I had a drizabone. It's wonderfull riding kit, or was before A.B. Banjo Patterson's poem came to the big screen. Seeing horsey people in them stomping around 24/7 in a California summer was to much. The Bushcraft people in the UK took an american fad, the poncho or  Basha as you call it as used for shelter and had some made up in Ventile cloth, a remarkable windproof material. They promptly discovered the things are NOT waterproof.
When I was a horsepacker, I wore a hat with a puncher crease, the style worn in my area by the few remaining old timers. This lady commented on our'cowboy hats' and was educated about the difference between a packer and a cowboy.
And that, is sadly the problem with most headwear. I am not a baseball player. Truth be told, I hate baseball. I do not wear baseball caps. Hats declined in popularity, and NOT becaue of JFK. And that's sad. I'd like to own a few beyond a wool balaclava for winter use and my puncher pattern people assume is a 'cowboy hat.'
Flat hats are indeed hats.

Besides a couple of Russian rabbit fur hats and one sheepskin hat I had made to go with a jacket I had made, I have three fedoras/trillbys and a coconut straw hat, none of which I wear. People forget that wearing brimmed hats was a conformist not a non-conformist statement. When you wear a fedora now you are doing the equivalent of going hatless in 1930.

No one is going to bring the hat back. Maybe some ecological or nostalgic event will but otherwise, nah.

The hat has been relaced by the anorak 'hoodie' which looks like the painting THE SCREAM or a band of elves slipping down alleys to avoid a gay pride parade. Hoodies, along with hats are BANNED from a California convenience store chain because they obscure the face from security cameras.
The problem with any revival is the silly approach as seen in TFL and Igentzia. It's just one more ornament on the Christmas tree or cromed swan hood ornament on a east L.A. lowrider until they catch fire due to poor wiring.

Nice Panama with striped ribbon.

Posh v dark blue fedora - Lock

Less posh racing fedora - brown - Bates

Kangaroo bush hat

2 tweed flat caps - both Lock

Climacool running beanie

Wig

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