Jimellow

I often find myself wearing a cap backwards, and am curious about what you all think when you see someone wearing a backwards cap?

Do you assume they are trying to be a gangster, or do you accept it as any other fashon statement people make every time they get dressed?

Also, generally, what kind of impression does a seeing a backwards cap make on you before you talk to them? Negative, positive, neutral?

Whenever I leave the house and have a cap on backwards my dad says, "Sup Homie?" or some other wisecrack that relates directly to the way I'm wearing my cap. I think it's funny, and it's all in good fun, but I'm wondering how you all react to seeing a backwards cap on someone's head?

I actually wear the caps backwards because I think it looks better that way, and am not a big fan of having a huge bill floating out in front of my forehead. Also, I have a Cleveland Browns hat with bright orange underneath the bill, and if not worn backwards, it's quite distracting.

What's your take on this?

DJ Happy

I've already ranted about this on the "What annoys you" thread. But to sum up what I wrote there, I think it's silly.

Sorry.

maleficent

I like to think I was way ahead of my time... Back in college (82-86), when I was too lazy to wash my hair before 8:00am classes, baseball caps were headwear of choice, since i wore/wear glasses, I hated the brim, because it always bumped my glasses, so i wore the cap backwards... It was a look.

Now, it doesn't bother me... Just... here's a personal pet peeve of mine... You are indoors, especially in a restaurant... Take your dang blasted hat off Other than that - -I don't care.

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Dark Assailant

I love wearing ball caps. I wear mine backwards when I go running so the wind doesn't pick it up. I also wear mine at certain bars / clubs.

Conclusion : can be good for comfort and fashion !

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Jimellow

Yea, that's something my dad always made sure I did as a kid.. Which is good, because indoors at a public place I agree the hat should come off.

Also, never underestimate the value of proofreading a title. I came back to this post and was embarassed by the lack of sense the title to this thread makes.

Glory's Sun

I think it depends on the person actually. Sometimes I wear it backwards, and sometimes the regular way. More often than not I wear it regular. I don't put any stock into what a person is wearing most of the time.

Pragma

I wear it backwards when I'm running or in the car, so the wind doesn't pull it off - I wear it forwards when I need it to shade my eyes.

I enjoy wearing hats, and that's as far as my thought process goes - nothing like "wanting to be a gangsta" here.

Now, if someone is wearing their hat sideways, I think that's probably trying too hard at the gangster thing.

ARTelevision

I wear mine frontwards because that's how we wear them in the country. The visor has a purpose sheilding one's eyes from the sun and things like brambles in the eye while walking through the woods. It has a practical heritage and could be considered a fashion statement I suppose, but in truth, I think it's not the same sort of fashion statement one makes when wearing it backwards. I do, however, prefer to be identified as one who does things the way they are done in a rural area that might be identified as backward, uneducated, anti-intellectual, and uncool. I enjoy the irony of that.

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Delirious

Whats worse is those punks that wear the golf visors and think they look cool~

Jimellow

How about golf visors backwards and upside down?

the_marq

I don't mind the hat being worn backward, it looks a little juvenile, but I still do it from time to time and I'm 32.

What does bug me are the 'crooked hats' where the brim is yanked over to one side...that looks stupid.

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Dark Assailant

I second that !

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warrrreagl

As George Carlin said, "If you're over the age of ten years old, then it's time to spin those caps back around."

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billege

I don't think, that I when I think, I think about it at all.

It's a hat. It goes on your head. You have one on yours. Good.

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Suave

Ahaha I do that. I don't REALLY wear my hat like that normally, but sometimes if I was picking someone up or whatever I'd wear that and my bathrobe just to look like a goof.

the_marq

Now I can respect that. If you are trying to look stupid for a gag or a goof you would wear your hat all crooked. It's the jackasses wandering around all day with their $50 ball caps on sideways that make me wonder if they're handicapped (I don't mean to be offensive to the handicapped). I just find myself thinking, "When did looking like an idiot become a fashion statement?"

If this keeps up the next fashion statment is going to be piss-stained pants and shoes on the wrong feet.

