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What Cap Are You Wearing Today?

Lance Allen

New in Town
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Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
Celebrating the Padres making the post season in my San Diego deep heather brown ball cap. Go Padres!!!

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Short Balding Guy

I'll Lock Up
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9,873
Location
Minnesota, USA
I could not find any real pics of this hat anywhere on the internet. The website for Crown Cap has pretty poor quality photos for some of their products. But, made in Canada and for 45 dollars, I took a chance. I was quite happy with the result. It is very thick and warm and easy to shape. The only issues are in some of the small finishes, such as the top seams not meeting the centre of the brim and a back seam is visible. Other than that, for the price, it is an excellent hat. Made from Melton wool on the outside and an 80/20 Cotton to polyester blend for the lining. For my first newsboy/baker boy hat, I think it will be a keeper.
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1st cap is a special cap. Congrats on the cap. Your eye to details tells me that other caps will be in our future.

Thanks for sharing your cap sir. Best, wishes, Eric -
 
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Location
East of Los Angeles
I have to stop scrolling every time I get to this photo and the one accompanying it because I REALLY like that cap and jacket combination! Sadly, I seriously doubt they would look as good on me, but on you they're a sharp pairing!

Wearing my Stockbridge waxed cotton Quint cap while taking my folks and my nephew to the museum on Saturday!
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Which color did you order? I was looking at their website last night after reading your post and it looked to me like their "brown" might be the closest match to the cap Mr. Shaw wore, but I could be wrong and it could just as easily be their "olive green" or "tan". The color of your cap looks spot on to me.

By the way, since I couldn't decide I ordered one of their indigo denim Mechanic's Cap replicas instead. :D
 
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Short Balding Guy

I'll Lock Up
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Location
Minnesota, USA
I have to stop scrolling every time I get to this photo and the one accompanying it because I REALLY like that cap and jacket combination! Sadly, I seriously doubt they would look as good on me, but on you they're a sharp pairing!

Which color did you order? I was looking at their website last night after reading your post and it looked to me like their "brown" might be the closest match to the cap Mr. Shaw wore, but I could be wrong and it could just as easily be their "olive green" or "tan". The color of your cap looks spot on to me.

By the way, since I couldn't decide I ordered one of their indigo denim Mechanic's Cap replicas instead. :D

Thanks for the compliment sir.

Wow! That is an excellent pairing!!!

Thanks!

Home after an afternoon/evening at work and I am doing a walkabout in the cool Minnesota Fall weather in a Cordova Cap.

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Cheers, Eric -
 

Short Balding Guy

I'll Lock Up
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Location
Minnesota, USA
Heading out in a few. Picked one of Keith’s(Well Dressed Head) off the hat rack. This one is a few years old and still in great shape. View attachment 266026

Excellent looking cap. Congrats.

WDH caps are well suited for wear. The hard wearing materials and craftmanship make my WDH caps sweet wearing year after year.

Lands End Harris Tweed Flat Cap in Charcoal Herringbone

It’s A bit bulkier than I am used to. But very comfy... I like this one

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The wool may be thicker, but it looks really sharp. Excellent cap sir. I hope the thicker weight suggests you are experiencing some cooler weather.

Crown cap newsboy in natural light. I wasn't sure I would like the big floppy look, but I'm enjoying it so far. Looking to get Sterkowski next.
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Full caps are many folks preferences. The proportions work for you.

Cheers cap folks, Eric -
 
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The wool may be thicker, but it looks really sharp. Excellent cap sir. I hope the thicker weight suggests you are experiencing some cooler weather.


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Thanks Eric. No unfortunately not any cooler yet. Though it’s been raining very often... when it does it sometimes starts to feel like a fridge in the house. :confused: This did the trick.. was comfy and will Come in handy for those two or three cold days we will have later in the year.
 
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Location
down south
I have to stop scrolling every time I get to this photo and the one accompanying it because I REALLY like that cap and jacket combination! Sadly, I seriously doubt they would look as good on me, but on you they're a sharp pairing!

Which color did you order? I was looking at their website last night after reading your post and it looked to me like their "brown" might be the closest match to the cap Mr. Shaw wore, but I could be wrong and it could just as easily be their "olive green" or "tan". The color of your cap looks spot on to me.

By the way, since I couldn't decide I ordered one of their indigo denim Mechanic's Cap replicas instead. :D
The words "indigo denim mechanics cap" sure caught my eye, so of course I had to look into this. Did you order the 8 panel version? I'm looking forward to seeing it in action and reading the full report.
 
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East of Los Angeles
The words "indigo denim mechanics cap" sure caught my eye, so of course I had to look into this. Did you order the 8 panel version? I'm looking forward to seeing it in action and reading the full report.
Yes Sir, this one. I've always liked the look of the mechanics cap with the brim folded/curled up and I've occasionally tried to achieve that look with ball caps, but they never looked "right" to me because the stiffeners in the brims worked against my shaping efforts. Also, on most of the reproduction A3 caps I've seen over the years the brims looked more like Ernest Hemingway's fishing cap with the elongated brim than the A3's I've seen in photos. Stockbridge's cap doesn't look "to spec", so maybe that's the key for me--it looks more like the "idealized" version of the cap that I see in my mind's eye than the actual cap. Basically this was just one of those "right cap at the right time" purchases. ;)
 

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