Talk:Knit cap

message: Wasn't Bill Murray's tuque in The Life Aquatic... a parody of Jacques Cousteau? I always remember him as wearing one very often. If so, perhaps the article could mention him, just to push the tuque reference as far as it can go. I might be wrong. Bog 05:03, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Steve Zissou

message: It looks to me (from the pics and description) that a touque is what in the UK is called a 'wooly hat' or, if it has a pompom on top, a 'bobble hat'.  Mention of these words would clarify what you were describing for UK readers (and any other nationalities who use these terms).
As for a beanie - don't they always fit close to the head where a wooly hat needn't (but may).  As for a brim, well I would have thought that was to do with the size of your head vs the size of the hat and was purely optional!  It would seem that people are trying to create too much of a rigid definition for what is, after all, a simple knitted hat.  Surely it is possible for beanie and touque definitions to overlap, or even for beanie to be a subset of touque?Ewan carmichael 03:54, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: +1 vote for woolly hat and bobble hat from the UK. 86.163.245.106 (talk) 06:24, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Who came up with the idea a bobble cap is British? And then who came up with that it's supposed to have ear flaps? https://www.google.com/search?lr=&as_qdr=all&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=%22bobble+cap%22&safe=images&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwinr6SlvNrsAhUE16wKHZi0DK0QjJkEegQIBRAB&biw=1100&bih=566 (no ear flaps on most of these.) In the rural area of Washington state us kids (and some grown ups when it was cold and snowing) wore bobble caps (usually knitted by one's grandma).  The difference between a hat (like a church hat, fedora, or a Stetson for instance)and a cap, is that a hat sits on the head loosely and usually has a sun-shade brim all round whereas a cap fits on the head rather tightly. Compare a fez (hat) to a kippah (cap). Or compare a straw hat to a baseball cap. I don't know when beanie made the transition from kids' fabric or felt cap to a knit cap, but it wasn't so in the fifties and sixties.  The beanie was not with a propeller earlier, I think that came from a fad that was picked up in cartoons. Anecdotally first I heard beanie for knit cap was in the 80s. Another term people used interchangeably with bobble cap was pompom cap.  Both were used at the same time an area and sometimes by the same people.  But definitely not just British. 2600:1700:1C60:45E0:54E9:6846:32CE:E00E (talk) 19:34, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: A Bobble Hat

message: The English spelling touque is not mentioned in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.  Let's find a reference for this, or remove it. —Michael Z. 2009-01-26 22:38 z
sure, the Canadian Government referred to this hat as a 'touque' at http://www.cic.gc.ca/ENGLISH/department/media/multimedia/video/waking/waking.asp
70.79.157.34 (talk) 00:39, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: I added an image of the famous sherpa-style orange tuque (I'll keep out of the spelling argument and stick with the article title until it changes - I never heard or read any of the variations until today) worn by Jayne Cobb, and reordered the images - is the bright green tuque image necessary ? I moved it to the bottom but it seems a bit superfluous. ☭  мдснєтє тдлкЅТЦФФ 12:14, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: The popularity section does not know the difference between fact and fiction. Because something has appeared on tv does not mean it is popular or representative. The fictional aspects ought to be at least removed to a seperate section. It is worrying and saddening that North Americans cannot or will not distinguish between real life and what is shown in fiction on tv. 92.29.68.169 (talk) 14:28, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popularity section 

message: Wikipedia refuses to allow links to sites that show this hat is called a toboggan in the Southern states of the United States.  http://kccbigcountry.hubpages.com/hub/Whether-You-Ride-or-Wear-A-Toboggan-Depends-on-Where-Youre-From  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackal242 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia refuses to allow links 

message: I thought this term came from British military usage?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.131.45.195 (talk) 22:06, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  watch cap 

message: Ummm, a toboggan is a sled.  Does anyone really call a hat by the name for a sled?  That's like calling your shoes refrigerators.  In what backwards part of the world did such foolishness start?  And why?  Or is it actually just a really dumb malaprop for a touque?  Mingusal (talk) 21:28, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Toboggan means a sled only in Canada. Words can have different meanings in different countries. Bearcat (talk) 13:03, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

text: I have lived n the U.S. South all my 64 years, & I have never heard the term tobaggan used for a watch cap.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CF99:2080:F879:F889:51BF:A536 (talk) 22:00, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

text: I grew up with "toboggan" for hat in North Carolina. I've been told such usage is specific to NC, but I don't have a definitive source.Grisamentum (talk) 01:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

text: Another NCer here (43 years old) and I've always used toboggan (pronounced TOE-bog-un) for the cap. Of course, we don't have much use for the term meaning sled around here with our fairly mild winters. --Khajidha (talk) 21:44, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toboggan?!? 

message: There are a lot of unsourced alternative names in the article; please add references to back up these claims.  Reify-tech (talk) 21:35, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many unreferenced names 

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