I knitted this as a winter hat for someone so I didn’t use the yarn specified which was cotton -- I used an acrylic, wool blend which made for a less floppy style of hat --- in fact the short rows ended up making the hat take on a pixie hat shape (see the third to last photo) so then I tried to block the hat into submission using a folded towel on a small plate and copious amounts of steam and then even pressure from the iron. I never could get the hat to work properly as a slouch hat so I ended up rolling the brim to shorten it’s length. The hat should have looked like the last 2 pictures here but it was not to be. The person I made it for has a bigger head than this model so it will be much more of a fitted hat on her.
I used the German short row method --- very easy and unfussy -- no pins or wraps --- you knit to where you want to turn, then you turn and slip that just worked stitch onto your right needle. Then you just yank the working yarn up and over to the back of the knitting needle, pulling hard enough to draw up the stitch from below exposing its two legs. Then knit to the beginning of the row. On the way back when you come to the hiked up stitch, you just knit the two legs together and carry on as if nothing happened. You have to be careful when counting stitches, to count the two legs as a single stitch but it’s easy to see as it looks so different from the regular stitches. (Unless you are watching Justified on TV which means that you might start your short row turn at the wrong time --- but hey who’s looking that closely at your work -- not me.)

It took me a while to figure out the number of stitches to use since I was using bigger needles, I think I ended up casting on 35 stitches otherwise the hat would have been even taller than it already is.

If I ever knit this again, I might try knitting a waste yarn cast on and cast off and try grafting the edges together so that the seam is not as obvious, because the seam limits how you can wear the cap -- it has to be placed dead center at the back or it looks “wrong”.