The reason why men remove their hats in church and indoors harks back to the days when warriors wore helmets. If a man removed a helmet he was signalling that he came in peace eg to someone‘a house or to a house of God. Doffing a hat to a lady also signals that he has no violent intent.
Well that’s the way I’ve always understood it.
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