What do you call this winter garment where you live?

[dixiehack]

Looks like you are not the first to ponder this.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/toboggan-tuque-knit-hat-regionalism

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Have never gotten my mail delivered anywhere other than the northeast and I've never heard of the phrase toboggan for a winter hat. And when I was a kid, I always kept the little pom poms on top. Might explain a lot!!

 

[Driftwood]

To be fair, back in the day at least they were called watch caps when issued to you in boot camp.
The listing was:
Cap: 1, watch

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Winter hat, stocking cap or toboggan here.

A beanie had a propeller on it in my world.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Nope @dixiehack you are the first caller with the right answer. It's in fact a toboggan.... or to some, just a boggan.
Well, my wife says tow-boggan.

Years ago when I moved south, I dated a girl who said toboggan. Took me a minute to realize she wasn’t looking for a sled in the back of her closet.

 

[Driftwood]

No matter what you call it, this time of year, because I am generally outside about sunrise, I've got one on.

 

[wicked]

**** that messes up my hair.

You lucky sonofabitch. I forgot what that looks like.

 

[Driftwood]

The real question is how do you wear it?
My wife likes it jammed down on her head like a blueberry or something.
I prefer the reservoir tip for my comfort and pleasure.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

The real question is how do you wear it?
My wife likes it jammed down on her head like a blueberry or something.
I prefer the reservoir tip for my comfort and pleasure.

Giggity.

 

[SportsDiva72]

Here in New York, it's a plain old winter hat that keeps your head warm when mother nature gets off her meds and hits us with noreasters, nuisance snow (that's one-two inches), a whole lotta snow(anything above 4 inches)or sleet and snow.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Will add that for a few years in the 1990s, we called them OJ hats. It started when a coworker (white woman) came in wearing one and someone said, “hey you look like OJ.” We all cracked up.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Here you go.

Beanie vs Hat: What’s the Difference Between a Hat and a Beanie?

 

[Driftwood]

FWIW: My current rotation is a Bass Pro Shops and a Carhartt.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

For the record, what we actually call them here is "unnecessary."

 

[Spartan Squad]

In california it was a wool hat, or a ski hat. I moved to Oregon and they became beanies.

I’ve always heard it as beanie in Cali. Maybe someone called it a hat but it’s mostly beanie.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

We call them beanies in Texas, but not far north of here they are called toboggans. But even farther north they're called tuques, and I think I prefer that.

 

[SixToe]

Hat - what men wore in the 1960s like in Mad Men

Cap - what sportsball players wear, with a bill and button on top

 

[DanOregon]

I’ve always heard it as beanie in Cali. Maybe someone called it a hat but it’s mostly beanie.

In the Bay Area? I know SoCal language is different. We never used "the" in front of highways.

 

[Spartan Squad]

In the Bay Area? I know SoCal language is different. We never used "the" in front of highways.

Oh man, I get so upset when I hear someone say “the 101.” But yeah, I’m wearing a beanie now in a 35 degree morning in the Bay Area.

 

[DanOregon]

OK, I never heard the term before moving up to Oregon in the '90s.