# Hat/cap wearers: What do you sport?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 8, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247 "2019-04-08T23:43:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/1 "2019-04-08T23:43:32Z")
Weird topics pop into my head sometimes. Today it was head coverings. Since I shave mine, I always sport a hat/cap when the sun is out. My “working in the yard” hat is a [Tilley](https://www.amazon.com/Tilley-Endurables-LTM8-Nylamtium-Khaki/dp/B0016ZN3DE/ref=asc_df_B0016ZN3DE/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312672883140&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9304668533206121754&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031472&hvtargid=pla-571752154953&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=64795931880&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312672883140&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9304668533206121754&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031472&hvtargid=pla-571752154953). My walking to the mailbox cap is from [San Diego State](https://www.shopaztecs.com/p-11790-san-diego-state-university-cap.aspx). The one that lives in the car celebrates a [rare Stanford moment](http://shop.gostanford.com/COLLEGE_Stanford_Cardinal_Mens_Hats_Adjustable/Nike_Stanford_Cardinal_2013_Rose_Bowl_Champions_Locker_Room_Coaches_Adjustable_Hat_-_Gray_Black/partnerid/14374).
Do you wear anything distinctive on your head?
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/2 "2019-04-08T23:54:26Z")
An Irish tweed flat cap and an Indiana Jones fedora.
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/3 "2019-04-09T00:05:08Z")
I wear [this](https://www.freepeople.com/shop/sloan-wide-brim-felt-hat/?adpos=1o12&color=001&countryCode=US&creative=272539405896&device=c&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4qvlBRDiARIsAHme6otzoBB6FUijWjcUD_hd4b4FwR3c3n0vhse1agZOjcpJBJEIzmZfHSkaAjMEEALw_wcB&inventoryCountry=US&matchtype=&mrkgadid=3207383215&mrkgcl=720&network=s&product_id=50738731&size=One%20Size&utm_content=NB%20Accessories&utm_term=50738731) kind of hat.
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### Author:  [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/4 "2019-04-09T00:40:00Z")
Tin Foil works for me…
Nah wear a Richmond AFL cap for casual and when getting a bit dressed up I have a woven fedora from Ecuador…
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### Author:  [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/5 "2019-04-09T00:47:14Z")
After multiple year, full skull torchings, I shopped around for a while and settled on seasonal fedoras for going to work. I was buying genuine Ecuadoran panama hats for a while. They were nice. Now it’s baseball caps, not hats. I buy one everyplace I sail to on my BIL’s boat in the Chesapeake.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/6 "2019-04-09T00:47:57Z")
Bicycle helmet obviously. Plain black baseball cap at the coaching job.
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/7 "2019-04-09T00:50:27Z")
I always wear hats outside.
In the winter, it’s a tuque (a winter cap or whatever you call it where you live.) My two current favourite tuques have names of some of my favourite bands on them.
When it’s warm out, I wear visors. I like that I can put them as far down on my head as I want, to block out the sun or so they stay on if it’s windy. I have a bit of a visor collection.
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### Author:  [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/8 "2019-04-09T00:54:34Z")
I have a lot of hats.
In the winter I am mostly wearing a navy surplus wool watch cap with a Back On Track thin beanie under it for extra warmth. With a parka hood over that.
In the shoulder seasons I’ll trot out more stylish wool slouchy knit berets that aren’t as warm.
When it’s sunny I often am wearing an Aussie style cowboy felt to do my livestock chores.
Too hot for that I have an REI cotton/poly hiking hat with a big brim.
Of course when I’m riding my horse I wear a helmet.
I also have a variety of fancier hats including a 1920’s style red felt cloche with a felt rose that I bought at a hat store in Vienna. I like hats, but my life now is mostly outdoors in the country so my more lovely hats are sitting idle.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/9 "2019-04-09T01:04:34Z")
Nothing fancy. I’ve developed a habit of buying baseball caps when on vacation; it’s my go-to souvenir. Funny thing is I don’t really even wear them that much anymore, but I still collect them.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/10 "2019-04-09T01:21:11Z")
I wear a Washington Nationals cap mostly, and when I’m fly fishing I wear one of a few different ball caps with the logos of various fly shops.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/11 "2019-04-09T01:27:38Z")
I rarely go out without a cap. The usual one is a navy blue knit cap that I always called a toboggan until I saw other names for it/them. Mine is without the ball on the top and has no bill. Kinda like the OJ cap! Watch cap is another name for it, I believe.
If I need a dressier cap I use a snap brim and I’ve seen those referred to by many names. The commonest would be newsboy or golf cap.
In my golfing days I had a Stetson styled wide brim straw hat. To beat the wind I would tie a bandanna around it and have it under my chin.
I prefer caps/hats to combing my hair! I always liked cowboy hats, too.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/12 "2019-04-09T01:30:22Z")
I wear a variety of hats. I have a couple of Borsalinos, a couple of broad-brimmed Stetsons, a couple of fedoras, a Panama hat. I have a flat cap or two. I often wear one of a couple of French berets.
I even have a Hamburg that I never wear because it’s too small for my head.
I have dozens of baseball caps, but I don’t wear them because I don’t like how I look in them. And really I don’t like how they look on anyone else who happens to not be playing baseball while wearing them. The baseball cap is the curse of modern men’s style.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/13 "2019-04-09T01:54:09Z")
I wear an official, NFL-licensed St. Louis Rams cap.
I should have burned the cap when when that [redacted] Kroenke moved the team to LA, but this is a _great_ cap. It’s 100% wool and true-fitted, not one of those cheap polyester things with an adjustable strap. I can run it through the washer, leave it out to dry, and it keeps its shape and the color doesn’t fade.
Except for the (embroidered, not screened) logo, it is by every criterion, the perfect cap.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/14 "2019-04-09T02:06:01Z")
Baseball caps are my go-to souvenir as well. I own dozens, since I always buy one from every college my debate team competes at, but keep wearing the same two. Except at school, where my evac hat is a custom job from the guy who bought the old homestead back in Kansas and raised cattle. _McKenna Limousin_ on a maroon cap puzzles everybody.
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/15 "2019-04-09T04:02:23Z")
A sort-of Australian ranchers style felt in winter; a real Panama (recently purchased in Quito) in summer.
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### Author:  [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/16 "2019-04-09T10:13:02Z")
I have the unusual advantage of being in my 60s with a thick, full head of hair. Since I look like 10 miles of bad road otherwise, it’s all I got. I seldom cover it.
If I do need one due to avoiding sun or something, I just grab the closest baseball cap around.
When I was younger and more interesting, I wore an [O.R. Sombriolet](https://www.outdoorresearch.com/us/en/sombriolet-sun-hat/p/2434410740007). Extremely useful since you could soak it in water and cool your head for a few hours. I did a lot of hiking and mountain biking, mostly in Arizona, and headgear like this was almost a necessity.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/17 "2019-04-09T10:44:05Z")
A [del]bucket[/del] boonie hat when the temps are warm. If not, probably a balaclava (with a hood or possibly a stocking cap over it)
Brian
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/18 "2019-04-09T12:33:17Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Do you wear anything distinctive on your head?
A Panama when appropriate. Please note that I live in NE Scotland.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/19 "2019-04-09T12:53:12Z")
Donegal tweed flat cap from Shandon headwear.
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### Author:  [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/20 "2019-04-09T13:34:03Z")
Fedora for when I need shade or rain protection, flat caps else. I’m also considering a derby or bowler, if I can find one. Sadly, googling “haberdasheries near me” sends me hundreds of miles away.
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