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Baseball Hats
Baseball is just one of those sports where the players walk out onto the field looking immaculate from head to toe, and by about halfway through the game, regardless of the quality and cleanliness of the uniforms at the onset, they look like a battle-worn group of guys who have obviously earned their dirt stains. The only thing that prevails is their baseball hat. The pants and shoes are caked in dirt, their uniform is covered in miscellaneous stains, but their custom baseball hat is the one beacon of cleanliness to remind you of how they looked in warm-ups. So, the baseball hat needs to make a strong statement. Most baseball hats today are low-profile 6-panel hats with busted flat seams and a big, thick puff embroidery logo on the front. What is puff embroidery? It’s just embroidery that sticks out making the logo stand off the baseball hat as a 3-D element. The sweatbands are generally made of performance fabrics to wick away sweat and improve comfort. Custom baseball hats can have custom colored eyelets and matching or contasting buttons at the very top.
Matching Your Uniforms
What do you need to know about baseball hats to put a successful order together with Ampro? You just need to know what you like. We’ll figure out the rest. If we’re supplying your baseball hats and you already have team jerseys from a previous season, send one in to us so we can match the two together to the best of our ability. Perfect matching is not usually possible because of the variety of colors, fabrics, finishes and applications we are trying to match to, but we can get pretty close. Let’s say, for example, we’re embroidering your baseball hats to match jerseys which have tackle twill names, numbers and logo; twill has a less shiny finish than embroidery thread. Fabric finishes can look different with different lighting, so we will match the embroidery on your baseball hats to the best of our resources. We can mix any print color in the world, but we are somewhat limited to the thread colors available in the marketplace.
Final Details
Baseball hats can either be the show-piece of your uniform, or they can just be standard-issue plain hats. If you are purchasing fitted baseball hats for your team, there are sizing samples available to measure your group, so please feel free to borrow them at any time. If you are torn between all the available styles, choose a handful that you like and our Ampro team specialists can check the availability of each baseball hat. Take some time to consider all the varieties of baseball hats with contrasting elements like stitching, eyelets, sandwich bills, and contrast-colored bills. It will help tie both your home and away uniforms in more closely to each other, and it adds a stylish dynamic to your baseball hats. Give us an opportunity to quote your next custom baseball hat order and we’ll be sure to deliver the best baseball hat with custom embroidery on time (or early)!
Custom Hats
With a lot of lead time, there are no limits for your next custom hat order. If your program requires a couple thousand hats, we can produce it as a direct import which will definitely help to make breathing room in your budget! Ampro has resources in East Asia for custom hats, so we can customize everything from the exact color of the hat, to all the decorating for a fraction of domestic costs. As we all know, ample lead time is extremely rare, and while it’s great to have, most people are working on “at once” programs that are needed for events on the short horizon. Nine times out of ten, we make hats out of existing stock styles, and we customize them with embroideries. The differences between the quality of a direct import hat program, and a domestic custom hat program are indistinguishable, the only real difference is the price. There are hundreds of hat suppliers in the U.S., but Ampro primarily only works with two of the best. Pacific Headwear makes fantastic stock hats that utilize all the new moisture management and construction technologies, and they make them in a wide variety of colors and styles. We also recommend Yupoong hats, which have proprietary Flexfit technology which is very popular among young men, and can still be customized to your needs.
Decorate!
Embroidery is the key to success in any custom hat program. It doesn’t matter how nice the quality of the hat is if your supplier puts a sloppy embroidery on the front. Ampro uses the best digitizing technology in the business, and we sample every logo before we run production on your custom hats. Very few organizations have access to both printing and embroidery equipment in the same building, and they major advantage for us is if we are putting an entire uniform together, we can match your custom printed uniforms and your custom hats to each other with the decorating. If you purchase all your uniform components from different suppliers, it is highly unlikely that everything will match when it arrives at your door. And, if you are adding a custom hat to a uniform that you’ve already created, just send us the shirt that you would like it to match, and we’ll find the best candidate.
Style & Fabric
Custom hats come in a lot of different flavors, from brushed cotton twill to foam front mesh trucker caps. With so many options, it can be difficult to narrow it down. If you aren’t very familiar with hats, but stuck making the purchase, you may want to ask around to see what the preferences are among that team. Younger folks like low-profile hats, older folks like high profile hats, and that is just scratching the surface of custom hats. Then you get into more basic variables like baseball caps versus beanies or visors. Custom golf hats are also extremely popular and somewhat diverse; generally they come in nicer fabrics like brushed twill and moisture management blends, but I have also noticed that visors are very popular for golf events. Custom hats can also be 6-panel, which is more modern, or 5-panel which has more of a vintage feel. Most men have strong opinions about hats based on how they fit (and how they look) which is why this is the only item that I would recommend for my clients to ask around in their target market. Custom hats are a great giveaway item, and when they are done tastefully, they will be worn by both ladies and men. If you aren’t sure what your options are, let any Ampro salesperson make a presentation to you with some samples. That will help you zero in on a certain direction, and we will help you continue to narrow it down from there. With our embroidery capabilities, and our sources, Ampro should definitely be your first stop on your next custom hat program.