nachoman Wrote:As you may know, I am modeling roughly 1917-1920. In looking though period photographs, I notice nearly all of the men are wearing hats, and all of the women are wearing hats. That means, when placing figures on my layout, they all should be wearing a hat, right? Has anyone done historical etiquette research who could enlighten us when wearing a hat in public became less commonplace in the USA?

The small details... Has anyone ever added a hat to a LPB that didn't come molded with one?

It stopped when Kennedy was elected.

I always understood it to have survived until the mid-60s...but I don't have the first hand experience that some of you had with the time period.

When you watch Bond films, pay attention to the opening scene where you are looking down the barrel of a gun at Bond and then he turns and shoots you. In the early films, he is always wearing a hat...but never in the later films.
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