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Shut the fugk up.

First one I bought it cost $8 still have it last one was a orange $12 it was hard to get the money out of my pocket to buy it.....wife picked up a grey at the second hand store like new $2.....
Have a red one was my Dads my guess from the early 50's before the Mackinaw Bridge was built and he hunter there then.....
They have been keeping my head warm hunting since the mid-60's......

In Florida???

I have a Filson Wild(water?) fowl hat too. Waxed cotton outside for more weather protection and more fudd or ghey factor depending on your view.

Aaaaaw, you guys are twins!!!!!

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I do know. And when I stay in Vermont, I fashionably style my Stormy Kromer hat with VT made Darn Tough socks and Birkenstocks.

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Whilst slummin' an old Subaru topped with a kayak.

Flave’s a Wabi fanboy….
LMAO!

goalie;
Top of the morning to you sir, I hope that the day back east is looking to be a decent one.

Thanks for the thread and the early morning laughs it's provided!

Since in part of your former life you likely traveled north of the medicine line, you can likely relate to this story, but if need be one of us will have to translate.

Back in the early '80's we used to get a custom combine crew up from the bottom of South Dakota to do our combining. They'd start the year down in Ogallala, Nebraska work north as far as us and the head south again - something like that.

Anyways one Saskatchewan night it's blowing a gale and close to freezing and I'm talking to Mark the head guy and a couple other combine operators as they've loaded the semi I'm driving with the last load of grain for the night.

We're all in ball caps - usually it was either a tractor, seed or chemical company that gave out caps back then, but they were often mesh back only and as such quite cold and didn't slow down the wind at all.

I mentioned to Mark that we had a box of toques in the shop and I'd bring them all one if they wanted, which of course was met with blank stares from all 3 of the US crew.....

I then asked, "Do you know what I'm talking about, when I say toque?"

Mark replied, "No, not really, but like as not tonight Dwayne, I'd try and eat it as I'm awful hungry right now!"

We then had a discussion about what toques were called stateside and I learned about "watch caps" and "knitted caps" that night, so an international exchange of education was achieved by all I suppose.

Speaking personally, I've had a grey Kromer for decades now, I want to say before our now adult girls were born, so if ownership of it didn't change my gender preference substantially as far as anyone who knows me could tell.

Jim talked about Crown Cap in Winnipeg last winter and I do mean to get one just for the sake of science and keeping Canadians working too.

We don't get bad winters here in our part of BC, so maybe -25° C once in a great while up hunting, but usually not colder than -20° here at the home place and that for short bursts, so it's likely overkill.

My lineage is mostly Teutonic as far as we can tell, so most head gear stay stuck to the corners, even without hair to keep it there in my case.

Anyways sir, I just wanted to say thanks for the chuckles and hope your hunts are all grand this fall.

Dwayne

I think wabi is trying to earn points with Flave.

It won’t work.

Wabi is the OG

Deal with it….

Fixt it for ya.

Lol.

Well, I think it's cute that you two are fashion twins!!!!!

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Our veterinarian carries that model next to the lariats and ivermectin paste in the lobby. Stylish cowgirls need some winter headgear too.

Nailed it!

Kromer/Crown: I've never seen the appeal (see first signature line). I prefer a Jones Cap.

I don't happen to own either kind, but the appeal would seem to be a comfortable, warm, practical hat you can wear with or without ear protection. If looks are more important to a man than practicality, he should hunt in a tweed suit and tie, maybe.