Fashion. Same reason men are not wearing beards to the same extent.
@MDKE1149 сағат бұрын
Hats that can't be folded to store in a pocket or bag become another thing to carry, find a place for when a person is on the go but indoors, and as his last statement pointed out, another item to forget. Some hats can be stolen off of heads by the wind or thieves. Hats which are ornate and/or a bit tall might not fit in some cars and get in the way of audience members behind the wearer at spectator events. Sadly, with the hatless trend, the protection that some hats provided is lost, as well as the styles and most of the millinery industry.
@Joker-no1uhКүн бұрын
In the US, I would say a majority of men still wear hats. Not old-fashioned hats, but baseball hats or stocking hat/beanie.
@richjames2540Күн бұрын
I think it is two major causes. 1 after being in the forces during WW2 there was a strong move away from formality as you say. The wearing if hats and gloves, morning dress, tails more recently lounge suits have also declined in popularity. 2 The culture in the USA has been driving informality. As US culture was spread by films and tv and music this accelerated the process in the UK. If you go to a wedding in the USA, the only women in hats will be British. Perhaps the move away from being outside has also helped this. Cars, public transport, central heating and ac also removed a lit if need as you say. One point though, many British people fail to differentiate between baseball caps and trucker hats which have differences and in the USA are worn differently (or back to front by gen Z’s.
@MargaretPorcelli2 күн бұрын
In older churches, there is a clip on the back of the pew to hang a hat. Men removed a hat once indoors.
@lanadelfag1232 күн бұрын
Bring back hats i say
@danjason47302 күн бұрын
I think alot is down to younger generations started wearing cap's 'flatpeaks' alot of negative stereotypes started to form because of gang culture etc so think many didn't want to be associated with that plus fashion trends change, its like how in Britain 'trackies' jaggers are sometimes more popular then jeans especially in poorer area's
@flytamers79572 күн бұрын
Thank you for the descriptive explanation
@donharrison7062 күн бұрын
Did the narrator just say "hats can be hired these days?" In America one can only hire people.
@adrianlatham74622 күн бұрын
What a nice escape from the habitual doom scrolling in KZbin these days. No product placements, no AI hype, no adverts…an actual normal human being!
@ontopoftheroof2 күн бұрын
I am glad I can point on those touch screens (like them or not) with my right hand.
@ontopoftheroof2 күн бұрын
What's confusing me a good deal more in every day life is the months after August all having the wrong names.
@markfilippone38452 күн бұрын
My Good Sir, You ?inadvertently omitted the farmers’, or carpenters’ or house painters’ jeans or dungarees with their built-in bibs and likewise built-in suspenders. My Dad was s house painter and he wore the obligatory white or cream-coloured jeans. The tell-tale mark of the “carpenter’s’ jeans was the cloth loop on the left hip area into which one would slip the handle of the law-hammer. These bib jeans = bib dungarees have all buf disappeared along with the tell-tale white cap with its white brim of the housepainter’s cap! Of course the house painter’s cap was a necessity to keep the paint off and out of one’s hair. By the way the painter never actually purchased said cap as they were given away gratis by the shop of the paint seller; along with the one inch high black lettering of the paint store or paint company who provided the caps gratis cum advertising! And anyone over the age of sixty-six years of age here stateside can remember the medium to dark grey one-piece “jumpsuit” of the gas-station attendant! (car grease is grey: hence the grey jump suit!) often those fas station jump suits sported pinstripes! And then there was the ubiquitous flat-top greg cloth gas station man’s cap with its brim like the painter’s hat as it was like a flat top baseball cap. Of course the front of the cap sported the gas stations colourful logo as also did the left chest area on the grey pinstriped one piece zippered jump suit! But wait! There’s more! Who can forget the 1940’s to late 1960’s white soda jerk cap. I thought it rather “cute” that the second generation 65 year old gentlemen who served ice cream, cocoa or ice-cream sodas or “egg-creams” wood wear these goofy white caps behind the ice-cream parlour/hamburger joint on Fordham Road almost at the corner of Webster Avenue in the Rose Hill Section of Da Bronx where I spent three years majoring in undergraduate pre-med & languages at Fordham University. As I aspired to be what was to become the last-minute Third World medical missionary, studying my Honors Program Junior Year Abroad at St Xaviers College in Dhobi Talao, Bombay (to field test out my vocation) I am took a fashion to date to wear the white linen “Gandhi topi (which looked very much like a soda jerk cap) along with the long white overshirt called a Kameese or Kurta which went along with the baggy snow white cotton/line pants appropriately called “pyjamas”! [That is where thd