Get a bucket hat on your head, stat
So we’ve heard a rumour that summer might be arriving at some point this year (date tbc right now).
With that in mind, we thought we should let you know that it’s time to switch up your beanie (you know, the one that’s been surgically attached to your head for the best part of seven months) for a bucket hat.
Here at SHS we love a beanie, but the sad truth is, wearing a beanie in the dead of summer is not a good shout.
First up, it’ll leave your head sweatier than a cling film-wrapped ham and cheese sandwich that’s been left at the bottom of your backpack all day.
Secondly, it straight up screams, “I will drop whatever I’m doing to smoke a small amount of weed in a skatepark at a moment’s notice” - so unless that’s your personal brand, it’s time to move on.
Bucket hats may have originated in Ireland in the early 1900s as the practical headgear of fisherman and farmers, but since then they’ve seriously upped their street cred.
Via rap gods such as LL Cool J and Run DMC and Brit Pop legends Oasis and Stone Roses in the late 80s and 90s, they earned a reputation as the the premiere hat for super-chilled sunshiny good times.
After that, they had a memorable stint around summer 2011 when people (and by people, I mean me) began scaring their parents by listening to Odd Future and wearing Supreme for the first time.
Then in 2013 they had another moment when the internet became obsessed with Yung Lean – the Swedish rapper with an affinity for Ralph Lauren bucket hats and Arizona Ice Tea.
Sadly, in the intervening years they’ve developed a bit of a ‘15-year-old trying to sell laughing gas at Boomtown’ stigma.
But recently we've started to see a revival among some of our favourite influencers (such as Gully Guy Leo and Jessy Law), so we’re proposing we all get over any stigma, because they are literally the perfect summer hat.
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