Black Cap

All the hats I have acquired in the last few years have been from the temple of elemental evil, or WALMART™ as some people call it. This is due to it's proximity, and the fact that it's not squeamish about child labor so I can make impulse hat buys and not break $10.

I came across this hat and I loved it instantly. I have wanted one for some years and got it in black and green, (the green one will get it's own post).

I really like the style, it put's me in mind of one of the most stylish thugs of the 20th century - the nazi. I think my sense of style is genetically inherited. My father confessed he nearly joined the Hitler Youth movement (Canadian chapter) in the 30's because he "liked the look of their uniform". Fortunately the second world war broke out before he got around to signing up.

I did some research on the hat - as all that was inside the cap was "made in china". In my exhaustive research for this post I believe the style is "army cap".

Hat of the Week - Genesis

I think I have always liked hats. It has the whiff of "dressing up" a game I enjoyed from my earliest memories.
I never felt confident enough to wear hats consistently as a youth as it was a hatless period in my culture.

How I overcame my hat insecurities.
I was serving a mission for my church in Australia. Firstly I got a bit of sun stroke I think, and after that it was intolerable for me to feel the sun directly on my head.
Secondly, I was a missionary, in AUSTRALIA. If you care what people think of you then, well, lets just say I had nothing to lose when it came to others perceptions of how I dressed.
So having a degree of necessity and having shed most of my sense of pride, dignity and conformity (you might think your an outsider now, but just try being a preacher in Murray Bridge, South Australia).

This meant that post mission I wore hats a lot more often, but as any hat wearer knows, it messes up your hair. Given the style of hair I preferred it meant my hat waring was an occasional thing. That changed by the fact of testosterone - which is the cause of "male pattern baldness". This accomplished two things - one it proved I was a MAN. My gender had been brought into question a number of times in my youth through afore mentioned "outsider" status. Two it meant the elimination of "hat hair", thus removing the final barrier to almost constant hat wearing.

I currently own over 20 hats, collected over almost as many years. I feel obliged to disclose that nearly half of them are "baseball" style caps. In the hat higher-achy of my mind they barely qualify as a "real" hat. Mainly because they are socially acceptable head-ware. The less common the a hat is, the more "HAT" they are on my mind.

I have decided to share my hat love with whosoever cares, (besides Magna, one more reason for the love Magna) thus am Launching my "Hat of the Week".