English word pyjama originated!] You might recognise that white topi cap from some old photos of Prime Minister J. Nehru! And of course Mahatma Gandhi! Throughout high school 1961-65 then University 1965-67 & 68-69 I always dressed for success with three piece suits and a fedora. I was really making a fashion statement for Fedoras were already on their way put. I literally took the Passaic, New Jersey’s Jewish tailor’s advice to “dress for success.” My almost peasant Father luckily likewise encouraged this high sartorial approach. By the way - it worked! In addition to my B.A. degree I also earned my MPH&TM in Tropical Medicine, from Tulane, my M.D. from Georgetown, and a second master’s degree in Byzantine Theology from Maryknoll/ Fordham. Not bad for a farm boy, newspaper carrier and second shift commercial truck unloader during all four years of high school. Someday I will tell you about wearing a baggy blue Mao Jacket and its accompanying cloth cap during my three month visit yo the Peoples Republic of China during the months of June to August 1975 (including Tien An Mein Square.) Only months following the disastrous Vietnamese War. I accompanied my Canton China born Chinese-American young bride to visit “our” Paw-Paw in Hoi-San Kwantung China who was 94 years’ old at the time. Typical American tourist - NOT. I need my own KZbin site! Thank you my Good Man for your lovely video on the extinction of hats you are right, people did make a fuss about JFK being hatless And yes, although I am 77 years old, I can personally vouch for not being able to wear a Fedora in a car! I really do miss wearing my hat!
@dorito44483 күн бұрын
Knight pronounced that way sounds a lot like German "Knecht". Meaning servant or farmhand, but it was also used in different contexts. A possible connection might be Landsknecht ("country's servant"), a type of mercenary in the 16th/17th century. Way too recent i suppose, but I'd be surprised if there is no connection anywhere between knight and Knecht
@pandolphe16694 күн бұрын
Metricity is sooooo nice
@TheJamesM4 күн бұрын
The actual core of the problem is linguistic: the language is decimal, so people naturally find it easier to think in decimal, even if it limits the available easy calculations; it means that you're _not_ having to do non-trivial mental arithmetic as you move up and down throughe units, as that information is encoded in the base of the number system. If we wanted to make the most of divisibility, we should change the base of our number system to a _superior highly composite number_ (to employ a bit of maths jargon), obviating the need for mental arithmetic when moving between units of a particular measure and the numbers we're used to dealing with every day. Of course, this is very unlikely to ever happen; the fundamental components of a language are the most resistant to change, as people use them all the time and it would take a lot of un-learning and re-learning to alter them. I think that's why most of the few remaining irregular plurals in English (notwithstanding later loanwords which retained their foreign plural) are things that would come up frequently in everyday speech: people, (wo)men, children, sheep, oxen, geese, fish, feet, teeth. And if decimalization was expensive, one can only imagine what it would cost to change the number system. It would probably bankrupt the country. And even if it succeeded, unless the whole world follows suit, you've just moved the conversion headaches elsewhere (and multiplied them to an astronomical degree). So it's completely impractical, but if it _were_ possible to somehow magically intervene, the best solution would be to adopt a numerical base of 12 or - at a push - 60 (the other options are probably either too small to be useful, or too large to be manageable).
@doyouknoworjustbelieve66944 күн бұрын
So in a base 12 we can divide without a remainder by two more numbers. So what? We will also have to use two more digits. Besides, counting fingers is more natural than counting knuckles.
@MadScientist2675 күн бұрын
Ok that actually makes a lot of sense. This leads me to an obvious next question... Why are there 360 degrees in a circle? I know they just about have to be related given we originally based time on the behavior of the sky [earth]... but it is peculiar as it would seem to be based on 36, a clean multiple of 12... but not 24... 360 is divisible by 24, giving a clean 15 degrees but we're out in the weeds here... More "legacy shenanigans"? I'd watch a video on it... 🤣
@allangibson84944 күн бұрын
The Babylonians used six times sixty as the next step up in counting.
@Jonathan-kraai5 күн бұрын
you can count to 1024 with two hands if you use binary btw. (and to 1.048.576 if you also use your feet). what i want to say is: different systems are good for different tasks. 12/24/60 is great for time related things. 360 is great for circles and navigations 10 is great for counting, distances and volumes 2 and 16 are great for computer science just imperial measurements are crap in everything.
@hypercomms20015 күн бұрын
Australia went metric and decimal isefin five years. We didn’t whinge or complain about it, but it was the best thing we ever did.
