Gender Reveal Hats

The gender reveal party began as a cake. In 2008 Jenna Karvunidis blogged about cutting into one with pink icing inside, and the trend she is credited with starting has since grown a whole industry of confetti cannons, smoke powder, balloon pops and the envelope handed to the bakery. It also grew a running joke: reveals that go wrong. A 2017 reveal in Arizona sparked the Sawmill Fire, about 47,000 acres, and ended with nearly $8.2 million in restitution, and a 2020 San Bernardino County wildfire was traced to a smoke-generating device at a reveal gathering. One headline asked, "Is it a boy? A girl? No, it's a wildfire." The guests are the other half of the party. They split into Team Pink and Team Blue, wear the colour, place their bets, and some try the ring test, a ring on a string over the belly that sources cannot agree on and that has no scientific basis. These hats speak for the guest or the parent wearing them. GENDER REVEAL, TEAM PINK and TEAM BLUE are the plain badges. The longer designs cover a reveal that was a phone call in 1988, wildfires started: zero, 50/50 odds and a wrong guess anyway, and a guess of both. WILDFIRES STARTED: 0 and MY GENDER REVEAL WAS A PHONE CALL IN 1988 each come in a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat.