Juggling Hats

Juggling comes with a metaphor every reader already holds, juggling responsibilities, and a real hobby underneath it, with its own vocabulary: cascade, fountain, siteswap, flash, multiplex. These hats are for club and ball jugglers, circus-arts students and the person who juggles oranges at parties. A shopper typing juggling hat can land on prop wool hats, three layers of wool and about 305 grams, so two plain badges, JUGGLER and JUGGLING, carry the keyword. Performers have been known to shy from the label: the comic Marcus Monroe called it the dreaded J-word, and listed Physical Comedian among the alternatives. These hats wear the word proudly. The sentence designs take their register from juggling's own comedy. Comedy jugglers are taught to cover a drop with a joke, since everyone drops, and in competition a dropped club puts you out of the round. CONTENTS MAY FALL DURING FLIGHT treats the drop as a shipping label, and it earns a second colorway. MY LAMPS LIVE IN FEAR is for anyone whose practice space is a living room, and gets one too. I JUGGLE CLUBS NOT RESPONSIBILITIES turns the mass metaphor into a boast, and SEVEN IS A SYMPTOM is the hobbyist's ladder: three is a hobby, and seven is a problem. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the club meet or the park, or give one to the friend whose house keeps losing lamps.