Roger Moore killed hat fashion

I miss hats.

I've been a milliphile all my life. While I wasn't so desperate that I wore a fedora to school like a friend of mine (to constant ridicule), but I've always missed that mode of personal expression. One of the best things about being in the military was having a hat all the time.

Now, I had always blamed the fading of hat fashion on the free and easy 70's - those folks didn't wear clothes, for the most part, and figure hats were the first to go.

However, I've been watching the 007 marathon they had on Starz ("007 in '07"), and the thing that strikes me most from the earlier episodes (most notably the opening gunshot scene), and I realized that the hat in the opening gunshot barrel vanished when Roger Moore took over as Bond.

So I'm blaming Roger Moore's term as James Bond, and his dislike for hats (he never wore a hat as The Saint, either) for killing the entire hat industry.