Poll: Hats : Wearing Indoors. Rude?

[BlueGlowstick]

I'm a girl & I sometimes wear baseball caps. (on occasion though). I find it rude in certain places for men to wear hats, such as church, because that is disrespectful. But women are allowed to wear them in church and at funerals. I went to a school where our dress code was the most lenient one in the entire county and we weren't allowed a hat unless we were wearing hoodies. Even the girls weren't allowed to wear hats. They took them up. But if you find it rude, just politely ask the person to take it off & if they decline, that's their priority.

What? Women should be allowed to wear whatever hats they want? Why are the rules different for men?

(Hear that? It's the sound of a thread flying off of its rails.)

I don't understand the social convention of not wearing hats indoors, but I don't like wearing hats myself.

Well I'm from a Southern U.S. state in the Bible Belt where it's also a courtesy to pull over to the side of the road when a funeral procession passes by on the road. But yes, some women wore hats in church & men, if they wore a hat to church, had to take it off before they walked through the doors. Women wear hats with veils at funerals because they cry. Men wear sunglasses. (I actually find that offensive.) Tennessee (where I'm from) has a bunch of whackjobs with different views on hat policies.

 

[badgersprite]

Part of me seems to be stuck in the fifties, so I absolutely agree with you about this old social etiquette. It should still be in place.

Mind you, I'm a girl and I unfortunately can't pull off most of the vintage hats I would like to wear, if given the chance. That said, though, I did go through a hat period, in my last year of high school, and I always took it off inside small areas, like whenever I entered the classroom, and I always took my hat off whenever we said morning verse (which was kind of like a prayer, but non-religious), and whenever we sang the national anthem, or recited anything, etc. It's just basic politeness.