Men’s fashion is dreadfully boring, but one thing we used to have was a profusion and proliferation of different hats we could wear.
I know the m’lady meme and mall ninjas have forever cursed the fedora (as well as the actually, that’s a trilby crowd), but those memes postdate the decline of the hat by several decades.
Currently, we only have baseball caps and beanies in common circulation, with impractical-for-sidewalk-use cowboy hats being the only extant outlier.
Does anyone long for the return of the hat and/or have any insight into what caused their decline?
You have to do it fashionably. Most men can’t do that. They wear a fedora without a skincare routine, they don’t wear fitting clothes and often don’t work to smell nice.
The result is similar to people who drive shitty cars with a stylized paint job. It just looks worse than a regular paint job now.
A skincare care routine is pretty far off the scale of what men do to take care of themselves, but I know what you mean (and have had natrually good skin). Everything is slovenly, but they put a fedora on top and think it makes them Gary Cooper.