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Can someone explain this to me? I remember mesh hats aka "trucker hat", but they were never popular. They always had that cheap redneck look to them. Then I come back from the Gulf a month ago and everywhere I look these lame-ass hats are being worn. Especially by celebrities and models.
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quote: Can someone explain this to me? I remember mesh hats aka "trucker hat", but they were never popular. They always had that cheap redneck look to them. Then I come back from the Gulf a month ago and everywhere I look these lame-ass hats are being worn. Especially by celebrities and models.
I believe that your final sentence answers your question.
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About the end of November a person in my lab was wearing such a stupid hat - (he's this fashion wannabe) and I laughed at him and said - I haven't seen those hats since like 1983... he said they are now fashionable... the redneck look or some shit! LOL! The more trucker the better. Either a motor company or a petrol station one... I mean... sheesh - I guess everyone was fashionable in 1983 then. OMG those mesh hats... did they offer ANY protection to the sun - thinking about it now... the scalp was SO exposed - might as well have worn Data's poker hat!
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Hehe, you know we could actually make a Flare Trucker hat... have Reverend make the logo and Charles put it on blank trucker hats that cost $.25 a piece. Von Dutch does that
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I wondered about this myself. My grandpa has a lot of these hats, and now I see kids wearing them quite often. I just don't get it. :\
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So, basically, something that once was fashionable became not fashionable, and is now fashionable again?
Surely the first time in the history of the universe that this has ever happened!
Next thing they'll be telling me that boot cut jeans with faded patches on the front are fashionable again. Crazy.
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To put yourself at ease, just repeat over and over again: People are dumb
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I've seen these things referred to as "ironic trucker caps". Obviously they don't realize that it ceases to be ironic if everyone does it.
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