While we were all talking Logie nominations and the Panama Papers, a trend we thought we’d successfully buried in noughties stuck a determined hand out of the grave.
Yes, trucker hats — those abominations last seen on Paris Hilton and Britney Spears’s heads circa 2005 — are now firmly back in the fashion vernacular.
As with waist trainers and contouring, you can safely blame the Kardashian Klan for the resurgence.
Kylie Jenner, to be exact.
The 18 year old has been wearing an infamous Von Dutch trucker cap in not one, but four Instagram posts in the last week or so.
Before you go wondering how much Kylz paid to nab one of these relics on eBay, we can assure you the brand hasn’t died. Their fully functioning website and social channels confirm that.
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So why would the style-conscious Jenner, who gets around in Chanel, Fendi and Balmain, wear a hat no celebrity — or living soul, for that matter — has wanted to be associated with for a decade? There are a couple of viable theories. Both scarier than the next.