Newsboy Cap

[Old Fogey UK]

I've just bought one of those cheap newsboy caps on eBay and it's awful ! It looks like a flat pancake on my head.
Can anyone recommend a better quality one with a nice puffy looking top ?

 

[SHARPETOYS]

B! Wear Cap Co.

This man is a Master cap maker. Brett, has made hundreds of caps for members here at the Fedora Lounge. I love his caps.:eusa_clap :eusa_clap

http://mariposa.yosemite.net/bwear/

 

[jake_fink]

 

[herringbonekid]

i have the 'gatsby' shown here (same colour too) and it's great. it's not comically wide, but has a bit of volume....

http://www.bates-hats.co.uk/tweed_caps.html

 

[MK]

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A number of London street vendors around Covent Garden have very good ones for ten quid.

 

[Salv]

The tourist branches of Edinburgh Woollen Mill sell Harris Tweed caps for 15 quid. Click on the map in your area and you should get a list of the tourist stores. I've only been to the Windsor branch, and I bought a cap there, so if you find near you it's probably best to call them first to check they have them. There's another branch near me in Kingston-upon-Thames and they don't sell the caps.

 

[Matt Deckard]

I like the vintage, though if you want close enough go to Lock Hatters in London.

I bought a few local caps when I was in France and they have nice full crowns too. In the US it is much harder to find one that's not a "driving" cap that has an oval crown.

This one is going to New York with me

Vintage!
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[Raindog]

I recommend the B!Wear range Fogey. I got one about two months (maybe a bit more) ago.
Nice and puffy and well made. Came to £26 including postage from America. Good range of different colours and materials too.

Jeff.

 

[thefedorastore]

From Cotton to Cashmere

Depends what you want. I have Cotton to Cashmere in many styles. Pick your medicine. Coupon code TFS (The Fedora Lounge) gets you 20% off.
http://www.thefedorastore.com/category-s/8.htm

 

[Old Fogey UK]

Thanks, Guys. The B!Wear cap looks the business. I'm going to order one.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I'm with Matt on the vintage angle. I was just about to buy one from BWear (largely because of the results i'd seen posted here) a couple months ago when i found an old Pendleton one in a junk store: 11" diameter! is pretty sweet on my small heed ... BWear is a good road to go down, by all accounts. Hope it works out.

bk

 

[Old Fogey UK]

I'd like to go vintage but my part of England is a cultural desert for vintage clothing. In any event the newsboy never caught on here.
B!Wear looks a reasonable facsimile of a 1920' cap, so I'll go for it.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

B!Wear is the place to get a cap. I have three wool ones, three linen caps, a denim cap, and would have a corduroy but my sweet little 86-year-old mother commandeered it.

Check out the gallery at the bottom of the page, you will see some familiar Lounge members' faces on that site.

karol

 

[Mr. Rover]

I just gave Fu Manchu his linen cap and his herringbone cap and they are just swell! I really liked them! I may be in line for a herringbone cap later!
I have a linen cap for the summer. I highly recommend them- nice looking caps. I would recommend you get the leather strap though- the suede is nice but not my cup o tea. Maybe it's my hair texture, but the nap feels too sticky on my hair.