Winter Driving Hats

Winter driving in the snow belt comes with its own pride and its own jokes. Drivers who learned in an empty, snow-covered parking lot swap stories of donuts and drift laps, and the lot is a classic place to learn car control because the consequences stay almost nil. Others scrape a Frisbee-sized porthole in the windshield and go, a habit so recognised that peephole driving has a name and can draw a citation, as one Boston driver found. Kitty litter in the trunk is a real traction trick, used from Minnesota to Canada, and all-wheel drive helps a car accelerate but does not shorten stopping, which is the whole joke behind the overconfident AWD crowd. These Winter Driving hats put that confession on the brim: a SNOW TIRES badge, the ditch veteran, the donut scientist, the porthole scraper, the kitty litter bag and the plow pace car. I SCRAPE A PORTHOLE AND GO and I'VE BEEN IN THE DITCH I KNOW THE WAY OUT each get a second colorway. It sits beside Snowblower Dad, Student Driver and The Left Lane Is For Passing, but this is the cold-climate driver's own voice. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the first snowfall, or give one to the friend who keeps a bag of litter in the trunk.