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Sideways
updated: Sep 30, 2012, 8:51 AM

By Edhat Subscriber

Does the bill on one side mean one thing and on the other side something else?

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COMMENT 326197	2012-09-30 09:05 AM
Does it bother you? This isn't something new - been done for a long, long time.
COMMENT 326200	2012-09-30 09:10 AM
I sometimes move mine around depending upon the direction of the sun. Maybe the city counsel can hire some consultants to get to the bottom of what is going on.
SBSAND	2012-09-30 09:28 AM
Yup, been this way for a longggggggggggg time
COMMENT 326211	2012-09-30 09:29 AM
Maybe The City Council could make it illegal to wear hats any other way than the standard position - and better yet, put up signs all over town informing everyone of the law.
MESARATS	2012-09-30 09:29 AM
Maybe it's like guys and their underwear some dress right and some left.
COMMENT 326214	2012-09-30 09:40 AM
Sideways hat-wearing is totally innocuous. Much more preferable than wearing pants 6+ inches below waistline.
COMMENT 326223	2012-09-30 09:58 AM
Shallow lives need visual distractions to get attention. Hey man, I'm a rebel. Yo.
COMMENT 326225	2012-09-30 10:02 AM
Only 5 year old boys, baseball catchers and professional photographers should wear them that way. Otherwise it's just a slavish adherence to gangbanger fashion that none of them understand
COMMENT 326228	2012-09-30 10:11 AM
Fashion-challenged goofy gangbangers. Goes with the knee high geriatric socks, the oversize plaid underwear shorts and the beater shirt. Makes one look like they have a low IQ so they don't appear like a smart guy. Ignorance is no longer just bliss, it's stylized and officialized! Second theory- it keeps the sun from toasting one side like when you're in a car. Third theory- they failed to read the instructions on how to wear the hat.
COMMENT 326230	2012-09-30 10:16 AM
The City Council should pass a law banning hats being worn any other way than in the standard front to back position. Signs could then be put up all over town warning of the new law.
COMMENT 326234	2012-09-30 10:17 AM
Most (weird, in my opinion, but I've never been in prison) fashion trickles down to general society from gangs, prisons and urban fringe behaviors. Yes, suburban white teens, wannabe cool kids, faux hipsters, and even adults trying to claim an identity adopt and mimic the edgy dress and ways of wearing common items that outliers and non-conformists initiate. Sociologists have studied this, and it's pretty interesting. Personally, I'd probably happily accept a trade of hats sideways to pants around the knees. THAT is at tragic look. Makes anyone look like a rodeo clown, not a tough guy.
ROGER DODGER	2012-09-30 10:35 AM
I have always worn my pants around my ankles and my hat sideways What is the problem? it's a free country..
COMMENT 326248	2012-09-30 10:40 AM
What motivates teenage girls to wear shorts that have legs only one inch long? Most would deny that they are trying to get leering stares. What motivates fat people to wear pants with the belt line below the hip? Bending over causes observers to look the other way. A sideways cap is much easier to understand.
COMMENT 326254	2012-09-30 10:50 AM
See above. Visual irritation is a form of human expression.
COMMENT 326256	2012-09-30 10:53 AM
Courage.
COMMENT 326257	2012-09-30 10:54 AM
Could this cap-wearing fashion style have a connection to that movie a few years back about the two guys drinking lots of wine during a bachelor weekend in/around the Santa Ynez Valley? Perhaps.
COMMENT 326268	2012-09-30 11:11 AM
When I was growing up, we were all taught that a gentleman removes his hat indoors, except for the barn or stables. He was also taught to remove his hat in the presence of a lady. (With the gentleman assuming every female was a lady). How times have changed.
COMMENT 326289	2012-09-30 12:15 PM
Sideways Hat plus talking on cell phone while walking = SO COOL!
COMMENT 326293	2012-09-30 12:51 PM
Seems to me fashion is in the eyes of the wearer and if one wants to wear one's cap upside down, sideways, backwards or inside out, well - that's one's perogative.
COMMENT 326301	2012-09-30 01:14 PM
Maybe they could wear their pants on their head and "cover" with their hat--like a fig leaf. Now there's a new fashion trend.
SHOREBIRD	2012-09-30 01:47 PM
Maybe they have misshapen heads and that's the only way the hat fits?
COMMENT 326318	2012-09-30 02:21 PM
It's been happening for decades. And I'm glad to see it. Saves a lot of time when I need to know if someone is an idiot. I know they're idiots at a single glance. No wasted conversation. No disappointment.
COMMENT 326321P	2012-09-30 02:24 PM
To each his own. It use to bother me but now it neither here nor they now, just something the younger (I am 50+) generation does to be different. If that is even possible to do any more.
COMMENT 326331	2012-09-30 02:54 PM
Does no one remember Huntz Hall with the Bowery Boys? Copied by Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick? The sideways/off angle hat was a sign of goofy wackiness---two of my favorite characters, but these kids today just don't get it!
COMMENT 326338P	2012-09-30 03:13 PM
LOL 318!
COMMENT 326368	2012-09-30 04:30 PM
where are you seeing this?? I haven't seen this happening since the early 2000s... im in high school and not one person at school does this
ROGER DODGER	2012-09-30 06:15 PM
Sounds like someones alittle late..
COMMENT 326399P	2012-09-30 06:20 PM
389, calm down a little. Everyone on these boards needs a little less serious stuff from time to time. Besides I 've wondered about that myself. Goes hand in hand with the pants with the crotch hanging down around the knees and terribly short shorts that women wear that don 't necessarily lend themselves to every wearer. Know what I mean?
COMMENT 326412	2012-09-30 06:52 PM
I really don't care what anybody wears or how they wear it - as long as they are decent people. Fashion has nothing to do with anything. It is fabric people drape off their bodies. Makes zero difference to me.
COMMENT 326463P	2012-10-01 08:15 AM
From 1940's.
FLICKA	2012-10-01 09:07 AM
GENERALTREE, you hit the nail on the head! For cranky people who complain about what Edhat posts; why do you bother to read it? I check in daily for news, information and entertainment.
SEEDLADY	2012-10-01 11:43 AM
WWII air corps maintenance crews wore their caps "funny" too. They flipped the visor up and slightly to the side and it became a 'look' as well. I I believe it was for better peripheral vision while working on the planes, but not positive about that. So the sideways thing is Gangbanger...sheesh I thought it was Skater...silly geezer me.

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