The Cap Faction

[howardeye]

My new Mr Freedom my wife bought me for Valentines Day early! Never thought I would be wearing one of these pie plates. Thanks Ed for the inspiration! I will redo them with a camera and not a phone when I have time.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

The fabric looks great looks like a light weight fabric that can be moved around. Suggest laying the cap flat then placing on head then cocking the cap to one side. I wear mine with the right side down. Placing the cap straight on your head just doesn't look right to me. Especially one with a full crown such as the Mr. Freedom. Looks like it is not a Extra full crown which is good to know. Just that the fabric is light weight and therefore moves around some.
It must have taken a lot of begging to get your wife to let your wife give it too you early..
Hope it doesn't cost you too much.

 

[howardeye]

The fabric IS a lighter weight not as thick as denim making it easy to move or shape it any way a person would like. This fabric is so forgiving it will look different every time you flop it on the noggin. Basically it is an 8 panel beret, with 8 points, with a bill or brim installed. The snap is black and the button on top is covered with the same fabric as the cap. It is not a full cut which I am thankful so there is no mushroom shape. Nothing wrong with mushroom shape, I like them also. I like them all! I will add pics laying flat both sides tonight. And yes it does lay flat like a beret. The price is what the website states which I think is quite reasonable. I would not make one for that amount. I had the wife purchase it for me because of the color and striping not the price or who made it. It was a great choice! As you know once the vintage material is gone it is gone. I sure would like to have a leather one like Che is wearing in earlier posts. Would not turn down a lambskin model either. Sorry, I have to wear all hats straight up! If I was to tilt them it would throw off my thinking and my balance! Still have not found a replacement for the Robo Cap that is no longer made. Have not seen yours yet!


12 inches diameter

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Bert will take a picture with the Robo cap just haven't taken one with it on yet I wear it to work it is in the rotation.

 

[seabass]

Oh Wow
Berts is nice yea that Mr Freedom is something else. & like you say once there gone thats it
So you & Lefty have the same too.....

Ed, Did you get a Mr Freedom also ? Now i can really see the fleck in Johnnys Cap & that did go very well with the duds real nice TWH..

HA Ha,, the Biker caps are Fun ,,, you have some good ones there Bert.
I had some real old one's years ago Nicer than my Brown one...
the Diamond Dave is made out of vintage fabric & feels like a wool whip cord it has the (thingy) in it to puff the front up for a badge or something.
But i like to Smash em down.. & stream line em. Super cool with a old Hog but cant do that in CA

The wild records caps are real well made ,, I have seen a few of those

 

[Lefty]

So you & Lefty have the same too.....

Same design, different fabric. That blue wabash is very bright.

 

[seabass]

Lefty !
Gotcha,
Man thats some nice stuff on yours too the weave is great & complex
So how do you like yours so far, Have you been wearin it ?

I got these in recently.. Pardon the sloppy wrinkles...I have some serious steaming & ironing to do here

Vintage Workwear Cap ,, cotton no labels.

RRL
Not a big crown cap.
I am surprised that this new cap would be so wrinkled...
I hope the fabric irons out well to get a taller structure out of the rear pleats.

 

[Lefty]

Man thats some nice stuff on yours too the weave is great & complex
So how do you like yours so far, Have you been wearin it ?

Love it. My other caps now seem like the stingy fedoras I wore when I got into fedoras - nice, but inadequate.
I'm in Ohio, so the days I wear it can vary. Yesterday, the high was near t-shirt weather for January here - 65 degrees, and it worked well.
Today's windy and snowy high was 25, which we hit just after midnight, and I was under a wool watch cap.

 

[Chepstow]

Che, very nice caps and a jackpot find. Both Caps looks damn sharp. I can't wait to see a noggin shot of both!

 

[howardeye]

Love it. My other caps now seem like the stingy fedoras I wore when I got into fedoras - nice, but inadequate.
I'm in Ohio, so the days I wear it can vary. Yesterday, the high was near t-shirt weather for January here - 65 degrees, and it worked well.
Today's windy and snowy high was 25, which we hit just after midnight, and I was under a wool watch cap.

That is a great looking cap you have also! I was debating heavily between the 3 blues. I will probably own all 3 one day since they match my motorcycles and my wife's truck which she lets me drive sometimes. Where are you at in Ohio. It is -11 with windchill here on the shore of Lake Michigan in Gary. I was working 12 hour shifts during that warm spell and missed it totally. I am still a stingy fan wear one every day to work. I have a small locker to store it in. My wife thinks I have lost my mind wearing the 8 panel cap. She will get used to it.

 

[howardeye]

Oh Wow
Berts is nice yea that Mr Freedom is something else. & like you say once there gone thats it
So you & Lefty have the same too.....

Ed, Did you get a Mr Freedom also ? Now i can really see the fleck in Johnnys Cap & that did go very well with the duds real nice TWH..

HA Ha,, the Biker caps are Fun ,,, you have some good ones there Bert.
I had some real old one's years ago Nicer than my Brown one...
the Diamond Dave is made out of vintage fabric & feels like a wool whip cord it has the (thingy) in it to puff the front up for a badge or something.
But i like to Smash em down.. & stream line em. Super cool with a old Hog but cant do that in CA

The wild records caps are real well made ,, I have seen a few of those

Thanks for the compliments. The Diamond Dave cap you are wearing is the best cap I have ever seen. I have never worn anything that was brown including leather but since joining this forum I am amazed by the brown leather coats, hats, and shoes I have seen. I would never of put one of them platters on my head either. I am weakening and almost looking stylish. Actually what you see in my avitar is what I wear performing weddings and funerals but with a biker cap. And by the way, I am blessed with no helmet law in this state. Hogs with or without caps here! They even raised the bar height a couple of years ago and now I am not even breaking the law when I ride.

Indiana cap in action made from the skin of an animal on my wife's 87 stock FLST.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

My wife thinks I have lost my mind wearing the 8 panel cap. She will get used to it.

Wife knows I lost my mind years ago.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Credit to Herring Bone Kid for this great cap picture.

 

[howardeye]

Great picture! I could of used the gators a couple of times!

 

[Johnny J]

Yes, nice one! Notice that large bill on the cap.

 

[howardeye]

Looks like a modern day ball cap under that wooly material. Looks like he is thinking about riding his first Indian or Harley motorcycle! I have seen that look many times!

 

[seabass]

Thanks for the compliments. The Diamond Dave cap you are wearing is the best cap I have ever seen. I have never worn anything that was brown including leather but since joining this forum I am amazed by the brown leather coats, hats, and shoes I have seen. I would never of put one of them platters on my head either. I am weakening and almost looking stylish. Actually what you see in my avitar is what I wear performing weddings and funerals but with a biker cap. And by the way, I am blessed with no helmet law in this state. Hogs with or without caps here! They even raised the bar height a couple of years ago and now I am not even breaking the law when I ride.

Indiana cap in action made from the skin of an animal on my wife's 87 stock FLST.

Bert,
Nice Cap you got on that nice hog
No Cap But
20 + years ago No cap or helmet & I dug Pull back bars, 55 hog

I have tried riding with a fedora & did lose one

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Though very small, this one got only one bid on eBay at $49. Awesome swelled darts to the rear.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Yea that is great Baron. I had pointed this one out to Johnny and he put the bid in and won it.
Now he can make me one.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Yes, nice one! Notice that large bill on the cap.

Yes the bill goes with that style it really gives the cap a Cap-atude.