White sneakers and Yankees hats

It’s called good marketing.

If you notice most of the Yankees hats in Europe are dark shade of red. That's not an official Yankees color.

Yankees hats were all over Rome and Sorrento as well, mostly young locals wearing them in every colour but navy blue. Oh, and one Blue Jays cap, but that was me, neither a local or young.

I dislike the Americanization of the world. Yes, I'm old enough to remember the day when people dressed to their culture, from Germany to Italy, but now ...

Generally people aren't wearing Yankees caps because they support the team or even have any interest in baseball but rather because of good marketing that has made the trademark initials iconic.

I am from Georgia and graduated from University of Georgia.
We were in Ukraine in 2013 on a cruise that ported in Sevastopol and Odesa. While on a tour we saw a guy wearing a Georgia Bulldog T-shirt. I asked the guide to ask the guy where he acquired the T-shirt. Apparently, he got it from a second hand store were someone donated clothing, including the shirt from the USA.

Yes, I see lots of baseball caps, which I wear when sunny. I wear white or gray athletic shoes as well. I am proud to be an American and have no concern about how I am perceived by others.

This doesn't mean that I wear ratty clothing, I usually wear nice slacks and a button down collar. I lived in Germany in the late 80s and early 90s and Germans almost never wore sneakers. Now, it seems many Europeans wear sneakers. Perhaps, not so much in style conscious Italy, but elsewhere, yes.

Athletic walking shoes are great for lots of walking, which we do while traveling.

Yes, the USA has had a huge impact on the World. What is wrong with that? There are things from other countries that I like and I am not ashamed to enjoy those as well. After living in Bavaria for four years, I came back to the USA and found main stream American beer to be best to avoid until I found Sam Adams.

To those whose wear a baseball cap when it's sunny......If you're using it for sun protection, it's not giving you any protection on your ears and the sides of your face or neck. My husband had several skin cancers cut off of his ears, one ear had so much removed that the plastic surgeon had to "build" him a new ear with skin taken from under his arm.

For sun protection, he bought a wide-brimmed Tilley hat. He wears that now when we go to England. It is a dark khaki color and does not scream "We're American tourists!"
(On second thought, maybe it does!)
He also traded in the white tennis shoes long ago for tan leather Bass walking shoes, which look more like what Rick Steves wears in his videos. He claims they are more comfy for walking than his white tennis shoes.

His hat is the Airflo. Good hat.
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I am an American tourist. It doesn't matter if I wear a baseball cap or my 20 year old Tilley - I'm still a tourist from America. Aside from a few devout RS guidebook junkies - nobody cares.

Yeah, I don't care, either. They know my husband and I are tourists anyhow, no matter what kind of hats we wear.
I just don't want to go to London and dress as though I'm at the beach or a ball game.

a very large proportion of the Yankees caps are knockoffs having no relationship to the team whatsoever, and imported counterfeits.

People buy them because they are cheap and because their friends wear them.

Recently in Edinburgh shops were selling shirts about “Georgia peaches.” My daughter and I got a kick out of that. Lots of things about Los Angeles too.

Rebecca,
Yes, baseball hats don't protect nearly as well as a wide brimmed hat. We did The Galapagos Islands, a safari in Kenya/Tanzania and a tour of Egypt in the past year and I wore my wide brimmed safari hat to protect me from the sun at or near the equator.

Still, a baseball hat works well in cooler places.

BigMikeWestByGodVirginia. In 1970-someting I sold my Levi's in Italy for twice what I bought them for in Houston. But the money stayed in the local economy.

LOL. In 1972 just out of college we’d been told we could clean up selling our American jeans. In the market in Jerusalem we tried valiantly for about a hour but nobody wanted used jeans. Glad you fared better Mr E. We didn’t want to drag them around for 3 months so traded them for a drum…that broke 10 minutes later.

I bought a baseball hat from Lululemon while in London. It was humid and my hair was not cooperating and it was windy as well. I will always bring a hat from now on. Nobody cares what you wear. Most Londoners were dressed nicely. You want to be comfortable - we walked around 8 to 10 miles a day while there.

Usually wear baseball caps, but not of sports teams. I actually don't think I have ever worn a hat in Europe, period. Funny I don't ever remember doing a Europe trip with the sun beating down on me--maybe we have gone more off-season? In Central and South America, yes. I have never been into the wide brimmed hats, though I have one--but have never worn it! I think maybe if I was on a long sunny trek (maybe Camino?) I would be more into the wide-brimmed. Walking shoes are Merrell Moabs.

For sun protection, he bought a wide-brimmed Tilley hat.

Husband wore his Tilly hat around China a few years ago and the Chinese got very excited as, with his beard, they all thought he was Sean Connery as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was very popular there at the time...

LOL! Wasleys, the Tilley does give one a certain "dashing" look!

Sorry but comfort is always better than what one might look like. However nothing screams "tourist" louder than the ugliest hat ever invented, the goof cap with your favourite golf club or baseball team on it. Well, other than the Tilley. I had a Molson Canadian hat once in France and ended up giving it away to a little kid, fascinated by it. Irony or what?

However nothing screams "tourist" louder than the ugliest hat ever
invented, the goof cap with your favourite golf club or baseball team
on it.

Wow, comments are nasty today.

I hereby amend my comment from "Nobody cares" to "Nobody cares except phoffen2001".

I happen to own a lot of them for golf. Quite practical but certainly not enhancing my sartorial standing.

They are going to figure out that I am a tourist long before seeing either my navy blue Nike hat or khaki Tilley hat. Lots of sun protection at my tender age of 70.

You will see women wearing dresses/skirts with white trainers every where in the UK. We even saw it in Amsterdam and Paris. When we went out for a Sunday with my friends, she wore a dress with white trainers. I meant her on the train last year, she invited us to her home, we went, had a great time, then we spent a long weekend with her and family last month.

Well Ed, I am not far behind you, and did emphasise that practicality beats fashion! I cycle a lot, and even in cooler climes, sunscreen is very important. You don't notice the sun when there is wind, which the UK is (sadly for me) in constant supply of. On that topic, I think Boots is one of man's greatest inventions. Pills, etc dirt cheap.

I'm with you guys, I dress comfortable and practical, which means Luchessi's and a straw in the summer or a silver beaver in the winter.

But sitting on a street corner in Europe I can see easily 3/4ths of the men are wearing sneakers, half of them white and almost as many of the women are also, again, half are white. Baseball caps? Maybe 1 in 100; but they look to be fitting in just fine.

I purchase white walking sneakers and avoid the multicolored bright sneakers that teens tend to wear.

That people wear Yankee caps makes me smile as I’m a diehard Yankee fan! I like it! I don’t care if the hats are knockoffs or not. I always wear Brooks black running shoes whether I am walking home in NYC or traveling overseas. I wear the same clothes traveling as I do at home; I don’t have a “travel wardrobe”. I basically wear all black that can be mixed and matched easily along with a few silk scarves to add a splash of color. I’ve never worn white sneakers except tennis sneakers when playing tennis. Tennis shoes aren’t meant to be worn outside of the court because they offer no support for basic walking.