9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for June 17, 2004

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"Nice hat dear." "Thank you." "I don't know whatever became of hats. It used to be the man at the gas pump wore a hat, bus drivers and telegram boys wore hats... Soda jerks had Peter Garrison caps. Nurses wore starched caps..." "...You could tell what people were, their sense of style, their social milieu... Hats were part of society. ...Then all of a sudden, people got lazy and didn't want to be bothered with the sartorial niceties, and the first thing to go was the..."