So, I was in London a few years ago, and wandered into Adeney and Swaine, and bought a couple of their Herbert Johnson tweed caps. The "Bond," which is bigger and slouches a bit on both sides, sort of like a newsboy cap, but without the eight sections and the silly button in the middle. The other was "the Hawthorn," a slimmer cap known in the States as "Ivy" style.
Here's the website link:
http://www.swaineadeney.co.uk/products/herbert_johnson_hats/index.html
Anyway, somebody lifted my bond cap in a restaurant, and when I had a friend buy me a new one in London, it turned out that the new "Bond" cap is flimsier, and the peak sticks out, horribly, about an inch from the folded tweed brim.
I have been looking ever since for another hatter that can sell me a really good slouchy tweed cap. By which I mean Herbert Johnson level of quality. Or at least their old level.
I would post pictures, but I don't seem to have picture-posting privileges, to use the alliterative term.
Does anyone know where I can find a high-quality, generously cut tweed flat cap?
Here's the website link:
http://www.swaineadeney.co.uk/products/herbert_johnson_hats/index.html
Anyway, somebody lifted my bond cap in a restaurant, and when I had a friend buy me a new one in London, it turned out that the new "Bond" cap is flimsier, and the peak sticks out, horribly, about an inch from the folded tweed brim.
I have been looking ever since for another hatter that can sell me a really good slouchy tweed cap. By which I mean Herbert Johnson level of quality. Or at least their old level.
I would post pictures, but I don't seem to have picture-posting privileges, to use the alliterative term.
Does anyone know where I can find a high-quality, generously cut tweed flat cap?