Steve S
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HW Dog ball cap. Don’t see many of these around here and have always been intrigued by their construction. Kind of like what ebbets field flannels used to be. Leather sweat band and adjuster are pluses in my book.
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What Cap Are You Wearing Today?
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Cap, Cap and cap.
Cordova *** check cap.
Stormy Kromer.
Cordova blue tweed pleated back cap.
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Cordova *** check cap.
Stormy Kromer.
Cordova blue tweed pleated back cap.
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NorthernBloke
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Vintage Braemarl cap i got for very cheap as the pasteboard brim was completely destroyed, very common with old caps, made a small cut in the brim and replaced it with a plastic one from a modern slimmer cap what was the perfect size, was easy to slide it in very happy with the end result.
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Caps from the last few days.
Enjoying the last of the Fall weather in a Cordova cap made from Fox Brothers Covert wool.
A Well Dressed Head cap.
A Mackinaw wool Filson cap.
Work shenanigans in a diamond weave cap.
A diamond weave cap with Donegeal wool.
A diamond weave cap with red Donegal wool.
I relocated snow under the brim of a Stormy Kromer.
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Enjoying the last of the Fall weather in a Cordova cap made from Fox Brothers Covert wool.
A Well Dressed Head cap.
A Mackinaw wool Filson cap.
Work shenanigans in a diamond weave cap.
A diamond weave cap with Donegeal wool.
A diamond weave cap with red Donegal wool.
I relocated snow under the brim of a Stormy Kromer.
Cheers, Eric -
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Cold and windy this morning have me "capping it."
Simmonds Streamline cap.
Cordova Casentino wool cap.
Previous days caps.
WDH in the snow.
Stormy Kromer.
Cheers, Eric -
Simmonds Streamline cap.
Cordova Casentino wool cap.
Previous days caps.
WDH in the snow.
Stormy Kromer.
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Caps this weekend.
I filled the feeders with a Cordova cap. The birds and local wildlife are hungry.
A Harris Tweed belt-backed cap.
A medium weight wool Cordova cap.
More of the charcoal Casentino Corova cap.
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I filled the feeders with a Cordova cap. The birds and local wildlife are hungry.
A Harris Tweed belt-backed cap.
A medium weight wool Cordova cap.
More of the charcoal Casentino Corova cap.
Cheers, Eric -
NorthernBloke
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Baggier flat cap I made by hand from an old wax jacket, worn in a lopsided/jauntier fashion as was seen sometimes back in the day.
NorthernBloke
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Same cap today, just made a few adjustments to it last night, added a thick fabric band inside to make it more snug and sewn around the rim of the cap three times as was common with British caps around the twenties-thirties to sixties or so, and scavenged a press stud from an old Czech gas mask bag. The cap feels more complete to me now, the stitching isn't perfect but it's good enough for me.
Edward
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Nice. Very reminiscent of the caps I remember seeing older men wearing in Belfast even into the eighties. Sort of guy who would have been young and fashionable when they first bought this style in the 50s. Good footage of similar caps being worn by Belfast shipyard workers in 1954 here:
On with the parade of caps I have worn.
Cordova vintage blue.
Blue Harris tweed cap.
Stormy Kromer.
Dashing Tweed cap.
Workwear cap.
Canvas workwear cap.
WDH cap.
Cordova made with wool cotton Fox brothers material.
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Always an outstanding collection, Eric. I love the proportions of the Cordovas, just the right amount of protruding peak out from under the crown imo.
Very nice. I like a cap with that amount of body worn at an angle like that. Good look!
Nicely done! Good for a rainy day, that one.
NorthernBloke
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Thanks the fabric could do with re waxing though, that comfy cap style of cap has been around since the twenties I think maybe even a bit earlier, I have seen pics of old men dressed like they are still in the 1930's in the 80's with three piece suits and a wider cap, i guess you stick to what you are used to and find comfortable, i am inspired by this style myself.
