1 For me, a newly purchased baseball cap is just a starting point. It must be rigorously molded and stressed: extensive bending and shaping of the brim,a steady wear until it softens and conforms. Until it sits just right, natural-like.
a There are two primary brim styles today:
- Conventional (bent): Traditionally, folks bend the cap brim to some degree, increasing eye-protection.
Like most of my generation, I choose the former. But conventional/bent is a spectrum, and in my rural upbringing, the tendency was towards heavily bent brims, a markedly rounded arc, and I myself continue to favor this style today (though I am less extreme than the country boy I saw at the airport the other day, who's brim was bent in a sharp inverted U, almost to the point of folded in half).
- Hip-hop (flat): This is a common youthful style, the brim flat, as if straight from the store.
I think your "hat thing" stems from your childhood when you had a baseball cap with a baby chick on it given to you by a great uncle. You loved it and wore it everywhere-to bed, when you took a bath!! In desperation to see you without this hat on your head, I hid it one night on the top shelf of the hall closet! I am sorry!!
ReplyDeleteHmm, yes. I believe I am in an eternal primal quest to find this baby chick hat again.
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