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Wanna bet whether it was made with “recycled” paper?
As in “toilet paper”?

@Mark Matis — I’d fear it’s made from something even nastier and as close to worthless as you can get: $1 bills.

If getting that hat wet is “not an issue” then the paper has to be treated with something or it has to be paper made from some unusual fiber. @Stoaty, you know more about paper than most of us, even if your self-described specialty is paper with elephant shit particles. What’s your thought? Is the texture oily? slick? rough? smooth as a baby’s butt? Could it be Tyvek or some similar non-woven fabric being passed off as paper? Perhaps it’s made from a mixture of shredded pages from Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, Mao’s Little Red Book, and Finnegans Wake, and thus guaranteed to repel everything and everybody.

I have winter beanies made from spun plastic soda bottles….surprisingly warm. I suspect your paper hat, despite what the guy said, will come apart if it gets soaked. The tag shows you can’t wash it….

OMG! These hats are filling up landfills!
A paper written by a 15 year old proves it!

Or micro plastics,
Or something that causes cancer in the state of California,
certified to cause Global Climate Change

made by child labor (“child” age varies
for example, if it’s an American College Student less than age 26 it’s a child, and is technically a ‘teenager’ even if the person in question is over 17 and can be drafted by the military)

Has created an entire floating island in the Pacific that can’t be seen by satellite (but isn’t as large as Borneo).

Is destroying the Great Barrier Reef, the Lesser Barrier Reef, the Not Nearly as Great Barrier Reef, and the Baby Barrier Reef that wants to grow up to BE a Great Barrier Reef.

and it probably caused an Antarctic Glacier to calve an iceberg that’s nearly as big as

Borneo!

Trust me, within a week, there will be an article on this in the Daily Fail. With the Headline.
“Weasel’s Hat causes unforeseen catastrophe!”

To paraphrase Sigmund Freud:

“Sometimes a hat is just an old newspaper”

I like Groucho better.
😎
“I like my hat, but I take it off once in a while.”

I have a paper-straw hat, and it has held up well for 15+ years. I wore it to the beach a lot, but never got it wet. It’s rather shapeless, and I’ve squashed it into a bag many times. Unfortunately, it’s bubble-gum pink, a color that makes my redhead complexion look dreadful, but it was a gift from my granddaughter, so I will keep it forever.

I bought a new cowboy hat (from Gebo’s!) at the start of summer, with a 6 in. brim. It’s a Mexican copy of the “Sunbody” brand’s Sam Houston. I haven’t creased it yet, though.

One of the things i muse about in those rare moments when I’m not preoccupied with nuclear physics calculations is when did the baseball cap become la mode de l’époque?

I am fairly confident that I didn’t own one in the 1970’s and I am absolutely sure that neither my father nor grandfather owned one. Now, of course, I probably have more than a dozen, but while they’ve existed forever, my recollection is that they were strictly a blue-collar phenomenon…

Has the ball-cap conquered the UK and Europe (which is a separate place!! as it has America?

@ Some Veg. In the UK the baseball cap is worn mostly by old men (like me). Not much different from the cap I was required to wear at school in the 1950s except that it has a longer peak.