# Hat/cap wearers: What do you sport? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/41 "2019-04-09T20:55:47Z")
Usually a Washington National cap. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/42 "2019-04-09T22:48:06Z")
My normal winter hat is a beanie. This is not distinctive hereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![Turki-lurki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turki-lurki/32/7168_2.png) [@Turki-lurki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turki-lurki)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/43 "2019-04-10T02:15:00Z")
Bucket hat for fishing. Fedora for workdays in winter or when sitting in the East of a Masonic Lodge. Bike helmet for riding or if wife is ticked off. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/44 "2019-04-10T03:50:53Z")
During the coldest parts of winter, I’ll wear my [Stormy Kromer](https://www.stormykromer.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhbHlBRAMEiwAoDA345frZAOrDtl5WTAgYN01LnQ-e-Qf-4nFp5BTtW9vMu9Tof07GiPo0RoCpsgQAvD_BwE) in spite of all the Elmer Fudd references. Outside of that, I’ll wear an occasional baseball cap but probably 90%, I’m bare headed. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/45 "2019-04-10T04:01:54Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > 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. Yup, mine are official, too. I have some Colorado Rockies caps and a variety of D’Backs caps. ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/46 "2019-04-10T04:34:07Z")
I started wearing a hat for identification. A friend located me once at a Oakland A’s game. He was on the upper level and spotted my cowboy stile hat. Really more of a Fedora. I have two Fedora that I normally wear. Work and dress. Then I have wide brim Stenson that I wear if I am going to be outside much in sunny weather. I lost the pigmataion in my skin and burn really easy. And finally my really nice dress up cowboy hat. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/47 "2019-04-10T05:06:22Z")
In winter, a woolen tuque that my sister knit for me. On the golf course, a Denver Broncos baseball cap that I’ve worn for years when golfing. For a good long walk or hike, especially in the spring or fall, my Stetson “Mountain Sky.” Looks great and fits perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/48 "2019-04-10T05:38:09Z")
I began to wear hats when my top got thin (now it is pretty much gone, like Riff Raff). I wear a cowboy hat most of the time. For some reason, I feel like I look terrible in other styles of hat. The current one is a plasticized straw Justin. It’s waterproof, also protects my ears from the sun/rain, and I can attest that it will absorb quite a bit of impact when you hit your head. Just about the only time it’s not practical is when you’re driving a car, and I don’t really need a hat then. It’s also not terribly warm by itself, but does fit over a thin hood. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/49 "2019-04-10T17:11:04Z")
Right now. I have three hats. One is a black woolen beret. I’ve worn a beret on-and-off for twenty or so years. Then there’s my wide-brimmed brown felt adventure hat, which looks somewhat like a cowboy hat but not really. Last but not least, I’ve got a San Francisco Giants cap _(go, Giants!)_ from a company called American Needle. It’s real good quality for a ball cap, dark blue with gold stitching, and I always wear it when we go to Giants games. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/50 "2019-04-10T17:25:23Z")
[Like this](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MabelNormandWideBrimHat1918.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/51 "2019-04-10T17:48:50Z")
Too many baseball-style caps to mention, though the primary ones I wear are from the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers, and Toronto Argonauts (Canadian football team). As the hair on the top of my head is thin, I’ll always have a cap to wear if I’m going to be outside for any length of time in the warmer months. If I’m outside in cold weather, I’ll wear a knit cap, or, if it’s really cold, I wear my fur “[Mad Bomber](https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Bomber-Waxed-Cotton-Real/dp/B00B6CR3JC/ref=sr_1_5?hvadid=153689971386&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9021660&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=b&hvrand=879255715083437257&hvtargid=aud-649564993678%3Akwd-7007435775&keywords=mad+bomber+hat+mens&qid=1554918487&refinements=p_89%3AMad+Bomber&rnid=2528832011&s=gateway&sr=8-5)” hat. I also have an Indiana Jones fedora, though I don’t wear that too often. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/52 "2019-04-10T20:13:55Z")
Black baseball cap with the logo of the Boston and Maine Railroad. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/53 "2019-04-10T22:00:41Z")
