Didn’t your mother teach you anything?
Published on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 by John PierreRead More The Constant Curmudgeon
Baseball caps!
The bane of our rapidly deteriorating society.
The day that the wearing of baseball caps by others than those playing "America's game" was a sad day for some of us.
The history of the baseball cap goes way back to 1860 when the Brooklyn Excelsiors wore something that evolved, in the 1940s, to the modern headwear.
The one-size-fits-all version appeared in 1980. Originally the brim was designed to protect ball player’s eyes from the sun (or rain) but has become something other than that.
Other than the fact that modern baseball caps, with a few exceptions, have become walking billboards for the wearer's slogans, beliefs or favorite sports teams, it is notable that, with the advent of the headgear, otherwise mannerly people clamp them onto their heads as a permanent fixture not to be removed under any circumstances.
Their caps are not removed when entering a restaurant or other buildings where one normally expects a male human being to be bare headed.
Any Navy man will tell you that to wear your hat in a building is considered a disgusting display of bad manners and cause for a superior officer to land all over you like ugly on King Kong.
While these cranial adornments have become somewhat of a fashion statement to some, they also, sometimes, denote gang affiliations for young people who are wannabe hoodlums.
Some schools have actually banned such caps for that very reason.
Wearing of these caps backward, sideways or kitty wampus, much the same as wearing jeans at half-mast exposing multi-colored skivvies or disgusting posterial cleavage, may identify the wearer to other would-be gang bangers as a member of a hoodlum sect but to others is simply disgusting.
I notice too that many young people adjust the caps larger than their 6-1/2" head so that the tops of their ears fit underneath.
It's almost understandable with youth, who haven't been taught manners, but it is truly distressing when 60 and 70-year-olds, who were raised with manners and should know better, have succumbed to the permanently-affixed cap syndrome.
Hats and caps once were used by men as outside wear against inclement weather or bright sun. No longer is that the case. Baseball caps are frequently being worn 24 hours a day by many mannerless varmints.
Anybody'd think these folks imagine themselves Texas cowboys (whose hat is the first thing on in the morning and the last thing off at night) who, not being able to afford a 10 gallon hat, settle for a “quart-'n'-half cap.”
The bane of our rapidly deteriorating society.
The day that the wearing of baseball caps by others than those playing "America's game" was a sad day for some of us.
The history of the baseball cap goes way back to 1860 when the Brooklyn Excelsiors wore something that evolved, in the 1940s, to the modern headwear.
The one-size-fits-all version appeared in 1980. Originally the brim was designed to protect ball player’s eyes from the sun (or rain) but has become something other than that.
Other than the fact that modern baseball caps, with a few exceptions, have become walking billboards for the wearer's slogans, beliefs or favorite sports teams, it is notable that, with the advent of the headgear, otherwise mannerly people clamp them onto their heads as a permanent fixture not to be removed under any circumstances.
Their caps are not removed when entering a restaurant or other buildings where one normally expects a male human being to be bare headed.
Any Navy man will tell you that to wear your hat in a building is considered a disgusting display of bad manners and cause for a superior officer to land all over you like ugly on King Kong.
While these cranial adornments have become somewhat of a fashion statement to some, they also, sometimes, denote gang affiliations for young people who are wannabe hoodlums.
Some schools have actually banned such caps for that very reason.
Wearing of these caps backward, sideways or kitty wampus, much the same as wearing jeans at half-mast exposing multi-colored skivvies or disgusting posterial cleavage, may identify the wearer to other would-be gang bangers as a member of a hoodlum sect but to others is simply disgusting.
I notice too that many young people adjust the caps larger than their 6-1/2" head so that the tops of their ears fit underneath.
It's almost understandable with youth, who haven't been taught manners, but it is truly distressing when 60 and 70-year-olds, who were raised with manners and should know better, have succumbed to the permanently-affixed cap syndrome.
Hats and caps once were used by men as outside wear against inclement weather or bright sun. No longer is that the case. Baseball caps are frequently being worn 24 hours a day by many mannerless varmints.
Anybody'd think these folks imagine themselves Texas cowboys (whose hat is the first thing on in the morning and the last thing off at night) who, not being able to afford a 10 gallon hat, settle for a “quart-'n'-half cap.”