What Cap Are You Wearing Today?

[quikrick]

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Nice one Jesse!

 

[Art Hat1]

Nice one Jesse!

Thank you!

 

[Ent]

Thursday tweed with wide baker boy cap.

 

[Art Hat1]

Thursday tweed with wide baker boy cap.

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Great cap, but that coat is awesome!

 

[Ent]

Great cap, but that coat is awesome!

Hi @Art Hat1

Thanks for your kind words. Yep nothing like a well fitting overcoat to lift an outfit.

Actually got stopped on the way home and complimented as dressing as a gentleman should. Nice to get comments like that.

Love the wide cap and that came from a suggestion on this thread. Hunting for more very wide baker boy styles.

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Here are some caps I wore this week.

Well Dressed Head "Wise Guy" cap.

Vintage JC Penny cap.

Monsivais Light blue unlined work cap.

Monsivais Work Wear material cap.

Cheers, Eric -

 

[Art Hat1]

Hi @Art Hat1

Thanks for your kind words. Yep nothing like a well fitting overcoat to lift an outfit.

Actually got stopped on the way home and complimented as dressing as a gentleman should. Nice to get comments like that.

Love the wide cap and that came from a suggestion on this thread. Hunting for more very wide baker boy styles.

That’s really awesome, it’s always a lift to hear something like that!

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Here are couple of straw caps I have been wearing lately.

Cheers, Eric -

 

[quikrick]

This weeks caps.

Cordova 8 panel straw

Cordova 8 panel linen

Cordova "STAR" cap, with four inverted pleats up top.

 

[Short Balding Guy]

This weeks caps.
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Cordova 8 panel straw

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Cordova 8 panel linen

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Cordova "STAR" cap, with four inverted pleats up top.

Rick dynamite caps. Dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish are a few of the words that come to mind when I see you in caps.

Thanks for sharing your considerable cap collection.

Cheers, Eric -

 

[quikrick]

Rick dynamite caps. Dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish are a few of the words that come to mind when I see you in caps.

Thanks for sharing your considerable cap collection.

Cheers, Eric -

Haha! Love those adjectives!
THANK YOU!

 

[quikrick]

Haha! Love those adjectives!
THANK YOU!

I had to look up some of those words!!

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Red cap evening on Friday.

Cheers, Eric -

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Her are a couple of caps worn the last couple of days and nights.

Cordova ***check.

Cordova Quiet Man cap.

Cheers, Eric -

 

[quikrick]

Vintage plaid Pendleton wool, fashioned into a beautiful cap by Jonathan Cordova.

 

[Edward]

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WDH's work is absolute art. I lucked out a couple of years ago and found one of the WDH hessian caps selling for relative buttons on eBay. One day will pick up something really nice from them...

Her are a couple of caps worn the last couple of days and nights.

Cordova ***check.

Cordova Quiet Man cap.

Cheers, Eric -

Sharp! Is that the Quiet Man cap? t's a very familiar shape. If you look up images of the Belfast Shipyards on Youtube from the mid 50s, there's footage of men leaving work all wearing caps very much in this shape. It was a real standard until maybe the 70s when smaller caps started coming in and younger men tended to go for a hooded coat or a beanie in colder Belfast weather. There's a great thread somewhere where we discussed Irish caps a year or two ago, lots of images on there with Irish men wearing caps like this all over the Ireland from 1912 to late 50s.

Couple of shots from a work trip to Paris last week:

Travel day - I arrived mid-afternoon on a Sunday, so walked the ten minutes down from my hotel to stroll around the Eiffel park. Lovely part of town. Cap is a cheap Botvela from amazon. I have a couple of these (this one in black, another in a tan colour). great, easy-wearing caps you can throw on and off without worry. I'd prefer something floppier given my druthers, but for just over a tenner these are great for kicking about. Come in half a dozen colours, and seem to hold up well. Tis one must be five or six years old and gets worn a lot From May onwards in the year. October looming this week, hopefully I'll get the chance soon to put it away in favour of something warmer...

This one is on my way out to teach on the Monday morning. A nice, brisk walk through a leafy street, Eiffel toward at the end of the block on my left, turn right past Les Invalides and I'm practically at the classroom... The obscured bad on my right lapel (left of photo) is the Penguin Books logo. A professional joke, pairing it with the Rupert Bear and "Enemy..." badge. One of my teaching areas is English obscenity law; these badges reference R v Penguin Books (the Lady Chatterly trial), and R v Anderson (Oz Magazine) - the two most significant English obscenity trials of the twentieth century. I did later pop the collar on that shirt out over the blazer - it is a better look. The cap, which I think I did post before a couple of years ago, is a Cathcart London (then still SJC). I have about half a dozen of their caps, from the early runs which I believe were made by Barry Simmonds, to these later ones that had a much bigger production run in the EU. All great caps. This later style (here in a lightweight Donegal Tweed by Abraham Moon & Sons) is the pattern they evolved that became the Cathcart standard. Hoping we see caps come back from them in the next season or two.

