A whoopee cap is a style of headwear popular among youths in the mid 20th century in the United States. It was often made from a man's felt

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hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. In the

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and

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, such caps usually indicated the wearer was a mechanic. The headwear can often be seen worn in the films of the

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. It is also referred to as a Jughead hat (so named after comic book character

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, for whom the hat became an iconic piece), palookaville cap, devils cap, clubhouse hat, dink cap, rat cap, or Kingpin.

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