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I always wondered about this, why do we use baseball cap to refer to a cap type hat with a 'peak'?
For me this was weird because, as someone not from the US, no one around ever refereed to any hats as "baseball cap" other than hats worn during a baseball game.
Instead these would be refereed to as ... well mostly just a hat, or cap, or (as confusing as it may be for danbooru) a peaked cap. Snapback is very much the most prominent term nowadays though.
Because that's how we refer to it in the United States, which is primarily what this site goes by.
keonas said:
Snapback is very much the most prominent term nowadays though.
I thought I'd add my two cents to this topic with some personal observations. Having grown up in the United States, we would typically refer to the type of hat found in the following posts as a snapback (modern usage):
post #3308935
post #3298084
post #3273926 (Perfect example)
Note that the bill of the hat is flat (or mostly so), and therefore wider than your typical baseball cap. It is what you might expect the "cool kids" of today to wear. While technically all hats with a snap in the back ought to be referred to as "snapbacks", I think that changing the name to something like that would bring some confusion for the above stated reasons. I think that companies like Tillys, Zumiez, and Lids popularized the term "snapback" in the US to mean this style of cap.
Last words:
post #3307215 would likely be referred to as a baseball cap in common speech, and not a snapback, even though it may very well have a snap in the back.
GenericAnimeReference said:
Having grown up in the United States, we would typically refer to the type of hat found in the following posts as a snapback (modern usage)...
Having lived my life in the US for a few decades, this thread is literally my first time hearing the term snapback.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapback
^Redirects to Baseball cap when you click Snapback (hat).
BrokenEagle98 said:
Having lived my life in the US for a few decades, this thread is literally my first time hearing the term snapback.
Another thing us millenials are killing, I suppose.
That just further demonstrates why we use the term baseball cap. If I was told to draw a peaked cap, I would probably draw Link's cap from Legend of Zelda. Snapback is clearly a term of oddity. In the end, everyone ought to know what a baseball cap is, even if it isn't the term that they commonly use.
