Hat History

Now I’m not going to say I’m a hat expert, in fact I had the good fortune to learn a little more about hats (and the world) recently when my mom, and then later that night, our waitress, correctly identified a millinery as a women’s hat shop. So I’m not a hat expert, but I am an enthusiast and great hat wearer. I can’t quite recall when I decided I wanted to do this, but at some early point in my educational career, I decided to wear a hat to school. Now for a long time kids weren’t allowed to wear hats in school, so when I say I wore a hat to school, I literally mean on the way to and from school (and like every other waking moment of my life not in school). I liked hats. I really liked wearing hats. In accordance with this I actually wore the hat right up until the school day actually started, sort of as an act of defiance (that was about as defiant as I ever got), but mostly just because I liked wearing my hat. Also, for a long time I liked to use hat to express my enthusiasm for my team. Enter ninth grade, the hat ban is lifted and now I get to wear my hat all the time! Now this brings up a new problem: consider if you will, wearing a hat pretty much from the time you wake up until you go to sleep (sometimes past that) it tends to get pretty dirty. So I came up with a rule for myself, one new hat a year, meaning every hat I had was the only one worn for a year, then it was retired. More recently, I’ve gotten an interest in hair, namely my own hair on my head because it’s awesome. Normally, if my hair wasn’t so long, I would be wearing a hat. This derives from the pure satisfaction I get from wearing a hat, whereas the new trend derives from the fact that I now care more about how my hair looks than about wearing a hat. So like I said, I’m no hat expert, but I sure do have a lot of experience with them.

Scott hat stats:
Favorite practical reason to wear a hat: to cover up ugly in-between hair that isn’t long enough to be a flowing mane but isn’t short enough to look good either
Scott’s number one used hat type: the baseball cap (bonus, my favorite variety is fitted)
Number one thing featured on my hats: university of Michigan
Number two: university of Wisconsin
Rising trend: winter hats/beanies
Trend that should come back: top hats

So Scott Thought.