August 28, 2009
hats and hats and spaghetti spaghetti
I don't normally wear hats because I have a relatively small head and I kind of think I look stupid in them. HOWEVER, I was in San Diego a few weeks ago and I randomly bought a San Diego Padres hat at Walmart for ten dollars. Here it is:
I kind of love this hat (but I'm not IN LOVE with it though). It fits me pretty good, it isn't too boxy or too floppy, and it covers my head.
Since then I've been on a quest to buy another baseball hat--this time a nice one. I want to get an old school Mariners cap like the Griffey's are rocking here:
OR, one of those or the all-green Oakland A's hats would be pretty dashing:
So, the other day I head to my local sport-hat store and unfortunately there were only two options:
1. The "5950" hats that stand roughly a foot tall off your head and come with the flattened bills with giant stickers on them that dumb kids leave on for some reason. I can't wear these given the size of my head, or maybe I'm just not cool enough.
2. The floppy, dirty-looking hats that Red Sox fans seem to favor. These ones go much too far to the broken look, so much so that the bill is pre-bent into a taco shape and the crown is a collapsed parachute.
Can't there be a good middle ground? Come on hat makers! Not everyone can be a 14-year-old aspiring rapper (category 1) or a 54-year-old stock broker going to a ball game with one of his clients (category 2).
I kind of love this hat (but I'm not IN LOVE with it though). It fits me pretty good, it isn't too boxy or too floppy, and it covers my head.
Since then I've been on a quest to buy another baseball hat--this time a nice one. I want to get an old school Mariners cap like the Griffey's are rocking here:
OR, one of those or the all-green Oakland A's hats would be pretty dashing:
So, the other day I head to my local sport-hat store and unfortunately there were only two options:
1. The "5950" hats that stand roughly a foot tall off your head and come with the flattened bills with giant stickers on them that dumb kids leave on for some reason. I can't wear these given the size of my head, or maybe I'm just not cool enough.
2. The floppy, dirty-looking hats that Red Sox fans seem to favor. These ones go much too far to the broken look, so much so that the bill is pre-bent into a taco shape and the crown is a collapsed parachute.
Can't there be a good middle ground? Come on hat makers! Not everyone can be a 14-year-old aspiring rapper (category 1) or a 54-year-old stock broker going to a ball game with one of his clients (category 2).
# posted by McDirty @ Friday, August 28, 2009 
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I hear you man. I am super picky about my hats. I want an official team hat (all blue Chicago Cubs with the red "C" because I am a Cubs fan), but the official are those boxy New Era 5950s. The best ones I have found are The Franchise brand. Some of them fit the way-too-broken-in look (seriously, why do I want a hat that looks dirty and ripped?) but others I have found seem to be the right middle ground. I own an all blue Cubs hat (like the official one I want), another blue Cubs hat with a red brim, yet another blue Cubs hat with a white front and alternate logo, an old style blue Brewers hat with a yellow front and a mitt logo, and finally a black Salt Lake Bees hat with the black and yellow "SL" (good for living out of state because it allows me to rep my hometown). Anyway, that's what I got on pro baseball hats.
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