Vermont Hats

Vermont's best jokes are defined by a shrug. Hard tellin', not knowin': who knows, probably nobody. Not too awful bad is the reply to how are you, and it means great. Jeezum crow is a G-rated way to say Jesus Christ that, according to Vermont Public, really stayed in Vermont. A creemee is Vermont-speak for soft-serve ice cream, and the season for it opens in spring, right when the mud arrives. These Vermont hats carry that dry, understated register. Stick season is the gray stretch from mid-October to early December, after the foliage and before the snow, and Noah Kahan of Strafford turned the old local phrase into a pop identity. Vermont law asks apple-pie sellers to make a good faith effort to serve it with a half-ounce slice of cheddar, cold milk or a scoop of vanilla ice cream, so eating pie with cheddar is basically civic duty. Woodchuck is the slang for a proud rural native, and the bare badges VERMONT and VERMONTER say the same thing without it. Maine Hats is the nearest neighbor and owns the from-away jokes. This one stays with the Green Mountains. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, for the born and raised or anyone who has earned the word.