Do tight hats cause baldness?
No. If you wore a tourniquet twisted tightly round your head for hours on end, you would collapse before your hair fell out! This theory started because many men returning from wars had experienced some baldness and proceeded to blame it on the compulsory wearing of hats. Men go to war at an age where they are more prone to hair loss; it’s just a coincidence that they wear hats. It is also possible that the stress of war can accelerate any tendency towards hair loss, the same happen to Pilots, Engineers and people who use safety hats.
