The History of Hats

Throughout the ages hats have been worn for two reasons: fashion and functional reasons. Some of these reasons are safety from the sun, warmth, and religious requirements. They have represented different cultures and rankings dating back from the first millennium A.D. We have found hats very interesting, unique, and fashionable throughout our whole lives. We learn where people stand in life by the design of hat they are wearing, what jobs people have, and as obvious as it is, what people think is fashionable. Every century has had a different style of hat or even made changes of hats from before their time, showing how we want to be in fashion. Changing designs of hats shows how we as humans change over time. Our sense of style is different and we can see that by looking back on how hats looked before ours. Safety has changed over time by the strength and material hats are made out of, we see workmen wearing hard hats for protection when building, but back in time workmen didn't wear hats to protect their heads. We wear snow caps to keep our head's warm during the winter, as well did people back in history, but our material has changed and improved to help stay even warmer. With all these examples we can see and learn that hats are truly apart of our daily live's and have changed to help suit our needs from the examples in the past.