@leonelpowers59795 күн бұрын
Is it though? I understand the logic of having more options for division, but the true is that in most situations the decimal system would give you a simpler time to work on and a simple numbers, even when working decimals, rather than just having more composite and using having a few more options that would expeceficially be useful in certain situations. That is to say, if you don't have a proper composite to work with with the base 12 or base 60, then you are in more problems than with the base 10. Also, in multiplication and measurement, the the system would work much better: Personally, I like base 10. Then again, who know what I would think if I had grown with a better system, whatever shape that might take.
@ThorRuneHansen5 күн бұрын
Do you multiply more or do you divide more? ;) Base 10 is better at going up
@johnboy221B4 күн бұрын
Why though?
@rwindex4 күн бұрын
@@johnboy221B Because the numerical representation of our number system is base 10. If we used base 12 (e.g. the digits 0, 1, ..., 9, A, B similar to how hex numbers get displayed), 2*12=24 in base 10 would be "20"=2*12^1+0*12^0 in base 12.
@johnboy221B4 күн бұрын
@rwindex I know :D. I guess I should have phrased my question better. I just mean that we use the decimal system simply by convention. A System as you describe above (where 10=a and 11=b) seems equally well suited for multiplication to me. I don't see why the decimal system would be any better for multiplication other than that we are accumstomed to it. For multiplication even base 11 or base 13 seem equally viable. I thought that maybe the author of the original comment had some insight or some interesting reason that I cannot think of.
@23bcx5 күн бұрын
There is alot to be said about the "best base". I have seen decent arguments that 60, 12, 6, 4, 3, 2, -2, and -1-i are all better bases to count in than 10. Paradoxically the large highly composite bases are great at representing fractions and the small low radix bases are better at efficiently representing large numbers. Now we can get away with just writing in bases ten for some systems that actually represent other bases like currency and time, especially when the other base is close to or a multiple of 10, 12 and 60. There are alot of issues with the metric system, that is stemming from the fact that it is created by the same people that brought you the french revolution. It is really just whatever those egotists thought was best and not a system that had evolved over millennium. It isn't even very good for modern science, it isn't as good as the alternative for human usage, the fact that it is still around is a testament to european hardheadedness.
@swrieden5 күн бұрын
The 360 degree circle convention comes from the Babylonian sexagesimal system as well and is highly composite.
@reteipdevries5 күн бұрын
But all you smarty pants learned counting and math in school didn't you? In what base? And for how many hundreds of ages? Instead of using only 1 base you used dozenal decimal 20-nal 60-nal and i don't know what other nals. And now Europe is the culprit.
@cube2fox5 күн бұрын
It's interesting that time is mostly scaled in multiples of a hundred, just like money. 100 milliseconds in a second, 100 microseconds in a millisecond, 100 nanoseconds in a microsecond, etc.
@PTS13375 күн бұрын
That's because "milli", "micro" and "nano" are decimal identifiers, each being 1000 times smaller than the former. It's not specific to time.
@Jan127005 күн бұрын
AI trash translation
@schneemannX5 күн бұрын
Because it's stupid
@legion17916 күн бұрын
Really good video I had always wondered myself without realising!!
@TruthIsHardToTake6 күн бұрын
Volume is way too low.
@thewatcherinthecloud6 күн бұрын
I'd add that time, unlike the other measurements, is based on more celestial and seasonal standards rather than what is conveniently near, like our arms, fingers, or counting stones. A solar day is still better divided into 12 hours, especially based on solar position. By virtue, using a circle for time divides well into degrees (360°) over using radians (2π) or gradians (400), but you still "could" use a different unit of measurement for time. Nowadays, the second is standardized based on the resonance of cesium-133, and since Jan 1, 1970, UNIX has been counting seconds for the use of computers worldwide.
@MadScientist2675 күн бұрын
I want to know where the 360 comes from. I suspect it is related to the 12 hour clock, later the 24 hour version, and the most convenient number for converting time into a decimal compatible format, for dividing the equator up into equal segments that align a clock to the stars... ?
@thewatcherinthecloud4 күн бұрын
@MadScientist267 the greeks first got their sundials (and partly their math) from the Babylonians; the Babylonians used a base-60 number system (see 2:40)
@TimBrown-e9l6 күн бұрын
i love to wear hats, but I don't like to wear them if i am having a good hair day.
@MirzaAhmed896 күн бұрын
Why is the week seven days?
@bbryant4606 күн бұрын
Do you really not know?
