Project Cubbins: Hat 299 - Driving Mr. Wheat Edition

Day 299 / Hat 299: Black police officer's / limo driver's style cap (size 7 1/4) with black, patent-leather-like stingy brim and military-influenced, silver-colored button detail on left and right sides.

Additional detail includes brown leather-like interior sweatband. Hangtag says: "Rothco, combat tested since 1953," on one side and: "made in China, www.rothco.com" on the other.

Purchased last Saturday specifically for the Project from the Surplus Value Center in Silver Lake - and specifically in anticipation of today.

That's because I'm meeting* my brother (aka Mr. Wheat) at the train station and once we'd finalized plans he said: "Wouldn't it be funny if you met me there in a tuxedo and a limo driver's cap and a sign with my name on it?"

Why yes, methinks it would. And while the tux would've been a nice touch, I think the lid (and sign I'll be holding) will do just nicely. (Part of me thinks he knew full well I'd take the bait.)

Yes, I'm sort of fudging it with what's more of a cop cap than a standard-issue limo driver's lid but my choices were either this or a yachting cap which, given my distinct body shape and penchant for polos, makes me look like I'm impersonating the skipper from "Gilligan's Island."

*[Updated: My sister Sue snapped the photo on the right at Penn Station upon their arrival -- proof that if nothing else I'm a man of my word.]

Related:

PC 298: Green Mountains
PC 297: Yellow Letters

PC 296: White Sox

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 

Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 298 - Green Mountain and Other Challenges Edition

Day 298 / Hat 298: Forest green, baseball-style cap with multi-color embroidery on front depicting the sun rising over the Green Mountains along with the words: "Green Mountain Challenge."

Interior tag reads: "Dorfman Pacific Headwear, 100% cotton, made in Sri Lanka, one size fits most."

From the SJTBOH and, while I don't know what particular challenge this hat references, I can tell you that living in the Green Mountain State had its share of them. 

Maybe it's the sun rising over the mountains that makes me feel hopeful that the official arrival of spring heralds a respite from the more dire of our challenges. 

Onward!

Related:
PC 297: Yellow Letter
PC 296: White Sox, Southpaw
PC 295: Shamrock Shaker

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 

Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 297 - Yellow Letter Day Edition

Day 297 / Hat 297: Pale yellow, washed-down, baseball-style cap with yellow tone-on-tone cursive embroidery detail on front that reads: 'The Great Escape." Interior tag reads: "J Hats" on one side and: "Adult, 100% cotton, made in China" on the other.

Pulled from the SJTBOH pretty much at random, the more I think about this hat,the more it makes me laugh. I've had an intense dislike of yellow lettering that traces all the way back to a childhood attempt to make one of those colorful signs (as kids are wont to do) in which each letter was rendered in a different color Magic Marker. It always annoyed me that the yellow letters would inevitably do one of two things: fade into nothingness against a light-colored background, or disappear into a dark-colored one.

What makes me chuckle about this hat in particular is that yellow embroidery might actually have stood out -- on anything other than a yellow background. And the size and placement of the embroidery makes me scratch the head beneath the hat since the result is the theme park's name rendered so stealthily that the only person who might actually be able to read it off your hat could probably also smell the Dippin' Dots and Dutch Funnel Cake on your breath.

Related:
PC 138: The other "Great Escape"
PC 296: White Sox, Southpaw
PC 295: Shamrock Shaker

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 296* - White Sox on a Southpaw Edition

Day 296* / Hat 296*: Black, baseball-style cap with white piping and gray edges on bill. White and gray embroidery on front reads: ""Sox." Interior tags read: "New Era performance headwear, medium-large, made in China, 62% polyester, 38% wool," and "Authentic collection, official batting practice cap."Back of hat includes white, black and gray embroidered MLB logo against a gray background framed in white piping.

Additional interior details include black seam tape that  includes the New Era logo, the MLB logo, the words: "official batting practice cap," and "39Thirty."

I have no idea where this originally came from but it's been sitting in the trunk of Diamond White for years as another "safety hat" (as in safety from the sun) and I unearthed it while scrounging for PC 290.

The "Sox" in question are Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox of course, a team that dates to 1894 and got its start as the minor league Sioux City Cornhuskers before becoming the White Stockings after a 1900 move to Chicago (apparently taking sloppy seconds by adopting a nickname once used by the Chicago Cubs).

