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🎩🚩 Historians explain that #17thcentury English society used hat etiquette to maintain social hierarchy and express political defiance.

Refusing to uncover one's head could be interpreted as a revolutionary act, while appearing in public without a #hat was associated with #poverty or #mentalillness.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/hat-off-early-modern-england/

#history #england #sociology #culture #fashion #anthropology #education #learning #society #hats #tradition #uk #tksst #video

Why Taking Off Your Hat Was a Matter of Life and Death in Early Modern England

Going outside without a hat in 1600s England meant you were either completely insane or totally broke.

ZME Science
Apr 15 at 3:30pmWeb
Show threadEric LawtonApr 15

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TBH, I always wear a hat outdoors.

I'm as bald as my dad was by age 50 and he had skin cancer removed from his head, several times.

Example in avatar.

But now I know how to signal a revolutionary situation. 😀

@AnnaAnthro

Show threadKrukuApr 15
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I like hats
Show threadklu9Apr 15

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And in a delightful instance of nominative determinism:

"...the simple act of wearing a hat was a complex, high-stakes game of social and political signaling. Bernard Capp, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick..."

#NominativeDeterminism