The Cap Faction

[shopkin]

I can't leave well enough alone. But, there are no hat police.

 

[Trouser Bark]

I can't leave well enough alone. But, there are no hat police.

Haha! We might be related.

 

[Art Hat1]

I've been wearing flat caps for 20 years or so and have always made an effort to shape the bill in a curve that matched the drape of an 8 panel rather than leave it flat or nearly so. In several of the photos posted w/in this cap thread the bills are curved minimally if at all. Is that because they're new and you just haven't done so yet? Do you leave it that way to flip as near new at some future point or is that a wearer's preference? I'd never noticed anyone wearing a flat cap that way until I saw photos of short balding man Art Hat1, etc. I'm guessing it's being done purposefully and intentionally but why?

Honestly…that’s just how it fits on my noggin! I have other caps that behave differently, my two Cordova caps have a really flexible peak that you can just bend or flatten at will and they stay that way. The two from Keith Lo Bue are bendy as well but they’ll basically shape themselves as you put them on. I have a linen flat cap from Hanna’s that fits a bit more snug and the peak flattens because of it, still really comfy though. So it just depends. I have a linen newsie from Capas that I really enjoy that had a really curved preset peak.

 

[Mean Eyed Matt]

I've been wearing flat caps for 20 years or so and have always made an effort to shape the bill in a curve that matched the drape of an 8 panel rather than leave it flat or nearly so. In several of the photos posted w/in this cap thread the bills are curved minimally if at all. Is that because they're new and you just haven't done so yet? Do you leave it that way to flip as near new at some future point or is that a wearer's preference? I'd never noticed anyone wearing a flat cap that way until I saw photos of short balding man Art Hat1, etc. I'm guessing it's being done purposefully and intentionally but why?

Maybe it's nothing like what you think, but the people in this thread like things to be authentic!?
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/show-us-their-hats.77182/page-146#post-3171131

 

[Trouser Bark]

Maybe it's nothing like what you think, but the people in this thread like things to be authentic!?
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/show-us-their-hats.77182/page-146#post-3171131

Interesting. The flat billers of the 20’s!

 

[houdini656]

Last year I bought a newsboy cap from the Polish hat maker, Sterkowski. I now own five of these first-rate gems including two Harris Tweeds, two linens, and a limited edition cotton. You can find their store on Amazon, but I purchased directly from Sterkowski’s website. There is no sales tax when delivered to the U.S. The shipping charge is reasonable and immediate. Around a 2-week trip to beautiful Laughlin, Nevada. I normally wear size 7⅛ and their 52cm fits me perfectly. The pictures on their website are much better than anything I can load. No disappointments! https://sterkowski.com/

Do you mean 57cm not 52cm

 

[NorthernBloke]

I've been wearing flat caps for 20 years or so and have always made an effort to shape the bill in a curve that matched the drape of an 8 panel rather than leave it flat or nearly so. In several of the photos posted w/in this cap thread the bills are curved minimally if at all. Is that because they're new and you just haven't done so yet? Do you leave it that way to flip as near new at some future point or is that a wearer's preference? I'd never noticed anyone wearing a flat cap that way until I saw photos of short balding man Art Hat1, etc. I'm guessing it's being done purposefully and intentionally but why?

In the vast majority of old pictures I have seen twenties to late sixties the caps people are wearing have nearly always had flat brims, and hardly ever curved, most likely because most of them have pasteboard brims, rubber or pasteboard reinforced with burlap. None of these materials really bend that well without breaking them in the middle that's why you see old pictures where the brim is bent in almost a triangular fashion, the pasteboard brim has probably broken in half.

I never bend my flat cap brims in an effort to make them look more old fashioned, wouldn't want to either as I don't want to risk breaking them as nearly all my caps are vintage.