Comments on: Trucker Hat Trajectory

By: ccm

ccm — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 03:15:19 +0000

its. a. beanie. with. a. brim. nnnkay?

By: Luka Yovetich

Luka Yovetich — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:24:07 +0000

I started wearing a trucker hat back in 1996 or 1997. Can;t remember which. I was going to school in Kansas and there was a John Deere store nearby and a friend of mine got one and I took it from him. It was rare for me to find a hat that fit my head so well so he let me have it. And I found out that trucker hats are super comfy! the mesh really lets the head breathe and they certainly look better than any other kind of baseball-type hat, I think. Now that I’m thinking about it, I might just ride this trucker hat thing all the way until they come back into style again…

By: Ted Trucker

Ted Trucker — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:36:45 +0000

I believe that the first celeb to wear one was Benicio Del Toro. Before Traffic, even, he used to wear them to be funny. Stuff like Montana Donkey Supply. The bigger and uglier the better. He used to go out in public like that, but not anymore.

By: Real Trucker

Real Trucker — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:30:11 +0000

I was born a Norwalk Trucker. That is the mascot for Norwalk High School in Norwalk, Ohio. We were equi-distant between Chicago and New York and were once the Trucking Capitol of the world at one point. Trucker dads were the cool dads, because they could come see their grade school sons play in afternoon football games. They might not be there on Saturdy and Sunday, but they would get to be there on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. They also would have watermelon fresh up from Alabama in the summer, great produce, and sleeper cabins. We use to hang-out in the sleeper cabins like a clubhouse.
I use to wear my sister’s Future Farmer’s of America jacket to small bars where bands played. She got it from a Trucker boyfriend she was afraid of. He would tell people he was going to marry her with a zealot’s look in his eyes. I liked that she put the jacket in the back of the closet. I wish I had known I was just being a cultural maurader, so I could have stopped myself from the fun of wearing it, from the fun of people going “hey, my cousin was FFA,” from the blue courdroy buzz it gave me.
I guess I’m saying that your piece was about the wrong thing. Why the need? Why the need to have to go around knocking the wind out of everyone? That’s the Willamsburg/Austin/No Ho thing to do. Not the wearing of the Trucker Hat, but the being faux angry at the proliferation of the Trukcer Hat. To be above the Trucker Hat. I agree with Stephen King, why is everyone so insecure in New York about their intelligence? Why does everyone in Brooklyn have to remind you of how they’ve seen it all before, to recognize a trend, discover it’s fiber, and then bray loudly that it’s over. Was it a personal victory for that NY Times to writer to declare the Trucker Hat over? Only to be snatched away by her friends who told her that they knew it months ago (“well, I tried to tell my editor in March, but he didn’t even know they were in!”). You should make a New York board game outta it. “Your this is just a that, with a little bit of Wittgenstein thrown in.” Irony is dead, Rock is dead, Rock is so over it’s kewl, Kewl is not cool, I like music without words, your retro is retro. The competiveness is like a grad school gone mad, with each person trying to dissect the others art before it might affect him. Like a hundred annoying patron’s in the movie line explaining why we really shouldn’t like this, but you MUST listen to Lenny Bruce, because he was REALLY funny. I assure that somewhere, back then, was someone dissecting how Lenny Bruce was just blah, blah, blah. Before he created the Sopranos, David Chase wrote the greatest Rockford Files episode about the LA restaurant which goes from humble to popular, back to humble again. I’ll be wearing my Trucker hat when the storm passes, and sadly, you’ll be out trying to slay the next art/music/fashion dragon. Blah to yawl.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:08:19 +0000

It’s on newsstands. I never put anything up that’s not out yet.

By: Rick Bruner

Rick Bruner — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:31:53 +0000

How does the Face feel about your scooping them with this, or is it already on newsstands? I never did understand that idea of magazines post-dating their issues.

By: James

James — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:53:15 +0000

I believe the jerks in Ohio already had trucker hats, and will continue to wear them regardless.
Note to Ken: How about “asshat”? Everybody seems to like that one. It just gets fresher with every repetition.

By: ummmm

ummmm — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:56:35 +0000

People wore these hats during the good old grunge days when I went to high school in Washington state in the early nineties. Maybe it just took this long for new yorkers to catch on and make it a big smelly accusationally uncool trend minute.

By: Terry Oglesby

Terry Oglesby — Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:28:10 +0000

Thank goodness the mullet is still hot. Right?

By: ken

ken — Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:24:42 +0000

please. just please make them all go away. pretty please.
but i wonder if i could make a buck or two with a line of trucker caps and ironic t-shirts.
the trucker caps will say: “People who wear ‘ironic’ t-shirts are f-cktards*.”
the t-shirts will say: “People who wear trucker caps are assclowns*.”
*Of course, I’d have to come up with a more hip curse word/slang term, I guess.