Oktoberfest Hats

Every American town now has an Oktoberfest, and the crowd is German-heritage families, beer-hall regulars and people who are three percent German by DNA test. Munich's festival opens on the third Saturday of September, and the local versions cluster from mid-September to mid-October. Market listings show the category is owned by a handful of puns: I'M ON MY WURST BEHAVIOR turns up on shirts, mugs, stickers and ornaments alike, and Prost, Lederhosen and Funny German titles sit beside it. These hats begin with the two badge words, OKTOBERFEST and PROST, for the person who just wants the name of the party on the front. The sentence designs hold the jokes. I'M ON MY WURST BEHAVIOR and WURST CASE SCENARIO are the proven sausage puns, POLKA FACE is the poker face of the dance floor, and I PAUSE FOR EVERY CHICKEN DANCE is the honest cost of a beer tent. I TRAINED ALL YEAR FOR STEIN HOLDING nods to the real Masskrugstemmen contest, I DID NOT COME HERE TO POLKA SOBER makes the case for the band, and ZICKE ZACKE ZICKE ZACKE HOI HOI HOI is the actual cheer that rolls through the tent before every toast. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. The two strongest puns, I'M ON MY WURST BEHAVIOR and WURST CASE SCENARIO, each get a second colorway. Hats for a festival that lasts a few weeks, worn the rest of the year by anyone with a stein on the shelf.