Jomodad
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I have made some caps too. But the quality of the one pictured above way surpasses my skills. This is a cap I made for a girlfriend of mine.
Are we having fun yet?
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I have made some caps too. But the quality of the one pictured above way surpasses my skills. This is a cap I made for a girlfriend of mine.
Are we having fun yet?
Stuffsmith
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Nice, Jomodad!
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Okay, so I'm traveling here in Brisbane, Australia. I've got 2 free days, so I journey around the city of about 2+ million, looking in antique malls and op shops with the vague hope of finding a vintage cap. I've never looked outside the internet for vintage caps, and I got a lesson in the scarcity of them, at least in this area: in two days of looking, I found not one - ugly, beautiful or anything in between.
Yesterday I was in the small city of Ipswich and ventured into one antique store, and asked the owner wearily if he had any caps, to which he replied, "Yep." My pulse quickened and he led me to a dusty, promising little stack of berets & odd pieces. At the bottom, I found this grey cap and since it fit, thought I'd take it home, having some doubts as to its quality.
A gentle wool wash released so much dirt that I was blown away.
So I'll put it to you pros: have I got a cheapo 1970's polyester dud, or is there something I'm missing? You can see the 'wool' is backed by knitted fabric, and what appears to be jute with it. The shape is nice, it has a decent profile, so I'm not unhappy with it, but I'd like to know about what to look for. The monofilament line used made me doubly suspect that it isn't very old. I need to be able to check this stuff out on site! Thanks in advance for your knowing eyes, guys.
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Yesterday I was in the small city of Ipswich and ventured into one antique store, and asked the owner wearily if he had any caps, to which he replied, "Yep." My pulse quickened and he led me to a dusty, promising little stack of berets & odd pieces. At the bottom, I found this grey cap and since it fit, thought I'd take it home, having some doubts as to its quality.
A gentle wool wash released so much dirt that I was blown away.
So I'll put it to you pros: have I got a cheapo 1970's polyester dud, or is there something I'm missing? You can see the 'wool' is backed by knitted fabric, and what appears to be jute with it. The shape is nice, it has a decent profile, so I'm not unhappy with it, but I'd like to know about what to look for. The monofilament line used made me doubly suspect that it isn't very old. I need to be able to check this stuff out on site! Thanks in advance for your knowing eyes, guys.
Keith
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The Wiser Hatter
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Just from my knowledge the way the tag is attached it would be 70's. But it looks like a good cap for sure.
Stuffsmith
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Thanks Ed. I thought so - as a designer, the typography is always my first indicator of age - that tag checks out for 1960s or newer.
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I'm far from being a "pro", but the shape of the cap and the texture of the material (seen in the fourth photo you posted) look a lot like a cap I bought new in the mid- to late-70s. I have no idea what material my cap was made from, but even after wearing it several times it remained rather stiff and not particularly comfortable so I stopped wearing it.
That looks like a great cap dh, and it suits you very well!
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Keith,
It's probably made by Pendleton (from what I can see of the liner), and the writing in the liner crown has probably rubbed away (they all do). the hat is undoubtedly from the late 60s-middle 70s, when Pendleton and some other makers were producing some caps that were very close to the 30s/40s patterns.
It's probably made by Pendleton (from what I can see of the liner), and the writing in the liner crown has probably rubbed away (they all do). the hat is undoubtedly from the late 60s-middle 70s, when Pendleton and some other makers were producing some caps that were very close to the 30s/40s patterns.
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Dh66 - badass cap, pal! You've got a serious hoodlum curve to that visor!
Baron - Thank you for that info, Pete – that rounds out and confirms my intuition about the cap.
In the converted warehouse studio building that I've been teaching in this last week, there's a Turkish tailor who has gotten very excited about the idea of making a pattern from this cap and enlarging the diameter a little bit. So this gray Pendleton may be more fruitful than I realized!
Baron - Thank you for that info, Pete – that rounds out and confirms my intuition about the cap.
In the converted warehouse studio building that I've been teaching in this last week, there's a Turkish tailor who has gotten very excited about the idea of making a pattern from this cap and enlarging the diameter a little bit. So this gray Pendleton may be more fruitful than I realized!
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Thanks Stuff. I do what I can
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A find from yesterday,
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^ Nice find
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+1
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Stuffsmith
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Very nice!
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It was a tad large so I hot hand-washed it to A remove a slight staining to front of sweatband and B to see if I could shrink it...success on both counts as it's now really clean and though not completely dry yet it has in fact shrunk ton an almost perfect fit.....winner!
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Stepping up to some color with this French 70's deadstock cap. Nice generous proportions on this one.
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Great fun Stuffsmith 
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I'm having a flasback to my childhood
Good stuff, Stuffsmith
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I prefer being behind the camera rather than in front of it, but since I've broken the ice by posting photos of myself wearing my newest hat in the Akubra Campdraft thread I thought I'd finally contribute more to this thread than compliments and wisecracks, so here we go.
This is the first flat cap I'd purchased in decades, a no-name "Made in U.S.A." 8/4 panel cap with a tweed pattern:
Since I had purchased this cap primarily to wear with my Wested "Raiders" jacket, I really was looking for something in a darker brown; at the time this was the closest I could find. Regardless, I like the shape, the color, and the pattern. It's a great hat that I paid only $25 for, so it was a real bargain.
Edit: Wow, those photos are huge! Well, I suppose they allow everyone to get a good look at the patterns and colors.
This is the first flat cap I'd purchased in decades, a no-name "Made in U.S.A." 8/4 panel cap with a tweed pattern:
Since I had purchased this cap primarily to wear with my Wested "Raiders" jacket, I really was looking for something in a darker brown; at the time this was the closest I could find. Regardless, I like the shape, the color, and the pattern. It's a great hat that I paid only $25 for, so it was a real bargain.
Edit: Wow, those photos are huge! Well, I suppose they allow everyone to get a good look at the patterns and colors.
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My next cap is a Hat People full cut 8/4 panel (as are all of my Hat People caps):
As best I can remember, the pattern was described as "white, gray, and black Herringbone". Because I was really looking for a darker gray Herringbone I was hoping it would be darker than it appeared in the sample photos on the Hat People website; it wasn't. I know there are quite a few members here who don't particularly care for Hat People's caps because of their "lack of shape" and/or other reasons, but I really like them.
As best I can remember, the pattern was described as "white, gray, and black Herringbone". Because I was really looking for a darker gray Herringbone I was hoping it would be darker than it appeared in the sample photos on the Hat People website; it wasn't. I know there are quite a few members here who don't particularly care for Hat People's caps because of their "lack of shape" and/or other reasons, but I really like them.
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