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Locals know what to wear for the first snowfall of the season
By adamg on Sun, 12/11/2022 - 5:57pm
Ari Ofsevit captures a local man doing what a local man must do at first snow.
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Idiot in shorts
He probably goes to Boston College.
As a fellow snow-loving idiot
I stand with him.
(or scoot, or whatever)
Social Phenomenon
It is an interesting social phenomenon (somehow it seems more a social phenomenon than a fashion one) that males now wear shorts year round, regardless of weather, occasion etc. The inverse of this is that both male and female wear winter wool hats (now known by the infantile term "beanie") year round, regardless of how hot it may get. Though I doubt anyone of the current era traces it back, its origins seem to be in the grunge period of the early 90s. I don't recall it happening prior to that.
WRT the hats
The late Mike Nesmith wore a wool cap as part of The Monkees in the 60s -- long before grunge. He was nicknamed "wool hat."
And UMass Lowell male students were wearing shorts year-round at least 30 years ago. The female students seemed to have more sense.
Mike wore that
because he was losing his hair, and baldness didn't fit the Prefab Four image.
That guy.
That guy.
Definitely a student
The jackass probably goes to BC.
If your calling it a beanie...
You are definitely not a Bostonian, your just visiting for some reason (College/Work). The correct term is "Skully cap" if your from here and they've always been a year round accessory.
skally caps
In Southie they were known as "skally (scally) caps" years ago.
The name I first knew them by was….
…””watch cap”. A lot of veterans used that name. My father had his from his time in the Navy.
Same here
Same here. Especially called by that name I think of them as something one bought at the army surplus store.
The name I first knew them by was….
…””watch cap”. A lot of veterans used that name. My father had his from his time in the Navy.
Scally cap is different
The old school Southie scally cap is not the knit “beanie” watch cap; it is a brimmed hat, somewhat similar to (but not the same as) what is also called a “newsboy” hat.
(I’m not endorsing this vendor; just the first image that Google turned up: https://www.bostonscally.com )
Mine is tarnish brown and
Mine is tarnish brown and only worn in spring and summer. My grandfather had several and wore his year round. The only time I'd see him wearing it with the brim in the back, he'd be playing cards.
Well now I’m really puzzled
First you say that a scally cap is a knit wool “beanie” watch cap; then, when shown a picture of an actual scally cap, you say you own one. I mean, personally my hat game is pretty weak: I don’t really know a bowler from a homburg, and I only own one watch cap, one ball cap, and one canvas sun hat (this in spite of the lovely sales clerk who worked at Salamagundi years ago making me feel like whenever I tried on any of her hats, I became the most handsome man she had ever seen and my jokes became dazzlingly funny) … but I digress … you shouldn’t go handing out hat disinformation: it could be dangerous.
Skullys and Scallys are two
Skullys and Scallys are two different hats.
One worn buy soldiers and one by cool cats!
Am I missing something?
I can't tell what kind of hat, if any, the scooter fellow is wearing. He is wearing a hood over his head.
"Social Phenomenon"
All of this discussion has spun off from the anonymous comment above captioned "Social Phenomenon," which just discusses the odd sartorial choices of Kids These Days, and calls the term "beanie" infantile for some reason.
I admit that I've long been puzzled about when and why "beanie" became the common term for a watch cap - in my mind beanie is the name for a brimless felt hat, especially if it's topped with a small decorative propeller.
Thanks for the clarification
And yes, a beanie of any kind is a brimless hat IMHO.
Stocking cap
Grew up calling that a "stocking cap".
Beanie seems to be in favor now, particularly with a pompomless stocking cap.
I have never heard "beanie"
I have never heard "beanie" used as generic for any sort of hat.
I only ever heard "beanie" used to refer to the little cap worn by university underclassmen maybe 7 decades ago (or longer) - with or without propeller.
I never heard "watch cap", either, but didn't grow up around here. A plain brimless winter hat - hardly ever wool anymore - would be a "ski cap" or a "knit hat"
hats
I own one hat. It's a balaclava. In a pinch the hood from my Carhartt jacket is a good substitute.
skally caps do not have much
skally caps do not have much in common with wool beanies or watch cap
Well…
They have more in common with wool beanies and watch caps than they do with anteaters or nuclear submarines, I guess.
"Beanies"
"Beanies" are worn by people from LA who also wear Carharrt. And they wear them for the same reason, i.e., no functional reason at all.
What really kills me about L
What really kills me about L.A. is they also wear hooded parkas sometimes. Does it really get that cold in L.A.?
Shorts in the winter
I love wearing shorts all year long in Boston. After a short walk to the supermarket or Dunks I return home to a toasty warm house! How would you know what warmth is if you don't feel the cold?