Monday, December 19, 2011

Hat

I feel like I could be a hat guy. I see a lot of people wearing hats these days. Different types, too. Not just ball caps. I have a few ball caps, but I don't wear them too often.
A few years ago, I got into the fitted cap craze because it seemed like the cool thing to do. When I was growing up and playing Tee-ball, all we ever got was snapbacks. I hated snapbacks by the time I was out of high school and so did everyone- or so it seemed.
So here I am with three or four different New Era caps- all of them are 7 3/4 and not 5/8 because my head is slightly bigger than most- that I may never wear again, because the trend has seemed to shift back to what everybody was moving away from in 2005.
If I make this move into snapback territory, I am not going back. I don't give a shit who is wearing a fitted cap, I'm staying there. Besides, my pal Christian Thompson of Glamorous Living Kids shared some design ideas with me, today and I gotta tell you that I might be pretty happy with this final hat choice.
Other than ball caps, I've always seen myself wearing a newspaper boy hat. The only problem with that is I feel like I'm making too much of a statement.
Why can't I just wear a hat? Why do I have to look like I'm in a GQ ad?
I should be able to go run errands and looked at as a guy that just likes to wear hats. Back in the day the only statements being made by the people made wearing these hats were, "Wall Street Crash" or "Jury Convicts Capone". Nobody gave a fuck about the hat.
I suppose there is some sort of end pint, though, because have you ever seen somebody wear a hat with a feather in it? Doesn't it look like the oddest thing in the world? As hypocritical as it sounds, I just want to tell the guy, "Hey, take it down a notch. You really don't have to try so hard."

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