How To Size & Maintain Your Hats

Hey, I'm Jeff, and I'm here to show you, actually, how to pretty much fit and maintain your hats. Right here I've got a variety of hats. These three are 59fifties, New Eras, and these one's a Flexfit 210. First of all, in shopping for hats, one thing you can do is measure your head. But unfortunately, not all hats are made the same. This one right here is a 100% cotton hat, and it also has a liner. Hats with liners usually tend to fit a little bit tighter than hats that don't. I usually wear 7 and 5/8ths to 7 and 3/4ths. This one actually fits a little bit bigger, so the 7 and 5/8ths actually fits pretty well. This one right here is a wool blend hat, also lined as well, this one does fit a little bit tighter, so it actually fits me a little better, and it has a double-stacked brim. This one's also 7 and 3/4ths, this one fits a little bit snug, so that's why it's up a size from the 7 and 5/8ths. This one's a wool blend as well, but it is not lined. This hat right here is a Flexfit 210. Flexfit 210 means that two different hat sizes will fit ten different heads, so this one fits from 7 and 1/4th to 7 and 5/8ths. So I'm kind of in that realm, at the top end. It has a little stretch, a pretty easy fit. Here's a trick for maintaining your hat. Most of the time, when you buy a hat, they usually come this way, with the back pushed in perfectly so it pretty much cuts the hat in half. This will actually keep the front structure from bending and creasing. I accidentally stepped on this one, so you can see right here that there is a slight crease in the hat - pretty much an imperfection which you may or may not be able to take out. A lot of people like hanging their hats on their walls, on like a pin or something, but that can actually cause a lot of dirt to fall on top of your hat, which will be hard to get off when you try to rub and brush off, so pretty much the back half will be dirtier than the front half. The way I stack my hats is I keep them pretty much in my closet, on a rack, stacked in this fashion right here. It pretty much supports the back, pushes in the back, keeps the front nice and round. Now if you buy a hat that fits perfectly the first day, you're loving it, and you perspire in it a little bit, chances are that hat will shrink. Here's a trick to actually snapping back the cap, so it will actually fit over your head a little bit before it shrinks again, due to the perspiration. You take your hat off, you hold it securely in the front, holding the bill with your thumbs and your fingers in the inside, throw it over your knee, and then you gently pull and start increasing your strength until you hear a couple of snaps. This will actually help stretch out your hat, it pretty much just breaks the binding on the inside, just for a better fit. And if your hat's a little bit too big to start off with, you can take a wet sponge and just start dabbing the inside of the hat, just to moisten it up a little bit. And then you throw it in the sun overnight, to actually shrink your hat just a little bit, so it may or may not become your perfect size. I myself like keeping my bills completely straight, maybe slightly curved. If you like more of a full curve look, here's another trick you can also do. You can curve the bill like this, take a rubber band and wrap it around. This will actually give you a really, really curved look. Or you can curve the bill a little bit with your hands, flip it into the hat, as so, and then keep it like that overnight. If you do that for a week or so, you'll actually naturally curve the bill yourself. Maybe you're wondering what size hat you should be able to wear. This is kind of a tricky process. You could always measure your head and see how many centimeters your circumference is: 61.5 centimeters equals 7 and 3/4ths. But it's always best to actually try a hat on. then you know your general realm. I wear from 7 5/8ths to 7 and 3/4ths, which is about 1/8th of a difference, 5/8ths being the small end and 3/4ths being the high end. You're going to want to stay in between those two sizes, not really scale down to something really tight, because snapping will only help for so long.

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[lilsmokeyNP]

Throw it in the sun over night??? lol

[ZapposHowTo]

@lilsmokeyNP It works great in parts of the world like Alaska ;)

[streetsidegwallah]

@ZapposHowTo the top part of my hat fell of (the little button at the top) how do i put it back on? it keeps coming off

[ZapposHowTo]

@streetsidegwallah Sounds like the hat may be defective. I would look into getting it replaced.

[streetsidegwallah]

@ZapposHowTo naah cus my basicly my friends his one the button fell of aswell and he juss stopped wearing it now mine fell of :L

[ZapposHowTo]

@streetsidegwallah To our knowledge, apart from maybe glueing it back on, there really is no way to re attach it. You could just stop wearing it as well. The decision is yours. Hope this helped!

[ZapposHowTo]

@MegaMytube99 many people tend to wear their hats in different ways. slightly off to the side, fully to the side, backwards, or straight forwards. It helps bring out a bit of individuality.

[dnicesse]

Put it in da sun over nite? -_- what part of da earth u live on? But anyway I like drawing art on the inside of my bill an flip it upwardz any methodz on keeping billz flipped up?

[manny7663]

How do u thow a hat in the sun overnight u dumb ass

[harlemxxcrazy1]

I wear 7 5/8 n 7 3/4 is true all hats different ??

[abcdefg12345775]

and fourths of an inch can also be called quarters.

[abcdefg12345775]

Yo just a heads up. on your light blue hat, you say that 7 5/8 is larger than 7 3/4... its the other way around. put them both on a common denominator 7 5/8 = 7 10/16 while 7 3/4 = 7 12/16. No biggie just letting you know.



[brianbf1986]

@streetsidegwallah is that english?

[xPowerofwillx]

I wore a flex-fit S/M and that fit me perfect, but it got ripped in half at school so I opened a can of whoopass on the guy who did it, which was rewarding, But I'm wondering If I should get a S/M Fitted. Would that fit? It its a little big thats ok but if the fitted will be smaller its a no. Or a SnapBack? I would rather have the fitted, but want it to fit if I'm buying offline. Please help!

[TheDeamon1808]

I bought a 7-1/2 new era fitted but its kind of big and i found out my size is 7 ho wan i shrink it without messin up the inside

[HoustonElite25CrowdR]

Helped! Thanks alot!

[GoTrainspotting]

2:30 sound change :D

[Jagerhead83]

did you just say "throw it in the sun over night"?