But who looks at a plain white Yankees cap with a blue logo and thinks 'no, that's not enough,' and then turns to see this and thinks, 'but that – plain white cap with blue logo and scribbles on the visor – that's exactly what I need'? #33 – Visor Real Chains 59FIFTY If you want a plain white Yankees cap with a blue logo, you can buy that. Or the regular Yankees cap in a different color. I guess I don't understand what precisely would cause someone to choose this over, say, the regular Yankees cap. Here, we're moved to pose two questions we could confront any of these forty caps with: This takes the cement pattern seen in cap #40, restricts it to the visor, and combos it with a blue Yankees logo with red trim on white. Can you help at all?' #34 – NEFS Basic 59FIFTY Greatest human being: 'Yes, I'm looking for something that's a cross between a hat and a running shoe. Store attendant: 'Hey there, can I help at all?' #35 – Pop Tonal 59FIFTYįrom – discontinued between me researching this and writing it, but you can probably still find it on clearance somewhere Which is fine, but somebody else then looked at it and decided it would be acceptable to put this on sale. It's like somebody on the production line thrust their hand into a sack of miniature flags, grabbed a fistful, and started sprinkling them everywhere. I get the whole patriotism thing, but I sense even this might be a stretch. Who out there looks at this and thinks 'nailed it'? #36 – All Flags 59FIFTY #37 – Mini Team Logo Neyyan Black 59FIFTY See the logos sprinkled all over the crown? What's up with that? And why? Nothing represents the brand better than an upside down logo buried in a olive camo pattern. But then they had to cover the whole thing in New Era logos. The blue, olive, and tan/gray color combo works nicely and, generally speaking, this is a pretty successful take on the whole idea of a camo pattern (which always looks hideous, as we will find shortly). Not the worst cap around, but probably the worst example of the animal print range you'll find on sale now. The design is too loud and the white logo gets lost against the pattern – if the logo had been gold, or perhaps some other shade of yellow or orange, the end result might have been a little better. There are some good animal-print caps out there, but this isn't one of them. I retract my criticisms, New Era, and I bow to your genius.

Maybe cement lobbyists really dig caps that are made to (ostensibly) look like cement, and maybe there's a lot of money in that game. Is there a cement lobby? Perhaps New Era is secretly marketing to Big Cement. New Era promises this cap features 'cement graphics on the crown and visor.' Does it? Or did the designers actually just give a three-year-old a gray canvas and a Sharpie and tell them to go nuts?īesides that, who's out there needing to represent cement on their clothing? There are no fans of cement. Here are the forty worst New Era Yankees caps on sale now – forty things you could theoretically spend your hard-earned monies on, if you were so inclined. Would it at all surprise you if I told you that while there are some pretty fantastic New Era caps, there are also some deliciously bad New Era caps? And there’s a lot to look forward to there, because there are some pretty great looking New Era caps. But we’ll get to the good ones on Wednesday. Believe me when I say the cosmic-print cap is the best Yankees cap ever produced – the team should just make that the official on-field cap right now, because why hold back any longer. And I say this with about as much sincerity as it is possible to say something with. There are caps only available in South Korea caps only available in Japan.Ī good number of these caps look truly, truly amazing. Could I interest you in different materials? Leather, perhaps? Or maybe denim?Īnd even that is barely the tip of the iceberg.

Aside from the fact they have the Yankees logo slapped on the front, these have approximately zero to do with the Yankees.Īnd even that is barely the tip of the iceberg. There are, for instance, a ton of New Era Yankees-branded caps that have crazy patterns (plaid, striped, speckled) and crazy prints (cosmic, woodland, tri-color). Which is a confusing metaphor to use here, because caps have very little to do with frozen water.

But that’s barely the tip of the iceberg. Maybe you know this – perhaps you’ve seen Yankees caps that are light blue, or that are gray or black or purple or some other bold color. And a ton that bare little-to-no resemblance to the cap the players wear on-field. Here’s something vaguely interesting: New Era, producer of caps, makes a lot of Yankees-branded caps.

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