AlterEgo
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I'm so glad someone started this thread topic, as I was going to myself but feared crucifixion.
OK, I played baseball for many years, so I wore the required cap while covering first base. Anybody got a problem with that?
I was and am still a huge St. Lous Cardinals fan, so, though I rarely get to go to games anymore, I have Redbirds caps going all the way back to when I was a kid in the 1960s. The current official "winter" version is felt, comes in specific sizes, and is identical to the ones the pros wear. It's particulary appropriate with a flannel shirt having some red in it on an especially windy and cool weekend day. It is a really well made lid--and wasn't cheap.
For exercise, I power-walk (walk with hand-weights at a jogging speed) daily in running gear. Wearing a brimmed hat with such work-out clothes looks stupid, so I wear a nice ball cap--either wool or cotton or synthetic mesh depending on the weather--that is color-coordinated with the rest of the gear. I occasionally bike, instead, in the same get-up.
Now, the real shocker: I, lover of fedoras, panamas, berets, and ivies, from time to time actually wear a ball cap for style! Egad!!! At the very moment, no less, I'm wearing Levi jeans, a rugby shirt, docksiders, and a navy corduroy cap with a brown leather bill. I have another one just like it, only the corduroy is off-white, that I wear with similarly-colored painter's pants. I also have a bright red Tobasco cap I wear casually on scalding summer days with shorts and a red web belt and a red bandana around my sweaty neck. I normally shun anything promoting a company, but I love Tobasco sauce and don't mind its bold white letters emblazoned across the front.
These are quality six-panel caps whose crown fits close to the skull, with taped seams throughout, multiple rows of stitching on the pre-curved bill, and brass buckles to adjust for fit.
Nevertheless, I know some here will forevermore regard me as a complete nincompoop.
OK, I played baseball for many years, so I wore the required cap while covering first base. Anybody got a problem with that?
I was and am still a huge St. Lous Cardinals fan, so, though I rarely get to go to games anymore, I have Redbirds caps going all the way back to when I was a kid in the 1960s. The current official "winter" version is felt, comes in specific sizes, and is identical to the ones the pros wear. It's particulary appropriate with a flannel shirt having some red in it on an especially windy and cool weekend day. It is a really well made lid--and wasn't cheap.
For exercise, I power-walk (walk with hand-weights at a jogging speed) daily in running gear. Wearing a brimmed hat with such work-out clothes looks stupid, so I wear a nice ball cap--either wool or cotton or synthetic mesh depending on the weather--that is color-coordinated with the rest of the gear. I occasionally bike, instead, in the same get-up.
Now, the real shocker: I, lover of fedoras, panamas, berets, and ivies, from time to time actually wear a ball cap for style! Egad!!! At the very moment, no less, I'm wearing Levi jeans, a rugby shirt, docksiders, and a navy corduroy cap with a brown leather bill. I have another one just like it, only the corduroy is off-white, that I wear with similarly-colored painter's pants. I also have a bright red Tobasco cap I wear casually on scalding summer days with shorts and a red web belt and a red bandana around my sweaty neck. I normally shun anything promoting a company, but I love Tobasco sauce and don't mind its bold white letters emblazoned across the front.
These are quality six-panel caps whose crown fits close to the skull, with taped seams throughout, multiple rows of stitching on the pre-curved bill, and brass buckles to adjust for fit.
Nevertheless, I know some here will forevermore regard me as a complete nincompoop.
JimWagner said:If you wear headphone style hearing protection while shooting you won't be wearing a fedora. A ball cap is the thing there. QUOTE]
An avid shooter, I, too, have had to wear a ball-type cap when I would much prefer a wide-brimmed hat both for sun/sprinkles protection and better glare reduction, as well as style.
For maximum hearing protection, I wear inside-the-ear foam plugs AND the headphone-style at the same time, so doing away with the headphones is not at option for me. Surely someone makes a behind-the-head headphone style--like "180s" ear muffs--that would enable us to wear a brimmed hat while safely blowing stuff to smithereens. Does anyone know the manufacturer/supplier of such a piece of gear?