Cheers To The Baseball Cap

[Fastuni]

But as the old saying goes: Boys wear caps, MEN wear hats.

As to the wearing of hats and caps in the ¨Golden Era¨:
When in a correct suit about town this was true (more so for the middle class and above), but for a suit, combination or outfit that was more sporty or workwear a flat-cap was very appropriate regardless of age or status. Plenty men also wore caps for normal suits.

 

[tommyK]

I'm occasionally in NYC and often see businessmen in custom tailored suits, Rolex, nice overcoat, otherwise dressed to the nines topped off with a cheap ballcap. You don't have to be into fedoras to think this looks awful. Otherwise I think ballcaps are fine, just not with a suit.

 

[fedoracentric]

I can see wearing a ball cap when exercising, playing sports, or even working at manual labor where a fedora can oft times be found a bit clumsy and in the way (tho I realize laborers back in the day wore fedoras on the job). There is a place for them, I suppose. But I see the ball cap as an extension of the odious Peter Pan syndrome that too many men in western society suffer from these days.

 

[FrankMc]

Sometimes I feel like a fedora, other times I feel like a cowboy hat, and there are days I wear the ball cap, and as with all my lids, I have some great ball caps. Different courses for different horses. I don't believe it is a "Peter Pan" syndrome, just a functional lid that does it's job very well.

 

[DougC]

Yeah-it's just a cap in the end. Covers your head and gives some protection. I'll wear a cap, a fedora or a cowboy hat, too, depending on what I'm doing. signed...Peter

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

I have ball cap's but enjoy my 8 point caps and fedora's better. Besides I don't like looking like all the other idots out there.

 

[fedoracentric]

Besides I don't like looking like all the other idots out there.

Hear, hear. I'd rather be my OWN kind of idiot! LOL

 

[Zombie_61]

Hear, hear. I'd rather be my OWN kind of idiot! LOL

:arated: I've never thought ball caps looked right on me anyway.

 

[ingineer]

I always remember what my mother said when I put one on.
"You look stupid in that, put a proper hat on!!"
However, I have owned several team hats.
Also they make a small bump cap insert for work.
High pressure steam pipes always seem to be installed by someone 4 foot tall and
Wearing a hardhat is sometimes too much.

Richard

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I prefer the look of a fedora to anything, but a ball cap has its place, too.

I wear one to work every day. It's easier and less complicated in a factory setting. I also wear them for chores (oil changes, lawn care, construction work) where a fedora is not only often impractical, but could get easily ruined.

 

[HamilcarBarca3]

I have nothing against baseball caps. Pretty much all of my friends wear one and they're good, hard working and honest people. I don't like them on me but they look fine on everyone else.

 

[WesternHatWearer]

I have over 100 baseball caps. I have a few that wear I when I am not wearing a western hat. I posted a comment on another thread about baseball caps as well. I wear baseball caps when I go shooting, hiking, or camping. I also wear them at baseball games.
Most of my baseball style caps have firearms company logos and sports team's logos. The rest were given to me for a number of reasons.

 

[PistolPete1969]

I wear both; mostly baseball caps in the summer and fedoras in the fall/winter. My "go-to" baseball cap is a vintage 1937-1955 Brooklyn Dodgers ballcap.

 

[WesternHatWearer]

I wear both; mostly baseball caps in the summer and fedoras in the fall/winter. My "go-to" baseball cap is a vintage 1937-1955 Brooklyn Dodgers ballcap.

Care to post a picture of your Brooklyn cap?