The Well-Dressed Head: Vintage Caps for Men: Cap09: 1950's Cotton Belted-Back Flat Cap

This smart plaid cotton 'Funkap - Ivy League' cap from the 1950's was nursed back to life after over a half-century of neglect. The leather sweatband, while intact, was bone dry and in need of some TLC, and the cotton fabric was dingy and dim.

A few days of leather intensive-care brought the leather back to life, and a gentle wash brightened the cap up fantastically. It's now raring and ready for a deserving head.

This cap was brought up gently to a much more reasonable 7" medium from a small 6 5/8"
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Like all the caps I sell, this has been carefully washed to remove dirt and oils and the cap reshaped to its original glory. I love the double snaps on this one.

There are areas of the fabric that didn't brighten fully up, the back buckle has some wear, and the leather, while supple and strong now, remains a bit grainy from its age and condition (see last image for texture). Doesn't affect its wearability, though. I wish this one fit me.

SIZE: Medium - 7" 56cm
(For information on measuring your head, please click here.)

Cap dimensions: 9 x 7" / Brim length at center: 1 3/4"

$US59.00 + shipping worldwide

To purchase, simply fill out the contact form to the right, including your email and mailing address. Specify 'CAP09' and I will send you a PayPal invoice with appropriate shipping.

By Way Of INTRODUCTION.

Now here's a bold new concept, indeed.

It seems these days you see chaps all around wearing vintage-inspired 'bunnets', most of which ignore, or worse, blight the sharp, distinctive contours of the cloth caps of the early 20th-century. Now, here is made available a remarkable and swiftly growing collection from which the public may purchase original, vintage caps spanning the last 100 years, from the comfort of their easy chairs.

Additionally, and not of no consequence, these caps can now, for the first time offered, be SIZED to the customer's head, so that one need not be prevented from owning the desired design and example of choice. Using a series of closely-guarded techniques, caps previously too small for the average adult can be stretched, safely and gently too, to adorn even larger size menfolk. A valuable, and if it may be said, unique offer in all of the world.

So now, thus informed, the reader may examine the stylish and authentic caps herein, and if a model is deemed outstanding, won't you purchase it for yourself or as a treasured gift for a man to whom you believe would accept it approvingly, and wear it proudly.

A final word of counsel is proffered in closing. Keeping at the forefront of your mind that these are antique and in some cases quite rare articles, dawdling, dithering or any other form of shilly-shally may result in the item in question vanishing due to another patron's promptness.

Yours in CAPtivity,

K. Lo Bue, proprietor.

Cap09: 1950's Cotton Belted-Back Flat Cap

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