Figure Skating Hats

Figure skating looks like sparkle and plays like a contact sport against the ice. The vocabulary is its own joke: a lutz is toe-pick assisted and named for Alois Lutz, who first performed it in 1913; an axel takes off forward for one and a half rotations and lands backward; a double axel is two and a half rotations on a steel blade. The people who watch it up close know the real story. Skating parents wait with the car keys, the bag lunch and the check for the lessons, and one dad famously broke his leg trying an axel to show his nine-year-old how it was done. These figure skating hats carry the brutality hidden under the sparkle. FIGURE SKATER and FIGURE SKATING MOM are the terms people actually search for, on a market that already sells Figure Ice Skater Mom tees at retail. The sentence designs are the skater's own bits: jumps on knives, sequins and bruises, a graceful fall onto the toe pick, a double axel and no chill, thin ice and thick skin. NOT A SPORT? MEET ME AT THE RINK is a slogan skaters have printed on shirts for years, and it fits a hat. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the rink, the competition or the 5am freestyle session, or give one to the skater who has earned every bruise.