Thirty years ago a friend gave me a Stetson fedora he’d bought for a buck at a thrift store on Aurora. It looked like the Indiana Jones hat. I’d never worn a hat before in my life and had always been told that wearing hats makes men go bald. So I thought, why not? Let’s test that theory.
So for years, I wore that hat almost all day every day, looking for signs of male pattern baldness every evening. All I got was a slowly receding hairline. Nothing dramatic I could point to and say, ...