Time tested wool blend red and black buffalo plaid TROOPER / TRAPPER style hat will keep your head and ears warm in the coldest of temperatures. Don't lose 40% of your body heat from the top of your head, put a lid on it! A very classic and eye-catching fashionable from World War I flying aces.The perfect hat for those Fall and Winter months. It features a toasty wool blend cap, satin quilted lining and plush fur lined dog ear style ear flaps that can be lowered to give your ears protection when the snow falls and the icy winds blows. Our exclusive brass mesh ear/hear holes allow you to hear even when the ear flaps are lowered. And if it becomes really cold and windy, just drop the plush ear/hear flap to close the ear/hear hole for draft free warmth!
"Elmer Fudd" Trooper/Trapper Red / Black Plaid Hat Item# XXLEFT $29.99
*To measure head size, use a tape measure placed above ears and eyebrows where the hat should sit. (It it is usually better to go a hat size larger if not sure.)
A Brief History Of The "Elmer Fudd" Hat
Retired semi-pro baseball player, railroad engineer and general tough character "Stormy Kromer" lost a few too many hats to the icy wind whipping through his locomotive.
On a cold morning in 1903, Stormy asked his beloved wife, Ida, to help him modify one of his many hats from his baseball days by sewing ear flaps on the thing. And that's it. That's where it all began. The dog-ear flap Winter hat with a chin strap to hold it in place during cold windy days and nights was born. Throughout history in legend and lore this Winter hat has graced the heads of legends like giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and that wiley waskily wabbit hunting brute Elmer Fudd who wore it to good use while stalking his arch enemy Bugs Bunny in many Warner Brothers cartoons during the 40's, 50's and early 60's. This classic ear-flap hunting and logging hat married to the classic red and black
Buffalo plaid is just about as American as apple pie and iconic to the Manly Man as an axe or a pick-up truck. Buffalo plaid (red and black being the most popular) was first pioneered around 1850, and is attributed either to Hudson’s Bay Company or the Woolrich Woolen Mills (the history is a bit fuzzy about this) and is said to have been named after the herd of buffalo owned by the plaid's designer. The pattern was popular during the Westward expansion, and thereafter embraced by the logging industry in the Great Lakes region.
The Buffalo Plaid pattern was manufactured into hats, hunting coats, flannel shirts and pants. When worn together as they often were at the time, the look was called the Pennsylvania Tuxedo.
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Time tested wool blend red and black buffalo plaid TROOPER / TRAPPER style hat will keep your head and ears warm in the coldest of temperatures. Don't lose 40% of your body heat from the top of your head, put a lid on it! A very classic and eye-catching fashionable from World War I flying aces.The perfect hat for those Fall and Winter months. It features a toasty wool blend cap, satin quilted lining and plush fur lined dog ear style ear flaps that can be lowered to give your ears protection when the snow falls and the icy winds blows. Our exclusive brass mesh ear/hear holes allow you to hear even when the ear flaps are lowered. And if it becomes really cold and windy, just drop the plush ear/hear flap to close the ear/hear hole for draft free warmth!
Retired semi-pro baseball player, railroad engineer and general tough character "Stormy Kromer" lost a few too many hats to the icy wind whipping through his locomotive.
On a cold morning in 1903, Stormy asked his beloved wife, Ida, to help him modify one of his many hats from his baseball days by sewing ear flaps on the thing.