The next cap I'm looking for is something in a Winter weight tweed with earflaps. Dasmarca of London do a couple of different designs, but hard to tell from the product images online whether they have the body I like (I find many caps these days are too small a footprint - headprint? - for my tastes. I like something with a bit of body to it, not so much the 'skullcap' look). I may have to just bite the ****** and order. I'll be wearing my brimmed hats as much as I can when it gets cold enough, but there are those windy Winter days when a brim is a liability...

 

[Short Balding Guy]

WDH's work is absolute art. I lucked out a couple of years ago and found one of the WDH hessian caps selling for relative buttons on eBay. One day will pick up something really nice from them...



Sharp! Is that the Quiet Man cap? t's a very familiar shape. If you look up images of the Belfast Shipyards on Youtube from the mid 50s, there's footage of men leaving work all wearing caps very much in this shape. It was a real standard until maybe the 70s when smaller caps started coming in and younger men tended to go for a hooded coat or a beanie in colder Belfast weather. There's a great thread somewhere where we discussed Irish caps a year or two ago, lots of images on there with Irish men wearing caps like this all over the Ireland from 1912 to late 50s.

Couple of shots from a work trip to Paris last week:

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Travel day - I arrived mid-afternoon on a Sunday, so walked the ten minutes down from my hotel to stroll around the Eiffel park. Lovely part of town. Cap is a cheap Botvela from amazon. I have a couple of these (this one in black, another in a tan colour). great, easy-wearing caps you can throw on and off without worry. I'd prefer something floppier given my druthers, but for just over a tenner these are great for kicking about. Come in half a dozen colours, and seem to hold up well. Tis one must be five or six years old and gets worn a lot From May onwards in the year. October looming this week, hopefully I'll get the chance soon to put it away in favour of something warmer...

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This one is on my way out to teach on the Monday morning. A nice, brisk walk through a leafy street, Eiffel toward at the end of the block on my left, turn right past Les Invalides and I'm practically at the classroom... The obscured bad on my right lapel (left of photo) is the Penguin Books logo. A professional joke, pairing it with the Rupert Bear and "Enemy..." badge. One of my teaching areas is English obscenity law; these badges reference R v Penguin Books (the Lady Chatterly trial), and R v Anderson (Oz Magazine) - the two most significant English obscenity trials of the twentieth century. I did later pop the collar on that shirt out over the blazer - it is a better look. The cap, which I think I did post before a couple of years ago, is a Cathcart London (then still SJC). I have about half a dozen of their caps, from the early runs which I believe were made by Barry Simmonds, to these later ones that had a much bigger production run in the EU. All great caps. This later style (here in a lightweight Donegal Tweed by Abraham Moon & Sons) is the pattern they evolved that became the Cathcart standard. Hoping we see caps come back from them in the next season or two.

The next cap I'm looking for is something in a Winter weight tweed with earflaps. Dasmarca of London do a couple of different designs, but hard to tell from the product images online whether they have the body I like (I find many caps these days are too small a footprint - headprint? - for my tastes. I like something with a bit of body to it, not so much the 'skullcap' look). I may have to just bite the ****** and order. I'll be wearing my brimmed hats as much as I can when it gets cold enough, but there are those windy Winter days when a brim is a liability...

Good eye - yes it is a Cordova cap inspired by the Quiet Man cap worn in the movie of said name. I posted it in the wrong thread early last week, so correcting that here are some comparision pics of the *** check materials and caps.

The Quiet Man cap is the green/blue check and the red/green is a Cordova 7 pointed cap.

Having a couple of caps to tug on and off when traveling is just the ticket!


Cheers, Eric -

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Here are some caps worn lately.

Cordova fancy-dancy cap made from Dashing Wool fabric.

Well Dressed Head cap.

Simonds Streamline cap.

Cordova cotton/wool blend cap.

Cordova blue cap.

Cordova belt backed cap with Fox Brothers heavy gray flannel.

Cordova diamond weave cap.

Cheers, Eric -

 

[Edward]

Good eye - yes it is a Cordova cap inspired by the Quiet Man cap worn in the movie of said name. I posted it in the wrong thread early last week, so correcting that here are some comparision pics of the *** check materials and caps.

The Quiet Man cap is the green/blue check and the red/green is a Cordova 7 pointed cap.

Having a couple of caps to tug on and off when traveling is just the ticket!


Cheers, Eric -

You've got a fantastic collection there. A cap is definitely a good option in many cases. Both look very wearable with a wide range of stuff, too. Particularly the QM cap... Reminds me of a blazer I had years ago (wish I still had it, but I outgrew it alas) which was a PoW check in very similar colours - wore that with trousers in tan ,brown, blue, burgundy... went with them all.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Black synthetic Ushanka. Not optimal for my head shape, but still good for transitional weather period.