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Who Killed Men's Hats?
NPR ^ | May 4, 2012 | Robert Krulwich

Posted on 05/13/2012 7:42:53 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded

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1 posted on 05/13/2012 7:43:06 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
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JFK


2 posted on 05/13/2012 7:44:23 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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To: Eyes Unclouded

I blame these guys.

3 posted on 05/13/2012 7:47:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Eyes Unclouded

I heard that it was because so many men served in the military during WWII. I still have nightmares where I can’t find my Cover.


4 posted on 05/13/2012 7:48:31 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Eyes Unclouded
This author needs to occasionly venture out into the real world.


5 posted on 05/13/2012 7:49:02 PM PDT by Errant
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Nonsense. The interstate highway system did little or nothing to change the number of people who drove cars and commuted to work.

It was JFK and the swooning Camelot tale spinners in the media.


6 posted on 05/13/2012 7:50:14 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Hoodies got em.


7 posted on 05/13/2012 7:51:13 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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$400 haircuts?


8 posted on 05/13/2012 7:52:44 PM PDT by moovova (OBAMA: The first US President to come out of the closet.)
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$400 haircuts?


9 posted on 05/13/2012 7:52:57 PM PDT by moovova (OBAMA: The first US President to come out of the closet.)
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To: Errant

most pickup trucks have the requisite headroom


10 posted on 05/13/2012 7:52:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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NPR idiot.

Lower than a obama supporter.

Look around doofus.

Formal hats have been replaced with more practical hats.

And why spend time on such an issue?


11 posted on 05/13/2012 7:54:52 PM PDT by Texas resident (November 6 - Vote Against obama)
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Yea, but not recliners. :)


12 posted on 05/13/2012 7:55:14 PM PDT by Errant
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This author needs to occasionly venture out into the real world.
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There ya’ go! And, by God, they better remove them at the National Anthem!

I get ticked at the little league field when they don’t. ;-)


13 posted on 05/13/2012 7:56:00 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: Eyes Unclouded

The same conspiracy that got Men Without Hats were warmed up from killing off Toni Basil.

14 posted on 05/13/2012 7:56:22 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Absence of hat racks?


15 posted on 05/13/2012 7:57:14 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Errant

Good point!


16 posted on 05/13/2012 7:57:30 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Cicero

I adore hats...I wear what’s left of women’s hats, and my husband sometimes does the boonie hat type thing, or his redneck straw “cowboy” hat or a baseball cap on backwards (gear-head style)...and those are just the warm season hats!

Wish they would come back for ladies like the good old days...they were works of art and so expressive.

So much nowadays is unisex. I don’t even like the word.


17 posted on 05/13/2012 7:58:13 PM PDT by homegroan (Veni, Vedi, Velcro....since 1998)
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To: Errant

That’s a cap and not a hat.


18 posted on 05/13/2012 7:58:40 PM PDT by frogjerk (OBAMA NOV 2012 = HORSEMEAT)
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People on TV and in the movies stopped wearing hats, and society followed.

Edward Bernays was a person who tried to get movies to always show someone smoking to sell cigarettes, and he’d rent famous diamond jewelry for women to wear in movies (he’s the origin of A Diamond is a Girl’s best Friend, I think).

If you constantly see something in the media, you are likely to see it as normal and perhaps wonder why you aren’t doing it too.


19 posted on 05/13/2012 8:00:03 PM PDT by DBrow
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Really! lol


20 posted on 05/13/2012 8:00:44 PM PDT by Errant
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