The advantage to the tag is its making the hat traceable and returnable should he lose it–a friend of mine got a baby sweater back that way.
(Like he would ever lose it, I figure.)
See? That’s how you justify procrastinating doing that last obnoxious little task of trying to stab and pull yarn through that small tight strip of fabric–you delegate the decision and then ignore your phone while you blog.
Worked for me.