Bobble hats - wtf?

[campanula]

Has the population devolved to 6year olds or something? I admit to never having worn a bobble hat in my entire life - not as an infant and not even during that blessedly short period of football fanning back in the 80s...and yet this winter, here they are, being worn by adults, without even an ironic smirk. I love hats, and have many of them, but can't help feeling that the population of GB has now fatally rubbished our once proud hat wearing tradition.

 

[Pickman's model]

(((campanula)))

 

[Fez909]

Bobble hats have been 'a thing' for years now.

They're good, granddad. Calm down

 

[Fez909]

Here's that bastion of fashion-forward insider info, The Telegraph, on booble hats, back in 2015:

Ten best men's bobble hats for winter 2015

 

[Pickman's model]

This weekend I've seen people wearing them in lincoln, louth, grimsby and cleethorpes

They all seemed happy enough

 

[Sue]

Bobble hats have been 'a thing' for years now.

They're good, granddad. Calm down

A friend knitted me one for Christmas a few years ago. Not really my thing (though I do like a woolly hat) but I wear it when I see her.

 

[sealion]

I blame the hipsters

 

[RubyToogood]

They really have become ubiquitous this winter. No other hat is permitted to exist.
And they have to have the tail of a dead animal on them. Who the fuck wants that? Even if it is fake, just why, god, why?

 

[Looby]

I love them, I’ve worn them for years. I’ve got a mustard one with a knitted bobble and a black one with a fake fur bobble.
They’re warm, can be shoved in my bag and suit me. I shall continue to enjoy them.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I like them. I've 3.
All Aran knit...one black one navy and one cream. They have a knitted bobble on top. Not a ridiculously big bobble but just a nice wee one.
They've been really handy this winter.

 

[editor]

Has the population devolved to 6year olds or something? I admit to never having worn a bobble hat in my entire life - not as an infant and not even during that blessedly short period of football fanning back in the 80s...and yet this winter, here they are, being worn by adults, without even an ironic smirk. I love hats, and have many of them, but can't help feeling that the population of GB has now fatally rubbished our once proud hat wearing tradition.

The bobbles are getting bigger too.

 

[bimble]

Has the population devolved to 6year olds or something?.

Yes, basically.

 

[Looby]

Joyless old farts.

 

[Sue]

Hang on, is the bobble not just a pompom? Never heard of animal tail/ knitted bobbles.

 

[bellaozzydog]

Do they do them with chin straps, I keep getting my none bobble hats blown of and into puddles of mud/the sea

 

[Ax^]

remember wearing a bobble slouch hat for 2 years solid whilst growing out his hair for the first time

not so much fun

 

[Looby]

Hang on, is the bobble not just a pompom? Never heard of animal tail/ knitted bobbles.

Yeah I meant wool pompom not knitted.

 

[Sue]

Yeah I meant wool pompom not knitted.

Was just wondering if there was some new bobble technology I was unaware of.

 

[Shechemite]

Joyless old farts.

It’s a serious problem. Look what these bobble sporting hipsters are behaving like.

 

[campanula]

Well I normally don't notice stuff like that but had to ride my bike into town (which means paying attention) and I was astonished. We are well over peak baseball cap, my last era of headwear despair and had thought we were moving into a new age of hattish pride and innovation. It's not exactly the hat itself I query (much), just wondering how they have become such a ubiquity.

although a bobble?

 

[Shirl]

Was just wondering if there was some new bobble technology I was unaware of.

There is. A faux fur bobble is very this season, pay attention darling

 

[Looby]

There is. A faux fur bobble is very this season, pay attention darling

My faux fur bobble is lush. I like that they’re everywhere now as it gives me more choice. I should buy lots before everyone starts wearing something else. [emoji106]

 

[Fez909]

just wondering how they have become such a ubiquity

Surely you never believed that guff designers love to say about how they “sense a feeling in the air and translate it into clothes”? Please. Five designers doing “nautical librarian” or “military sideboob” doesn’t just happen spontaneously, you know. No, these things are strictly controlled by The Firm, which is how designers and fashion journalists nervously refer to the Council of Fashion Trends (COFT). You’ve read 1984, right? Think of it as Big Brother, but even scarier. Run by the terrifying Fashion Gods (Anna Wintour, obviously; Alexa Chung even more obviously), the COFT meets biannually to decide what every woman (and some men) must wear and they issue their edicts accordingly. These are then sent out to designers and retailers on golden scrolls, hand delivered around the world by terrified work-experience kids.

From here. An article about bobble hat ubiquity. 2016

 

[moose]

Many of the faux fur bobbles aren't faux any more. The cheaper the hat, the more likely it is to have actual fur on it, apparently, whatever the label says.

 

[Looby]

Many of the faux fur bobbles aren't faux any more. The cheaper the hat, the more likely it is to have actual fur on it, apparently, whatever the label says.

[emoji20]

 

[onenameshelley]

Many of the faux fur bobbles aren't faux any more. The cheaper the hat, the more likely it is to have actual fur on it, apparently, whatever the label says.

I was gonna say moose I shudder everytime i see one on a hat/keychain etc.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not a bobble hat, but I liked this one I spotted recently.

 

[ska invita]

Saw a big rasta hat (filled with dreads) with a bobble on it yesterday
looked a bit like a classic scottish bobble hat (not sure the proper name)

eta Tam O Shanter

 

[campanula]

I had forgotten about animal hats - now more convinced than ever, the UK is becoming totally infantilised.

See Fez's post - have fucked up the quote thingy in (deranged) dismay. I knitted 2 such hats this year...but they were for 5 and 6 year old girls...although I narrowly avoided wearing a knitted pixie hat (gave it to DiL as age appropriate, sort of).

 

[Mumbles274]

I have a disco balaclava bobble hat