As the years have passed hats have slowly lost favour, even for weddings and worship with only a proportion of the congregations donning them.  They have never been worn universally since the 1920s.  They were popular again in the 1980s for weddings and special occasions after the Princess of Wales, Diana used them to add a sense of sophistication to her persona in the early days of her marriage.  Once she found her confidence she abandoned hats for most occasions.

Hats when worn today are either worn for a special dressy occasion such as a wedding or conversely as casual statement attire in the way that caps might be worn the wrong way around.  Functional hats are still used by uniformed workers for corporate identity or protection as well as by many individuals in inclement weather.  Individuals wear fur hats or simple fleece beanie hats in very cold weather and use sunhats in very sunny weather.  Those who cannot bear a hat unwittingly adopt a hat form built into a garment, as in a hoodie casual zip top.

It is unlikely that the hat will ever die as an accessory as it offers far too much potential for drawing attention to the face.  Fashion designers are aware of this and every so often exploit this fact in the hope that fashion followers will adopt the hat. In the world of logos, branding and status symbols the hat is an easy and usually less costly item to purchase from a design house and can make them a great deal of money if a particular item catches the imagination of the public.  Often it advertises the company name.

Unfortunately the fact that a hat being relatively small is more easily affordable by the masses, means that every so often an item like the Burberry cap found itself eventually banned from certain social venues as it became associated with poor street and pub and club behavior.  Recently Burberry withdrew this hat in order to disassociate itself from those who wore it as a uniform that gave the message bad boys! **

(The Wearing of Hats Fashion History General Information By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com)

Hats have so much fashion history...what can be more fun then wearing tHat Hat!  All of us at one time or another have worn a hat, whether we like them or not.  For me hats add character to any outfit.  Maybe it's that "character" image that has made wearing hats as fashion statements fade away.  I suppose it's how you look at them, are they being worn to attract attention to ones attire as a fashion statement, or maybe to draw attention to oneself?  Hats could also be seen as quite the opposite, to draw attention away from an outfit, or to hide the face in some sense of shyness.  Who knows why we don't see the big rimmers around much anymore?  Personally...I prefer to wear a hat as often as the mood hits me....which could be for many different reasons.  Sometimes I just want to keep the sun off my face, other times I like to make a personal fashion statement,recently I had to travel for several hours in a car across the country with a smoker.  Now I don't like second hand smoke, and since this person was a heavy smoker..that entailed stopping every other minute if I were to accommodate this habit.  The best solution to my problem in this situation was for me to wear the appropriate hat..... whatever the reason....

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