No one buys a hat without looking at themselves in a mirror first.
Ever.
There were hats before there were mirrors, so I’m not sure how it used to be, but that’s how it is now. Even though we may imagine we’re wearing a hat to protect ourselves from the sun, the mirror reminds us that it’s really about something more than that.
A surprisingly large number of choices we make involve actual and metaphorical mirrors.
“What will I tell my friends?”
“How does this make me look?”
Don’t open a hat store unless you install a mirror first.