"Can you remember the last time you saw that jacket and hat?"
"The food here, that hat at the checkout," ishe says.
"Was probably a good thing you had that hat on, to take the Customs guy's attention away from your shaving kit."
"At the end of the season I give that hat to the team captain."
'And do you have to keep wearing that stupid hat?'
"I've waited my whole life for that shirt and that hat," he said.
If I didn't let him, then we'd have to explain him wearing that hat all the time, wouldn't we?
Rydell hadn't ever seen him not wear that Tyrolean hat before.
This is also before he took up wearing that odd hat and smoking a pipe.
What I see is familiar because we've worn that hat.