Bonnets on or off?

[Joshua]

Grew up on a farm. We wore our hats indoors... but it was usually for a second to grab a glass of water...

But we'd get the taste knocked out of our mouth if we dared to sit down to dinner with headgear. I think my grandmother was a prize fighter at one time...

[piperdbh]

But we'd get the taste knocked out of our mouth if we dared to sit down to dinner with headgear. I think my grandmother was a prize fighter at one time...

Good for her. I support her 100%.

[Jordan]

Since this thread is still goin on I feel that I should chop in with my tuppence.

I wear a hat when I'm outside when im inside the hat is removed at the door, be that supermarket or mcDonalds, house, pub etc.

There are exeptions synagogue being one(but then I would presumably remove my bonnet and get a skull cap?) and of course in a graveyard it would be off.

75 posts and counting!

[Detroitpete]

I find it interesting that a number of responses have made excuses for having bad manners (my hair is messy, etc.) and no one has found it necessary to make excuses for having good manners.

Guys, unless there is an over-riding religious consideration, a gentleman always removes his hat indoors, even if dining at the local Cracker Barrel.

Leaving one's hat on-- regardless of the excuse-- marks one out as a rube, an oaf, and one who is ignorant of even the most basic social courtesies.

So put that in your hat, and wear it.

I learned to behave in this manner as well. Only time in which I deviated from it was in the military when mustering indoors and ordered to be covered. I'm still a "no hat indoors" guy, no matter the circumstance.

[cavscout]

The word "gentlemen" has certainly been tossed about rather loosely through this thread. I'm amazed at the pompous blathering that is tolerated as "gentlemanly" but somehow a hat being worn at one time or another is considered worthy of such insults. There are a handful who really give true Gentlemen a bad name.

Whatever your perceived "status" in the social world, you have no sanction to insult anyone like I've read in this thread.

If you have to tell me (over and over and over) you are a "gentlemen", you most certainly are not.

[Captain_Cogle]

The word "gentlemen" has certainly been tossed about rather loosely through this thread. I'm amazed at the pompous blathering that is tolerated as "gentlemanly" but somehow a hat being worn at one time or another is considered worthy of such insults. There are a handful who really give true Gentlemen a bad name.

Whatever your perceived "status" in the social world, you have no sanction to insult anyone like I've read in this thread.

If you have to tell me (over and over and over) you are a "gentlemen", you most certainly are not.

Hear hear!

I was always raised hats off indoors though, historically speaking this is not true, there are many images of Scots in the 18th century wearing their bonnets indoors. Some times it was more polite to keep ones lice to ones self rather than sharing. (not saying this was always the case.)

Regardless, the insults, rage and arrogance spoken here by many have made me want to wear my hat indoors for no other reason than to make them squirm. If they care to hang on to an ugly feeling over a HAT then please, enjoy your ugly negative feelings. Makes me think of Oddball, "Again with the negative waves!"

If you are the one harboring such ill, arrogant, insulting and bitter feelings and thoughts, who am I to deny you that which you clearly enjoy and do so thoroughly? I will wear my hat indoors just for you and continue being happy and indifferent to what others think particularly if its so mean spirited and ugly.

So rage on you "gentlemen" and I will smirk that the pain you are inflicting only on yourself. Enjoy those ulcers and gray hairs. You earned them.

[Mike_Oettle]

Jordan wrote: “There are exceptions synagogue being one (but then I would presumably remove my bonnet and get a skull cap?) . . .”

Well, when the handful of Jews in my regiment went to shul by army transport, they would wear kilt and tammie while at worship.
Years ago I attended a synagogue service and had not thought to take a hat with me. I was handed a black crepe paper party hat to wear!
Regards,
Mike

[MacBean]

#79 posts and counting.... I've gone this many rounds with my son who insists on wearing a hat indoors and to the dinner table. I feel like a grandma complaining about the younger generation and losing ground.

When I was 11, we touched the brim of our caps as we passed others on the street, especially those older than us, er we.

Want to argue whether than is a conjunction or a preposition?

[Mike_Oettle]

MacBean, “older than us” is good English.
Your remark calls to mind an occasion when I (as a lad in kindergarten) was walking home from school and came across a girl classmate. I lifted my hand to tip my cap, and found that I didn’t even have it with me! I rushed back to the school to fetch it.
Regards,
Mike

[Geoff Withnell]

Since this thread is still goin on I feel that I should chop in with my tuppence.

I wear a hat when I'm outside when im inside the hat is removed at the door, be that supermarket or mcDonalds, house, pub etc.

There are exeptions synagogue being one(but then I would presumably remove my bonnet and get a skull cap?) and of course in a graveyard it would be off.

75 posts and counting!

Actually, a yarmulka (skullcap) is just a minimum hat - if you were wearing anything less you would be bare-headed. a bonnet is perfectly acceptable in a synagogue, and in fact at Orthodox synagogues it is not at all unusual to see men in fedoras, etc. I strongly object to some of the language on this thread. There are different customs in different groups. If I were to go bare headed in your home, by my rules I would be commiting a serious insult. Edit for clarity - If you asked me to take off my hat, I of course would - it's your home. But it just would not occur to me to do so. I wear a hat just about every where but to bed and in the shower.