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On wearing hats…

Filed Under Babbling 

I like hats. I really do. Most of the time, though, I can’t wear them. See, with hair as fluffy and poofy as mine is, if I put a hat on, the hair usually puffs out the side and I look like a mis-placed 1980’s baseball player.

And that depends on what I wear hat-wise.

For me, I may have a lot of hats and caps, but I don’t wear many of them. Often, I’m found with either an old black Adidas cap with the 3 leaf logo in red–even though I only have one pair of Adidas and they’re green and I never wear them, a blue Sea World logo cap that’s their “swoosh” style logo, or a black old school UCF cap. I really need to get a new UCF cap or two before leaving this campus, but I’m in no rush. I’ve also got a tan floppy-hat like what you see fishermen wearing. And a black beanie too for cold weather days.

But those aren’t what I’m known for. Nosirree. Usually, folks see me with my black wool 504 Kangol. And if there ever was a cap to own, folks, that would be the cap to own. Made famous by folks from Mike Garrigan to Samuel Jackson, when you see that little kangaroo on the back, you know its a Kangol.

And the thing is? I’m stuck up about them too. I used to see a lot of folks with imitation ones, ones that look exactly like a real Kangol, but you can tell the difference because the fakes have the kangaroo and everything, but the “O” on the back is filled in, not just an “O.” If that makes sense, I guess?

Sure, its a $40 hat, but its a thing of quality. I have two of them, exactly identical, and I’ve had them for about 5 years almost, and they’re still in great shape. A little worn around the brim of the one I wear more often, but it fits to your head, blocks the sun perfectly, and looks sharp. If I ever were to buy another hat or cap, it’d have to be a Kangol.

They just look and feel right…

2/11 - Kangol Cap

Comments

2 Responses to “On wearing hats…”

  1. Forrest on February 12th, 2008 10:04 am

    Hahaahahahah, dude, you still have those hats?!!? That’s pretty damn cool, if I do say so myself. You know me and my own prodigious hat collection, of course. They are mostly UCF hats these days, since I basically tossed out all the UF hats I used to have, as well as a bunch of others I never really wore. I think that cap fits better with the shirt hair than it did when you’d wear it over the Jewfro(tm).

  2. Shaynon on February 12th, 2008 11:30 pm

    Look who’s bringing sexy back! :)

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