@cube2fox5 күн бұрын
No he doesn't know, otherwise he wouldn't have asked. But apparently you do. Enlighten us bbryant460, why are there seven days in a week?
@simplypodly5 күн бұрын
Babylonians thought it was a lucky number.
@Lernos15 күн бұрын
@@simplypodly Not just lucky, a holy number. It's likely because they loved astronomy, and you can see 7 major celestial objects with the naked eye: the Sun (Sunday), the Moon (Monday), Mars (Tuesday; dies Martis in Latin), Mercury (Wednesday/dies Mercurii), Jupiter (Thursday/dies Iovis), Venus (Friday/dies Veneris), and Saturn (Saturday).
@westpearson67596 күн бұрын
Born in 1948, I’ve worn a hat most of my life. Much of that time it was a Stestson style cowboy hat. Living in the Houston area later for about 40 years, I bought my hats for most of that time at Shudde Brothers, a hattery that had been in business over 100 years, making all styles of hats. I moved overseas to work for about 15 years, and the “cowboy” hat was not a good choice, so I wore a fedora. I still wear a cowboy hat, mixed with a baseball cap. I don’t go out without a hat😂
@FrancisThebirdBrito6 күн бұрын
The fedora might be a bad choice today also lmao
@westpearson67596 күн бұрын
@ Where I was, it was actually a common choice😝
@bailliekins6 күн бұрын
I still wear one!
@RetroGameSpacko6 күн бұрын
Base 12 in math would be much better for teaching imho
@cube2fox5 күн бұрын
Base 2 would arguably be even better because it simplifies algorithms for multiplication and division.
@23bcx5 күн бұрын
@@cube2fox Base -2 would be even better. It retains the easier Multiplication and division and makes negative numbers very intuitive. Addition is a little harder to intuit than in base 2 (still easier than base 10 but different enough that looking at it with a base 10 coded mind it seems hard untill you redevelop the intuition) but that is almost always rote memorized before the intuition on how it works develops anyways. and subtraction ends up working exactly the same as addition getting rid of an entire course. A highly composite number is still better for fractions though.
@doyouknoworjustbelieve66944 күн бұрын
No
@pandolphe16694 күн бұрын
That is how I will educate my children
@atavanH6 күн бұрын
Dividing by 3 had always made me uncomfortable for some reason. Now I understand why, and why I found the time division of 3 much easier.
@mRahman927 күн бұрын
Didn't the Soviets try to implement a new "week" for their calendar?
@warmbrucuriosity6 күн бұрын
I believe that is true.
@oliverzwahlen5 күн бұрын
I think that was during the French revolution. A year has 12 months with 30 days and the 5 days that is left by the end of the year would be public holiday. A week would have 10 days, so a month would have 3 weeks. But maybe the sovjets also tried something alike.
@jonsimonson7 күн бұрын
Warmbru, I love you man! Your videos are the best. What’s your back story?
@warmbrucuriosity6 күн бұрын
Thanks a lot! I'm semi-retired and my background is teaching English as a foreign language. I had zero experience of making videos but a lot of curiosity and an interest in history
@Snowsea-gs4wu7 күн бұрын
The French, it's always the French! VLLC (Milei). Thank you for the video!
@warmbrucuriosity6 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@nunyabusiness8637 күн бұрын
Thank you for this. Love this pace and thought. I agree I can't take "historical" films because they are often full of liberties being taken from, not just clothing, but race, gender, dietary habits, even what would be in the mind of certain characters. This is due to the arrogance of filmmakers who must impulsively project themselves into their films.
@robertwootton21617 күн бұрын
Some time guides are metrisised, if that is even a word, where an hour is divided into a hundred. So a time of 1.5 hours would be an hour and a half.
@mafiosomax74234 күн бұрын
1.5 hours would always be an hour and a half regardless of any metrisisation. That's because we are using normal numbers to count the hours.
@Jeppe-Covid19597 күн бұрын
The french made 10 hour watches, but did'nt succeed.
@umemuril7 күн бұрын
comment for support~
@panatypical7 күн бұрын
Yeah you're right
@circulo18067 күн бұрын
❤
@dimbu7 күн бұрын
Interesting video! Lots of points I've never considered before
@yidavv7 күн бұрын
It really isnt that big a deal. BC and AD just arent as understood and BCE and CE. Odd hill to die on. Its easier for people to understand (especially when translated to non english speaking countries) compared to AD which is latin.
@roquet10007 күн бұрын
Perhaphs, because people started bathing and frequently washing their heads, since shampoo invention?