Until the middle of the last century, a headdress was a mandatory part of a man's wardrobe. Women stopped wearing dainty hats in the 1950s and 1960s as elaborate hairstyles became fashionable. It is too early to write off a headdress, which people could not live without 100 years ago. Members of the Hat Lovers' Association, formed in Great Britain in 1908, are sure of this.