Poll: Hats : Wearing Indoors. Rude?
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I remember I did a thread similar to this one a long time ago. I asked people why wearing hats inside is considered rude, among other things, and never really got a solid answer. I ask you good sir, what about wearing a hat inside bothers you. Most people wear hats as you say as a fashion statement or to be comfortable, (other reasons may include to cover an embarrassing blemish on one's head or some such) not to be pretentious; I doubt the idea even occurs to them. I am 100% curious, as I have been for quite some time, and would really like to know what you have to say. I personally do not find it to be rude, but that is just a personal thing and I tend to question tradition.Defective_Detective said:
No, don't be ridiculous. I almost constantly wear a beanie, and of course I don't take it off indoors. I don't take my bloody trousers off either, it's just clothing!
I suspect it's rude for the same reason it's "bad luck" to open an umbrella indoors. And even though I only wear my fedora because it goes with my leather coat (ie I only wear it when it's cold and I am going to be outside), god forbid that I support an ancient and poorly-articulated custom that doesn't seem based on anything other than superstition. Or maybe it's supposed to be rude because it suggests the roof isn't good enough at keeping your head warm and dry, in which case the host still needs to get over himself.
Having said that, yes, I think it also depends on the hat, the context, and the building you're in. It would be pretty tacky to wear a baseball cap to a 5-star restaurant, or one of those little propeller-beanies to a synagogue just because you don't have a yarmulke, but for the majority of indoor areas that don't come with their own gravitas, wear what you like.
Having said that, yes, I think it also depends on the hat, the context, and the building you're in. It would be pretty tacky to wear a baseball cap to a 5-star restaurant, or one of those little propeller-beanies to a synagogue just because you don't have a yarmulke, but for the majority of indoor areas that don't come with their own gravitas, wear what you like.
No. I got enough of that shit in the military.
I do occasionally wear hats
beanies and caps) indoors. Mainly if I'm not staying there for long, if I'm still cold from the outdoors, it's cold inside, in most public places: pubs, stores and so on.
I consider it polite to take off your hat indoors, but not in a way you should always take your hat off, and if you won't, it's considered rude.
I do occasionally wear hats
beanies and caps) indoors. Mainly if I'm not staying there for long, if I'm still cold from the outdoors, it's cold inside, in most public places: pubs, stores and so on.I consider it polite to take off your hat indoors, but not in a way you should always take your hat off, and if you won't, it's considered rude.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
IMO?
<<MY hat? Classy; Okay to wear indoors. (I don't anyway though, I think it'd be kinda silly)
These hats?
Not okay.
Ever.
<<MY hat? Classy; Okay to wear indoors. (I don't anyway though, I think it'd be kinda silly)
These hats?
Ever.
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.
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.
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..
...So yeah, Weddings, Funerals, and Dinner, keep the hat off..
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.
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.
Well, wearing this hat in any situation doesn't warrant you as rude, but awesome on a scale of perculiously outstanding gentlemen.
BEHOLD! My Towering pillar of hats!
