parliamentary information office: A hat is an excellent article as not only does it keep your head warm but it allows the wearer to engage in a conversation with those about him.
This revolves around what used to be called `hat honour'. You will often see pictures painted in the 17th century of Charles I siting at the dining table wearing his hat whilst those about him are hatless. They are doing `hat honour' to the king, recognising his superior status. Similarly the early Quakers when dragged into court for not attending compulsory Anglican service they did not divest themselves of their hats before the judge as they considered themselves as equal to the judge. They made their point and suffered for it.
When I enter a shop I take my hat off if I respect the shop. I am often seen wearing my hat in the bank although I do take it off when talking to the cashier and others as that is a proper courtesy. I always take my hat off in church but get confused with mosques and synagogues so negotiate my way round them with the congregation.
Then there is the recent incident in a Manchester courtroom in which some dreadful child much given to wearing what is known as a `hoodie' was ordered not to wear them in future as they allowed him to engage anonymously in crime. On representations being made by the defence counsel that this would make the said infant liable to catch colds, the judge very wisely pointed out that the babe in arms should avail himself of a cap. He went on to point out that one hundred years ago no man in Manchester would ever go out without wearing a hat. There is hope yet for the judiciary.
A hat is a good thing which is probably why the poseur `Dave' decries them. What does a man who hugs hoodies know about anything? He should have a chat with the wise judge.
parliamentary information office: The only merciless outside event of the year at which Cameron will necessarily appear bare headed will be a week today, when God willing, our 86 year old Monarch and her 91 year old Consort will lead the Act of Remembrance at the Cenotaph as they have done for 6 decades.
Mr Cameron is 46 - almost exactly half the age of Prince Philip, who will wear a services cap, befitting a man who served throughout WWII as a regular.
Formal male civilian attire including a hat has largely fallen out of fashion - bowlers or cloth caps - save for the morning dress now so beloved of the ex-working class who invariably hire it for weddings these days, which seems so incongruous.
Baseball caps and the rest have become either practical devices for warmth or shade (some of us males have foreheads that extend behind our ears you know) - or the uniforms of gang culture and the like.
parliamentary information office: The problem nowadays with wearing a hat* regularly is that there are so few people who do it makes you immediately recognisable. So you're constantly greeted in the street by people who recognise you (or rather the hat) whilst you have, at best, only the vaguest memory of where they might have met you!
*Baseball caps do not, imho, properly count as hats.
parliamentary information office: Here in the tropics those of us with any sense wear a hat to keep the sun off. And really, hats on men have never been a matter of fashion, merely of functionality or convention, apart from the tossers who think it's trendy to wear a baseball cap.
I think it's a shame, though, that ties seem to be worn much less than in previous generations.
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This revolves around what used to be called `hat honour'. You will often see pictures painted in the 17th century of Charles I siting at the dining table wearing his hat whilst those about him are hatless. They are doing `hat honour' to the king, recognising his superior status. Similarly the early Quakers when dragged into court for not attending compulsory Anglican service they did not divest themselves of their hats before the judge as they considered themselves as equal to the judge. They made their point and suffered for it.
When I enter a shop I take my hat off if I respect the shop. I am often seen wearing my hat in the bank although I do take it off when talking to the cashier and others as that is a proper courtesy. I always take my hat off in church but get confused with mosques and synagogues so negotiate my way round them with the congregation.
Then there is the recent incident in a Manchester courtroom in which some dreadful child much given to wearing what is known as a `hoodie' was ordered not to wear them in future as they allowed him to engage anonymously in crime. On representations being made by the defence counsel that this would make the said infant liable to catch colds, the judge very wisely pointed out that the babe in arms should avail himself of a cap. He went on to point out that one hundred years ago no man in Manchester would ever go out without wearing a hat. There is hope yet for the judiciary.
A hat is a good thing which is probably why the poseur `Dave' decries them. What does a man who hugs hoodies know about anything? He should have a chat with the wise judge.
parliamentary information office: The only merciless outside event of the year at which Cameron will necessarily appear bare headed will be a week today, when God willing, our 86 year old Monarch and her 91 year old Consort will lead the Act of Remembrance at the Cenotaph as they have done for 6 decades.
Mr Cameron is 46 - almost exactly half the age of Prince Philip, who will wear a services cap, befitting a man who served throughout WWII as a regular.
Formal male civilian attire including a hat has largely fallen out of fashion - bowlers or cloth caps - save for the morning dress now so beloved of the ex-working class who invariably hire it for weddings these days, which seems so incongruous.
Baseball caps and the rest have become either practical devices for warmth or shade (some of us males have foreheads that extend behind our ears you know) - or the uniforms of gang culture and the like.
parliamentary information office: The problem nowadays with wearing a hat* regularly is that there are so few people who do it makes you immediately recognisable. So you're constantly greeted in the street by people who recognise you (or rather the hat) whilst you have, at best, only the vaguest memory of where they might have met you!
*Baseball caps do not, imho, properly count as hats.
parliamentary information office: Here in the tropics those of us with any sense wear a hat to keep the sun off. And really, hats on men have never been a matter of fashion, merely of functionality or convention, apart from the tossers who think it's trendy to wear a baseball cap.
I think it's a shame, though, that ties seem to be worn much less than in previous generations.
Parliamentary information office provides more information towards association of variety subjects and politics.
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