How do you "mark" your hat as yours?

[Brother cavefish]

my hats usually are unique in some way or i personalize it in other ways

 

[Mystic]

I haven't put my name or initials on any of my hats.

But, PLEASE don't put your name on the liner of a nice vintage hat with a Sharpie or with indelible ink ball point pen. :nono: shakeshead

 

[randooch]

Akin to carving your initials into a tree.

 

[fedoracentric]

I have never been anywhere where my hat would look the same as anyone else's! I have been in places where a few others have fedoras, but mine are of such obviously better quality and vintage that there was never a second's fear of a mix up!! Sooooo, I've seen no reason to mark them in any special way.

 

[diabolicaldog]

I have never felt the need to mark any hat I have owned. If I really had to I would use the tattoo gun I use for puppies. The letters and numbers are about 8mm high and leave a neat mark in the sweat.

 

[Greyryder]

I've only got one good hat. It's got a custom ribbon and wind trolley, I did myself.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

I wrote my cellphone number and my name in the inside of the sweatband on some hats. Since no one wears my kind of hat around here...

 

[alanfgag]

Where and how do you do it?

many of mine are already done.

Akin to carving your initials into a tree.

yep, that too!

 

[T Jones]

It may not be a bad idea to mark your lid somehow,especially if you've invested a good chunk of $$$ into your collection. Maybe on the underside of the sweat. In this state, if someone steals something from you, you still have to prove that it belongs to you. Otherwise, it's your word against the thief who stole from you. That happened to a friend of mine when a neighbor stole some tools from him. Even with his tools sitting on his neighbor's back porch the police couldn't do anything because he didn't have anyway of identifying them to prove that they belonged to him. The thieving neighbor got away with it.

 

[kingrat]

Tjones, I'll get ahold of you.

 

[Yesteryear]

I mark my new hats on the sweatband along the back part of the hat with a durable fabric paint called 'TULIP soft'. It's marked with my initials and the year I bought the hat. This paint sticks great to both fabric and leather sweatbands and comes in many colors- I usually use metallic gold.

-I only do this with brand new hats as I prefer to keep my vintage/antique hats unaltered and original.

 

[Yesteryear]

Here's how it looks: The sweatband already had the gold stripe which is why I chose the gold paint.

 

[Fed in a Fedora]

I keep a few business cards in the hat band - partly to have them handy, partly for fit and partly for identification. I aso have photos on my phone of my hats on my head.

Fed

 

[Atticus Finch]

I have never marked my hats. Then again, I'm probably the only person in Craven County, NC who owns and wears a Resistol San Antonio.

AF

 

[hatophile]

If I DID mark my hats, I certainly wouldn't do it the way my dogs mark their territory. I do have a few of those "Like Hell It's Yours" tags from Art.

 

[parispal]

My Longmire hat has my name in it, printed by hatmaker H-Bar Hatworks in Billings. Earlier this month I had it signed inside by novelist Craig Johnson author of the Longmire books
www.craigallenjohnson.com

 

[tropicalbob]

Keep it on your head.

 

[Epemethius]

I mark my hats like my dogs would. People seem to leave them alone.
The card inside the band sounds like a better idea.

I guess it could be alarmed with a birthday card button tucked into the sweatband, the kind that plays an '80s tune. It is difficult to walk out unnoticed when the hat is playing "Hooked on a Feeling"

 

[TheDane]

Around here I'm the one wearing a hat. That's mark enough

 

[RJR]

A card inside the sweat for me.