Wales bucket hat

Until 2022, Wales had not qualified for the football World Cup tournament since 1958, where they had lost in the quarter finals to the eventual winners, Brazil.

In 2010 he created a company in his spare time, Spirit of '58, and began designing and distributing alternative memorabilia, shirts and the red, yellow and green bucket hat.

[10] Five 10-foot (3.0 m) tall illuminated bucket hats were installed as public art in city and town centres across Wales, including Cardiff, Swansea, Bangor, Wrexham and Aberystwyth.

[12] On 21 November, fans and FAW staff, including former Welsh international football captain Laura McAllister, were told by stadium stewards to remove their rainbow bucket hats before they entered Doha's Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium for Wales's opening match against the United States.

[13] In response to the incident the Football Association of Wales said that they were "extremely disappointed" by the reports and said that they would address the issue with FIFA.

Wales football fans wearing bucket hats
Giant bucket hat sculpture (Nov 2022) in The Hayes, Cardiff