Why do upper class people on European and American TV like to wear hats?

Hats are essential everyday attire in Western fashion culture, and from the 1960s onwards, wearing a hat became one of the publicly recognized dress codes. Although the development of hairstyles and the increasing frequency of hair washing threatened the existence of hats, many traditionalists still insisted on wearing hats on a daily basis, a phenomenon that was most prominent in the UK in particular. To this day, wearing a hat remains such an important part of social etiquette for traditional Britons that many dignitaries have come under fire for not wearing one.

Not only that, the hat even influence the social reform of some countries. For example, the history of the famous Kemal "hat" revolution, at that time also promulgated a special "hat law", the explicit abolition of the Fez cap (with religious significance), and requires all civil servants must wear bowler hats. The symbolism of the hat originated in the Ottoman tradition of identifying a person by the hat he wore: religious beliefs, profession and social status.

This shows that the hat carries much more meaning than itself. Nowadays, the traditional hat behavior is less and less, for the people of China, it seems to have not thoroughly feel the traditional very ceremonial Western-style hat culture, has quickly transitioned to the modern fast-consuming culture, it must be admitted that when we see a person pay special attention to the hat etiquette or hat with the words, which undoubtedly represents that he has a high-level aesthetic tendencies and distinctive personality expression.

Peter Mayer once reflected in "about taste": "hat is both fashionable, and elegant, but also can clearly reveal the character of the people. Whether you think of yourself as a budding financial advisor, or a spendthrift, or a gangster who talks the talk, or a cowboy with a western nature lurking underneath the exterior of your line of work - whether this or not, it can all be revealed by what you wear on your head. Indeed, hats are often as much a registered trademark of a person as a nose is of a person's face. Just think of the famous British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the American movie star Humphrey Bogart, Mr. Marlboro in the cigarette advertising films, Frank Sinatra in the early days, or Mr. Crocodile, and nine times out of ten, the way they appear in your mind's eye, they'll be wearing a hat."