men wearing baseball caps here. I live in the South near Texas, so I see men wearing cowboy hats a lot. But I never see men wearing fedoras or derbies and the like. I don't know why we don't wear them anymore. It's considered bad manners to wear hats indoors, so that may be part of the reason. Hats are inconvenient in modern times, when people are going in and of buildings all day.
2007-02-13 02:58:13 · answer #4 · answered by wileycoyote_the_supergenius 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Amercians wear hats all the time....
Baseball caps, cowboy hats, hardhats, motorcycle helmets, etc. We dont wear hats for ornamentation, we wear them for shade, sun protection, safety, etc.
If you mean ornamental hats, such as bowlers, derbys or Fedoras, that went out of style in the US with JFK in the 60s. In the 50s EVERYONE in America wore a hat when outdoors. Kennedy didn't, men noticed women seemed crazy-attracted to him ANYWAY and presto! Fedora sales plummet.
These days anyone wearing a strawhat or a derby into a bar in the US would either be beaten up or at least ridiculed mercilessly.
2007-02-15 23:36:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every American in Iraq, wears hat.
2007-02-13 03:40:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
most people wear baseball hats but no one really wears formal hat ie top hats or things like that. But most people here wear baseball hats. Some wear cowboy hats but that is more of a texian thing but some here where i live. where you can see just look in some magazines maybe jc pennies.com.
2007-02-13 02:57:47 · answer #7 · answered by knowssignlanguage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be watching too many of the wrong movies..
never watched John wayne movies or Yul brenner westerns? They always wore cowboy hats.
Most regular americans wear a cap that represents their sports group. some Californians were something that looks like a ski cap.
New yorkers wear all kinds of hats.
Where you been?
2007-02-13 04:52:52 · answer #8 · answered by Triskelion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hat of choice in America is the ball cap, worn almost exclusively by men. Women in America rarely wear hats.
(See link for examples)
2007-02-13 02:58:39 · answer #9 · answered by Michael E 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Americans wear baseball hats mostly. Some older ones wear a fedora...
2007-02-13 02:55:23 · answer #10 · answered by jonah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some Americans wear hats some don't, we're so diverse in America everyone does their own thing.
2007-02-13 02:55:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