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If you look anything like the fellow in the picture, you can stop reading now. Wearing a hat won’t do a thing for you. … You look more of a man with a hat on, and the men who run things have a deeply ingrained executive habit of reserving responsible jobs for those young men who look mature enough to handle them.
from a 1961 ad in Life for the Hat Corporation of America, 530 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY