Hats Off to Chicago!
What the heck kind of strange bravado is this? Or is it a fashion issue?
Today I was driving to work at 8:30 in the morning. It was 16 degrees out and windy, so it felt colder. Now, I don't care where you're from, 16 degrees is cold. In the few miles I passed driving to a school in Lincoln Park, I was hard-pressed to find a person outdoors who was wearing a hat.
I'm talking about people of all ages and walks of life at a bus stop, jumping up and down to try to warm up, their collective breath clouding up over their heads - none of them wearing a hat. Students, professionals, people carrying their offspring who were bundled up within an inch of their lives (including a warm hat) - none of them wearing a hat. I'm telling you, in San Francisco, those ladies in the Sunset are pulling out the hats when it's 50 degrees outside.
Do we not like to muss our hair, folks? Is wearing a hat now a fashion faux pas? Or are we just holding out for a really cold day?
If anyone can shed light on this for me, I'd greatly appreciate it.
posted by Jordan @ 9:56 PM
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I personally am a fan of the 180s, since I have a gynormous head. Could it be that you couldn't see their's? Otherwise, its totally crazy not to have a hat/something on your head! It's cold!
I have a giant head, too (Hi Becky!!!). But here's my side of the story: if you have hair like mine, which is thin, flyaway-prone, and as fine-textured as a baby's, there is NO way to wear a hat and then look anything but totally unkempt the rest of the day. My hair is incapable of recovering from any hat I've ever tried in all my upper-midwest-living years, even with a comb or brush or whatever. So, in the old days, if I was going to work or class or to meet clients or anything even remotely important, and had to look respectable once I got there....well, no hat. I mostly wore earmuffs (yuck) or a loose hood, or...nothing. Now that I'm a stay-at-home mom, it doesn't matter what I look like. ;) However, since Genevieve is too little to be out in the cold, I'm mostly just running from house to car or car to store etc., so I mainly go bare-headed, even if it's cold. For a long, long time I didn't even own a hat! Anyway. That's two cents from a representative of the hair-challenged segment of the population.
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