Distressed Baseball Cap

 This is basic blue baseball cap purchased for £3 pounds 

I then distressed to make it look well used for a post-apocalypse environment

Now there are lots of online videos teaching you how to distress items, from dragging behind cars to burying in the mud for 6 months.

But the easiest and quickest way is a mixture of spray paint and coarse sandpaper.

and then just rub in the dirt, possible while the paint is still wet.

Dancing Pallbearers Hat

 This hat or rather the dancing pallbearers that wear it gained fame after BBC news feature 

According to Wikipedia the pallbearers who are from Ghana are locally referred to as the 'Nana Otafrija Pallbearing and Waiting Service.

The black hat is a typical foldable military field cap in its shape

I have no idea if this hat has an origin outside its fame as a hat worn by the dancing pallbearers, but I can only find it against cosplay adverts

This hat came to me via a friend who knows I collect hats and was enjoying the pallbearer memes on youtube.

Yellow Snood

This is about a basic snood as you can make. 

Used for a group post-apocalypse extremist lrp characters

The snood in this case is a rectangle of fabric joint at the short edge, raw edges have been left.

Snoods are often forgotten useful article of clothing you can wear as scarf, hood, they can tidy up the edge of many costumes

Orange Turban

This is a basic rectangle of lightweight orange fabric tied around the head to create a turban.

Used for a group of bad guys in our LRP club as image below, combined with black trousers and tabard they created a great look

Grrr

I usually start with a knot in the end of the fabric, put this at the back of the end and stretch the fabric full width to front, where I twist the fabric to tighten to skull before wrapping the remaining fabric around the head to form a headband which I then tuck in creating a secure head covering

As the image below the end of the fabric can be tucked in around the head or left loose. When left loose this can also be partially tucked in providing a face covering (see top image)

Unexpected Hat Haul

 Earlier in the week, I bid on a pile of hats, a made a rock bottom bid not expecting to win, although among the 11 hats I had spotted 4 hats that looked worth having. 

Anyway, I won.

When I received the parcel, I found really only 2 were worth the bid (hidden at the bottom of this pile), a couple more may find a use, overall worth the low bid, but glad I did not bid more.

One I photographed but was only worthy of the bin, the green one above.

Those in the photo above are from a King and I theatre production, I'm not sure yet what to do with, some need a bit of TLC, I will photograph them before they go or use comes to mind

Maroon Beret

 This beret is deep maroon red.

Maroon berets are associated with Airbourne forces.

I found this hat in a giveaway box, it was quickly claimed by me, after all, collecting hats is what I do.

The original badge has been removed and replaced with a piece of yellow fabric.

Pictures were taken in the ruins of Ogmore Castle whilst on holiday

Gryffindor Beanie

This beanie is in the colours of the House of Gryffindor from the Harry Potter stories

It also has a Gryffindor badge on the front

As far as remember nobody in the films wore a Gryffindor beanie, but there are plenty fans who will know for sure.

A comfortable machine knitted beanie, suitable for spell caster of most ages

Hat are very useful for those cursed with the Calvorio spell 

 

Sindhi Cap

The Sindhi cap 

This is a hat worn mainly by people in Balochistan Sindh and by Pashtun people that live in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 

It is a part of Sindhi and Saraiki culture.

In Sindhi culture, the hat is given as a gift of respect.

Fully authentic Sindhi caps are handwoven and involve many hours of hard work  

Intricate patterns are embroidered on the hat, and very often small pieces of mirror and gemstones are also sewed into it.  

The hat is almost a typical pillbox shape, (similar to a smoking cap or Kufi hats) the big difference is the arched shape cut out in the front to expose part of the forehead.