I went to go buy a toque today from MEC and i guess i need a membership number to buy anything... i just want a 14$ hat i really dont want to spend an extra 5$, Is it possible for me to use someone's number and pay and have it shipped to southern california? or what? I MUST HAVE TOQUE.

We do have similar items here in the US; I believe we call them warm hats!

Toques are very different

What is the MEC #, product description, size and colour you want.
I'll order it and see if I can have it shipped to you. Send me your shipping information via PM. You can send me a MO if it works (I've never tried shipping to another address other than my own - which may be a problem). I'm gone fishing from the evening of 4/23 - 30.

Shouldn't be a problem shipping to another address. You just enter the address you want the item shipped to, then somewhere there should be a checkbox that says "Is billing address different from shipping address" so you can still have it billed to yourself. I'd check it out but the MEC site is down right now.

For small amounts of money, PayPal is a good way to get cash instantly from one person to another without fees.

If MEC is anything like REI I wouldn't give out my member ID just because I think I'd be upset if someone used a one-time discount, or in the case of REI, my annual dividend.

I knew Rick would come to the rescue! Good on ya,Rick.

These companies have them too-
http://www.muskokabearwear.com/collections/mens-toques-winter-hats

http://www.tuques.com/tuque_shop_online.htm

I'm sure there are others, just Google for it.

PM me in the incredibly unlikely event that he can't get it sent to you. MEC is a 10 minute drive or a 20 minute cycle from my house. I can grab it and mail it to you.

Never ever heard from the OP.

Oh well..

. . . I'm still trying to figure out what a TOQUE is. (I know what a toke is, I went to high school in the '70s.)

What I wanted to know is where that word comes from so I looked it up.

1.
a brimless and close-fitting hat for women, in any of several shapes.
2.
a velvet hat with a narrow, sometimes turned-up brim, a full crown, and usually a plume, worn by men and women esp. in 16th-century France.
3.
tuque.

A secondary definition
a heavy stocking cap worn in Canada.

Origin
toque
kind of round hat, 1505, from M.Fr. toque (15c.), from Sp. toca "woman's headdress," possibly from Arabic *taqa, from O.Pers. taq "veil, shawl."

[French, from Spanish toca.]

I'm sure it carried over from the French Canadiens.

ummm in jersey we call these beenie hats...tight fittin...brimless...kind of like a stocking cap...am i missing something that the OP knows!?!

No.

ok good i got about a dozen of these items then! they become popular as corpoate schwag items and throw aways instead of t-shirts!

Aside from the fact that it's ludicrous that the lingua franca of an otherwise advanced and enlightened society like the United States can't properly describe something so essential and everyday with it's own word seems kind of... backward

It's like they don't even have a Chesterfield to sit on

dang it now i need to google chesterfield...

not sure if its a language thing on my part or an age thing(27)...but now i must learn of this chesterfield and its origins! bah!

It is partly your age, but also where you live. It's old-school Canadian (Even I'm a bit young for it )

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~chambers/couch.html