Since I've never been much of a baseball person, when ever I see this hat, its predominantly black color scheme (in the words of Spinal Tap: "How much more black could this be?") automatically takes me to the Black Sox Scandal of 1920 in which eight of the players were accused of playing to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds (the subject of the 1988 film "Eight Men Out" and referenced in "Field of Dreams" the following year).

The team's mascot, by the way, is Southpaw, which according to Wikipedia is a reference to not only to the term for a left-handed pitcher but also "to Chicago's South Side where the team plays."

As a proud left-hander, I thought I knew the origin of the term "southpaw" as slang (particularly in sports) for a left-handed athlete, and had a vague memory of it being tied to a particular Chicago ballpark. The legend goes that in this particular diamond was laid out east to west with home plate to the west so those pitching with their left were doing so with their south (facing) paw.

Even the most cursory search of the interwebs reveals that to be a bit apocryphal, with that "coining" of the term, being traced to humorist writer Finley Peter Dunne of the Chicago News (apparently the phrase was in use, one site notes, "before Dunne's birth.")

So next time I'm asked the origin of the phrase I am so not going to raise my left hand.
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[*Updated 11:06  a.m.: A hat-tip to Jennifer Altman for pointing out I was going all "Groundhog Day" by reliving Day 295 for a second day. The number in my mouth is right, the one above my head was not. I have duly noted.]

Related:
PC 295: Shamrock Shaker
PC 294: Grinning Gambler

PC 293: Outback in the Front Seat

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 295 - Shamrock Shaker Edition

Day 295 / Hat 295: Green bowler hat with black hatband and fabric three-leaf clover detail on front. Tag on back of brim reads: "Item No. 5318, one size fits most. 100% polyester, made in Ningbo, Zhe Jiang, China, RN# 88490 Fun World Div., Mfg. date: Jul-Sep/2013."

Purchased specifically for the Project yesterday at KMart for the princely sum of $2.17, The world's largest leprechaun or McDonald's seasonal Shamrock Shake spokesblob Uncle O'Grimacey (at right)? You be the judge.

Speaking of the Shamrock Shake (do they even offer that minty seasonal shake any more?), that's what I've been calling the 4.4 earthquake that rousted many a slumbering Angeleno out of bed this morning at 6:25 a.m.

I suppose that's one way to get things shaking on a Monday morning!

Related:

PC 294: Grinning Gambler
PC 293: Outback in the Front Seat
PC 292: Rando Ribbon

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound! 

Project Cubbins: Hat 294 - The Grinning Gambler Edition

Day 294 / Hat 294: Woven hat with leather (or leather-like) hatband detail. Interior tags read: "Dorfman Pacific Co., DPC Authentic, Handmade headwear since 1921," and "Natural Fiber, X-Large," (the last tag repeats the information in French and Spanish.) Hangtag reads: "DPC Global Trends" and lists style number as 383/938.

Although the style name isn't given anywhere on the hat, typing it into the interwebs reveals it to be called the "Rush Gambler Straw Hat."

What's a "gambler" hat you might ask? I didn't know either - at first. Here's the definition from hat-centric website hatbox.com:

"The Gambler is a traditional western dress hat. The crown of a Gambler resembles a round pork pie crown, but the brim is wider than most dress hats but smaller than most cowboy hats and the edge is curled up in a tight 'pencil' curl. The Gambler may be most widely recognized as the hat worn by Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. It’s smaller brim and lower crown make it ideal for those who look out of place in wide brimmed Cowboy hats. It also looks great on women."

This marks the last (at least for now) of the loaner lids from the folks at The Headwear Association. The last box included one more hat -- a wide-brimmed straw number very, very similar to PC 142. Even though the brand label inside said the one from the THA had the name  "Magid," and the earlier one indicated no brand affiliation at all, as I close in on 300, the last thing I want is to disqualify myself by unintentionally duplicating a hat.

Because, in the immortal words of Kenny Rogers,to be a good gambler "[y]ou got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em."

Now, anyone takin' bets old Double Down here isn't going to hit 500?

Related:
PC 293: Outback in the Front Seat
PC 292: Rando Ribbon
PC 291: Going Clearwater

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 293 - Outback in the Front Seat Edition

Day 293 / Hat 293: Olive drab outback hat with four metal eyelets, snap up sides and woven cord. Interior tag reads made in China, 100% COTTON, RN 17730 size M" on front and VN3594445" on back. 

Plucked for the Project from the SJTBOH and photographed riding shotgun in the front passenger seat of the Bride's car enroute to a fashion week event. 

