[BarryRX]

There was a time not so long ago when it was considered bad manners to eat dinner without a jacket and tie. If we can agree that wearing a dirty, sweat stained hat to a restaurant is no different than wearing a dirty, sweat stained shirt to a restaurant (both are very wrong) then we get get to the issue of wearing a clean hat indoors. I was trained by being made to do many push-ups that one takes ones hat off when inside. But if others don't, I don't consider it another sign that the world is ending. I am one of those that think the woman's liberation movement of the 1960's not only freed women, but freed us all! So, outdated social mores that make it ok for a woman to sit at a restaurant with her hat on, but label the guy sitting next to her as uncouth for wearing a hat just don't make sense to me.