Edward
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There's a theory (I don't recall where I read it, but it's far from new) that the average man only really changes his style twice. Once, in his youth when he first chooses and buys his own clothes, and a second time when he finds his own 'thing', typically in his early thirties. My grandparents would have come of age in the thirties. Both my grandfathers, I don't think I ever saw either without a collard shirt (save in pyjamas in hospital), and a tie was very normal when they left the house. My parents (Dad will be 80 in March) are of the Sixties generation, and definitely more casual. It'll be interesting to see where the next generations go. With my undergraduates I've seen little change in the last twenty five years or so. The girls have maybe changed more with fashions - primarily eighties and nineties revivalism that I can see is carefully selected. Fashion also applies a bit more at graduation, I think, for them year on year. The boys, honestly, you couldn't tell much difference with a photo of them now and how my lot dressed in the 90s. It'll be interesting to see them all in twenty years time (if I live that long!) and see whether and how they change.
The eighties are an often overlooked period for our interests, but it was an era when our grandfathers could still source the stuff they wanted to wear, in more or less the cuts they'd always worn. There was a lot of great eighties-does-fifties (mostly pretty well, too) stuff around. A side to the decade that isn't well represented with the revivalism (which also, as with fifties wear here too, tends to be very much more American in look than the actual eighties in Ireland and Britain).
NorthernBloke
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Good post and thinking about it, I have only had two looks in my life too, before I adopted a more classic style I was a punk in my teens to twenties with biker jackets etc, and in my thirties I started to experiment more and got to a more classic style. I was never bothered about modern fashion, i only wore that stuff that was modern when I was young when my parents bought my clothes for me.
Today I have been wearing a vintage German Wegener flat cap, with an interesting separate band what you don't see often, the crown width is between a old style cap and a modern narrower cap.
Today I have been wearing a vintage German Wegener flat cap, with an interesting separate band what you don't see often, the crown width is between a old style cap and a modern narrower cap.
Ent
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Land gales today in Hobart Tasmania so swap a hat for a cap and strutted out in new shoes thanks to Winter sales at Herring.
Jon Crow
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Exactly that Edward I have big floppy tweed cap, I remember some of my older family in Derry having them years ago
NorthernBloke
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That's a nice suit and cap combo right there, just bought this West German made ''London cap'' for £2 from a vintage shop as it has a stain on the crown, doesn't bother me gives it character.
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Looks good and you don't need a mortgage to buy
Art Hat1
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Two different work days…two different Cordova Caps! A very lightweight and airy wool and a Fox Bros. herringbone linen 8 Dart. I think 8 Darts need a comeback!
NorthernBloke
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Most I have paid for a cap was about £70 for a 1930s style Cathcart cap and was a bit disappointed as it had a sewn brim in the middle and not a press stud like the majority of old caps, for £70 I expect it to have a press stud, it's not exactly a luxury addition and adds much more authenticity.Looks good and you don't need a mortgage to buy
I re-waxed the flat cap I made looks better to me now
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Good day cap folks. The past week had our daily temps below 0'f. Cold. Several days I wore caps underneath hoods. It has warmed up the past couple days and it is comfortable winter weather.
Monsavais Tweed cap
Vintage JC Penny cap.
Cordova Fox Brothers Covet cloth cap (green).
Heavy weight Cordova Cap.
Monsavais French cap.
Cordova Fox Brothers Prince of Wales (green).
Cordova medium weight tweed cap.
Cordova McGee wool donegeal cap.
Filson Mackinaw cap.
WDH cap.
Cordova Harris Tweed cap.
Casentino wool cap.
Another day in Cordova Casentino wool cap (green).
WDH cap.
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Monsavais Tweed cap
Vintage JC Penny cap.
Cordova Fox Brothers Covet cloth cap (green).
Heavy weight Cordova Cap.
Monsavais French cap.
Cordova Fox Brothers Prince of Wales (green).
Cordova medium weight tweed cap.
Cordova McGee wool donegeal cap.
Filson Mackinaw cap.
WDH cap.
Cordova Harris Tweed cap.
Casentino wool cap.
Another day in Cordova Casentino wool cap (green).
WDH cap.
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