The Well-Dressed Head: Vintage Caps for Men: Cap07: 1950's Tape-Seam Newsboy Cap (Sold)

Here is a beautifully proportioned newsboy cap from the 1950's. The fabric is in fantastic condition with no wear anywhere. A few of the fabric 'tape' seams inside the cap have come untucked (see pics), but the stitching is unmarred and it's a strong and fine lid.

This would have been a pretty inexpensive model back in the day - it has a vinyl instead of leather sweatband, and I'm pretty sure it's not 100% wool - but the camel color is dynamite and it wears so well, as you can see in the images.

Although the cap is tagged a 7 3/8", it is slightly smaller than that, closer to a 7 1/4".
It fits my 7 3/8" head just slightly snugly.

NOTE: The image below of me sporting this newsboy with my amber glasses and cream shirt is closest to the actual color of this cap.

Like all the caps I sell, this has been carefully washed to remove dirt and oils and the cap reshaped to its original glory.

SIZE: Large - 7 1/4 to 7 3/8" / 58/59cm / Approx. 22 3/4"

(For information on measuring your head, please click here.)

Cap dimensions: 10" diameter / Brim length at center 2"

$US59.00 SOLD

NOTE: This cap can be resized UP a size or two. Let me know your requirements and I'll let you know if it can be done.

To purchase, simply fill out the contact form to the right, including your email and mailing address. Specify 'CAP07' 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.

Cap07: 1950's Tape-Seam Newsboy Cap (Sold)

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