Put a cap on it

[atessalev]

Something to consider:

[...]The gargoyle of this inertia can be found on the head of every young dill: the baseball cap - unswerving, unmoving, nailed to the empty noggin of youth culture forever. Once the altar on which one proudly displayed the follicular profile of one's chosen style, the head is now buried under a dumb-arse cap, like some turkey of unknown quality under a stainless steel dinner dome.

Designed, obviously enough, for baseball players, the baseball cap never served much actual purpose in the halls of rock 'n' roll. But youth culture is about anything but necessity, and when the baseball cap began appearing on heads in the early '80s, it seemed to mean something. It said you subscribed to the counter-culture, you were part of the hood, hip to the street. By the '90s, it meant nothing much at all, as caps were everywhere, from Linkin Park to Limp Bizkit, from George Bush to Kate Bush, from Bono to Yoko, Dr Dre to Dr Phil, Snoop Dog to Big Dog and beyond. Wearing a baseball cap became the thing you did if you wanted to blend in with the crowd.

Today, having a baseball cap on your head means much more than that. It means you are bankrupt of ideas - you have no style, no personality and probably no hair. It means you are a lamb, bringing up the rear of a flock that began moving years ago. Above all of that, it means you are a paid-up subscriber to the idea that the revolution is over and that youth culture should be handed back to the marketeers and merchandisers who stage managed our entertainment in the first place, back before Elvis and Lennon and Lydon and Public Enemy and all the great movers and shakers.

For the baseball cap is representative of the corporations reclaiming youth culture. Far from being a statement from the streets, the cap is now standard issue with regard to the merchandising of anything. There is scarcely a product in the world that isn't championed by a promotional cap, and on tonight's news you will see a sportsman wearing one, the logo of his sponsor sitting pretty above the visor. The baseball cap is a billboard, an advertising spot on the head of one who, if he's not well paid, is nothing more than a mule.[...]

blogs.theage.com.au/thedailytruth/archives/2007/01/put_a_cap_on_it.html

So, i'm wondering what people think about this very interesting idea. Are all 'cappers' mules?

[praetorian]

I hate guys with caps.

[imaginarypallies]

'groes are now taking credit for making baseball cap cool? right, just like they invented the stoplight right? look at sitcoms from the 50s white kids in baseball caps everywhere.

[Funk Monk]

I dislike hats in general.

[Anodyne]

I haven't noticed too many people where I live wearing caps. Kids generally wear hoods, if anything. But I do notice that the type of people who do were caps tend generally be schmucks.

[Mike the Jedi]

I wear caps from time to time, for different reasons. Sometimes I might be in a rush and my greasy dago hair looks like crap, so I go for the easy solution and put a cap on. Or if I think it will keep my head warm or cool. Or just for style. Or to keep my hair out of my face.

At work I occasionally wear a cap with my store logo emblazoned on it. That way in case I'm wearing an overshirt or something else that might cover up the logo on my shirt, people still know I work there.

Though in general I'm proud of my longish black mane and like to show it off.

[JohnnyB]

I never wear hats

[Clemo]

I wear a hat occasionally, but I have trouble finding one that fits properly. My head is too round.

[oldpretan]

I think baseball caps only look good on pretty women with pony tails (roller skates & miniskirts are a bonus), I cover my male pattern baldness with a beret, usually black but I do have a cream one which I wear with my charity shop fur coat - looks really pimpish.

[nock]

"It is impossible to look intelligent or dignified, and difficult even to look civil, in a baseball cap"
Theodore Dalrymple

[jam]

I often wear a cap, simply to cover my baldness against the cold weather. Bad habit, I guess.
_{(the one in my avatar is to shade against the sun, though!)}

[Bilaad Binti]

I wear a cap or a hat usually in the winter time, or before a haircut is due. Actually, I gauge its time for another haircut when I can no longer comfortably wear my lucky hat without it leaving crease marks on my forehead because its gone too tight.

[Forrester]

I wear a beanie for the same reasons as Mike wears a cap. But you know, a super special awesome hand-knitted one.

Actually, I've never considered buying a cap as anything but to advertise a company I liked. (I don't know why, and I never actually wear one.)