As hard as that may be to swallow, from about 1976 to the early 1980s, St. However, for one, brief, shining moment, umbrella hats were actually en vogue.
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My conclusion is that that guy was full of shit, and that umbrella hats were as lame in the 1950s as they’d been in the seven decades preceding it. In fact, less than a year after that claim, I found pictures of comedian Red Skelton in an umbrella hat, clearly done for comedic effect. On one hand, that article with the chauvinist umbrella salesman claimed that umbrella hats were catching on nationwide, but I found nothing else to verify this. In looking into this subject, I did get some mixed messages from the 1950s that are worth mentioning. Campbell from 1855, though it’s certainly possible that Patten had the same idea on his own. Undermining his claim is a patent for an umbrella hat by S.N.
As for the umbrella hat, he claimed that he invented it while prospecting in Mexico, but whether that’s true is impossible to say.
Patten was somewhat of a local celebrity, and was known to regale Seattleites with largely apocryphal tales of his life - like how he’d been a Civil War hero put on special assignment by Abe Lincoln and Ulysses S. Patten, who lived in Seattle from 1890 to 1910. The invention of the umbrella hat is generally attributed to an eccentric named Robert W. Nonetheless, the umbrella hat has mostly been considered a ridiculous item, and that started as soon as it was introduced.
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The umbrella hat has a rather obvious practical function as well, as it keeps your hand free instead of holding an umbrella. They also can be useful for the disabled, and they’ve actually made some strides with acceptance overseas. For the rest of their entire history, umbrella hats have been a tell-tale sign that someone is a giant dork.īefore going further, I should probably acknowledge that umbrella hats can serve a useful function for archeologists, farmers and others who need to use their hands in the hot sun. It’s probably for the best anyway - even though umbrella hats have been around since 1880, they’ve never been cool, except for a brief period in the late 1970s. They’re probably not that hard to get, yet I’ve literally never thought of one while umbrella shopping (which I generally only do in a panic when it’s already raining). I don’t know if I wanted one ironically or if I actually thought they were cool, but I never did manage to snag one.
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