# One hat per person, please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hat-per-person-please/442989>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 27, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hat-per-person-please/442989 "2008-03-27T23:25:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hat-per-person-please/442989/41 "2008-03-30T19:42:37Z")

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[Newsboy cap](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboy_cap). Soon to be known as the [Pittboy](http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2007/11/celebrity-rut-w.html) .

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**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hat-per-person-please/442989/42 "2008-03-30T20:12:37Z")

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The bowler hat of an Ulster Orangeman. Well, it’s not a profession, as such, but these guys do take it seriously.

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**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hat-per-person-please/442989/43 "2008-03-31T01:23:39Z")

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NZ Army [Lemon Squeezer](http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/nz-slouch.htm), very similar (if not the same) as the US drill instructors’ [campaign hat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_hat)

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**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hat-per-person-please/442989/44 "2008-04-01T07:11:26Z")

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[QUOTE=Booker57]  
A Chicago cop hat with the checkerboard band.

Please tell me why they have that. thank you.  
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Hopefully, not too great a hijack

I only have a wiki [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department#Trivia), but here is a bit of info on that checkered band.

[QUOTE=Wikipedia]  
Chicago police wear hats with checkered bands, popularly known as the ‘Sillitoe Tartan’ and named after its originator, Percy J. Sillitoe, Chief Constable of Glasgow, Scotland in the 1930’s. While the checkered band is a common police symbol in the United Kingdom and other countries in Europe, the Chicago Police and the Pittsburgh Police are the only police forces in the United States that have adopted it as part of their police officer uniforms.  
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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hat-per-person-please/442989/45 "2008-04-02T07:54:55Z")

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[Asshat.](http://www.funfacts.com.au/images/george-w-bush.jpg)

Sorry, couldn’t resist!

Seriously, [Princess’s hat.](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fairyfinery.com/PRN_FOUNTAIN.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fairyfinery.com/PRN_detail.htm&h=536&w=400&sz=28&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=00A8fwtgk7x24M:&tbnh=132&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfairy%2B%2Bprincess%2527s%2Bhat%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG)

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