Lunar New Year & Red Envelope Hats

Lunar New Year 2027 falls on Saturday, February 6, and begins the Year of the Goat, also called the Year of the Sheep or Ram, running through January 25, 2028. The Lantern Festival follows on February 20. This collection is for the families who live the holiday table: the red envelope, the dumplings, and the relatives with questions. Red envelopes go by many names: hongbao in Mandarin, lai see in Cantonese, ang pao in Singapore and Malaysia, li xi in Vietnamese. In the tradition, marriage marks the move from receiver to giver, and sources set the cutoff for recipients at under 25 or 30, depending on the region. Courtesy says you do not open the envelope in front of the giver, and a 4 is the worst possible amount because it sounds like the word for death. Greetings split by dialect: Gong Xi Fa Cai in Mandarin, Gong Hei Fat Choy in Cantonese. The designs here carry both greetings, the holiday and envelope badges, YEAR OF THE GOAT for 2027, and the lines about still collecting, waiting until the car to look inside, and answering the marriage question with a dumpling. A Singapore brand once printed masks with answers to the same nosy questions, so the instinct is shared. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the reunion dinner, or give it to the cousin who counts the envelopes.