MELASA reflective and hi-vis beanies (4)

A driver does not see your hat. The driver sees headlight coming back off it. Each beanie here carries a reflective stripe in the knit for exactly that. Two of them add our cuff light as well. The Reflective Stripe LED Beanie is double-layer acrylic in five colors, Fluorescent Yellow and Dark Orange among them, and you can turn the cuff so the light faces forward or back. The Fleece-Lined Reflective LED Beanie comes in Blue or Fluorescent Yellow. On both, the stripe runs all the way around, 360 degrees.

The two without a light suit crews and walkers who already carry a lamp. The Fleece-Lined Reflective Beanie comes in four colors, the Reflective Knit Beanie in Black or Gray, and both wear two ways. Cuffed once, the stripe sits around your forehead where a windshield picks it up. Unfolded, the hat turns into a slouchy everyday beanie for the hours when nobody needs to see you from a car.

Keep your expectations where the federal research puts them. The FHWA says a walker in dark clothes is first seen at about 55 feet. NHTSA finds that people overestimate how visible they are, that reflective material works best where it moves and outlines the body, and that no study has yet tied visibility aids to fewer crashes. So a stripe at head height makes you easier to spot in the beam, and a light shows up before the beam arrives. Neither turns a hat into high-visibility apparel: ANSI/ISEA 107 covers whole garments and dropped its accessory criteria in 2020. The seen at night guide has the rest.

The two lights charge from a standard USB port. None of these hats is rated as high-visibility apparel.

These 4 products are part of the MELASA selection, from $9.99 to $18.99 in our last catalog update.