Steve Young BYU Cougars Football Graphic Poster T-Shirt

The amazing thing about hats is they often have an illustrious history with a shape that’s been determined through the ages for every good reason Steve Young BYU Cougars Football Graphic Poster T-Shirt . And this applies to the Bucket hat – forgive the pun – the Bucket stops here ! It came into being for purely practical reasons. Nowadays it’s deeply fashionable and personalising a bucket hat allows you to be distinctive and stand out with your own style from the crowd. It can also be a wonderful gift be it for yourself or for a loved one or friend. You can choose a colour based on your outfit and it can be worn at all times of year. The practical origins of the (at that time) humble bucket hat, stem back to the intrinsic need to protect against the elements. Irish farmers & fishermen wore them from around the 1900’s when they were made from wool felt or tweed cloth as protection from the wind and rain: the lanolin from the raw wool made them naturally waterproof and the wide downward slanting brim helped against inclement weather. From the 1940’s the bucket hat became standard issue for the armed forces to protect the soldiers’ necks – and at that time through to the Vietnam war transitioned to being made from cotton fabric.