I have been following along here with some interest. I have worn a head covering of some sort or another pretty much all the time since I was about seven; got into Cub Scouts and baseball about then, and almost all of my vocations and avocations have called for some sort of head wear. I have always been a maverick as regards fashion and being in the "in" crowd, so in jr. high and high school, I wore a couple of fedora style hats, both were of the common style that older men wore at the time, pinched front crown and a three inch brim; one was a nice grey wool or fur, and the other was a bright red corduroy. I have always had one of that style in my collection, today's version is a "Crusher" with a mesh side crown - actually, two of them; they ride around in the tool box of my truck. My common daily is a ball cap, though. It helped to keep my hair under control - when I still had hair to keep; and it doesn't have a brim to get in the way when I am driving; I was always knocking my hats cockeyed in the truck or car from bumping into the window when I turned my head, or in later years, the head rests caused me to have to lean forward more than I like. My CAS haberdashery consists of a Stetson in "silverbay" with a seven or eight inch open crown and a four inch brim, a planter style panama straw with a six inch brim, and a black felt with a four inch brim and a crown that mostly resembles a pinch because it has been knocked out and re-formed so many times. The other "hat" in my life, and the one I probably put in more hours wearing was a white "plastic" hard hat or cap; still have one out in the garage.