Saggy Knit Cap (hipster hat)

[edro]

This hipster fad is getting old.

BTW, what do you call them?

Knit cap or toboggan?
Why the hell have I always called them toboggans?

 

[master_shake_]

can't really wear this on your head.

only upside your head.

 

[Captante]

I call them ugly.

 

[Ruptga]

I have never once thought about this before, but I'm going with "shitty hat".

 

[CraKaJaX]

Shitty hat works for me.

 

[BoomerD]

Those hats have always reminded me of the end of a spent condom...which seem appropriate for the dickheads who wear them.

 

[OutHouse]

i see tons of University of Colorado students wearing hat stupid hat. I call them octopus heads.

 

[pete6032]

You wouldn't put a toboggan on your head...

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Might I suggest a take-off on "do-rag" and officially name them douche-rags?

 

[MongGrel]

We called them toboggans where I grew up, but probably haven't had one on my head in over 40 years.

 

[gorcorps]

Call em "knit foreskins" and be done

Toboggans? Where the hell did you pick that name up from? Those are sleds

 

[IronWing]

This hipster fad is getting old.

BTW, what do you call them?

Knit cap or toboggan?
Why the hell have I always called them toboggans?

"I have GQ hair and they made me wear this thing."

 

[MongGrel]

Call em "knit foreskins" and be done

Toboggans? Where the hell did you pick that name up from? Those are sleds

I suspect it may have been because once upon a time people wore them while "tobogganing".

Not sure.

 

[Ruptga]

I suspect it may have been because once upon a time people wore them while "tobogganing".

Not sure.

Probably, and I still wear similar hats when it's cold out. Mine fit though, otherwise they would fall off, or at least not be very warm.

 

[ctk1981]

Stupid, that's what I call it.

 

[Belegost]

I usually label it a beanie, though an ill-fitting one, I did hear a girl wearing one refer to it as a "slouchy" but I'm not certain that's a common term, as that is probably the only person I have ever conversed with that wore one.

 

[lxskllr]

I did hear a girl wearing one refer to it as a "slouchy" but I'm not certain that's a common term, as that is probably the only person I have ever conversed with that wore one.

That's what my daughter calls them. I call it a loose knit hat. I don't wear knit hats of any kind.

 

[zinfamous]

can't really wear this on your head.

only upside your head.

In the south, tobbogan = "knit winter hat." you would know it as a "tuke"or took...or however one spells that.

The thing in the OP does not look like a tobbagan or took, it looks like "Hippy tour-rat hat" that you commonly see at Widespread Panic or Phish shows.

 

[zinfamous]

Call em "knit foreskins" and be done

Toboggans? Where the hell did you pick that name up from? Those are sleds

sled

toboggan

or

Hell, even google image search for "toboggan" only will give you the hat option.

 

[who?]

Toque.https://www.google.com/search?q=toq...2&ved=0ahUKEwid2PT2ioXLAhWBQiYKHRvaCBAQsAQIOw

 

[Paladin3]

My daughter, 15, who is so not a hipster, will occasionally adjust my beanie to look like that and then laugh at me.

 

[Childs]

Why the hell have I always called them toboggans?

Maybe you confused tuque with toboggan. Both start with t and are wintery.

As far as that knit cap/tuque style, I thought that only people with long hair wore their caps that like. People with dreads, women, etc. I dont think I've seen it on a short haired person, but I might have assumed the long hair.

 

[BoomerD]

Maybe you confused tuque with toboggan. Both start with t and are wintery.

As far as that knit cap/tuque style, I thought that only people with long hair wore their caps that like. People with dreads, women, etc. I dont think I've seen it on a short haired person, but I might have assumed the long hair.

Nah, toboggan is (more or less) the same as a toque...or a watch cap (may be shorter and only cover the tips of the ears...or even a stocking cap.(may be very long with a tassel on the end) Different regions...different names for the same thing.

 

[MongGrel]

As far as that knit cap/tuque style, I thought that only people with long hair wore their caps that like. People with dreads, women, etc. I dont think I've seen it on a short haired person, but I might have assumed the long hair.

Not really. Pretty much a military watch cap.

Lots of short haired guys wear them.

I guess Boomer had mentioned that though.

 

[Childs]

Nah, toboggan is (more or less) the same as a toque...or a watch cap (may be shorter and only cover the tips of the ears...or even a stocking cap.(may be very long with a tassel on the end) Different regions...different names for the same thing.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=toboggan

"long, flat-bottomed sled," 1829, from Canadian French tabagane, from an Algonquian language, such as Maleseet /thapaken/. The verb is recorded from 1846. As American English colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier toboggan cap, 1928), presumably because one wore such a cap while tobogganing.

That kinda makes sense, although during my search I see its mainly people from the south that call the hat a toboggan.

Not really. Pretty much a military watch cap.

Lots of short haired guys wear them.

I guess Boomer had mentioned that though.

Yeah, I have a few of them, but they only sag like in the OP if there is hair to puff it out. I got mine at a surplus store so maybe the hipster versions are loose. I never really thought about it though, just assumed thats why they look the way they do. First time I see that look was on Rastafarians.