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90 years and 6 months ago. All of the adults and all or most of the children are now deceased. Perhaps a child or two or three is still alive...they aren't infants but old enough to be going to school.

Wearing hats did not go out of fashion until much later. I remember asking my mother when I was about 5 years old what caused men to become bald and she told me it was from wearing hats. That was when Eisenhower was President. Maybe JFK killed the fashion of wearing hats.

Maybe JFK killed the fashion of wearing hats.

A lot of things put together. JFK was just as likely following the fact that car rooflines were already getting lower, and people were spending more time in climate controlled settings, especially as they moved into the suburbs and drove more. Besides hats, people hate even minor inconveniences (wearing a tie, tucking in a shirt, clothes that need pressing, etc.) A hat needs to go to the hat check lady, or risk being left behind, and is a considerable inclonvenience when you only need it for the space from the car to the house/office/store and back again. Men in cities in the northeast continued to wear hats if they had walks to bus/subway stops long after JFK.