Ostomy Hats

Roughly 725,000 to 1 million Americans live with an ostomy, and about 100,000 ostomy surgeries happen each year, according to the United Ostomy Associations of America. Many got there through Crohn's, colitis or colorectal cancer, and many of them are the funniest people in the room about it. These hats are written in that voice. OSTOMY and OSTOMATE are the plain badges, and ostomate is the community's own word for itself. BAG FOR LIFE borrows the name of a bag cover sold on Etsy and turns it into a lifetime pledge. COLON: CANCELLED and BAGGED NOT BEATEN carry the gallows humor, and REAR ENDED BY CROHN'S echoes a shirt for sale at Walmart that jokes about getting rear ended again. MY BUTT GOT PROMOTED TO THE FRONT comes from the forum phrase front-butt club, where one member welcomes a newcomer in. BAG CHANGE SPEED RECORD: 4 MIN brags about a routine chore the way anyone brags about a personal best. Naming a stoma is a real practice, with names like Bagpus turning up on ostomy forums, so I NAMED MY STOMA GARY fits right in. Ostomy Awareness Day lands on the first Saturday of October, but these are for every day, for the wearer who is healthy again and not shy about the bag. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. REAR ENDED BY CROHN'S and I NAMED MY STOMA GARY each come in two colorways.