This men's cuffed beanie is a short waffle knit acrylic hat that sits on the crown of your head instead of swallowing it. Low rounded crown, deep turned-up cuff, and it stops above your ears rather than pulling down over them. If every beanie you own is too tall to look right at the trailhead, this is the shape you have been looking for.
It is knitted in 100 percent acrylic with a coarse waffle texture, a grid of small raised squares that catches the light where a plain rib stays flat. The cuff is a doubled band a third of the hat's height, which is what holds the shape and keeps it where you put it through a full day outside. One size stretches from 21.6 to 23.6 inches around, so there is no size to guess at across the crew at camp.
Through the cold half of the year, at the trailhead in October, on a boat dock at dawn or at the fire ring after a full day out, it is the hat you reach for because it looks right, not because it is the warmest thing you own.
Two things worth saying plainly. It is acrylic, not wool, and we would rather tell you that than let you assume. And because the crown is short, it does not cover your ears. On a cold morning above freezing this is the right hat. Below freezing you will want to layer a buff or trade up to a fuller beanie.
Key Features:
- Short brimless crown sits above your ears instead of pulling down over them, so it reads as a cap rather than a slouchy beanie.
- Deep turned-up cuff runs a third of the hat's height and holds the shape through a full day of wear on the trail.
- Coarse waffle knit gives the surface a visible grid of raised squares rather than a flat plain rib.
- One size stretches from 21.6 to 23.6 inches around, so there is no size to guess at.
- Knitted in 100 percent acrylic, which keeps its color, does not itch and holds no interest for moths.
- Four solid colors, Black, Light Grey, Beige and Red, with no logo or patch on any of them.
Stop pulling your hat down over your ears. This is the one that sits where you put it and stays there.
Hand wash or dry clean it and it will keep its shape for a long time.