<p>Here’s one akin to the flip-flop thread: Do any of you object to hats on inside the house/restaurant by boys and grown men? I have a thing about it. I thought gentlemen removed their hats indoors. We were at a really nice french restaurant awhile back for lunch, and these two men with their wives were chowing down with their hats on. Am I the only one who thinks that’s the pits? I’m constantly reminding my son to remove his hat indoors…</p>
<p>I’m bothered by it as well. Fortunately, my son doesn’t like hats.</p>
<p>Gentlemen also took off their hats to greet ladies, but when’s the last time you saw that happen? It’s a custom that does not matter anymore. Anyway ladies wear the most elaborate confections indoors, so why not equal rights.</p>
<p>It does not bother me if a guy has a hat on indoors, unless he is in the row ahead of me at a Broadway show. In which case I will take it off for him.</p>
<p>it bug me also … and the worst case in my opinion, take the d**m hat off while the national anthem is being played!</p>
<p>I think there’s two issues here. First, if you’re bothered if your son/husband/etc. is wearing a hat/cap indoors, ask them to take it off. Second, if someone out of your control is wearing a hat/cap indoors, who cares? They’re not your responsibility. Life is too short to worry about what other people are doing. I barely have enough time to worry about my own family.</p>
<p>I would punch someone in the face in they didn’t take their hat off during the national anthem, but that’s just me. As for not wearing ballcaps indoors, this originally was done so the king would be the only one in the room with a hat on, so noone else could do it. If I am in a formal setting such as eating at a nice restuarant or something I will remove my ballcap, but if its just a bar or someone’s house, I generally leave it on.</p>
<p>Oooops! I’m always walking around inside our club with my cap on. I’m a girl so is that a good excuse for not knowing this rule? Anyway, no one has ever said anything to me as it’s right after I have been playing on the courts, but I’ll take it off in the future. Something every guy knows but us ladies may not be familiar with it. Faux pas.
Bad manners in restaurants like loud, noisy people or out of control children, is just the reason we joined our club, too. We have a room where on can enjoy dinner and a coat and tie is required.Of course, I never wore my hat in there!</p>
<p>dmd; you’re funny!</p>
<p>I’m just wondering, if you are at an outdoor restaurant like a cafe or a porch, would it be proper to remove one’s cap there? And how about a picnic?</p>
<p>I think it is an indication of manners and respect for a male to remove ones hat indoors. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, we live in casual times and these types of traditions tend to go by the wayside.</p>
<p>This is a pet peeve of mine. From emilypost.com (who knew?)–</p>
<p>"Basically, hats are removed when going indoors as a measure of respect. Therefore, caps and hats should be removed when entering a home (which includes while eating at the table), when entering a place of religion, or when going to a restaurant. When entering a store or other “public area” like a train station, the hat or cap may remain on. This applies to baseball caps worn by men or women. Hats and caps are always removed for the Pledge of Allegiance or the National Anthem.</p>
<p>Women’s hats that are part of their ensembles and therefore fashion accessories may be worn indoors, including at a restaurant table, etc. If they are large-brimmed, they should be removed in a theater or other place where they block the vision of the person behind. Aside from garden parties and formal teas where hats are often left on, women generally remove their hats when dining in someone’s home."</p>
<p>Women can wear hats because they are accessoriizing but men can’t because the can’t spell accessorizing??? No that can’t be right…what was the reason again.</p>
<p>I take my hat off, but only to show I still have hair.</p>
<p>Women’s hats that are part of their ensembles and therefore fashion accessories may be worn indoors, including at a restaurant table, etc. If they are large-brimmed, they should be removed in a theater or other place where they block the vision of the person behind. Aside from garden parties and formal teas where hats are often left on, women generally remove their hats when dining in someone’s home."</p>
<p>but a follow up to this is…if a woman is wearing a “baseball style” hat, she is also expected to remove it indoors.
I have to locate where I read that…</p>
<p>How about if the baseball cap matches tennis skit and top?</p>
<p>LOL my pup doesn’t like baseball caps at all - she barks and gets somewhat aggressive (we think she was abused by a guy in a baseball cap before we got her :() - so one best remove the cap when you come to my house LOL</p>
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choc~</p>
<p>I’m with YOU girl…ha ha</p>
<p>Doesn’t bother me in the least unless it obstructs my view of something important!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>I used to be bothered by this and taught my S to take his baseball cap off indoors. But it is now part of his “ensemble” (logo is usually that of his favorite band) and I have resigned myself (happily) to requiring him to take it off only in “nice” restaurants, for national anthem, etc. If we are eating out at a place where bluejeans, halter tops etc. are de rigeur, I don’t see why the cap has to come off.</p>
<p>I’m only glad he still wears it with the cap’s bill in the front. :)</p>
<p>I wear a ball cap around the house all the time. And at dinner in casual restaurants. I do remove it for the national anthem.</p>
<p>I have a bigger problem with the baggy, oversized clothing and untied hightop trend. Saw a guy lose his pants crossing the street the other day…</p>
<p>One thing I am really glad about is that my S’s high school baseball coach required all the boys to remove their hats when going to a restaurant; even if it was a fast-food dive or pizza place. He also wouldn’t let them wear their hats tilted or backwards or whatever when in uniform (they also had to have short hair…can you tell this guy worshipped the Yankees 
).
When they went on their yearly trips all the boys had to bring a nice set of clothes (pants, shirt, tie) and the whole team would go out for a nice dinner. This coach really believed in teaching behavior and etiquette both on and off the field!</p>
<p>ps: I wasn’t on the team, obviously, and I wear baseball hats or a visor all the time because I’m to lazy to fix my hair :o</p>
<p>The op has struck a chord.</p>
<p>I see the wearing of your hat indoors to be a sign of a lack of instruction in manners. (A fading one, since there is so much of it, and not restricted to teenagers, but including men well into their 30s.)</p>
<p>Of course, its nothing substantive, and today gets dismissed. I suppose it falls into the same category as waiting for females to enter a door first, or not eating until other diners are served. A lot of those don’t really matter. </p>
<p>The hat thing has become so prevalent that it is not uncommon for the hatless people to be in the minority…in fact, one can feel a bit out of place. I propose, as a solution to this, that restaurants and other establishments which find their hatless friends in the minority should do what many exclusive, coat and tie only restaurants used to do. They should provide a selection of hats for those of us who don’t own one or might have forgotten ours. </p>
<p>“Excuse me,sir. Would you mind wearing one of our caps while you dine?” </p>
<p>“Why, thank you so much. I’m afraid I must have left mine in the aston-martin. Do you happen to have one with a tobacco, alcohol, or heavy equipment theme?”</p>