best tool for measuring my head size?

blueoakleyz · Post by **blueoakleyz** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:37 pm

Ok I have a standard measuring tape, one of those flexible kind... and I use that and get ~59. But then I got one with an actual head curve built into it off of panamahatsdirect.com and it came out to like a 62.

What should I use?

Bruce Wayne · Post by **Bruce Wayne** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:13 pm

I would use a cloth tape measure with inches on one side & metric on the other. you can pick them up at any fabric store as well as wally world

blueoakleyz · Post by **blueoakleyz** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:18 pm

bruce wayne wrote:I would use a cloth tape measure with inches on one side & metric on the other. you can pick them up at any fabric store as well as wally world

Yeah that's what it is

very flexible

I measure on the protruding bump of the back of my head to above the brow above the eybrow (the part where a caveman would have a "pronounced brow"), firm but somewhat loose so I don't feel tension and it comes out 59.

Sitting Rabbit · Post by **Sitting Rabbit** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:07 am

blueoakleyz wrote:
bruce wayne wrote:I would use a cloth tape measure with inches on one side & metric on the other. you can pick them up at any fabric store as well as wally world
Yeah that's what it is

very flexible

I measure on the protruding bump of the back of my head to above the brow above the eybrow (the part where a caveman would have a "pronounced brow"), firm but somewhat loose so I don't feel tension and it comes out 59.

The "bump" on the back of your head is called your "External Occipital Protuberance", or "EOP" for short. And the eye brow ridges continue to grow outwards the rest of your life, so if you lived to at least a couple of hundred years old, they would start to stick out. Just thought I'd add that in there

blueoakleyz · Post by **blueoakleyz** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:50 am

I'm a big Caveman fan so that's ok with me

I was a caveman for halloween last year

carolinamike · Post by **carolinamike** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:55 am

The "bump" on the back of your head is called your "External Occipital Protuberance", or "EOP" for short. And the eye brow ridges continue to grow outwards the rest of your life, so if you lived to at least a couple of hundred years old, they would start to stick out. Just thought I'd add that in there

Which is why it's possible that there never were any cavemen.

Castor Dioscuri · Post by **Castor Dioscuri** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:07 am

How about this:

Doctor_Jones · Post by **Doctor_Jones** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:13 am

Castor Dioscuri wrote:How about this:

my thought exactly

blueoakleyz · Post by **blueoakleyz** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:25 am

Castor Dioscuri wrote:How about this:

That's what I"m using (Except it's white).. and that's what I"m saying I'm conflicted because the one on panamahatsdirect is way different. Then there's the idea that hats feel differently than a measuring tape and are stiffer or stretch one way (Say length but not width) etc.. it's all maddening!

Sitting Rabbit · Post by **Sitting Rabbit** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:41 pm

carolinamike wrote:
The "bump" on the back of your head is called your "External Occipital Protuberance", or "EOP" for short. And the eye brow ridges continue to grow outwards the rest of your life, so if you lived to at least a couple of hundred years old, they would start to stick out. Just thought I'd add that in there
Which is why it's possible that there never were any cavemen.

Nope, there weren't. Only rebellious people that wouldn't follow God.

Castor Dioscuri · Post by **Castor Dioscuri** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:05 pm

Well, on a more serious note, I know some hatters, like Art Fawcett for example, use a tool called a conformer that look similar to a medieval torture device. Basically it's a head "ring" that tightens to get a precise shape of all the nooks and crannies on your cranium.

best tool for measuring my head size?

best tool for measuring my head size?

The "bumps" on your head