Inspired by this thread about Long Island students losing their $350 Moncler winter hats. Only the Fox News website that reported the story is calling them “beanies”. Which is just wrong, IMO - beanies are silly skullcaps with propellers.
All right, y’all - we got to sort this out. What’s your word for the classic knitted winter hat, with or with out pom-pom?
For the record, I call 'em stocking caps.
I grew up in Florida. We didn’t have a word for them.
I think they were called beanies in Michigan, if I remember correctly.
I just call them winter hats. I wouldn’t call them “knitted”, because most of them in my family happen to be crocheted. Maybe, if for some reason disambiguation were needed, I’d say “yarn winter hats”, but I’m not sure if that’s ever come up.
Ski hat/cap.
Hat.
Toque
Toque. But I grew up in New Hampshire in an area heavily influenced by French Canadians.
A wool cap.
Knit cap.
I think I called them knit hats. But it’s been many years since I lived in a climate in which I wore them.
I’m surprised to have just this moment learned that some people do indeed call these stocking caps. In my dialect, a stocking cap must have a long tapering part that hangs down off the head. A hat that fits tightly to the head can’t be a stocking cap.
Knit cap. If I wanted to get picky about what style of knit cap, I’d call it a Mike Nesmith hat. So you can guess when I was a preteen.
I said “stocking cap” because it seemed plausible, but honestly I’d probably call it “that thing, that one there, what you call it.” I barely categorize hats beyond “hat”, and honestly I don’t really consider anything without an at least somewhat rigid shape to be a hat at all. If you pull a woman’s stocking over your head bank-robber style, is that a hat?
Beanie in Australia.
Given the relative absence of snow here, that no Aussie kid in history has ever worn a propeller cap except at gunpoint, and finally in Strine the use of latin and french words are *non de rigueur *they are known here without exception as beanies.
Why would you want to use two words when one does the job?
Hat.
It’s a Watch Cap
Stocking cap
It’s a Watch Cap
Watch Cap here in Southern California. Or knit hat. A beanie was what Beany Boy wore, hence the name.