It's the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Baylif Jesse Thorn. We're currently in Judge

John Hodgman's chambers for a little bit of clearing the docket before we get to our

primary case. Hello, Judge Hodgman. Hello. So this week's case is all about clothes

and we have a few disputes that were sent to us at Hodgman at MaximumFun.org that

are clothing related that we thought we'd get out of the way before we get to our main

case. Yeah, I'm ready to make some summary judgments for sure. Here's the first one

from David. He says recently our office had a unique hat competition. Oh God. He was

confident he'd win with his vintage boy George visor but was shocked when he was disqualified

by the events organizers who proclaimed that a visor is not a hat. He would like a judgment

on whether or not a visor, specifically a boy George vintage visor, is a hat. I don't

know whether I've never been more happy or more sad that I have not worked in an office

for 15 years. Well, you're happy because you don't have to get into a unique hat competition

but you're sad because you don't have anywhere to wear your vintage boy George visor. I'm happy

because I don't have to get into a unique hat competition but I'm sad because I don't

get to goof off as much as those people obviously do. Visor is not a hat. It does not protect

the crown of the head. It would not be any good in rain. Mark emails and says he's having

a dispute with his girlfriend, Deborah. She says that there's such a thing as corduroy,

excuse me, he says that there's such a thing as corduroy jeans and each of them own

a pair. She says that jeans by definition are made of denim and any pants made out of

corduroy are referred to as cords or corduroy no matter what style or cut. He says it nearly

ruined Thanksgiving this disagreement. That most corduroy of holidays. Besides, of course,

November 11th, the date that most resembles corduroy. There is such a thing as corduroy pants

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