95% of the time it’s a baseball style hat. I have 50+ to choose from. On occasion I’ll wear my leather [Aussie style hat](https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=30CuXPAWg46CB4uPiuAC&q=aussie+style+leather+hats&oq=aussie+style+lea&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0j0i22i30.9830118.9834074..9836488...1.0..0.482.2642.0j16j4-1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j35i39j0i22i10i30.Ob4V1UDxPpU), particularly for hiking or rainy weather. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/54 "2019-04-11T01:46:14Z")
I used to wear hats all the time. Then I got [this](https://selke.co.nz/product/cheesecutter-cap-deerskin/) and I love love love it. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/55 "2019-04-12T16:43:38Z")
During hockey season I wear one of 8 St Louis Blues hats that I own, changing it only after a loss. The beginning of this year I was switching them out like crazy…Thankfully I know have my favorite after an 11 game win streak. In the three month off season I wear one of many of my craft bear ball caps. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/56 "2019-04-12T17:12:57Z")
I also have a thick head of hair at 58 years old, but I like hats and am not ashamed of it, despite hipster fedora jokes. I used to wear a late-era Brooklyn Dodgers cap and a Yale baseball cap, both Navy blue with white insignia…sorry, I meant YALE blue. But balding co-workers told me I had no business wearing them as baseball caps are essentially “baldy hats.” In cold weather I wear a woolen Austrian farmer’s hat, a gift from Little Pianola during the year she spent working in Krems an Der Donau, a small city about 40 miles west of Vienna. Austria does lots of agriculture, and different districts wear various styles…more rural ones tend toward the High Romburg Tyrolean. Since Krems is pretty urban, my hat is a dark brown fedora type (although I wear the back brim down) with thick worsted yarn instead of a hatband. In in between seasons, like now, I wear a dark brown leather Freewheelin’ Franklin style cowboy/hippie hat I found in a biker shop in rural Northern California. I’ve had several Donegal flat caps and lost them or left them in bars one after the other. When I was in London last year I replaced them with a flat tweed cap from Christy’s, the famous hatter, costing about four times a much as any cap I’ve bought in Ireland. My standing in the IRA is currently under review. I have a black porkpie I got in San Francisco many years ago which I am self-conscious about, as my Dad (born 1922, solid hat-era guy) told me in my 30s that it was a “YOUNG man’s hat.” I own a pearl-grey felt bowler which is also too weird for everyday wear, but is useful for weirdo occasions. It was part of my all black/white/grey ensemble when I went to an art show opening to meet underground cartoonist Art Speigelman (who sported a black fedora).] When the weather gets hot I wanna get myself a broad-brimmed straw hat to keep the sun off me and shade my eyes. I’m thinking about driving down to Lancaster county to find an Amish hat like **kopek’s.** ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/57 "2019-04-12T18:58:22Z")
In the winter (and on colder spring/fall days), I wear a black ski cap which has gray and red stripes. When I need protection from the sun, I sport either my “dog-walking cap” (which is emblazoned with the word WOOF on a paw-print background) or a Pittsburgh Penguins baseball cap. Although I grew up in Cleveland and don’t follow hockey, I was given the latter cap by someone who doesn’t normally wear hats but had bought it when she was driving in Pennsylvania and needed some protection from the afternoon glare. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/58 "2019-04-12T19:10:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I also have a thick head of hair at 58 years old, but I like hats and am not ashamed of it, despite hipster fedora jokes. > > I used to wear a late-era Brooklyn Dodgers cap and a Yale baseball cap, both Navy blue with white insignia…sorry, I meant YALE blue.” A navy blue Dodgers hat? Not Dodger blue (royal blue)? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/59 "2019-04-12T22:17:05Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > A navy blue Dodgers hat? Not Dodger blue (royal blue)? You’re right. It was a brighter blue than the Eli cap. Another reason I don’t wear it; I prefer a more somber palette. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247/60 "2019-04-14T23:04:55Z")
I don’t actually have an Eli cap. I have a maroon one from the “other place” that I picked up at a conference I attended. Plus, lots of green Sask Roughrider caps. But no watermelon helmets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hat-cap-wearers-what-do-you-sport/832247.md?page=4)