Swag Lessons

Today we'll be discussing swag lessons for anyone who is swag challenged or just wants to get up on some new swag.  Admittedly, I don't run the swag school in Ann Arbor, that's run by a friend of mine, but I can offer a few lessons about what swag looks like, especially in today's topic of hats.  We'll actually be discussing my most recent hat purchase and how it offers examples of swagdom in hatwear.

 That's the hat, or if you prefer a crispier, less on Carter's head look, check below

Anyway, as you can see we have a LRG fitted here in gray and black with a giraffe skateboarding on it.  What you can't see in this post are two things I really like about the hat: 1. the texture of the material (I have no idea what the material is called but I wish I did because it feels amazing, like a combo of suede and felt) and 2. That inside the hat there's a feature I've never seen before on a fitted, a little pocket, which is awesome but not really practical.
Anyways, this hat can show us several things about swag fitteds. The first is that the symbol is important, as is the brand.  This symbol is cool for a number or reasons: giraffes are cool, skateboarding is cool, giraffes do not normally skateboard and therefore a giraffe skateboarding is extra cool.  The brand, in this case LRG, is also reasonably cool to go along with that and is much cooler than your average skateboard related brand (I'm looking at you DC).  The second thing this hat reflects is the importance of a good color scheme, gray and black isn't the greatest (in fact a hater once hated on this color combo, but like David Cone (a Michigan QB woot woot!) once said, "if the haters aren't hatin on you you're doin something wrong"), but it's better than say brown and orange.

So where does that leave us? Well when establishing your own swag collection you don't want to bite my swag and buy my same hat, so you have to take the advice this hat offers (swag animal, swag brand, swag color scheme) and apply it to your own purchases.  Here are some recommendations: you could find some way to get to Brazil and cop the hats pictured above (if you do this and bring me one back I will love you forever and ever). They are swag and exclusives, so they may be impossible to get and I'm not sure they're out yet.  Or you could hit up the LRG section of a number of sites, including karmaloop and hatclub to purchase hats such as the ones pictured below.

Until next time, this has been a swag lesson