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afterhours2k4

I dont feel that wearing a hat backwards qualifies you for "gangsta" status. Being a former minor league baseball player we never wore our hats in the reverse on the field. This was out of respect for the game and the league.

The only thing that seems to bother me is the hat that is worn "off-center" and/or "slanted," making it look like you got dressed with the lights off. It may be a fashion trend but it annoys the hell out of me. Just looks sloppy.

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Blackthorn

Right on to this point. If you are indoors then lose the lid. Other than that whatever flips your skirt up skippy!

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MikeyChalupa

Backwards is okay in certain situations, as far as I'm concerned. But off-center, sticking up sideways, or 3/4 backwards ALWAYS looks stupid. Also, take the fucking tag off. What's that all about? Going to return it later? Want everyone to know exactly how much you paid for it? What purpose does that serve? Maybe I'm not supposed to uderstand it.

Of course, with a ballcap being part of a regulation Navy working uniform, it's the first thing I'll jump in someone's ass about if they have it off-center.

-Mikey

Suave

Haha marq. Well, every decade has its dumb styles (shredded jeans and plaid in the 90's, funny hair/parachute pants/supertight men's jeans/blouses on men/the list goes on for the 80's), and luckily I don't think they keep going downhill, they more oscillate between ludicrous and slightly odd.

tropple

I often wore my hat reversed while working to ensure a clear view or to keep it out of the way when viewing somthing through a scope. I don't have any problem with backwards hats. But, as The Marq mentioned, that off-center slanted thing is just damned annoying. When I see it, I have this incredible urge to shout, "square away that cover!" It has that "rag bag" look that just pisses me off. Damned kids.

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the_marq

Oh and one more thing. While we're on the topic, someone already mentioned you should take your hat of indoors. It's just the polite and civilized thing to do.

However, when it comes to sunglasses, inside....at night...when it's cloudy. Jebus H. Christ! What is wrong with you people? Now, I am not talking about the "club kid" shades that are fairly clear and typically worn for fashion, it's the dark dark shades that you know the guy is wearing in a futile and vain attempt to look cool and disaffected. Oh and they almost always have mullets. BAH! A pox on you.

...ok I think I am done ranting now.

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Jimellow

Nice, thanks!

I played Def Jam Fight 4 NY the other week, and while checking out their player customization feature, there were literally at least 20 different ways in which your character could wear his hat. Granted, that game is catering to the thug fashion statement, but it was just interesting to see so many different ways to wear a piece of headware.

The backwards and upside visor still tops the list for me though. I've never seen one worn in person, but they seem to be pretty popular when used in CAPs in online games.

omega2K4

I hardly wear hats anymore. If I do wear one backwards, its when I'm shooting a rifle. I can't stand for the bill of the cap to be in my face when I'm shooting.

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Redlemon

And this is why I generally don't wear hats. If the hat goes on, it stays on, otherwise I have wicked bad hat-head. In fact, I will feel the "ghost hat" on my head for the rest of the day, even if I subsequently wash my hair.

cjayemail

a hats a hat, it does not make you gangster or not gangster. your head wear does not change who you are or how you should be percieved at all...its just a hat

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Grancey

I believe people are entitled to do as they wish, as long as they do not harm or intend to harm someone else. If you want to wear your hat backwards, go for it. But you wanted personal opinions, which is different from beliefs. Therefore, my personal opinion, as a female, is that wearing a hat backwards gives off a persona of being immature. Also, it looks kind of stupid. Sorry to be so blunt, but it does. But I value people for who they are on the inside. So, how they look or what they wear does not affect my relationship with or my opinion of that individual.

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Fate

Having your hat backwards can mean a few things, you like the hat, but it doesn't suit you frontwards. It's damn windy outside and you need some aerodynamics to cut through the wind (speed walking, oh yes!... or not), but seriously, either way isn't a problem. It's usually how you compose yourself as a person with the hat, that's when it takes any effect.

Usually hats for guys are psychological comforters, similar to what long hair is to girls. So whatever, wear your hat how you want.