Now that's multitasking ....

Related:
PC 292: Rando Ribbon
PC 291: Going Clearwater
PC 290: Safety Bucket

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 

Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 292 - Rando and a Ribbon Lid Edition

Day 292 / Hat 292: D.C. Shoes/ New Era  men's trucker hat with white mesh back, 100% black cotton front with red bill. Additional details include red horizontal ribbon strip across front edged in black and white horizontal stripes, D.C. logo embroidery and red contrast embroidery on eyelets.  

Based on my brief forensic scouring of the interwebs, this appears to be a Men's Rob Dyrdek Ribbon Trucker Hat, which is part of the Rob Dyrdek Teamworks Collection.

I poached this lid -- ever so briefly -- from the sizable cranium of one Nathan Walls (with me in the above photo) a spring-breaking college student from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

How did "Walls from the Ball" come to be in my kitchen on a Friday afternoon? Ah, that's a story you either know or don't want to know.

Did I mention dude man has a huge noggin? Look at how the hat is swimming on my own not-tiny pinhead.

At any rate, Walls gets the hat-tip for being a good sport. I'm told his penchant for headgear is legendary back at Ball State, so this documentary evidence should go a long way to cementing his legacy.

Related:
PC 291: Going Clearwater
PC 290: Safety Bucket
PC 289: Stumper Bucket

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 

Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 291 - Going Clearwater Edition

Day 291 / Hat 291: Blue, baseball-style cap with embroidery on front that reads: "Clearwater Beach in white below  multi-colored embroidered design that includes a palm tree and four daisy-like flowers. Interior tags read: "Ouray Sportswear," and "P.O. # 30304, style no. #7920, 100% cotton, made in China."

This l'il lid comes to the Project by way of the SJTBOH, and I'm going to guess it came into her possession during one of the family's jaunts to Florida since there's a family compound in Clearwater across the

causeway.

Speaking of the SJT Bag o' Hats, shortly after posting it, I got some closure on PC 289 (aka "the stumper bucket"). Of its provenance, Sue says it was from the tenth birthday party she had organized for my nephew/godson Spencer.

Sue writes: "Bought [a bunch of hats] at a close-out discount store and sent home with young lads. Birthday theme was fishing, so kids were given the lids to keep sun & hooks out of their faces!"

Now that's using your head. Sounds like another version of the safety hat, no?

Related:
PC 290: Safety Bucket
PC 289: Stumper Bucket
PC 288: Aces High

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 

Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 290 - Barbour Bucket Edition

Day 290 / Hat 290: Brown plaid bucket hat in 100% nylon. Interior tags read: "Barbour, country clothing since 1894," and "The original Barbour tartan, original, authentic."

This nifty lid, which folds in on itself to form a tidy, easily stowable pouch , has long been one of my "safety hats" that I've kept in the trunk of the Diamond White Cadillac in case of hat-mergencies. But I had to bust it out today since I left the homestead this morning without proper headgear and only realized this while I was en route to a rooftop luncheon and fashion presentation in beautifully sunny downtown Los Angeles.

It's not often my headgear is the envy of any given fashion crowd, oh, but today it was. All around me bare heads sizzled like bacon in the mid-day sun, and a single tube of SPF 50 sunscreen, produced from a blogger's purse, was passed around like it was the polio vaccine.

I guess that it turned out being a safety hat after all -- just not the kind I'd envisioned.


Related:
PC 289: Stumper Bucket
PC 288: Aces High
PC 287: Bonita Springs Ahead

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 

Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 289 - Sue's Stumper Bucket Edition

Day 299 / Day 289: Plaid bucket hat with tone-on-tone hatband detail. Interior tag reads: RN 17730, one size, shell: 52% ramie, 47% linen, 1% other fiber, lining: 100% cotton, made in China."

I've had a pretty good run decoding. deciphering and figuring out the provenance of the rando-lids thrown my way by the SJTBOH, but I'm throwing in the towel tracking down the back story on this hat. There is absolutely no other tag of any kind anywhere on the hat. Typing any or all of the information above also resulted in nothing.

The hat is not new and evidences a little bit of wear but the tag referenced above has been drawn through with a red felt-tip marker, which makes me think it was a sample, a freebie or something similar and the lack of other tags is a way of preventing resale.

Several of the searches I did for the RN number 17730 served up "made in China," while a handful of others kept referring back to Target.

