Buying safety wear

[holeymoley]

Surely if you were to buy a new riding hat it should come in some kind of box or bag? Not just handed over as it is. Or have we done away with that much packaging that this no longer happens? It’s been a while since I’ve bought a new riding hat but I’m a bit perplexed and in two minds as to my thoughts on this and whether I really want to accept it. How do I know it’s not been dropped while on the shelf/being put on display?

Just to be clearer my husband picked it up on the way home after I ordered it online. Silly beggars have given him the wrong size so it’ll have to go back anyway but unsure if I really want another if it just gets handed out like that.

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[SpeedyPony]

I bought a new one a couple of months ago and that came in a bag, inside a cardboard box. I'd be surprised at just getting the hat as is, after all surely they're easier to store in a box?

 

[Lipglosspukka]

Mine was also in a bag within a box

 

[fidleyspromise]

Last one I bought a couple years ago came I a bag and in a box. I wouldn't be impressed at no box at all.

 

[View]

My last one was just in a bag - but I trust the owner of that store (and it is just her).

 

[AFB]

My CO's were in bags & boxes, when they bought out another brand for me to try one (Gatehouse IIRC) they were in more structured hat bags and didn't seem to be boxed.

 

[Pippity]

My Uvex came in a box. Both my Gatehouses came wrapped in tissue paper inside a padded, structured hat bag. Anything that came completely bare, I'd suspect had been on the shelves for a while for people to try on.

 

[muddybay]

My gatehouse came in a hat bag and my champion came with nothing

 

[All]

my helmet i got a couple of years ago just came in a carrier bag (it came from a local tac shop and they had to order it in in my size as well)

 

[holeymoley]

Thanks all. I’ve decided to return it(wrong size anyway) and order from elsewhere.