Poll: Hats : Wearing Indoors. Rude?

[BorisFriend]

Hats in places like the shopping centre or other public areas are generally fine, but when people decide to wear their hats in restaurants, against the dress code, in other peoples homes or places of worship/mourning thats when it becomes really rude.

However, there is no excuse for wearing the hood on a hoodie up indoors. Don't get me wrong, i love my hoodies as much as the next bloke, but it just makes you look like a complete arse and the worst kind of shady when you wear the hood up indoors.

 

[Panda Mania]

I think the etiquette for hats has changed over the decades....there's no need to enforce the old rules if the majority of people aren't offended by hats indoors and so on.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

With my family it is only impolite when eating indoors. All other times, its all good.

More formal places demand you remove them. I get its a sign of respect but I don't know where this asinine tradition originated. Hats aren't rude! Words, actions and posture are!

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

It depends on wear I am because the only hat I wear which I wear ALL the time is my VERY VERY expensive black resistol and if the place I'm in doesnt have a hat rack or the area im sitting at doesnt meet my standards i wont take it off.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

It's not rude to be casual, if someone important or someone I highly respect enters the room, I'll remove my hat while I talk to them.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

In my opinion, it isn't a rude gesture at all to wear a hat indoors, perhaps during a funeral or national anthem, but not 'cause you're indoors.
What exactly makes it disrespectful? Like most unwritten social and cultural rules you see it that way just because you've been told to see it that way while it's really no ruder than wearing gloves indoors.

Also i myself am a hat wearer who is partial to being polite, and should people comment on my hat wearing offending them i do take it off.
Also i wear an original Canterbury trilby which is about 65 years old.

 

[Capt. Crankypants]

IMO?
<<MY hat? Classy; Okay to wear indoors. (I don't anyway though, I think it'd be kinda silly)

These hats?

Spoiler: warning: Douchebaggery

Not okay.
Ever.

 

[TOTL_UNIALAYSHUN]

You know, this is a really weird thing to me, because I personally don't find it rude or insulting. But I'd expect someone to take off a hat if they were just wearing a baseball cap or something, just because that's what I've always been told is right!

Also, if someone walked into my house wearing a big, bold hat on their head, I'd get uncomfortable if they didn't take it off. I wouldn't be offended, I'd just find it easier to be around them without all the focus on the top of their head.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Oops, mis-did the poll. I don't think it's rude, per say in the household, and in fact there's a few places where it's recommended that you can take it off at a time, and only one particular time where you 'should' take it off, and that's the dinner table, and during ceremonies, like funerals or weddings.. Just feels like you should, I suppose. The rest of the time you should take off your hat during various introductions, but mostly you can put the hat back on....

...So yeah, Weddings, Funerals, and Dinner, keep the hat off..

 

[loc978]

I tend to reflexively remove hats when walking into a building... I spent entirely too much time in various Army schools not to have that drilled into me.

However... I really don't see the point. Sure, it's an established social convention, but why?
...and why would it irk anyone? I mean, interrupting someone: rude. Slamming a door in their face: rude. Farting in their general direction: rude. Standing still in the middle of a busy aisle at the supermarket: rude. Cutting someone off in traffic: rude (among people who bothered to learn how to drive, anyway)... but all of those have very concrete reasons. You're causing someone discomfort or delay in every case there.
Down with arbitrary social rules, I say. Let us usher in the age of rationality. Wear your hat wherever you like, so long as it's not in anyone's way.

Oh, also... I wear fedoras with 3-piece suits, baseball caps or one of my various issued camouflage boonies to shade my eyes, or beanies to keep my head warm.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

Well, wearing this hat in any situation doesn't warrant you as rude, but awesome on a scale of perculiously outstanding gentlemen.

Spoiler

BEHOLD! My Towering pillar of hats!

 

[PayneTrayne]

If you want me to take off my hat while I'm in a classroom, then fuck you.

If you want to wear a hat around the dead, then fuck you too.

Really, depends on the situation, but I'ma wear my head igloo wherever I want for the most part.

 

[HentMas]

personally, eating with a hat is not only rude, but stupid, because people eating with you cant see your face clearly and well, eating with friends is an "intimate" process, wich when obscured by a hat seems kind of "i dont care if you are my friend, i would rather have my hat on" and as such he is taking value out of your friendship

on the street, the mall, or other open areas i find it ok, church not so much as a "rule" but as sign of "respect" for the people inside (once again, the "face obscured" in a place where there should be no need of such comes into place)

and... why do people wear it on their cars!?... i cant do that, its kind of... weird... (IMO)

 

[Jedoro]

I wear a black patrol cap when I'm outside, but I always remember to take it off when I step indoors. There's no need to wear a hat inside, so I don't. Of course, I didn't wear hats at all until high school because of JROTC, so I follow the military's ideology on hats. So, if you see me indoors and I have my hat on, you bet your ass I'm armed.

 

[The Hero Killer]

I only wear hats when I need a haircut or when its cold outside. And while it can be rude in certain establishments, I'd rather offend with a hat than with a head of overgrown hair.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Answer: To question posed: No. OP you need to work on your thread titles.

 

[Hwoof]

I've always been a fan of wearing the Yahtzee styled 1930's hat. Damn they're awesome.

I fail to see how It's rude wearing it inside, but general consensus seems to tell me that it is annoyingly, so I take it off inside.

 

[TheLoneSeeker]

Once I have a hat on, it is usually on for the day, whether I'm inside or not. Mostly because the resulting hat-hair if I take it off is far more offensive Don't want to be stuck somewhere nice, looking like I just got out of bed.

 

[Arctodus_Simus]

I despise rudeness. And I can't stand contractions.

Kids these days. They have no respect.

Isn't 'can't' a contraction? Just sayin', I mean no offence *tips hat*

OT: I believe the unwritten rules were; hats were allowed to be worn indoors, like shops and restaurants but must be taken off when engaging another in conversation (anything beyond, say, talking to the shop assistant, or ordering your drinks would class as a reason to de-hat)

By the by, my personal preference is trilbys in summer, fedoras and overcoats in winter (hell yes, rocking the 1940's P.I. look ), with the occasional bowler ("derby" to those across the pond) for fancier occasions. Or when I feel like it

 

[pretentiousname01]

A proper gentle man must always look the part

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Most of the time its not a big deal.