Hit me with it sister Sue - where doth yonder stumper bucket hail from? Inquiring minds want -- nay need -- to know.

Related:
PC 288: Aces High
PC 287: Bonita Springs Ahead
PC 286: Sinamay ... Sinamaybe Not

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 

Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 288 - Aces High with ZZ Ward Edition

Day 288 / Hat 288: Brown 100% wool ZZ Ward signature fedora by Broner with black grosgrain hatband. Additional touches include feather in hatband and paper Ace of Spades playing card detail, also tucked into hatband.

Graciously loaned to the Project by The Headwear Association.

  

Who is ZZ Ward, you ask? According to Wikipedia. she was born Zsuzsanna Eva Ward and she's a singer/songwriter/musician whose genres include: blues rock, R&B, pop rock and blue-eyed soul." 

According to this blog entry from just about a year ago on Broner's website, she's a fedora-loving blues musician who broke onto the scene at South by Southwest just about two years ago. Here's an excerpt from the post:

"She approached Broner about creating a signature fedora for her and her fans. Rarely seen without her signature fedora, ZZ has been sporting hats since she was ten years old and singing the blues with her father."

The post goes on to note that Ward has an extensive fedora collection of her own -- and provided photographic evidence of same. It also includes the following quote: “The eyes are the windows to the soul, but under the brim of a fedora they remain a mystery." 

She describes the hats as "Fedoras for that everyday dirty shine. Gritty, Sultry, Authentic." 

"Down & Dirty Shine," probably not coincidentally, was the name of Ward's Fall 2013 tour. I just checked out ZZ Ward's website and it looks like those of you headed to Coachella might actually be getting a chance to check out her music - and her fedora -- up close as she's scheduled to play there on April 11 and 18.

Given the hype that surrounds the Indio festival -- not to mention Ward's ascending star -- we expect people who aren't familiar with it will know exactly whose head is under that fedora in pretty short order.

Related:
PC 287: Bonita Springs Ahead
PC 286: Sinamay ... Sinamaybe Not
PC 285: Madrilenean Millinery

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 

Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 287 - Bonita Springs Ahead Edition

Day 287 / Hat 287: Khaki-colored, baseball-style cap with blue bill and multi-color embroidery on front that reads: 'Bonita Springs," beneath an embroidered white fish skeleton against a background of embroidered blue, red and  green quadrilaterals.

Additional details include blue button on crown of cap (which matches the bill) and eyelet accents embroidered in blue. Interior tag reads: "BJR Classic Headwear, 100% washed cotton twill hat, made in China, RN123853."

Grabbed from the SJTBOH at random but totally appropriate as clocks were to "spring ahead" an hour to begin observance of Daylight Saving Time today. 

The city of Bonita Springs, Florida, (slogan: "Small Town Charm. Big Bright Future") is on the Gulf Coast of Florida, south of Fort Meyers, Based on the location, I'm going to take a wild guess that this hat was procured during a visit by my sister's family to her in-laws (who, last I knew, hung their hats not too awfully far north of BonitaSpring in Punta Gorda). 

I tried to get to the bottom of the fish skeleton logo/mascot thing - it seemed like an odd thing to represent civic pride -- although I think Maine license plates had a red (as in boiled and dead as a doornail) lobster on its license plates at one time, didn't it? Apparently the city's mascot is (or at least was) a fish named Sammy the Snook. But in all the photos I found, he was pictured with all his soft parts in place. 

There is a also restaurant located in Bonita Springs called the Bonefish Grill -- but the skeleton logo was facing the opposite direction. 

The only conclusion I can come to is that the hat's embroidery is in some way a reference to something like Mound Key Archeological State Park located in nearby Estero, which included the following skeleton-appropriate description: 

"Prehistoric Native Americans are credited with creating this island's complex of mounds with an accumulation of seashells, fish bones, and pottery."

At any rate, on the day we spring ahead, that's the explanation I'm gonna fall back on.

Related:

PC 286: Sinamay ... Sinamaybe Not
PC 285: Madrilenean Millinery
PC 284: Rebel Bucket

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 286 - Sinamay ... Sinamaybe Not Edition

DY 286 / Ht 286: Wide-brimmed black hat with wide, mesh-like brim,woven, straw-like crown and black grosgrain bow ribbon hatband detail.

Interior label reads: "Jessica McClintock." Additional interior tag reads: "100% polypropylene exclusive of decoration. Do not wash."

