Be it winter or summer, you will see people wearing hats. Hats are not only used to protect from the sun, but now it has become a kind of style. However, there is one interesting thing about it that you might not know.
You must have noticed that caps have buttons. Have you ever wondered what these buttons are for and what they are called? We claim that many people wear caps but most of them may not know its real name.
According to a website report, caps which have buttons on them are called baseball caps because players wear such caps during baseball games but you must have seen that players wear similar caps in cricket also. However, those caps do not have such buttons. If you have a question in your mind that why do these caps have buttons, then today we will tell you the answer.
You should know that when cloth or something is made from it, the cloth is cut into different shapes and used in objects. The same thing happens with the cap also. Different clothes are added on top and the ends of all the clothes come in the middle. When stitched at that place, that part looks bad. To hide these pieces of clothing, a button is placed at the top.
What is a hat button called?
That button of the hat is also called ‘sketchy’ or ‘sketcho’. After reading the name you might be wondering why it is so strange! The name is attributed to baseball commentator Bob Brenly, who was also a former player. He said in an interview that he first heard the name in 1980 from a San Francisco Giants teammate named Mike Krukow. Mike read this word in a book called Singletons in a Pittsburgh bookstore in 1984. In that book the word sketch was described as a button on a hat.
