Hats and baldness

[Brian Niebuhr]

Ha! I tell people who ask me why I always wear my hat, "I wear my hat just in case it makes me go bald." Or, "I wear a hat because I have hat hair!" Always get a laugh.

 

[suitedcboy]

I'm not about to quit wearing on the remote chance it MIGHT promote thick hair growth on my scalp. I'd miss all those hat days and maybe not get the hair back either. If I grow the hair back who cares? I'm never giving up the hats.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

My parents told me this when I was young. I figured out myself it couldn't be true. My Great-Grandpa wore a hat every day and had a thick head of hair when he passed at 94. My Grandpa still wears one every day and he's 82, with a thick head of hair.

 

[Woodfluter]

I've heard some contend that it's the other way around...that hair loss causes hats.
But no, of course not. Genetics as others said.

The earliest that I recall hearing this rumor was actually reading it in Herman Melville's "White-Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War" (1850). Melville thought the treated hats the sailors wore (wax? tar? can't recall) caused them to lose hair via overheating or lack of air to the scalp.

 

[davidraphael]

I'm already completely bald, so I'm worried that I may eventually suffer from head loss.

 

[splintercellsz]

The balding gene is very prominent in my family. Both sides. I am not to worried about it.

 

[H Weinstein]

My motto has become: "The less hair, the more hats!"

 

[Dan Allen]

Many years ago I attended a funeral for an uncle and sat in the back. During the service I began to look at all the bald headed cousins and uncles---well over fifty, and realized that I was doomed. Sure enough the top is now nicely deforested . I now have the Friar Tuck look like most of my male kin on my mothers side. It's heredity for sure. As for hats --Hay! with nothing to shade the cranium it gets cold and hot up there -hats come as practical as well as a fashionable answer. Maybe some do loose hair by wearing hats but I think that for most, Hats are the solution, not the problem.

 

[Mystic]

The balding gene is very prominent in my family. Both sides. I am not to worried about it.

Hey, good thing you got the balding gene on both sides....

going bald on just one side of the head would make your hat fit funny... lol

When my hair began thinning (male patterned baldness) I just started buzzing it myself. After a weekly buzzing....I'm down to my true hat size.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

I think it is more the less hair the more you get into hat's. Wearing hats does not cause baldness that comes with age in many men. Its in the gene's

 

[hatophile]

Baldness gives me a good excuse to wear hats, that's all I know!

 

[Dan Allen]

I don't think hats are the main excuse for most men to be wearing hats . Unlike days past when they were part of the "uniform" of manhood today's wearer just like hats or wants to project a certain persona. It's just darn convenient that it is an option for us hair challenged.

 

[gtdean48]

My mother's father was bald in photos of him in his 20s. He had fine, red hair when he did have hair.
He never went outside without a hat on, never a cap.
My brother & I have not inherited that from her. We have hair like our father who died at 52 of a heart attack.
We'll have to see what happens since my brother is 54 & I am 52.
We've both been wearing hats for many years.