A loaner from The Headwear Association's sample closet, photographed in the hammock in the backyard of the homestead -which I had chosen since it seemed appropriate for what I assumed to be a sun hat.

After I was in hammock for a a few minutes I quickly realized -- from the rapidly escalating temperature of my head - that nobody in their right mind would make a black sun hat -- or one with a mesh brim for that matter. So I took to the interwebs to do a little sleuthing.

Although I didn't immediately find anything official (as of this moment, the website bearing the label's name loads a scary-looking page that asks for sign-ons and passwords and such and makes no mention of the brand), I did find a photo on eBay of what appears to be the same style hat along with the description: "Jessica McClintock Kentucky Derby Dressy Wide Brim Black Sinamay Straw Sheer Hat."

What is sinamay you may ask? (I did the first time a pretty girl whispered it in my ear.) According to Messrs. Merriam and Webster, it is "a stiff coarse open textile woven in the Philippines chiefly from abaca."

Of course, as noted above, the interior tag describes its content as "100% polypropylene" so whatever the open weave of the wide brim is it's not technically sinamay.

Let's call it "sinamaybe not," shall we?

Related:
PC 285: Madrilenean Millinery
PC 284: Rebel Bucket

PC 283: Croc 'n' Soul

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 285 - Miles' Madrilenian Millinery Edition

Day 285 / Hat 285: Black, baseball-style cap with multi-color embroidered crest on front as well as a small rectangular metal plate just below and to the wearer's right of it engraved with (if memory serves me correctly), the words "Real Madrid."

Interior tag reads: "Producto oficial, Real Madrid," and there's a red-and-yellow-striped adjustable strap in the back with black woven detail that reads: "Real Madrid Club de Futbol."

Graciously loaned to the Project by Miles (center with mom, writer Melissa Magsaysay) whom, I believe, at 17 months of age becomes the youngest recipient of the hat-tip to date.

And this hat is the real deal - Miles' maternal grandparents actually picked it up in Madrid for him during a recent trip. According to his mom, Miles likes to get out there on the soccer field and mix it up a bit. 

Among the things I learned as a result of this post? That there's an entire Wikipedia page called "Adjectivals and demonyms for cities" laundry-listing things adjectives you might use to refer to things from certain cities (you don't think I came up with "Madrilenian" all by myself did you?) Oh, and that something from from Livorno, Italy, is, I kid you not "Leghornese."

 A sincere thanks to both for indulging me on my march to 500 hats! 

Related:
PC 284: Rebel Bucket

PC 283: Croc 'n' Soul

PC 282: Surely we Jester

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 284 - Rebel Bucket Edition

Day 284 / Hat 284: Navy blue cotton bucket hat with white underbrim and white contrast taped blue sewn-on sweatband.

Additional details include white sewn contrast eyelets and interlocked blue and gray "SB" embroidery design on front . Interior tag reads: "Toppers, style 1905 Campus, made in Hong Kong."

From the SJTBOH, I have to guess this hat ultimately comes from my nephew Preston McClary, as that logo and those colors are specific to South Burlington High School .

Apparently the sports teams go by the nickname "the Rebels" -- earned because it's South Burlington -- get it? ( I'd always imagined the Queen City's Mason-Dixon line to be somewhere around Shelburne but hey ...).

So there you have it.

Related:

PC 283: Croc 'n' Soul

PC 282: Surely we Jester

PC 281: Yoga lid

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 283 - Crocodile with a Soul Patch Edition

Day 283 / Hat 283: yellow cotton, baseball-style cap with multi-color embroidery on front that depicts a crocodile with a soul patch wearing a Hawaiian shirt and dark sunglasses above the words: "Reptile Gardens, Black Hills, SD." Interior tag reads: "Ouray Sportswear, 100% cotton, Made in China."

Grabbed from the SJTBOH, I believe this to be from kid sister's trip with her family out west some years ago. Reptile Gardens (slogan: "On the road to Mt. Rushmore") looks like its crammed with all kinds of creepy, crawly snakelike creatures. I bet the kids had a blast. 

What intrigues me is the crocodile (or possibly a non-croc specific alligator -- hard to tell, really) on the lid and the festive shirt he's wearing - not to mention the soul patch he's sporting. Did he just get done eating a vacationing jazz musician? Is he some kinda Hawaiian ex-pat hep cat? 

My cursory search of the interwebs did not turn up any cool critter like that as the Reptile Gardens mascot though I did learn that the mascot, for some 56 years (until his passing in 2011) was a 600-pound Galapagos tortoise named Methuselah. 