Except for those upside-down, backwards golf hats... you look likea flower vase.

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MSD

There is only one time I wear a cap, and I wear it backwards because that's the only way it fits at the same time as a paintball mask. It also gives some protection for the back of the neck that way.

In daily life, the only hat I wear is a cowboy hat, and if I wore that backswards or sideways I'd look like a developmentally-challenged Texan

radioguy

it depends on the hat. some hats have stupid brims that i don't like. some of the hats i have are high profile and those look stupid on my head. i don't have a problem with anyone wearing a hat backwards. a hat isn't going to change a person, so it doesn't bother me.

my grandfather won't let me in the house if i have my hat on backwards. i guess it is a generational thing.

sapiens

That was great! Thank you!

I generally don't wear hats. "One size fits all" doesn't fit me. Even fitted hats in my size are hard to come by.

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Carno

I don't give a shit about people wearing hats backwards. I sometimes wear hats backwards. I don't do it because I think it makes me look like a gangsta, I do it because I want to. In fact, why do people think that wearing a baseball cap makes someone look gangsta? I have never heard of that, nor do I know anyone who thinks that, except on TFP.

Don't judge people because they wear a hat backwards.. In fact, that's probably one of the dumbest things to judge a person about.

Rodney

If they're teenagers and white, I generally assume that they're posers, as are most people who follow any kind of style that's supposed to make them look rebellious and dangerous. I'm old, so I can tell you all about suburban punks, week-end hippies, and sixteen-year-old-kids in black motorcycle leather (riding Hondas!).

Also, I'm probably one of the few guys here old enough to have seen a lot of "Bowery Boys" movies, grade C comedies from the '40s and '50s about a bunch of gang kids from New York. A lot of _them_ wore their caps backward, because it was a style then as well. And since the Bowery Boys movies went on for 20 years (under different names) by the end the actors were all middle-aged guys playing goofy teenagers with their hats turned around. It was really pathetic.

So when I see kids thinking it's cool, I know that they sure wouldn't if they saw a Bowery Boys movie!

animosity

I tend to think that people that wear caps are trying to hide something, that maybe they dont have much confidence... When I see someone wearing a cap backwards I think a few things: First, at least it isnt sideways. Second, wasnt that the style in the early 90's? And third, he/she must have some confidence to wear a hat like that.

I dont have a problem with it. I dont know why anyone would. It is just an accessory.

tspikes51

Here's a tip: pick a better team, Brownie!!! Just kidding, I guess if you picked the best team (the Cincinnati Bengals of course), it still wouldn't solve the problem. I wear my Bengals hat backward in class so the bill doesn't get in people's way so much. I think that you shouldn't wear your hat backwards unless it is fitted or flex-fit so your hair doesn't some through the little hole in the back, and if you're eating, don't wear one at all.

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Jimellow

I used to share the same view on backwards caps and only wearing them backwards if fitted, but lately I have been flipping my hair so that it comes out the "hole." I'm not sure if it's fashionable or not (probably not), but I kind of like the look.

Also, it is through this "Experiment" that I have discovered that my hair can successfully flip the other direction. Generally the "wave" goes from left right right, but just the other day I noticed that when flipping it through the gap in the hat, it can also go right to left..

This is actually a pretty big development for me, because my hair has always kind of "grown" into the left to right wave.. And now that I know the other is possible, I can mix it up in the hopes that the hair will grow reasonable straight.

Lastly, regarding the Browns.. I thought this was their year to do well, but I think I thought way wrong.. I honestly have no idea how they beat the Redskins this past weekend, and I forsee them struggling to win games from here on out. I'd like to be wrong, but I'm just being realistic.. We'll see what happens though.

MSD

Oh, I forgot to add, upside-down, sideways visors should be punishable by house arrest.

Destrox

Long as you are not wearing a sweatband around your head with the visor / cap sideways or upsidedown I wont judge you.

If you do wear it in the previous description, I'm sorry but I will judge you as a idiot.

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Mephisto2

Do I take issue with it? No.

Do I think it looks stupid? Yes.

Is the wearer a prat by implication? Absolutely.

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