Rooster Feathers

[BoldHighlander]

I've heard those driving caps called a whole list of names, and I've never figured out what the "correct" name is. I've been wearing them most of my life though.

Hi Ted,
I really don't think there is any "correct" name for this style of hat. I think the more sleek/single panel version that it appears you sport is mainly known as a Driving Cap, but has other names for it.

The 6 & 8 panel version that I favor has many different names too.
It's mostly known as a Touring Cap/Hat but according to the gent' who is custom making one for me (and he's been wearing them since a deckhand on a salmon trawler in the 70's) this style is known by many regional names.
I know a popular name lately is Newsboy, though when I was a kid & we were all into Brando's flick "The Wild One", we knew this style as a stoker cap - as in "stow-ker" not "stock-er" - (many of Brando's "gang" wore this kind of hat).

Other names include:
Eight Panel, (Big) Apple, Button Top, Lundberg (Stetson), Gatsby, Fisherman's cap, Longshoreman's cap, etc.

Yeah, for years I wanted to get another one of these, but in a nice brownish tweed, and thanks to the gentlemen here who directed me to some links, I finally ordered one this weekend. It's a fine Herring Brown Tweed in tones of brown to cream w/ some olive green. I wish you could see the pictures I'm posting of it:



in a style that they call "Extra-Full Cut":

(that's not me in the pic).

I've always viewed the Eight Panel as the working class chap's cap, while I could see you Ted with yours blasting down the road in an MG with a white silk aviator's scarf trailing out behind you in the breeze