Talking about hats, those Arizona Stetsons with the wide brims, sooooooo sexy. Especially the ones being sold in Tucson in the 80's . Hubby bought one when we were there, he could have sold it 100 times over back home.
When I first mustered out of the service in 1970 I went to work repairing office equipment.
At that time I had a lot of hat cos. for customers in and around the St Louis area.
I'd bet today there aren't but one or two still in business, and they probably only make baseball caps.
What a shame, no one wears a proper hat today.
Lot's of men do~an women too, in Nevada and I'm sure in Texas, Idaho n several other states.
But, Yeh~ a proper hat in one thing. A baseball cap is like wearing sweat pants to town. When you put it that way, make a grown man wana weep, or yell something you can't say if front of the ladies.
Remember getting so much unsolicited advice from this guy in a bar once, about if'n I was taking it off, how I was supposed to set it down. "Stands to reason!" I remember him saying. Whenever I think of that phrase, I think of that guy.
Shoot. Reason narrowly escaped his thinking.
I continued wearing a hat nearly constantly when outdoors but that felt headgear only during real cold weather.
I have been wearing the same cotton canvass military / out back hat ( given to me by a herbicide researcher from Australia ) almost daily on my ranch for the past 27+ years. It is now getting some holes in the sides, miss shapen, white hat now turning brown from sweat, rain, ,garden dirt, corral dirt, horse sweat and poop, and sun burn. It has been machine washed too many times to count.