Midwest Ope Hats

Midwesterners have a word for bumping into someone, and it is ope. It comes out before anyone can stop it, usually followed by an apology, sometimes to a chair. Linguists have written about it and Merriam-Webster gave it a regionalism entry. The rest of the dialect is just as recognisable. A Midwestern goodbye starts with a knee slap and a 'welp' and ends forty-five minutes later on the porch, with someone shouting 'watch for deer'. Thirty-five degrees counts as shorts weather. It is pop, not soda. Things are never bad, they are not so bad without the wind. Uff da and you betcha cover most of the rest. These Midwest hats are for the people who say all of it without thinking: the plain OPE badge, MIDWEST in a collegiate arch, and lines everybody from Ohio to the Dakotas will recognise from their own family. Embroidered, unstructured dad hats, made to order.