Love your Life, and don't forget your Hat!
Hats, there are all kinds. They have been around in some form since man was created.
When I was a child, I could usually identity someone's profession by the hat they wore. Mailmen, police officers, and the milkman all wore similar style hats. Firemen had very distinct helmets that were easy to identify. While at any hospital, you never had to guess who was a doctor or nurse. Nurses always wore their little white cap with pride and efficiency. Chefs, servants, waitresses, and butchers all wore a hat or some kind of head covering. Let's not forget about service men and women. They all wore hats, proudly displaying what branch of service they represented, Air Force, Army and Navy. All symbols of strength and freedom.
Cowboy hats topped everyone's head in the west, men, women and children all had their own hat fit especially for them. They still represent cowboys today.
Every day, ladies and gentlemen would wear hats, fedoras were donned by men throughout the western world. Thanks to Jackie Kennedy, pill box hats became the fashion for any fashion concious lady. Ladies hats were part of a mainstream wardrobe. If you sat in the last pew in any church, a sea of hats could be seen, covering a multitude of heads. No self respecting lady would ever enter a church sanctuary without a hat. I can remember as a little girl, my mom buying me an Easter bonnet every year until I was 10 years old.
Every city or even small town had at least one millinery shop. A store that made, and sold hats. Their window displays were filled with hat stands, showcasing different hats for special occasions and every day use. Hat boxes were just as beautiful and elaborate as the hats they held.
Some famous hats have been sold at auctions for huge money, simply because of its owners noteriety. Napoleon 's signature 2 ended hat sold at an auction in November, 2014 for $2.4 million! James Whitey Bulger, Bostons most notorious mobster, while wearing his infamous white hat was arrested by US Marshalls, that hat, just sold 2 weeks ago for $6,400. Today's gangsters wear coloured bandanas tied around their head. They lack the style the old timers had.
The hat used to be part of someone's uniform, it identified their profession. Or, they wore it as an accessory in their wardrobe. Hats were the first thing noticed, when we looked at someone, and were worn with honour and pride.
Today in 2016, people don't wear hats like they used to. Hats are still being worn but not in the same numbers or for the same reason.
The formality of wearing a hat is almost gone from the workplace. Helmets and hats are only worn for safety and health reasons now.
Hats are fast becoming part of a bygone era, partly because we want to be more relaxed in the work place, but I think we have lost something. We lack the authority and respect without our hats, not to mention gentility.
People are so concerned about being labeled if they wear hats at work, they want to be individuals so they chose not to wear one.
I don't believe that is true, I think we have become a nation of people all trying to look different so we aren't defined the same way, but in doing so, I think we have lost our sense of recognition and that makes us a little less nobel and civilized.
When I was a child, I could usually identity someone's profession by the hat they wore. Mailmen, police officers, and the milkman all wore similar style hats. Firemen had very distinct helmets that were easy to identify. While at any hospital, you never had to guess who was a doctor or nurse. Nurses always wore their little white cap with pride and efficiency. Chefs, servants, waitresses, and butchers all wore a hat or some kind of head covering. Let's not forget about service men and women. They all wore hats, proudly displaying what branch of service they represented, Air Force, Army and Navy. All symbols of strength and freedom.
Cowboy hats topped everyone's head in the west, men, women and children all had their own hat fit especially for them. They still represent cowboys today.
Every day, ladies and gentlemen would wear hats, fedoras were donned by men throughout the western world. Thanks to Jackie Kennedy, pill box hats became the fashion for any fashion concious lady. Ladies hats were part of a mainstream wardrobe. If you sat in the last pew in any church, a sea of hats could be seen, covering a multitude of heads. No self respecting lady would ever enter a church sanctuary without a hat. I can remember as a little girl, my mom buying me an Easter bonnet every year until I was 10 years old.
Every city or even small town had at least one millinery shop. A store that made, and sold hats. Their window displays were filled with hat stands, showcasing different hats for special occasions and every day use. Hat boxes were just as beautiful and elaborate as the hats they held.
Some famous hats have been sold at auctions for huge money, simply because of its owners noteriety. Napoleon 's signature 2 ended hat sold at an auction in November, 2014 for $2.4 million! James Whitey Bulger, Bostons most notorious mobster, while wearing his infamous white hat was arrested by US Marshalls, that hat, just sold 2 weeks ago for $6,400. Today's gangsters wear coloured bandanas tied around their head. They lack the style the old timers had.
The hat used to be part of someone's uniform, it identified their profession. Or, they wore it as an accessory in their wardrobe. Hats were the first thing noticed, when we looked at someone, and were worn with honour and pride.
Today in 2016, people don't wear hats like they used to. Hats are still being worn but not in the same numbers or for the same reason.
The formality of wearing a hat is almost gone from the workplace. Helmets and hats are only worn for safety and health reasons now.
Hats are fast becoming part of a bygone era, partly because we want to be more relaxed in the work place, but I think we have lost something. We lack the authority and respect without our hats, not to mention gentility.
People are so concerned about being labeled if they wear hats at work, they want to be individuals so they chose not to wear one.
I don't believe that is true, I think we have become a nation of people all trying to look different so we aren't defined the same way, but in doing so, I think we have lost our sense of recognition and that makes us a little less nobel and civilized.
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