The Cap Faction

[Feraud]

I'd like to see repro caps with a silhouette like this-

 

[alanfgag]

That is a great profile... chins were so much juttier back then too.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Zazu
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-GER...-/260845289034?pt=US_Hats&hash=item3cbb973e4a
Lofgren
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=150629395207

 

[zetwal]

That is a great profile... chins were so much juttier back then too.

And lips so much tighter, and eyes so much more mischievous, and noses so much thinner, and cheek bones so much sharper ...

 

[T Rick]

Zazu
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-GER...-/260845289034?pt=US_Hats&hash=item3cbb973e4a
Lofgren
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=150629395207

Zasu in particular makes some great looking caps. So far, I've not seen ONE in my 7 1/8 size....
ETA: Okay, I'll edit that., No Newsboys in 7 1/8 (so far), but they do show some Engineers caps.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Rick you might want to send them an email.
I want to get an engineers cap some day. My grandfather wore one all the time an I have a picture with me wearing one as a kid.

 

[T Rick]

I've thought about both (contacting them, and buying an Engineers Cap). I will probably eventually do both.

 

[YETI]

I'd like to see repro caps with a silhouette like this-

If someone could replicate a cap like that, I'd be first in line.

 

[YETI]

This one sold on eBay a few years ago for over $300...

 

[Adnamira]

I was looking at one of those Lofgren caps on ebay. It had it listed as Large, but in the description it said it was Medium. I also saw a Wigens cap that had a shipment quote for Australia, but then in the description said they did not ship Wigens out of the US. That kind of thing sort of shakes my faith in making a purchase - if they can't even list things correctly.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

This one sold on eBay a few years ago for over $300...

Nice fabric the Lofgren caps have the same construction.

 

[wandering-trader]

Here's my $2 goodwill find:

http://picasaweb.google.com/112035090953435902534/StetsonFlatCap

Says large but fits my 7 1/8 head.

 

[Adnamira]

Stetson Hatteras (made in Germany) 'TROPICAL WOOL' cap - 97% wool, 3% elastane. The fabric is so light that when you hold it up to the light, you can see through it. The sweat band is even made out of the same material and is totally prickle free. Not as durable, squashable or washable like my hat people caps though, and a little dearer, but not having a lining and the fabric sweatband (usually the hottest part of the hat) makes this a lovely breezy comfortable cap for summer, and it's wool. Being a wool grower, I may be prejudiced, but I think for caps wool is better than cotton, linen or synthetics. This tropical wool I believe is lighter weight than linen. I've ordered a linen hp cap as well, for summer, as a knock-about cap and will leave this cap for dressing up.


100_5635 by Adnamira, on Flickr

 

[leo]

Glenappin Harris tweed found in a shop in old town Alexandria, Virginia.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

If someone could replicate a cap like that, I'd be first in line.

... which is why I only buy vintage '20s-'40s caps, not repros. Lofgren is getting better and better, but it still hasn't quite captured the vintage silhouette. None of the modern capmakers have.

 

[JTopenroad]

I recently purchased an Ivy or Duck Bill style Borsalino Doria cap. I find it interesting that you can wear any version of the cheap baseball style cap and noone says you look like a baseball player. The moment you put on a duck bill style they say "you look like a taxi driver!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

I have one co worker how always says "you should be driving a sports car." When he see's me with one of my caps on.
I always tell him it is broke down in my drive way.

 

[Adnamira]

I was once told by a fellow wearing a baseball cap that I looked like a pom (Englishman). Yeah, looking very Aussie in that John Deere baseball cap, mate.

 

[job]

I never thought about it at the time. Sam Kinison wore caps. Kind of Betet-ish.

 

[Lefty]

more photos and info in the Reproduction-classic-workwear thread