Mike Shaw. There have been 1,782 of the black straw hats issued to troopers across Michigan which began its state police in 1917, Shaw said. “These are a little different than what we have been ...

Michigan is one of just six states where troopers don't wear campaign hats. The new design features a black straw hat with a clear-coat protection. It has a traditional four-dent style with an ...

Michigan State troopers will be wearing campaign-style hats, last worn by troopers in the early 1920s, to celebrate the ... The campaign hat is a black straw hat with a clear coat protection.

said it probably was a promotional gimmick of the hat industry in the 1920s. “We were just talking about Straw Hat Day in the store this morning,” he said by telephone yesterday.

Michael Shaw, there has been discussion about MSP switching back to the hats which were originally worn by MSP until the early 1920s ... It will be a black straw hat with a clear-coat protection.