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Lynnfield's Charles Arakelian is the
owner of ChucksBuckets and Stretch
Zone in Woburn.
STAFF PHOTOS: SPENSER HASAK
A man
who
wears
many
hats
By Emily Pauls & Sylvia Chen
Magazine Staff
When you go to a sports game,
whether that be baseball, hockey,
basketball or football, there is a sea of
fans wearing jerseys for their favorite
players. This may be changing in the
future because Lynnfield native Charles
Arakelian has a new product for sports
fans to wear: “a hat that resembles a
jersey.”
“The way I really started the hat
business was an idea I had, of instead
of wearing a jersey to a game, why not
wear a hat. So I know a lot of people
aren't fond of wearing jerseys that can
be bulky sometimes,” Arakelian said.
So he started his new business called
ChucksBuckets in 2019. The first hats
he made were for the local teams like
the Bruins and Patriots which he sold
to fans.
“The idea was to have a hat, the
color of their jersey, and the number
in the numbers on the front, the same
color as their numbers on their jerseys,”
Arakelian said. “So that would be the
front of the hat and the back of the hat
would either be a logo or a nickname
that describes the athlete.”
After the initial success of the hats,
they grew in popularity spreading to
professional athletes.
“Through networking, and a lot of
people I know. I was able to get them
on to the professional athletes heads
themselves,” Arakelian said. “So we've
had a lot of professional athletes wear
our hats, which has been really cool.
We've had hockey players nationwide
wear our hats, we've had people in the
music world wear our hats, people on
Barstool Sports have worn them.”
For the future of the hat business,
HATS, continued on page 12