POP CULTURE PERISCOPE This Week: Winter Hat Semiotics Ladies! This season, it's all about Grandpa's old-school trapper hat! If you want to kick it up a notch, be the first in your 'hood to rock MASSIVE FLAPPAGE! (Baby's got flap!)

There's also the DIY, hand-knit approach. (This hat says "Screw the man") TIP: For that extra-homemade look, keep ball of yarn attached to hat.

If you must be cutesy and wear a hat with animal ears, at least try to make it something unorthodox. Bear ears: bo-ring! Fennec fox of the Sahara desert: A conversation starter

Some theorists believe the mohawk ski hat, occasionally seen on snowboarding youth, represents the definitive death of punk. (London, 1977)(Utah, 2011)