Cousin Hats

Everyone has cousins, and hardly anyone can explain how they are related. These hats do the explaining. FAVORITE COUSIN and THE COOL COUSIN are the plain badges. FAVORITE COUSIN and MY FAVORITE COUSIN GAVE ME THIS are already printed on tees listed at Walmart and eBay, but no embroidered cousin hat turned up in our searches, so this is the hat version. The genealogy lines come from the family-tree rules: a first cousin once removed is the child of your first cousin or the parent of your second cousin, and second cousins share great-grandparents. That is why FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED FOR CAUSE and SECOND COUSIN FIRST PLACE read as in-jokes, and why the answer to WHAT IS MY MOM'S COUSIN'S KID TO ME is a second cousin. BIG CUZ leans on a shortening of cousin that dates to at least the 16th century. FAVORITE COUSIN RANKED BY GRANDMA and COUSIN CREW CAPTAIN take the family hierarchy seriously. National Cousins Day falls on July 24, but any reunion, holiday table or group chat is reason enough. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. MY FAVORITE COUSIN GAVE ME THIS and FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED FOR CAUSE each come in two colorways.