If you ’ve ever been a 15 - year - old boy railing against the utter unfairness of the world , you believably include in your speech the absurdity that is the no - hat rule . Having never once been a 15 - year - old male child myself , I can only recall the outbursts anecdotally but they involve a lot of passionate arguments about how arbitrary it was to : A ) make someone take off a utterly inoffensive hat in school , B ) take off a absolutely inoffensive lid at dinner party and C ) take off a perfectly inoffensive hat period , full stop . The crux of the logical argument , as you could see , is that a lid is perfectly unoffending . There is nothing actually obscene about hats . Unless you ’re put on an obscene lid , in which event you should take off your lid . maturate up , man .
Bad news for the boys , however . Long ago and far out , there was a really enough reason that men were asked to doff their caps . knight , you see , would be considered uncongenial or fast-growing if they did n’t show their smile face to the world . for give everyone a unspoilt look at their toothy , torpedo grins they ’d have to lift up their vizor [ source : Emily Post ] . And while this is a quite reasonable reason for the origin of the hat - doff , any 15 - year - old son could tell this is an utter trumpery excuse for asking him to take off his hat today .
So that survive a little way towards suffice why chapeau are so inherently rude . And unfortunately for high schoolhouse boys everywhere , we ’re not here today to decide if the principle should be abolished . Because the Sojourner Truth is , the rules are pretty open : Gentlemen are not to wear hats indoors . fairly much … ever . The exception might be something like the elevator or the lobby of a construction [ reference : Miss Manners ] . I ’m just going to go onwards and boldly append my own freedom , which are indoor sporting arena because it just does n’t seem right to have to take off your lid at the freak truck rallying .
Now here ’s the thing . We ’ve talked glibly about hats like they ’re just in the virile domain . But ma’am wear hat too , and they are give madly indulgent rules compared to gentleman . fundamentally , char are set aside to wear hat indoors , outdoors – wherever you please , unless it ’s rudely blocking the survey of someone else [ source : Emily Post ] .
But here ’s the catch . That in no way means that peeress get to wear their Red Sox caps to church . Because this dominion only applies to " style lid " and not hats that could be regard unisex or too casual .
