Hats In New York City back in 1930. Everone wore one...
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Men's hats... After the war and with the birth of the suburbs cars were used a lot more and traditional hats didn't fit in cars as well as they did in buses, trains, trollies and the like.
ReplyDeleteThen in 1960 Kennedy did NOT wear a hat to his inauguration, that was a fashion statement and hats faded away.
Ball caps are hats & they do the job plus they will fit in a car, then ball caps started showing up with signs on them and being given away as advertising... Ball caps as fashion...
Up until the early 1950's most automobiles were built with a high roof to accommodate hats, but then they lowered the height. That does help aerodynamics, so we'll never go back, but the main thing is that the designers (artists, not engineers) thought sleek low lines looked better. For a while, they faked it by raising the hood and trunk so the passenger compartment didn't stick out so high above the rest of the car, but to me that always looked lumpy.
DeleteI've just looked through pictures of old Cadillacs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Series_62
From 1940 or earlier, Cadillacs were tall and hump-backed, giving lots of room for hats. With the 1948 model, they lowered the fenders, but left a tall hump in the hood and a correspondingly tall roof. But in 1953, they lowered everything. My Grandpa's bowler hat would still fit, but a higher one wouldn't. And the lines and roof kept going lower through the successive models, until with the 1959 model, only a short man could wear more than a baseball cap or beret. Pretty soon 6' + men had to recline the seat to stop bumping their bare heads.
A $10 hat was a weeks wage back then. A cowboy Stetson runs $200 to $350 now. Back 40 years ago I had a $130 Stetson and a one night stand stole it when she did her walk the next morning.
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