Hat Cocked

Bell · #1 (**permalink**) July 4th, 2008, 11:57 PM

I was looking through the old photos of my grandfather, again

, and saw that he wore his hat cocked to the side as did the man that was in the photo beside him. I see many photos like this of family members (I had other great-uncles in the war too) and wondered why they did this. I don't see many doing it now, unless I'm just not seeing it. Why did they do this?

Slipdigit · #2 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2008, 01:43 PM

I suspect that it was a myriad of reasons for this, "style" of the era, a form of disobedience, because everyone else was doing it or that they were told to do it.

fsbof · #3 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2008, 02:06 PM

On shore leave, a lot of American sailors would wear their "dixie cup" hat perched on the back of their head, to show off their hair in front for the ladies.

Bell · #4 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2008, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fsbof

On shore leave, a lot of American sailors would wear their "dixie cup" hat perched on the back of their head, to show off their hair in front for the ladies.

I'm not sure if this was intended for me or just a general comment, but I will take it as directed to me

.

I didn't know about tilting their hat on the back of their head. That's neat. I was speaking of it tilted to the right. I would have thought it depended on the branch they served, but not all my relatives served in the same branch yet they all did the same. Not in every picture, but in some.

macrusk · #5 (**permalink**) July 7th, 2008, 05:27 AM

Here is a photo of my Dad, Canadian Army with his hat tilted to the right and of him post World War II in the RCAF - in both the hat is tilted to the right. It does rather seem to be a consistent pattern of wearing soft caps.

Bell · #6 (**permalink**) July 10th, 2008, 02:08 AM

Those are some great pictures. I love looking at old photos! These are some photos of my grandfather I was talking about:

macrusk · #7 (**permalink**) July 10th, 2008, 04:08 AM

Thanks, Bell, for the photos of your Grandfather. I thought my Dad looked young, but your Grandfather looks so very young. There really is an attitude that comes across with the way they wear their hats!