WTF – Bear Hat with Built in Paw Mittens

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Winter time is here! Anyone else start playing Christmas carols? CHRISTMAS TIIIIIIME IS HEEEEEERE! That’s our text-rendition of the Charlie Brown Christmas song, Martina’s favourite Christmas song ever. (I lied. She actually hates that song, and hates it more when I sing it. I wonder how she feels about me writing it. Update: I asked her. She hates that, too).

Anyways, it’s now perfect timing to do this week’s Wonderful Treasure Find on this bear hat with mittens. We were lucky enough to have this review sponsored by ToFebruary, who sells awesome cute Korean stuff (as well as stuff that you see in Korean dramas, like jewelry and clothing…Martina has the Boys Before Flowers necklace from this shop…yay!) And this product is so highly relevant, since, well, ’tis the season for winter hats. Might not be the season for polar bear hats that look like they’re eating your head, you might say, but you’re wrong! We’ve seen lots of these hats around in Korea, and it’s about time we talk about them!

Couple of things: 1) There are more than just bear hats with bear mittens in Korea. We’ve seen dragons, frogs, Pikachus, Mickeys, etc. Do adults wear them? Irrelevant. Martina does. And perhaps some quirky people. But it’s better to be quirky than it is to be boring. Pikachu hats FTW! 2) Can anyone else confirm the mitten-string theory we talked about in our video? We’ve seen soooooo many people in Korea wearing stringed mittens with the strings on the outside. Totally defeats the purpose of the string!

And on that note, it’s giveaway time! We haven’t done a giveaway in a realllllly long time. We were in Canada for a bit, and then last week we did our special Fan Mail Candy episode, and so now it’s finally time for us to give this stuff away! Just in time for Christmas as well since you can always give it to one of your Asiaphile friends “Merry Christmas! Here’s some Asian stuff courtesy of some nerdy YouTubers!” Well, don’t say it like that. Add more loooove.

To win the care package, tell us what else you would use the bear hat for besides just the obvious one, which is hugging it…I mean, wearing it. Yes, our questions are ridiculous, but that’s because we’re creative fartsy people. So there! And, yes, this question can be answered here as well. Just make sure you leave your YouTube username in your answer, because we – as always – only pick winners from our YouTube subscribers. Huzzah!

And on that note: our bloopers! We cut out some long rambles. Sorry if we were a bit off today. We stayed up till 3AM last night working on this video AND K Crunch, which we’ll upload tomorrow morning. And we woke up at 8AM to get back to work. Been one hell of a week, though! We’ve got a majorly cool announcement coming with K Crunch tomorrow, so make sure you don’t miss it!

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http://twitter.com/twentythreeshop `twentythreeSHOP

Thanks Martina for wearing the bow ring I sent to you guys a couple of months ago… its looks awesome on you!

Much Love,
Viel (of `twentythree — http://shop.twentythreejewelry.com)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rosa-Daniela-Ruiz/728502071 Rosa Daniela Ruiz

I see the new generation of jump ropes, the cute edition…little girls will go crazy!

rruiz2010
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1450680253 Ruth Van de Winkel

Thursday I have my first exam so I will be in my room all the time and it is very cold there, so Iwould use it to keep myself warm and study looking like a bear. And when people see me trough my window they will look weard but I don’t care because a bearhat is awesome!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nabilah-Othman/649296991 Nabilah Othman

can we not just wear it for the sake of “at last i got this from korea n now i can wear it like im one of them and like my country is so damn cold that i need to wear them eventho i live in malaysia and its a tropical country and since im already wearing a hijab my head is not that cold but im gonna wear it anyways n i myself would think that i look cute in it and u out there had to be jealous or force to say im cute by me or ELSE” coz tht what i’ll do. oh n try reading all tht in one breath. but tht in a sense holding a head right, just that the head is still intact to the body? ok i just went all murdery there. I NEED THEM HAT since cant find one big enough for my head here. discrimination againts adults!!!! thank you simon for trying it on. i dunno, ur head may be smaller than mine. need hat along the cat and bunny ears i collected. plz .plz. plz
Anonymous

hey guys love your videos, I WOULD USE the bear hat to go to the north pole and SPY ON SANTA, hehehe or i would use it to STUF FOOD IN THE MITTENS WHEN I GO TO THE MOVIES nums, that or i could put it on a tell my cat,”i’m just like you.”OR a new cut lunchbox or BACKPACK.
Dana Kim

I would put it on my dogs head and use it around like a lease! it would be soooo cute!!!! cause it would be on my doggies head and i would look like im holding a bear paw!!! and it would totally keep my hands warm!!!
http://twitter.com/cece678 Courtney

I would use it to high five people with super cuddly paws of steel!
Anonymous

Since I am graduating, I would not use just an ordinary notebook to get my friends’ autograph or ‘good luck’ wishes. Instead I would use the bear hat! I know it would be hard to write on the furry outer covering do maybe my friends can just stick sticky notes on it on just tape on small note papers. I would not mind my friends decorating it with markers because the bear hat would in fact be the last thing my friends left for me. I will not mind walking around with the bear hat and look all tupid. People might think I’m really forgetful that I have sticky notes on the bear hat. But I don’t care what people think. Because the bear hat is one of a kind!!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sojung-Lisa-Jeon/1725912349 Sojung Lisa Jeon

oh your hair is so adorable here martina~~
http://twitter.com/true_muzic tria almario

omg they have that here!!!
http://twitter.com/mangorango Maren C

This picture is accurate:
Janee Ouk

OH M GEE! Just realised you were wearing the ‘Boys Over Flowers’ necklace Martina! Its really pretty! -rushes over to tofebruary-
http://teachergirlbooks.wordpress.com/ teachergirl

I’m an elementary teacher in the States, and one of my students came to school this morning wearing this. I did a double-take and thought of you guys. Actually, animal hats have been very popular in our school this year, especially among the fourth graders. I think one kid has about 10 different ones that he rotates.
nia ballard

you’v NEVER had a resee’s cup before