How do you wash a baseball cap?

[rocketwarrior]

Fashion Statement

Fashion Statement. FASHION STATEMENT!!!! You call a ball cap fashion!? AAAaaarrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, we are sinking...sinking...oh, the despair, the humanity. We have reached the stage that we are wearing ball caps in public. Even after five. No wonder militant muslims feel we need to go. We are depraved.

You know, this almost invites a picture thread - like worst dressed. Ball caps on parade. Makes me shudder.

 

[rp2813]

OK, my bad. I should have said what I really meant, which is HOT, not "cute." But like it or not, ball caps are considered part of an outfit by many men. I remember when I worked in Oakland in 1996 a nicely toned 30-ish guy who came in from SF every day always wore a ball cap, and every last one of them had a very pronounced curve to its bill. These days caps already have curved bills but back then it was a way guys were altering the caps themselves for a different look. It's just a matter of taste whether one thinks the ball cap is a good look or an abomination. For me, add a nice goatee to the cap and my head will ALWAYS turn. Goatees were a fad I didn't care for in the beginning. But then with the resulting increase in the number of men sporting hot facial hair, I embraced the goatee and have never looked back. I shaved my beard down to a goatee a few years ago when my company was hit by a strike and haven't had a beard since.

Interesting mention of wearing caps in public. Keeping up with your theme, when we were in Normandy and visiting at a neighboring family's house, there were some comments made in French that we didn't catch and our hosts told us on the way home that they had remarked that my partner didn't remove his cap upon entering their house. And I think you're exactly correct that if he had been wearing a "proper brimmed" hat it would have been second nature to him to remove it.

I like the picture thread idea but in the interest of equal time I might have to counteract the worst dressed pix with some of men who look mighty fine in them.

 

[rocketwarrior]

..but, maybe a NewsBoy

Okay Ralph, let's try to work on this. I will dig out a few ball caps (never laundered, mind you) to show you a ball cap with character. Maybe tomorrow. (...and let's not forget about a possible pic thread).

But in the meantime, if we must talk 'caps' how about something with some class, like a newsboy. And I don't mean one of those Kangols that a mother puts on the head of CPA who is still living at home when she pushes him out in the snow to do the books for a five & dime.

I mean a real news boy - like a Big Apple or an 8/4 - now we're talking caps. You like it?

 

[foraloysius]

My mother has something like that! Hers is purple.

 

[sudsmaster]

I've noticed that a number of men who wear ball caps indoors do so to cover their shiny bald heads. If it's someone at work or school who I've only seen with a ball cap on, it can be kind of a jolt to see them without the cap. For bald men, the cap makes a lot of sense outdoors, as it helps to prevent sunburn.

I have a lot of baseball caps but I don't often wear one. I find it difficult to get a good fit - with a full head of straight silky hair the caps general tend to work loose. But they are great on hot sunny days to keep the head cool - even with a full head of hair. And woolen watch caps? Forget it. I'd need a chin strap to keep one of those on!

 

[turboace]

I threw my yankees cap on this morning to run out and grab the paper and a cup of coffee because I didn't want to shower and put product in my hair, nor did I want to show off my bed head.

 

[rp2813]

Yeah, about the only time I wear a ball cap is to cover bed head when I have to be out and about early in the morning and I choose to delay showering in favor of a little more sleep.

Not so sure I can warm up to a newsboy look. Too boyish for me!

 

[rocketwarrior]

Windy Hill

Windy Hill is 160 acres of salvage, mostly automobile, in Minnesota. It is near where I sail and near where I grew up in a body shop (and our own salvage yard). Before leaving this life, my father got rid of all of his junk yard (much went to Windy Hill) and left the land the way he found it.
I am welcome to enter the Windy Hill yard anytime. Walking through the piles of wreckage on a summer Sunday morning is, for me, a spiritual experience.