"What dedicated gaming hats do you have?" Topic

If you have a special chapeau you like to adorn yourself with for gaming, what is it?

Options (choose all that apply):
Fez
Top Hat
Pirate's Hat
Fedora
Pilot's cap and goggles
Baseball cap with game logo/theme
Cowboy Hat
Bowler
Pith Helmet
Viking Helmet
Roman Helmet
Forage cap
Shako
Bearskin Hat
Coonskin Cap
"Robin Hood" cap with feather
Beanie
Tricorne
Bicorne
Pickelhaube
Doughboy's Helmet
WWII US Army Helmet
WW1 British Army Helmet
WWII German Army Helmet
Turban
Mickey Mouse Hat
Sutton Hoo Helm
Great Helm
Panama Hat

…and at this point, I've run out of ideas, but y'all can add any I might have missed!

Oh, and the ubiquitous:

I don't have any gaming hats.
None of the above/no opinion.
Not my cup of tea.
This is ridiculous.
Other…

I have a WW2 American tanker helmet

For our annual Marston Moor games I had a TOS complete with ginger wig for commanding the Jocks,

Tally Ho!

I have many hats and helmets, the bulk being from various re enactment things (ACW, WW1, WW2, Cold War, Vietnam) but I do have a few others including a pith helmet, two Fez a legionary helmet, a bicorne and a tricorn.

actually Saturday was wishing I had one, a Napoleonic shako would be awesome. I do have my American steel helmet but it's a bit heavy.

I do have a replica ACW Union kept, but I do not wear it while gaming. I do not have any hats dedicated for gaming wear

Black Watch Glengarry

Just a black beret with a big red star, al la Che.

None. I game indoors.

+1 Robert
None for me either.

None, though I may wear a baseball style cap now and then.

Beret with patch.

Black beret with United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center patch to be precise, and the whole UNGCC cosplay that I've worn while running kaiju games at Anime Boston.

Also a Saunder's University tankery cosplay for use while running Girls und Panzer games, but there's no hat with that.

Additional hats (some from my own collection):
Wizard Hat (Mickey Mouse Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Wizard Hat (Gandalf)
Wizard Hat (Pointy with stars)
Witch's Hat
Australian-style "Outback" Fedora
Sailor's Hat (Gilligan)
"Skipper's Hat" (Yachting cap)
Greek Fisherman's Hat

I honestly want to wear hats during gaming but always feel like a dope when I try and take them off a few minutes in. I guess I don't game to role play as the commander, so the disconnect eventually just overrides the desire. That's a me problem, so not casting aspersions on anyone.

I have the following hats available, but never wear them while gaming.

Imperial Officer's Cap from Star Wars
Red 5 Helmet from Star Wars
My old Navy Dixie Cup (from when I was in the military)
A Soviet Sailor's Cap from the Cold War
A bowler hat (authentic from 1906)
A Black Cowboy Hat
A renaissance fop hat
A Sutton Hoo Helmet
A ton of baseball caps of various things.

I have a Juno Beach baseball hat and that is that – don't wear it except to go outside; I have my work hats from the Ministry of Justice but not the sort of thing you wear gaming

Parzival, are you sure you're not confusing us with Shriners? Or the editor of MW?

My thinking cap

Sorry, always felt that was silly.

My tinfoil hat. And you'd wear one too if you realized what They are up to!

Well, I'm neither a Shriner nor the editor of MW, and I on occasion will indeed wear a hat for gaming, including some on the list.

But you're covered by three possible responses, so in fact I do know that some people don't wear hats and some people look down on those who do— it's a poll, so it covers the mugwumps, too.

"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."— CS Lewis

Oh, forgot one:

R2-D2 Mickey Mouse Hat

Zombie Apocalypse response team ball cap

That information is classified.

Although I will admit I am part of the Men Who Wear Hats Indoors Club when attending board game and miniature game conventions. (Years ago, a fellow gamer at a con came up with that moniker.)

Was looking online for a reproduction Russian or Prussian Napoleonic era Shakopee, didn't see much that way, lots of French, few British

I have a great helm that I made for myself. Well, I had a dead Alfa Romeo lying around that needed repurposing.

Don't wear it for gaming though – can't see ‘uck-all with it on…

Soviet Naval Infantry combination cover
dixie cup
boonie
watch cap
ushanka
fedora
plain grey beret
driver's cap
cloche
deerstalker
newsboy
matine
floppy
pillbox
cocktail
bucket
visor
fascinator

… and Donald Duck hat

none

I have one French kepi.

Several, which I occasionally wear.

I did once mock up a woodland camouflage canvas beret with a red side flash and a Soviet star with hammer and sickle, which I thought would help me get into a convention RPG game set in the late Soviet era. (I got into the game, but the GM didn't even notice the hat until about an hour into it!)

At conventions, I often wear a black wool beret with maroon trim and a steel sunburst pin that passes for the logo of the Third Imperium from Traveller.

I also have a blue ball cap with a USCSS Nostromo patch and scrambled eggs that I've worn to conventions.

That being said, though, I really don't have any hats that I consistently wear while gaming. I'm usually bare-headed at the table.

