What's up with ball caps?

[bigezfosheez]

Just ranting... at what point did baseball style caps become skin tight skull caps? When I was a kid, baseball hats were slightly roomy and were comfortable. There was usually enough room at the top to provide a slight air gap so that if the sun was beating down the heat wouldn't transfer to your scalp so quickly. My old Army BDU caps were the same way, they fit sensibly and were practical for work and patrol. Now all I see are ball caps that fit so tightly that they might as well be tattooed on your head. Then the duckbill visors on them are so long that you can't use a drinking fountain without it coming off. Geeze, doesn't anybody make a normal ball cap type hat anymore that doesn't cut the circulation off to your scalp? Unfortunately, only the older farts from my generation probably kind of get what I'm talking about.

Obligatory sentence enhancers:
You call that suped up?
Dang it, now get off my Bubble Gum lawn too! Lol.
Just saying!

you know they come in different sizes right?

 

[bigezfosheez]

And the guys that wear their hats with the bill off to the side or backwards. Seriously? Looks as ridiculous as a grown man with his pants hanging down.

 

[PiratePast40]

^^^ That's what I'm talkin' about!

 

[Camelfilter]

I'm kinda bummed about the fabric dye quality today, as I wore a sox cap for a full year from Paris to Vietnam, and outside everyday.

The quality of the dye of the few recent hats I've bought doesn't seem what it used to be.

2 sun faded in less than a couple months, and I even treat them with a UV/waterproof, as I allways have.

On the left, 3 months old (can't tell as well from the picture, but the blue is crappily fading). On the right retired, over 10 years old and has been around the world, but the blue is still perfect:



I'm thinking now to go with a plain navy blue synthetic with a Velcro spot on the front....so I can go grey man pretty quick...

-just checked real quick online & looks like I can get Red Sox Velcro backed logos reasonably easily as well...hmm...

 

[Baseacegoku]

Geeze, doesn't anybody make a normal ball cap type hat anymore that doesn't cut the circulation off to your scalp? Unfortunately, only the older farts from my generation probably kind of get what I'm talking about.

I have a couple hats you can have that seem to match what you want. Although you will be advertising for a company.

 

[Capn Jack]

Being a Dutchman it's hard to find one anymore that will fit over the corners.

 

[mkwerx]

Plenty of good ball caps around - but you gotta hunt for them. I absolutely hate the big poofy ones though, and flat bills make you look like a feminine hygiene product container. Same with white ball caps, in general. White, flat billed ball caps are a great indicator, again in general, that there is absolutely nothing the wearer has to say that I need to hear, and is typically going to be a jackass. I think they give out poofy, white, flat billed ball caps when you graduate from the D-Bag Training Academy as a badge of D-bagdom.

Here's some random google image search results to prove the point:














Friends don't let friends wear flat billed, or white hats. Unless they're all D-bags

 

[mjbskwim]

The older style you are talking about are now called 'trucker hats'. I like them cause I have a rather large cranium and the 'one size fits all' don't look good on me.
So now it's flat caps/news boy caps cause they are over sized and fit my noggen.
Over here I can wear my cowboy hats and folks do look at you like you've got 2 heads.

 

[Camelfilter]

Plenty of good ball caps around - but you gotta hunt for them. I absolutely hate the big poofy ones though, and flat bills make you look like a feminine hygiene product container. Same with white ball caps, in general. White, flat billed ball caps are a great indicator, again in general, that there is absolutely nothing the wearer has to say that I need to hear, and is typically going to be a jackass. I think they give out poofy, white, flat billed ball caps when you graduate from the D-Bag Training Academy as a badge of D-bagdom.

Here's some random google image search results to prove the point:

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Friends don't let friends wear flat billed, or white hats. Unless they're all D-bags

I'd rather have the choice to wear one of those white "trump" hats all day long, even if it makes look like a D - bag...

Rather than what Hillary wants me to wear:

 

[mkwerx]

I'd rather have the choice to wear one of those white "trump" hats all day long, even if it makes look like a D - bag...

Rather than what Hillary wants me to wear:

I think this is more like what Hillary would have us wear:

 

[thorborg]

Here's an old style billboard front cap that i like.

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That's my beef with ball caps, I can find plenty I like but don't want to be a billboard. (good cause or not) I found plenty hats I like, but none without Logo's

 

[bbbass]

Real mans' cap:

 

[Certaindeaf]

I hate those buttons on top.
Remembering a little league teammate getting beaned on the button makes me cringe to this day.

 

[etrain16]

Most of my ball caps are something like this:

 

[Caveman Jim]

I can't say I know what you mean by "skin tight" ball caps. Only thing different I see are the stupid flat bills

Yeah, I hate those & the guys who pin their ears under too!!! (I found the correct smilie)

 

[Dungannon]

Rarely wear a hat, but when I do it's a beat-up baseball cap to keep the rain out of my eyes when working outside. As a result, the hat backwards thing has always puzzled me.

 

[PaulB47]

I never cared for ball caps. I just went to a surplus store and bought a Marine "cover". Works a lot better as far as I'm concerned. I was a Marine so I don't feel like I'm faking it.

 

[Slobray]

And the guys that wear their hats with the bill off to the side or backwards. Seriously? Looks as ridiculous as a grown man with his pants hanging down.

My grandparents use to wear their hats sideways. The first time I saw this is when we went fishing at Detroit Reservoir. The angle at which they wore them depended on where the sun was in the sky.


Ray

 

[Certaindeaf]

My grandparents use to wear their hats sideways. The first time I saw this is when we went fishing at Detroit Reservoir. The angle at which they wore them depended on where the sun was in the sky.


Ray

This famous fella coulda learned from them..



Seems he was a trucker and drove south in the morning and north in the evening.

 

[RicInOR]

Just ranting... Geeze, doesn't anybody make a normal ball cap type hat anymore that doesn't cut the circulation off to your scalp?

Depends upon your allowance $ vs $$$

Here you go
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Different styles, Some are flex-fix, some use velcro etc.

AND you need one