No, the first Pokemon game that I was actually able to play and understand was the 4th gen, so I consider my first Pokemon ever my Infernape, and I consider my pokemon home town Twinleaf town, even though my real first was Mudkip and Littleroot.
Well technically that would be advertising, even if the hat wasn't made by you. I suggest you talk about the hat and say something like if they want to buy it, they can ebay it themselves or ask you kindly via PM for the link.
can you please stop looking down on iris in your hikari fanclub??? youre giving many hikari fans a bad name. I heard that the club got a warning and i dont want to see it driven to the ground.