In my collection:

Scottish blue bonnets, glengarries, balmorals, tam o' shanters.
Tricorne
Foreign Legion kepis
Coonskin cap
Wizard's pointy hat
Ancient Egyptian costume headress
WWI trench cap
Soviet forage cap
Top hat
"Tommy" Brodie steel pot
Mountie peaked hat
Irish Volunteer rebel slouch hat, turned up on one side
Pith helmets in white and khaki
CSA artillery kepi
US Navy sailor cap
US Navy officer's peaked cap
Ancient Greek hoplite helmet repro
Medieval sallet repro
French voyageur knit cap
berets
Greek fisherman's caps
Gangster trilby, fedora, newsboy's flat cap
leather snap-brim cap (Dylan, Lennon)
"Zorro" gaucho hat
prisoner striped cap
Santa Claus cap
Valkyrie winged helmet

Gosh, and wonder what I'm forgetting?

I also have a blue ball cap with a USCSS Nostromo patch and scrambled eggs that I've worn to conventions.

I really want a JXSDF ball cap!

Santa Claus cap

I forgot traditional red conical gnome hat…

I forgot:

Liberty Caps
Cat Ears
That Japanese kamikaze headband with the sun and a slogan that you tie on.

US Navy sailor cap

That's a "dixie cup".

US Navy officer's peaked cap

A garrison cap?

Tricorne…for all my Pirate and 18th century gaming…

P.

No not a garrison cap but a combination cap that is worn by officers and CPOs. I wore them in High School and the Navy. I got out just before they went back to cracker jacks. I really liked the CPO-type uniforms also known as Zumwalt uniforms, that all enlisted men wore. I got out just in time.

Now you got me wanting a Prussian or Russian Napoleonic shako

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a combination cap

I would have got that if you had said combination cap.

I got out just in time.

The only thing constant is change, except also that sailors like to gripe. The current NWU and SU go back toward what you liked. When they were introduced, tons of sailors were complaining about replacing dungarees. I hated getting rid of the Eisenhower jacket for about the same reason … the varsity jacket is just a generic piece of crap IMHO. But I realize its horses for courses.

The only one I seriously questioned (or cared) was blueberries. Blue digital camouflage that was apparently designed to hide you in the ocean if you fell overboard…

The only one I seriously questioned (or cared) was blueberries. Blue digital camouflage that was apparently designed to hide you in the ocean if you fell overboard…

Sorry to stray off topic (I don't wear a hat indoors is my answer to the question), but why do navies and air forces think high-visibility camouflage uniforms are necessary? They're expensive and look more than a little silly (hence nicknames like "Smurf Suit" are applied to upset the RAAF crowd). Is a fashion or esprit de corps idea? Wouldn't standard old work dress, whether they be overalls, dungarees, King Gees, etc, be more comfortable, cheaper and just as effective for doing your job?

(That goes for the armies, as well- save the expensive cam's for the bush and operations- you don't need AUSCAM to work in an office or stroll around the barracks).

Before anyone asks yes, I have served and retired.

Esprit de corps is the proffered reason ("solidarity with forward deployed troops" was the phrase I heard banted about). I never felt any additional solidarity or esprit or whatever. When I was forward deployed, I didn't really care what people were wearing in offices.

I saw it as the same idea of the USN getting rid of beards. Made up reason to hide bowing to peer pressure.

Personally, I'd go for coveralls except in dress uniform situations. Which I preferred to avoid …

That's fairly much the way I've been thinking, mate. Someone, somewhere, made a decision and then had to find a justification for it. What a waste of always-scarce funds. If it's about morale then get rid of the cams- except exercises, shoots or ops- and give people a pay rise with the money saved. That will boost morale more than wearing a noddy suit.

I agree. I much preferred work gear or even dress of the day to service dress or anything ceremonial.

Parzival If this doesn't work I will be mad at you. If it works, and certainly will put up a picture and will be happy you brought this up.

I might have worn a baseball cap while gaming outdoors, but then for purely practical reasons.

I basically never wear headgear of any kind indoors, which is where 99%+ of my gaming happens.

I don't think I've worn an actual hat since I left the Scouts twenty years ago.

I would have a hat but my head is so large I actually have to have a hat maker to get one and that costs too much for gaming. One size fits all is a lie!

I've got my Fedora, and my ACW CS Forage Cap with 33rd VA Inf markings on it, and my CS Officers Gray Panama/Gamblers style hat.

I've got a lot more hats that I don't wear, and I have one that I wore that I WON"T wear to a game session.

One size fits all is a lie!

They didn't stipulate how well it fits. Just that it fits.

You always get quality answers from me. Poor is a level of quality.

* Before you complain, just be glad I used "shirt" in the image search instead of "speedo".

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I basically never wear headgear of any kind indoors

I generally agree with this, depending on the prevailing social convention. That said, I consider wearing a "wargaming" hat for wargaming to be costuming, thus exempt from the general convention. Like when I was in the military, you didn't wear a cover indoors, except on Color Guard or Honor Guard.

Making a Prussian Napoleonic era shako, as close to a real one as I can get. It will be posted when done.

Maybe that shirt was made to fit like that, he should not be smiling though, it detracts from the shiny buttons that are about to rip off.