Posted on 09/13/2015 6:35:38 AM PDT by Drew68
An old-school, wide-brimmed rope hat — some in white and navy, others in red and white — has seemingly become the ironic must-have fashion accessory of the summer.
It is the “Make America Great Again” campaign hat first worn in July by Donald J. Trump in Laredo, Tex., and since spotted on hipsters from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles and in the football locker of Tom Brady, not to mention on the heads of the hundreds of Trump loyalists at his rallies.
“I was certainly surprised to the extent it caught on,” Mr. Trump said in a phone interview last week. “It’s become the hottest fashion item there is.”
The hats, in four different designs, are $25 on the Trump campaign website and in Midtown at the store in the Trump Tower, where they promptly sold out.
The hats’ appeal seems to rest partly in their studied outmodedness (think the 2.0 version of the trucker hats repopularized by millennials) and partly in their uncanny ability to capture the current absurdist political moment, with 17 Republicans vying, circuslike, for their party’s nomination.
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I have one, wear it everywhere, people look, some ‘humpfff’ others: where did you buy it?
I love it!!!
Anything the arts/fashion-fags at the NYTs don’t understand, and that is wildly popular, they glom onto as “ironic”.
I bet if he had one printed in Spanish it too would be a winner.
I have to get one.I think it would look good with my “When negotiations fail” HK t-shirt with the MP5 on the front and back.
Ordinarilly, I'd shoot off a one word response .. assholes .. or something like that, but I'm overwhelmed at the thought process that brings a person to that conclusion .... it's beyond asshole.
It's much easier to the NYT than admitting the truth; that people just like Donald Trump.
“Old school wide brimmed rope hat”.
What are they talking about, doesn’t the NYT recognize a baseball cap?
Bet the CEO of Macy’s is not in a happy place.
I’ve got one it’s cool!
You’re right. I just look at that and shake my head, and thank God I wasn’t inflicted with that person’s brain malfunction.
Trump’s Campaign Hat Becomes an Ironic Summer Accessory
Title should read
TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN HAT BECOMES AN “ICONIC” SUMMER ACCESSORY
Even if it weren’t a campaign accessory, it would be cool to own one, just because the are very nice hats, far better than baseball hats.
I think it is ironic for the Failing New York Times to criticize anyone who is successful.
The New York Times has success envy.
TWB
I am trying to understand how the Trump hats are different from baseball caps.
I bet if he had one printed in Spanish it too would be a winner......
That idea is so funny. I hope it happens. I bet the legal hispanics would wear them. Send one to John Ellis Boosch.
American-made as well, from what I read.
Quaint.
Trump’s “rope hat” is modeled in the fashion of older styled brimmed golf hats. They are more rounded around, with a flat peak, rather than a peak that follows curvature of head like a baseball cap.
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