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proper hat etiquette
elubsme
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I believe is to remove your hat while dining at a table or booth but it is optional when sitting at the bar. I take mine off when entering a building like Buddy said.
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With the exception of sitting in an eclosed tree stand, I take my hat off when I am indoors……………..
Never eat with a hat on. I worked countless hours under a vehicle on a hoist. Hat protected your head.
Most "laid back" bar/restaurants here in cheese land you leave your cap on.
"Barbarians!"
stopped at restraunt few months back and after being seated in a booth with my wife, I took off my hat and sat it on the seat beside me. The young lady who was our waitress looked at me and said "you remind me of my grandpa, he always takes his hat off when he sits down"
I'm not much of a hat wearer, but I always thought my grandfather handled the had situation correctly. He was a cow man and always wore a hat. He had a dress hat and a working hat. When he entered a building, except for a barn, he removed his hat.
If I'm wearing a hat it stays on. Whole reason to put a hat on is so one doesn't have to do the doo. Bedside's that's a round eye thing.
I started wearing a ball cap 50 years ago . I don't wear it in the house but if we go any where it's on
We don't go to any finer eateries. So my cap stays on on the ultra rare times we do to such places I do not wear it
besides i am aware of the ediquite about hats i have went to chuch twice in that 50 years and did take my hat off out of respect
but I have read some religions require the men to wear a head covering?
Look around my ball cap is not even in the same ball park when ot comes to how people look and dress any more in public
I think it's a do as you feel or your view
wear one don't wear one it's like bottom of my care list with the way the county is going A cap or hat would not even move the needle
But I respect other people rights to do what ever
I had a buddy "Faren" 50 years ago he wore his every wher but the shower he would wear it to bed his wife told us a bit strange yes, but he liked mopars also LOL
Tony Soprano says "Take your hat off…"
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=crmas_sfp&ei=UTF-8&p=tony+soprano+take+your+hat+off#id=3&vid=ce2833f3ec638f6aa2517e0ed7df34d2&action=click
My military years taught me that the threshold of the building defined whether the hat was on or off. When you crossed, you changed.
Same for me Eddie.
If I remember correctly
"Vlad the impaler" had some visitors whose religion, part of wearing their hats and not removing them
they refused to take them off in vlads presence, for a meeting , so he had th hats naied on to their heads and sent them back to their own country
That's a sure way to get otheres to take their hat off
Grew up farming ,hats went on we left the house . They came off when we came inside to eat and at night when we came home . Always off if visiting someone inside their house.
Courtesy and manners are all but dead in this country anymore. If you wore a hat into my mom's house .… you got a knot on your head, wear a hat to her table ….. get a knot on your head and go hungry.
I think a bar would be the ONLY exception here. If your parents didn't teach you to remove your hat indoors, they weren't doing their jobs and even then you should damn well know better than to wear one at a table.
Bingo. The “cover” comes off at the door, unless specified for ceremonial or other purposes.
Of course, you also keep your “cover” on indoors if “under arms.” Begs the question…..since most of us here go “under arms” everywhere, should we actually be keeping those hats on? Hmmmm 🤔
I never wear a hat indoors. No doubt Uncle Sam had some influence.
Brad Steele
I will give cowboys a pass. We still have real cowboys out West, you know. There really is no suitable place to put a cowboy hat in most diners or bars, except to keep it on your head.
Ball caps, however are a hard no at the table. It's rude and marks the wearer as a low life who probably eats holding his fork like a shovel.
One would think that "real cowboys" would be the first to remove their hats.
And if a ball cap is worn, it should be worn properly.
I see some fool walking around with a cap on backwards I take 30 points off his/hers I.Q. score.
Most of them cannot afford the 30 points.
It was summer.....about 1958.....in Anadarko, OK.
After church on Sundays, many a congregation would beat a path to town's only downtown cafeteria. Upon entering, people would file down the lefthand side to pick up their trays. At the start of the line was about 3 coat racks..…complete with multiple hat racks. Fifty-two Sundays a year......those hat racks were full...…and you could observe a sea of uncovered scalps......…...…...……..mostly BALD!!👴😳
Seems like yesterday..........😌
I have a not hats policy at my house, if you want to wear it stay outside!!! I have no say any place else, but I agree its rude, but I don't think most young people realize it.
What @bullshot said above^ "real cowboys" respect traditions.
Weat my hat to keep the sun out of my ryes. But.. when in doors take it off, unless I'm in a Bar (not often).
I've taken to wearing my Army Vererans hat or VFW hat. get a lot of veterans to talking and a good cup of coffe and I invite them to the VFW post.
Vlad don't play.
I remember when I was about 13 or 14 years old and thought it would be a good idea to wear my hat to the dinner table. My father thought otherwise.
My dad never wore a hat except a hard hat at work
His dad and many of that generation of the family, the men all wore hats but never inside .
Many years ago, I had a cowboy hat when it was the thing to do in style, like richarp petys feathervadorned versions, even places in the malls set up just to sell hats and assorted bands tonput on them ,
but being a small fellow, the cowboy hat just looked out of place and made me look even smaller like the short fellow on smokey and the bandit
Over the years, it became automatic, put my cap on as I was going out, and I felt necked without it
I started when I worked construction my hair would get dirty sweaty and a mess, and started loosing my hair was also a tragic experience for me, so when I took off my hard hat on went my ball cap to cove the mess up
When I switched jobs to a factory every one had to wear a ball cap with a hard plastic liner in it or AKA a bump cap so ispent way more hours wearing some cap in my life than not .
My wife reminds me "ok tells" me most of the time leave your hat off and at home
Its hard habit to have broken but I have relapses Some times .
Like I posted people in public wearing dental floss andband aids as a swim suit countless tatts and dozens of face percerings and that's the good ones
I don't care every one can enjoy what they like. To each their own I judge no one on looks but on their deeds .
I use to have really long hair and never wore a hat in public or in a house , but that changed with my job changes
Culture and etiquette and style always in constant change old ones come back around over time
Look at old photos ever man in a croud had a hat of some type but also had on nice clothes or the best they could . public aperance ment a lot
Not so much now it's going out how ever and what ever you have on
Sad the pride has long since gone, but that's still just a drop in the bucket over all
crime and no respect for life far out shadow anyone wearing a ball cap or hat indoors
The problem - especially for cowboys - is that these days there's never anywhere to hang a hat. So your dilemma is obvious. Two people in a booth is no problem, but at a full table, there's nowhere to put one. You can sit on a ball cap, but not a real hat.
I have ball caps, English driving caps, fedoras, knit caps, bucket hats, and cowboy hats. I like hats. Brimmed ones are a problem in cars due to the headrests, and all of them can be problems in restaurants. As the old Indian said, "I shall endeavor to persevere."
Just don't put a cowboy hat on a bed !
My cowboy hat comes off when inside.