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?

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        Forgot to ask; how do you treat the leather? I had been using a conditioner and cleaner on mine but it didn’t do much for water repellency. I was reluctant to oil or wax it because it already ran hot. Like I said in my previous message, I love the damn thing and it looks great.