Zumba & Dance Fitness Hats

Zumba started in 2001 with the Colombian dancer Beto Perez and now counts more than 15 million weekly participants across roughly 200,000 locations in over 180 countries. It is Latin-inspired dance fitness, built on salsa and merengue, and the joke at its heart is enthusiasm over skill. One first-timer's essay confesses to loving dance with a great deal of enthusiasm and no discernable talent, and another writer says she can cha-cha, can mambo and can merengue march, as long as you are not too particular about the merengue part. New students get warned off the back row because you can't see a thing, and Shakira's Hips Don't Lie is the class's cultural touchstone. These Zumba hats speak for the regulars and for the instructors who run the room. Two badges, ZUMBA and ZUMBA INSTRUCTOR, anchor the page. The sentence designs carry the back-row freestyler, the dancer who moves like nobody is watching while everyone is, the cha-cha-mambo-merengue-ish confession, Shakira as personal trainer, and a mock Zumba Gold medal. MY HIPS DON'T LIE and the enthusiasm-and-no-talent line each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, a natural gift for the instructor or the friend who never skips class.