Lethbys Bazaar View Book Number 4

Sweet to see the boaters and bowler, as well as the little tackers in the boat with the flat caps. Headgear today seems to worn as a fashion statement or an extention of their psychological projection. Good picture of the Mount as well.

Why were hats worn in those days then?!

They were worn for head protection, smartness, as a part of the fashion (not as a statement of class or of place in the fashion scene, despite the hype, this country is rife with personal assessment class statements). Very few people wear headgear for head protection these days, not even hoodies (they are worn for an entirely different set of reasons).

I have a hooded sweatshirt, as does my wife, and the hood is sometimes up to protect us from wind or rain! I thought hats were used as a statement of class? Working class women would not have worn the hats of the well off or privileged for instance.

Not what I meant at all. A hood extension to a garment is not head-dress. Cap (US baseball, reversed, for the effect of looking stupid), bowler, wide brimmed leather hat, Indiana Jones explorer hat, as opposed to head-dress for specific purpose as in cycle helmet, or one associated with occupation or rank, hard hat for sites, etc ... I have a hood on my coat, but it is not a hoody and neither is yours, if you wear it to honour your hero who is on death row, along with exposed underpants, because your belt has been confiscated, despite the fact that it looks to be an offense against your own human origins, and the obligatory baseball cap is worn under the hood, despite the fact that it is raging hot sunshine, and it looks menacing and secretive, then it is a hoody. They are worn as a part of a gangland scene so far from civilised thought as to be a direct and offensive shrug of ignorance. Working women wore hats, but not when they were working, that is the difference. They wore much more sensible headgear, scarves and shawls. Men at work wore the stiff crown bowler, or flat peaked caps. Headgear was worn to keep the head warm, and to keep hair tidy, and a certain degree of that was also to stop the transfer of nits, it has to be said.

A very interesting read. I was just being provocative, by the way! The fashions around today will be old hat in a few years time. Everything changes.

I knew the provocation was there, you just picked the wrong time, after seeing a bunch of them out in the street, and they seem to have learned the fine art of Anglo Saxon but have found other matters to be a wall of inarticulacy. I know everything changes, but I have a big wall myself, as far as wanton and unfounded following of gangsta culture from a land far over the pond. I like a rant now and then ....