Jon ... flex-fit CAO hats?? ... are these genuine Panamas or are they a baseball-style cap?

SteveS - The hats were from our CAO 'Diamond Collection' hats, i.e., flex-fit baseball-style caps that replicated three baseball "teams:" CAO Rosados, CAO Oscuros, and CAO Smokes...

Enjoy! 🙂

... thanks Mean ...

I needed that ...

JON, you could have cut through the red tape and have sent each one of us one of those hats. Keith is just gonna use them to impress the customer service girls.

I'd prefer a cap instead ...

SteveS - These ARE "caps" (???)

lol, Jon ...

I know that ... BUT ... one of my little pet peeves is that no one seems to take recognition of the fact that "caps" and "hats" are not interchangeable words that mean the same thing ... "Hats" have brims all the way around ... "caps" have brims only in the front ...

I know it's a pretty fine point and scarcely the sort of thing that one should make an issue of, but you see, until my generation, my dad's family was in the men's hat business going back as far as we know about to 18th century ancestors in Ireland ...

my grandfather immigrated to this country, but brought the business with him, including some of the hand tools he'd used in the old country ... he did absolutely beautiful work on Panama hats too ...

SteveS - I understand completely; I'm guilty of doing just that from time to time...

I'm a HUGE cap AND hat collector - sometimes I think that if I wasn't in the cigar industry, I'd be designing caps/hats or working for a company like NewEra.

Out of curiousity, what was the name of the company your family owned?

Does the Pope wear a cap or a hat? How about a yalmukah...no rim or brim. I looked for a rim on my fez but couldn't find one. I don't know if its a hat or cap! Okay..I have one of those Northern Exposure hats with the fold-down ear pieces AND a front brim. So it is a convertable hat or a hat-cap...maybe a chap?

Jon, Flex-fit? I know I get a big head, but I didn't think it WAS that big, LOL!

Steve, put a cap on it! JK!

LOL@Rayder!

Slim, well, whatever...I love CB!

I don't think you needed to start this thread e-chick. The last thing anyone on this board would do is call you a virgin.

Plabonte: Well, I was excited and you shouldn't have replied... poo-poo head!

congratulations on the flagrant cherry bursting. make sure you can support your new to come habit. might as well spend the money on strippers, i hear they have a less of a chance of giving you cancer.