General Chat

The lad in N.Y. has always worn baseball caps even before he started visiting there. Today was his daughter's 1st birthday, he is wearing his cap on all the party pics lol

My late Mum always wore hats, in fact, when she came through at a Spiritualist meeting, one of the first things the medium said was 'this lady looks serious and always wears hats' That's when I was sure it was my mother - and the second medium sketched a picture of the person she 'saw' while her friend spoke about her. At the end I was given the sketch and it was remarked that I look a lot like my mother which is true.

Dad always wore a trilby, sometimes a flat cap and despite cycling to and fro shift work in all weathers I don't remember him wearing a woolly hat. It will be 25 years on Friday that he died aged 79, and 20 yrs in May since Mum went at the same age they were born in 1910 and 1916. I still have a couple of Mum's warmer hats and several of my own now too.

Lizx

Jacqueline


my mother was of a similar vintage, she was born in 1903 ............

and yes, she wore a hat whenever she went out. She got dressed up "decently" just to go to the local shops.

That was how she was raised.


Even in the 50s, I wore gloves when I was going out, not always a hat because I hated them and the "rules" were not as strict for a teenager. Shoes, handbag and gloves all matched :-)



The fashion rule that our mothers obeyed, and that lasted at least into the 60s, was ladies wore hats outside and kept them on indoors (not in their own house obviously!!) ............ whether visiting friends (unless they were very close friends or it was a dinner or "evening do") or in a public place.

Outer coats would often be removed, but hats would stay on ............... for morning coffee, lunch, or afternoon tea.


Men wore hats when outside .............. usually trilbys or fedoras, but they were doffed whenever the men met a lady they knew, and were always removed when indoors .........


.......... it was inexcusable for a man to sit down inside while wearing a hat.

My mother, born 1905, would always wear a hat and gloves, even when gardening. The garden hat was a close fitting dark blue straw. The only time she left the house without a hat was when hanging out the washing!

My elderly parents went to a friend's funeral recently.

Apparently 'the lad', 53 years old, was wearing his usual attire, a beanie.

By all accounts it wasn't a lowly affair, must have looked odd :-0

Yet, I can't blame him. The funeral is for family foremost.

My parents of a previous generation were shocked.

Maryanna,

Ask him to send the cap to me please as All my hats have gone walkabout and with having snow I need a hat to go out...

My brother wears a baseball cap. :-)

When he plays in the "oldies" baseball team (he's 62)........

and when he coaches the youngsters :-D

I have noticed that men who wear yachting caps always know a lot. We call them knowledge hats.

No one over the age of 14 should ever wear a baseball cap anywhere. They look ridiculous on grown men.

And no one over the age of 21 should wear one of those woolly things that students wear.

And no one should ever wear a hat indoors. It's silly.

wearing those baseball type hats and beanies is very common in the US .....................


I can remember seeing men eating in restaurants in Texas back in 1967/68 wearing stetson hats



unfortunately!




I hate it

O.h.'s son now living in New York always has a baseball cap or beanie on in every photo of him and baby (1 today) he puts on fb or sends his dad. Even baby has a beanie on indoors sometimes. Despite comments by all the family, he will insist on wearing those horrible caps, wore them in U.K. too so didn't get the habit from America. His hair is receding now but his brother lost his hair very young and he never resorted to a cap. O.h. hates the caps.

Lizx

Local golf club has a no hats indoors policy.

There's a tiny sign stating this.........and if you wear a hat indoors, you have to buy drinks for everyone at the bar. :-D

To the best of my knowledge, nobody has had to buy a huge round of drinks, but mentioning the rule gets the hats off quicksmart!

:-D

Not been posting much recently ,but couldn't resist this one....having manners these days seems to be a thing of the past!
My late husband used to tell the grandchildren to take off their hats when they came to visit....now I'm on my own,they tell me to get into the 21st century......how rude...standards have certainly declined in all sorts of ways... :-(

Sharron, we came across some old photos of my Mum recently, taken in the early 1960s, in many of them she was wearing a headscarf. Funny fashion.

Errol, I have decided to sing "Happy" whenever I see him, as well as wearing some strange hat or another.

I now realise why his father thrust his chest at me at Christmas whilst wearing some very baggy sweat pants and a T shirt with the BIllionaire Boys Club logo on them, hideous objects, they cost some ridiculous amount of money. I think I was supposed to be impressed. Very attractive on a seventy year old man.

M. :-0

On a Saturday, my mother would don the headscarf, pop in the fag and set off to do the shopping.

Home she would come, puffing yet another fag and carrying the bags that certainly contained a couple more packets and some very large bars of chocolate as well as anything else that might have caught her eye, even if we didn't need them.

On a good Saturday the mackintosh would come off although I do remember her walking about in a plastic one several hours later, but the headscarf would never be removed until she went to bed.

The outside world rarely saw her sans headscarf, wherever she went.

Nothing would induce me to wear a headscarf!

how many people at the dinner table? get pink baseball hats for everyone :-D

I have seen a photo of a council meeting in the 1920s - indoors of course, and everyone is wearing a hat. So I guess fashions and etiquette change.
B

Maryanna.Get yourself a pink baseball cap too and wear it .I bet your SIL won't want to be looking the same as his MIL :-D :-D.Turn it around and wear it backwards too :-D
One of my Daughters ex's used to wear a baseball cap on when he was here (even at the table) :-S :-S...Have to say he looked a right chav ....and he was.Thank goodness he is long gone now.
I now have my Son's girlfriend spending all day in her PJs :-S :-S.
As my Mum and Dad would have said " How Slovenly "

Maryanna - it's a clothes line (I mean line of clothing, not a thingy stretched between two trees for hanging your vestments out to dry) founded by Pharrell Williams.

Thank you all, love your comments.

Yes Errol, it's pink . Apparently it has some logo on it that means something. Billionaire Boys Club ?????

M.

Height of bad manners to me, but then I am from a generation where my wife would not dream of going into church without a hat!

We dressed smartly in black for funerals (no brown boots :-) ) too.