Men's hats making a come-back

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Back in the day -- "the day" being decades ago -- hats were a given of any man's wardrobe, an apparel item that combined form and function at an affordable price. It's a fact reflected in photographs of breadlines during the Great Depression: One thing that millions of unemployed American men had in common -- besides being jobless -- were the hats on their heads.

Headwear began to fall from favor with men in the early '60s, as longer hair styles and more casual fashions came to the fore.

Recently, though, hats have made an impressive comeback, becoming for many an indispensable adjunct to the everyday wardrobe, while easily adding a dash of dignity and polish. For hat devotees, the aggressively casual baseball cap just won't do any more.
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Stetsons, Borsalinos and Kangols are among practically any hat you might fancy in a range of styles and colors, from Irish newsboy caps to bowlers, from top hats (a fixture of steampunk subculture) to porkpies, to the fedoras still favored by the store's older clientele. "The biggest client for sales right now is the 20-to-30-somethings."
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Irish wool caps at prices between $65 and $75; sturdier Irish newsboys go for $100. Rakish Borsalinos cost between $150 and $450, while classic summer-weight flat Kangol caps are priced from about $30. And if you're in a mood to indulge your inner Sam Spade, the legendary fedoras sell for about $50 (wool felt), up to $150 (fur-felt), to just over $500 for supple beaver.

Well, for some of us balding old farts, hats never went out of fashion.