Use A Hat To Protect Your Health

Keep the sun off your skin with a hat

by Lee MacRae

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Through the 1920s and 30s to the 40s and 50s, men's hats were stylish and in style. In the 1920s men's felt classics called the "Fedora" also became known as the gangster hat when infamous gangsters like Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone Worth them. But the Fedora also became part and parcel of the glamorous lifestyle of the movie stars. Movie stars like Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart wore them in movies and in everyday life. It became a part of every man's stylish wardrobe to have a snappy hat.

The hat as part of the man's wardrobe began to disappear in the 1960s since no one wanted to cover up their hair! The hat was also the symbol of a past generation. Only the baseball cap was in any great favor from the 1980s and onward. Film directors such as Steven Spielberg, Michael Moore and Spike Lee became famous for wearing them. Farmers and agricultural workers began to have their own "baseball caps" often emblazoned with agricultural company logos. Trucking companies and businesses of all kinds began to use this style of caps for giveaways as advertisement with their logo on them. Collectors have filled recreation rooms with collections of every type of logo on a ball cap you could imagine. And, of course, we have the tradition today of wearing the ball cap backwards to denote "coolness".

These days companies have started once again to carry a large selection of caps and hats of all kinds. But there is a different reason for this today. Style is one thing, health is another. The form of cancer known as melanoma was rare before the 1950s. But as the years passed, and especially in the last 20 years, melanoma has become a cancer more frequently seen due to over exposure to the sun. And those that don't end up with skin cancer suffer from leathery skin and premature aging. Staying out of the sun, sun block and covering more of your skin with clothing is become very common. And so has wearing a hat for sun protection become a mainstay of our healthy lifestyle today. Anything that can shade your head, and especially your face can prevent skin problems and premature aging.

In this day and age when people want to look younger it doesn't do much good to end up with leathery skin that makes you look older! Wearing a hat if the smart, simple thing to do to help yourself out. It all adds up to a longer, healthier life for the hat wearer. And there are so many styles of hats from the traditional Fedora to the ball cap, the cowboy hat, the safari hat, the Aussie Outback hat and the trendy poor boys cap, that there is something for everyone.

Pick up a hat and do your health a favor.

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