The Fedora Loses To The Baseball Cap!
When I think of the changes in the urban landscape over the past 5 or 6 decades, several absences come to mind: cigarettes, leather briefcases, paper maps. The most notable absence, however, is men’s hats — specifically, the famously cool…fedora. To be honest, I was reminded of this by the great essayist Joseph Epstein, and my grandfather. And let me be clear; I, personally, do not wear hats, unless I have just rolled out of bed and realize that there is no milk to go with my strawberry frosted Pop-Tarts, and I have to make a quick dash to the grocery store! Or, if it is raining. I mean, Pop-Tarts without my 2% milk! C’mon... Only then will I throw on a golf cap. To be perfectly honest, my head is much too large for a hat to look cool, like it does on many of my fellow golfers. But I digress... Defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as a “low, soft, felt hat with a curled brim and the crown creased length-ways,” the fedora was once a staple of men’s f...