It might be cool to be governor, but you rarely look cool.

But not for Phil Murphy. Not today, anyway. Today ... was backwards hat day.

What? You didn't know?

Here, just look:

Turning a snapback lid around like an out and out skater 'brah was, candidly, unexpected.

Indeed, ever since the great GM Assembly plant fashion disaster of 1997 that befell Gov. Christie Whitman -- in which the Republican governor was photographed painfully and awkwardly donning a GM baseball hat while wearing a hand-tailored Herbert Grossman pantsuit -- our Garden State chief executives have been loath to be photographed in them.

But not Murphy. Throw him an article of clothing -- anything, really, -- and he'll happily don it, especially if it has his initials or the word "governor" on it, like his tactical fleece.

And as his tweet shows, Murphy's hat, in fact, does say "governor" -- albeit on the back, so his casually turning it around also serves as a subliminal reminder that he is not just a regular guy, but also the governor.

Whether the reversed lid becomes Murphy's main millinery mode or remains a one-off, time will tell.

Hopefully, the governor will take the advice given by the sartorial experts at the style blog, Fashion Beans, which earlier this month offered sage, if ungrammatical ball cap advice for adults: "Wear it backwards seldomly and carefully. Never wear it sideways."

In a low point for both baseball and fashion, Gov. Christie Whitman tried on a company ball cap at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the General Motors Plant in Linden in June 1997. (NJNP Photo | Jack S. Kanthal)

Claude Brodesser-Akner may be reached at cbrodesser@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @ClaudeBrodesser. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.