[EP83] Real American English to help w/ comprehension! We visit a shop in Encinitas, California, and learn about hats. Transcript below to help you! Unexpected English: real listening practice in under five minutes!

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Interview: So I was walking down the street I saw a shop that look kind of interesting called Brixton and I just thought I would go in and find out. Oh, well, I'll tell you why I thought it was interesting. I'm looking at a whole wall full of hats. So that's unusual right there. There, there are men's hats. Is that right?

That is correct. So, what Brixton specializes in is our headwear and just a lot of outerwear apparel.

Oh, hold up right there! I just learned a new word. I call them hats. He calls them “headwear” because you wear it on your head, pretty good!

Ha! That is correct. But it's really mostly just a style of wear that you would continually dress up or dress down... (blah blah)

So I guess what he said is you could wear these hats anytime, anyplace, any way you want to!

That is correct. That is 100% correct there.

Well, wait a minute. Now since you're a specialist, or a semi specialist Yeah, I would say specialist. I'm looking at these hats, and I'm thinking they must all have names... Is that true?

They do they have quite a few names. We have the Valley Fedora.

Okay, so that's a fedora. Soft brim, that's the thing that goes around the hat, gives you a little bit of shade. But do you call it a brim even on a baseball cap? If it's giving you the shade?

You would, you would still. on like the normal baseball cap that I'm wearing, you would still call it a brim. As opposed to the full fedoras, which are going to have a full brim where it's going to the brim is going to circle the entirety of the crown of the hat itself.

The crown is the top of the hat, is the top of the hat. So, you be a king when you’re wearing that crown!

I mean, we can dress you up like a king that is for sure, or queen, either way. We got you!

Well, so now I learned, I learned headwear. And I learned brim which is a thing going around, give you a little shade and the top is the crown. And one style is called a fedora, which is kind of soft, but we’ve got fedoras... now the next one, these would be...

So these are gonna be Fiddler's or old school marine caps. This is actually a style I personally wear myself a lot of.

Marine caps, for those of you who can't see it, it kind of looks like those Greek caps, right?

Very similar, yeah, or sailor hats. That's why I meant more so by the marine, so a lot of old school sailors used to wear this kind of silhouette of head wear or hat.

Yeah, we're saying hat hat hat. But I guess if it's a little smaller, it's a cap.

It's a cap. You are correct, sir. Yeah, so another one that's going to be a cap (we can move on down) is these guys. Now you might recognize these: these are the older newsboy styles.

Okay, so we’ve got the newsboys style, that's a flat cap. So we’ve got that, we’ve got that, and the last style I guess looks a little more formal.

It's a very classic style of fedora. We call these ones the Messer with still like a nice soft crown that you can either reshape or really stylized to how you really choose to wear the hat itself.

All right, well, I think we've got the total tour of the headwear. I love saying that! I learned a new word! Of the headwear available here in Brixton, in beautiful...

Encinitas. We're here in Encinitas. Yeah, beautiful Encinitas, California.

Okay, well, thanks very much for your time.

Yeah, thank you, sir. It was a pleasure speaking with you.

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