Talk:Beanie (seamed cap)

message: I remember when these were called "Benny" hats after the character who wore one all the time in the (predominantly) 1970s soap Crossroads.  Is "beanie" a coruption of "benny"?   Dainamo 20:41, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: How young did you say you were? ;-)   "Beanie" has been around since at least the 1940s (which is before even my time).  So it's probably more that "Benny" was a clever pun based on the character Benny wearing a beanie.  Elf | Talk 21:03, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Benny vs beanie

message: I find this usage of "beanie" to mean a "ski hat" or a "knit cap" to be very odd. I've never heard that usage here in the Pacific Northwest where I grew up; to me, a "beanie" is a skull cap with a propeller. Knit caps are something entirely different from beanies in my dialect. -- ManekiNeko | Talk 08:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In SE Australia, a tight wollen cap (what passes as a "toque" in the praries of Canada) is almost ubiquitously referred to as a beanie.  My personal experience is that many Australians find it hilarious that it means skull-cap with a propellor to many North Americans. Rickert 13:12, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't necessarily mean that. A beanie to us is exactly what it is to you — a tight knit cap without a bill. College freshmen were often required to wear one in school colors as a sort of initiation. The propeller is just one variety. Daniel Case 00:10, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

text: They're known as a beanie across Australia, I'm fairly certain. The "beanie swings away from the 'form' it favors in the south to the 'function' of the north" bit of the article definitely gives this article a sense of regionalism. Strange, as the term is prevalent in places outside North America. 220.233.92.125 (talk) 03:01, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Is "beanie" a regionalism?

message: Yes, there are many synonyms for this type of hat. However, some of them given are unrefrenced or vague, and are removed. They are
knit hat, knit cap - refers to method of making rather than type of hat.
ski capor, chook - no refrences found on web.
boggan - no refrences found, and sounds like slang.
warm winter hat - numerous head-warmers are not beanies.
Sipple cap, monkey cap - please provide refrences to these reigon-specific terms not easily verified on the internet.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.194.98.45 (talk) 23:13, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of synonyms

message: John Tenniel's drawing of Tweedledee & Tweedledum, published in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass", in 1872, has the brothers wearing beanies. It would appear that they were already a symbol of some sort, perhaps childish silliness, much early than the 1920's as mentioned in the article. I wonder how far they really go back?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.212.235.154 (talk) 11:14, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The 'beanies' in the Tenniel are a version of the commonplace school cap which was until recently a standard part of school uniform for children in the UK and which is still current for many schools here. The school cap (for which there doesn't seem to be a Wikipedia page) gave rise to the sports cap awarded to a player who represents their country in an international match. In neither case have I ever heard these caps referred to as 'beanies' and I would doubt whether Lewis Carroll or Tenniel ever did.--Coconino (talk) 14:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beanie's in 1872? 

message: In the early sixties, I attended a Catholic grammar school. All the girls wore little navy blue nylon beanies to church during the week. They matched our uniforms. Other schools with red uniforms had red beanies. That was when women were expected to wear a head cover during Mass. I am surprised to see no one else has mentioned this? 
97.83.176.12 (talk) 07:24, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A forgotten beanie? 

message: I think this section should go if we can't find authoritative sources that indicate these woven hats are regularly called "beanies." It's no more a beanie than a yarmulke or skullcap is...DavidOaks (talk) 18:37, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Really?  I mean, really?  All these IP addresses coming out of the woodwork clamoring for sources on the article "beanie"?  The article should focus on the beanie of 60 years ago.  It should also mention that it's now commonly used to refer to a tuque.  Given the similarity to toque (a completely different hat) it's no surprise to me that people found another word to use.  I"m not even 100% that's the correct word to use for what I'd simply call a knit hat, but it's the most sourced attempt on wikipedia, and following policy of verification over truth I'd stick with that.  The true answer lies in the history of the clothing, not the etemology of the words "beanie" or "tuque" but without researching it we won't know.  I'm not a hat expert and could't point you to the first person to make one or give it a name.  However, I can see this getting nowhere fast and should probably be a minimalist page with the bulk of the debate/discussion on the Tuque page... Lime in the Coconut 16:33, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

text: There are so many varieties of knit hats, What about a new section "Types of Beanies" like in this website - https://coolbeaniehats.com/types-of-beanies/ Ifaashp (talk) 02:34, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "knit variety" 

message: Speaking for myself, I couldn't really make out the beanie very well from the first picture.
Primary key (talk) 14:23, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like a baseball cap to me. --93.223.26.136 (talk) 13:35, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Didn't get an idea of what a beanie looked like from the article 

message: I'm a bit confused about this line "In Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, the term "beanie" may also be applied to a knit cap known as a tuque." As far as I know, nobody in Canada calls it a beanie and it is only in Canada that it is ever referred to as a tuque. Canking (talk) 10:47, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tuque 

message: I've tried to make the article a little more clear by moving the picture to the top, added a hatnote to tuque. Also put tuque on the DAB page. Referring to a tuque as a beanie might not be "proper," but it seems pretty common. I also think to put pictures on the DAB page. This is generally against the style guide but I think would help a lot in this case, since they're both types of hats. Thoughts?LRT24 (talk) 09:21, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Trying to make more clear

message: The article does not mention the origin of this significant version, just the geek adaptation of it.  There are so many anecdotes that I suggest the normal history should be easy to find and should be inserted before the geek reference.--John Bessa (talk) 15:19, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You're more than welcome to do the research and add the information.  Thanks!  Qwyrxian (talk) 22:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

text: True, the article should explain what it is, what is its purpose and usage, what is its origin. Right now the only info is what it has become associated with. Syced (talk) 16:27, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

text: Well, information in Wikipedia needs to be verified by reliable sources, so what you ask cannot be done. Qwyrxian (talk) 14:04, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

text: 45.42.104.187 man stfu Jorts2jants (talk) 07:02, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Propeller Beanie

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message: The Android statue with the beanie is not located at the Googleplex. It is located at a nearby office at 1565 Charleston Ave. In the caption, I suggest "at Googleplex" be changed to "outside a Google office". --Westwind273 (talk) 05:34, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sculpture Location 

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