These Hats Are Made for Working
It all started when the The Santa Fe New Mexican published a glowing page 1 story about Mayor Alan Webber’s very expensive collection of custom hats.
One of his hats alone cost our mayor $1800. He told the New Mexican it was custom fit to his bald head with a special machine and that his quote “classic style” is inspired by a few of his heroes: Indiana Jones and US presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson.
Just as an aside, I would like to point out that Indiana Jones, while a very good-looking man with the perfect amount of chest hair and a great hat, was also a white guy, paid by other white guys, to raid native peoples’ sacred temples.
Anyway, this puff piece on A1 got me thinking — what do regular people wear on their heads? Why do they wear hats? How much do they cost? If they had $1800 just lying around, what would they spend it on? I figured probably not a custom hat.
So I decided to go and find out.