I suppose it's destined to remain a reptilian mystery.

At any rate, the hat-tip to sister Sue for today's hat. 

Related:

PC 282: Surely we Jester

PC 281: Yoga lid

PC 280: Porch Derby

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 282 -- Surely We Jester Edition

Hat 282 (on me), Hat 88 (on Noelle) and beads
on all three of us
(that includes Bahooka the parrot in the background).

Day 282 / Hat 282: Purple, gold, green and yellow six-point jester's cap with metallic polka dots in the same colors and metal bells on the end of each point. Interior tag reads: "100% polyester, made in China, manufactured for Amscan Inc., Elmsford, NY."

This hat, n case you didn't realize it, is in the seasonally appropriate color scheme of Mardis Gras, and is on loan from the Noelle Carter Home for Happy Headgear. We've been looking forward to plopping a Fat Tuesday hat on my fat head for a week now, but the first one she offered up, seasonal as it was, was a non-starter.

But only for a very narrow technical reason. See, I'd already worn it -- way back on Day 88 (Ah, remember back in the double digits when life was so uncomplicated?) But Carter doubled down, went out to her car, and came back with this awesome lid. (I mean, who doesn't love a co-worker who keeps a spare Mardi Gras hat in her car?)

I did a quick look back in the Project archives to make sure this wasn't also a violation, since I'd faintly remembered her offering up a jester's cap in the past and wouldn't you know it, she's actually loaned TWO jester hats to the Project in the past (PC 37 and PC 65) but thankfully neither were the exact same hat as this confection.

So Noelle has done something quite special -- served up a hat-trick of jester caps (fans of the old "Joker's Wild" game show might do what I did and say aloud: "JOKER, JOKER JOKER!).

So a sincere hat-tip to Noelle, and may all of celebrating National Pancake Day find a baby in your slice of King cake (Tom Curwen found two in his slice here in the Cube Farm today ....).

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Related:

PC 281: Yoga lid

PC 280: Porch Derby
PC 279: Gull Skull

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 281 - Bamboo Brain Pan Edition

Day 281 / Hat 281: Blue yoga turban with interior printing that reads: " Christine Headwear, style 8240-171, Shell: 95% Bamboo Viscose, 5% Spandex, Wash in a washing bag, Made in Vietnam."

A loaner from The Headwear Association sample closet, when I first pulled this out of the box I actually thought it was a bag some other hat had been packaged in. I'll have to admit it IS super-comfy, but I don't look anywhere near as styling as the lady modeling it in the photo I found when I typed the style number into the interweb.

As for the "yoga" part of the yoga turban (that was the description I found for the free form lid at the label's website), well, the old Internet doesn't disappoint, serving up a blog post titled (I kid you not): "What's With the Turban?" from a site called Kundalini Yoga Boston.

There's apparently a whole bunch of reasons why headgear of the turban persuasion is helpful on the yoga mat. You can read the list in its entirety at the site but here rare a couple to give you a little flavor:

" -- Covering the head enables you to command your sixth center, the Ajna Chakra"

" -- Turbans in particular are useful for holding energy in, and for creating a meditative focus at the third eye point (brow point)."

When I read that last one I quickly snatched the yoga turban from my head. Trust me, the last thing anyone needs (especially me) is to hold any energy in.

So today's hat-tip (and a downward dog) goes to Denmark-based Christine Headwear, a company, it's worth pointing out, specializes in the making all manner of scarves, caps and head coverings for women who have lost their hair due to illness and disease. On second thought, they deserve a double hat-tip for that laudable endeavor.

ALSO:
PC 280: Porch Derby
PC 279: Gull Skull
PC 278: Spago Amigo

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!

Project Cubbins: Hat 280 - Derby on the Porch Edition

Day 280 / Hat 280: Black, 100% wool felt derby hat by Scala. Detail includes red feather in the hatband. I took this snap on the fly this afternoon as I was headed to the office to focus on covering a slightly different kind of derby -- the Academy Awards red carpet.

A loaner to the Project from The Headwear Association's sample closet.

By the way, Today is the 110th birthday of Theodor Seuss Giesel, (aka Dr. Seuss) so today's hat-tip goes to the hat-loving author/illustrator/man-cave-dweller. 

Related:
PC 279: Gull Skull
PC 278: Spago Amigo
PC 277: Lax Attitude

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1. 
Got hats? If you loan 'em, you'll get e'm back safe and sound!