Hats! For the distaff members

Maybe this belongs in Nostalgia! A post on the other forum re weddings and hats got me thinking....does anyone ever wear hats anymore outside of formal occasions like that?

I wear a baseball cap in the mild months to keep my hair from blowing about and the sun out of my eyes, and a wool hat in Winter for warmth. Cannot remember when I last wore a real hat!

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I never wear one except, begrudgingly, for weddings of close family.

I really hate them

My daughter can wear a hat of any size or shape and it always suits her whatever the style....she is so lucky!

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Thats really funny you should mention that, my friends family had a milliners for a couple of generations and there was an old article in the paper which she had brought in to show me recently.

We always wore hats to weddings and funerals, I don't 'do' hats as such but do have a couple of rain hats.

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Have never worn a hat even to weddings because I look so silly in them and also can't stand anything on my head-starts me off itching and drives me mad. Will wear a bob-hat in winter when out walking but it has to be very cold for me to do that.

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My aunt was a hat person; her best friend was a milliner so she always got an excellent price and had hats galore. She was one of those people who can wear them and look good. Not me!

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I only wear a woolly hat in the colder/wetter months to walk the dog can't abide the things really....

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My husband is a wedding photographer and we very rarely see hats at weddings these days, even the mums and grandmothers who always wore hats dont seem to do it anymore.

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Actually, men don't seem to wear hats now either as a rule. All my old family pics from the 20s, 30,40s show them with hats. Funny how fashion changes,

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I wear the hood of my coat up in the winter to walk the dogs, but hats, never wear one...

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On really freezing days in winter I wear a Balaclava.