Quote Originally Posted by BoldHighlander View Post
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).
Well Ted, don't know what I did but I deleted my post (before I posted it), so lets try this again

This afternoon (I just got home from work, so for me its still Thursday - 03/13) my 8-panel "Working Class Chap's Cap" a.k.a "Newsboy" arrived! As soon as I put it on my head it became my favorite hat (& I've got quite a collection too).

I don't have a digital camera (that works) so soon as I can rustle up some pictures I'll be posting them. I might wait until my much anticipated (modern) Mackay box pleat, made by our own Matt Newsome, arrives.
Naw, that'll be a couple months yet I'm sure.
But this cap will definitely go nicely with said kilt

One more thought concerning the Driving /Flat Cap that you favor, and the 8-panel Newsboy that I like. Today I received from Blockbuster.com the film "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" (1920s IRA vs Brits story) that I'm going to watch tomorrow, but I noticed in both the trailer for it, and in watching our copy of "The Secret of Roan Inish" recently that the Flat Cap is very much in evidence and seem's to be truely a very Irish style of hat.
(I'll have to go back and watch "The Quiet Man" and see if this is also the case with it).
Whereas, to my eye anyways, the 8-panel Newsboy seems to be more of an American "gangster" style. I recall a picture of the real Baby Face Nelson wearing one, as did John Dillinger at one time, and in the films this was so too. As matter of fact when in "The Godfather II" they flash back to the Robert DeNiro/early Don Vito scenes you see the 8-panel job alot.
hmmm
Curious, no?