Hats!

[sgtcarl1]

I can't say much about the time hats went out of mode, for Europe, even though I was living there from winter '60 to summer '63!! I don't recall very many men wearing hats while I was there, though. Hats were worn to keep sun off (bald) heads and as eye shades. They also served as other things, depending upon where you lived. You could flirt with a lady just by the way you tipped your hat to her. In the "wild west," it was what you could use to drink water out of. I also remember a time when if your didn't take your hat off in a bar, it meant you were willing to buy everyone in the place a drink!! And you never kept your hat on in an elevator!!