They have styles in cashmere and Escorial wool, but also linen. Unarguably one of the UK’s most esteemed hatters – its namesake’s story in hat-making can be traced back to the 1750s, and the company is said to have invented the bowler hat – this is the place to go should you ever need a hot weather flat cap. Introduce one as part of a monochrome look consisting of black tailored trousers, a grey T-shirt and a navy bomber jacket, and it’ll serve you well in a casual office environment as well as the weekend. Opting for one in a neutral colour such as navy or dark grey will offer up the most versatility. Unlike the baseball cap, the flat cap is as at home with tailoring as with jeans and T-shirt, flattering most faces into the bargain. Likewise, while it’s not a hat for all seasons – linen versions may work for summer, but the flat cap is essentially a cold-weather style – it is a hat for almost all occasions. It found a place in skinhead culture, but also hip-hop and has been favoured by everyone from Del Boy to Samuel L. Like its American equivalent, the baseball cap, the flat cap has an everyman quality to it, as fitting atop a pigeon-fancying Yorkshireman as it is an estate-touring toff, whether working the land or owning it. Ever understated, you’d never get a flat cap sporting some brash logo. Perhaps the most appealing thing about the flat cap right now though is that it’s not a baseball cap. These are all notions nicked by spin-offs such as the driving cap, cycling cap and even the baseball cap. There is, in fact, a genius inherent to this affordable and durable design: less formal than more structured hats – and so less off-putting for men who can’t, as it were, get their heads around hats – its design is still a deceptively clever one.Ĭut deeper at the back, it has more purchase than it looks like it does – useful especially when lifting eyes to the sky while shooting, for example the brim is short but still enough to shade eyes and the whole thing is foldable, easily stowed inside a pocket.
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