AJ
US Veteran
Never heard of a "Gimme Hat" Must be an NC thing. Have always called them baseball caps, even the advertising ones.
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With all the talk about "hats".....how many here are tired of so many wearing their caps backwards.....when I see a person with a cap on backward...yet hand shielding their eyes from the sun,,,I just shake my head...
AJ
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Backwards to me is just silly In the Marine Corps we were taught to never wear a hat (called a Cover) in doors, it was improper etiquette. Now when I see any form of hat worn indoors I just shake my head. To me both are just bad manners. But in this day and age not many have any manners anymore. There was a thread about that subject the other day.
I have and do on occasion wear my cap backwards. Mostly to keep sun off my neck or just cuz I wanna.
Blame that pesky "persuit of happiness" thing.
PS: I don't wear "thank me" caps either.
Blame that pesky "persuit of happiness" thing.
PS: I don't wear "thank me" caps either.
Here's the epitome of someone who knew how to wear a cap properly, Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher and his famous long-billed fisherman's cap. I'm sure it never occurred to him to wear it backwards. Definitely not a gimme cap!
I worked for a crop-protection products company for many years as a tech service rep and gimme caps were, as mentioned above, a form if currency. Polo shirts, winter vests, and quality winter coats were premiums above caps and all went to good & faithful customers. All had colorful logos of our products mostly. They were popular as most of our trade names had a sort of military theme like "Scepter" or "Pursuit" and were popular products in their day.
Purchasing them, to give away, always came out of your own budget but woe be to the rep that didn't have boxes of "business-builders" in the truck ready for dispersal.
I had a fine, large, collection of never-worn ag-related logo gimme caps until it got downright silly - and I needed the room for firearm storage. I divested thousands of them, much to my wife's relief, donating them to kids clubs and such.
I heard "gimme-cap" a lot when I was in school in North Carolina in the early 80s and my wife has always called them that - she's from Tennessee. Seems most everyone in rural Texas knows what a gimme-cap is.
Purchasing them, to give away, always came out of your own budget but woe be to the rep that didn't have boxes of "business-builders" in the truck ready for dispersal.
I had a fine, large, collection of never-worn ag-related logo gimme caps until it got downright silly - and I needed the room for firearm storage. I divested thousands of them, much to my wife's relief, donating them to kids clubs and such.
I heard "gimme-cap" a lot when I was in school in North Carolina in the early 80s and my wife has always called them that - she's from Tennessee. Seems most everyone in rural Texas knows what a gimme-cap is.
