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Long Peak Flat Cap

LIGHTWEIGHT BLUE FLAT

A Laird London lightweight flat newcap in a beautiful pale blue herringbone. Ideal for warm summer days with a distinctive Laird luxury and copper rivet.

Colour: Blue and White Herringbone

Fabric: 

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £40
Code: LWF1

 

 

 
Harris Tweed Flat

LIGHTWEIGHT CREAM FLAT

A Laird London lightweight Flat newcap in a beautiful cream herringbone material. Ideal for warm summer days with a distinctive Laird luxury and copper rivet.

Colour: Cream Herringbone

Fabric: 

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £40
Code: 87

 

 

 
Harris Tweed Flat

HERRINGBONE SOFT LINEN FLAT

A light and airy cap in a soft comfortable shape. Stetson always make very stylish and wearable pieces. A beautiful herringbone fabric; a great addition to your summer wardrobe. new

Colour: Herringbone

Fabric: Linen 

Size: M, L

Price: £80
Code: 83

 

 

 
Long Peak Flat Cap

LIGHTWEIGHT LONG PEAK CHECK FLAT

A Laird London Long Peak newFlat Cap in a lightweight wash and wear cloth. This is a sporting check cap with a long peak to protect from the sun. Ideal for summer with a distinctive Laird luxury lining and copper rivet.

Colour: Check

Fabric: Wool

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £40

LWLP1

 

 

 

 
Long Peak Flat Cap

LONG PEAK FLAT

A stunning cap, both sporting and very fashionable. newExclusive to us, this long peaked cap is a basic flat shape with very deep fit to the back and long curved peak at the front. This is the best fit flat cap you will ever wear!! 

Long Peak Camel Long Peak Green
Camel Check Green Check
Long Peak Long Peak
Blue/ Green Striped

 

Fabric: Wool

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £50

Code: 105

 

 

 
Flat Cap

HARDY LINEN 333 FLAT

A Stetson cap in a “12" style has a comfortable deep fit all the new way round. It is made from 100% linen - grey herringbone (unlined). A  supremely stylish and light cap for summer.

Colour: Grey Herringbone

Fabric: Linen

Size: M, L

Price: £80

Code: 80

 

 

 
Flat Cap

KENT LINEN/WOOL 182 FLAT

A Stetson cap, this is a deep fitting flat cap, newin a summer check, woven from 75% new wool and 25% Linen. Cool in every sense!

Colour: Check

Fabric: Wool/Linen

Size: M, L

Price: £60

Code: 63

 

 

 
Large Flat Cap

LARGE FLAT

This cap is a large headed flat cap, in a newvery traditional style, but in eye-catching cloth. It comes in two Herringbone Donegal Tweeds, and two vibrant Harris Tweeds. 

Large Flat Beige Herringbone Large Flat White Herringbone
Beige White
Blue on Green check Green on Blue Check
Blue/ Green Green/Blue

 

Fabric: Wool

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £44

Code: 104

 

 

 

 
Flat Cap

CORDUROY FLAT

A Corduroy flat cap for a laid-back country look. 

Colour: Chocolate Brown, Fawn Brown, Olive Green

Fabric: Corduroy

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £28

Code: 12

 

 

 

 

 
Flat Cap

PLAIN FELT FLAT

This cap will last you forever and go with any outfit whether town, country or urban - the corner stone of the Flat cap.

Colour: Black, Blue, Grey

Fabric: Felt

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £30

Code: 13

 

 

 

 
Flat Cap

HYBRID FLAT

An interesting cross between a Flat and a Baker Boy style. This Hybrid is a 6 piece beauty with a button on top. A Cheese Cutter to delight in.

Colour: Brown

Fabric:

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £25

Code: 27

 

 

 
Siciliean Flat Cap

SICILEAN FLAT

This pleasing style is less sharp, not the Cheese Cutter of the English Flat cap. The SIcilean as a deep back and head, with a deeper brim just above the peak, to give a rounder softer style. A distinctive and delightful shape in earthy colours.

Colour: Brown Tweed, Black & Brown Herringbone

Fabric: Wool

Size: M, L

Price: £35

Code: 47

 

 

 
Flat Cap

RACING TWEED FLAT

A beautiful tweed cap - perfect for keeping warm while watching your horse win!

Colour: Multi

Fabric: Wool

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £30

Code: 48

 

 

 

 

 
traditional tweed flat

TRADITIONAL TWEED FLAT

A traditional Flat cap - part and parcel of the English countryside. Great for walking the dog too.

Colour: see swatches - please state code number

Tweed Flat Tweed Flat Tweed Flat
Tweed 2004 Tweed 3541 Tweed 3542
Tweed Flat Tweed Flat Tweed Flat
Tweed 3544 Tweed 3545 Tweed 3546

 

Fabric: Wool

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £30

Code: Please check according to colour

 

 

 
Harris Tweed Flat

HARRIS TWEED FLAT

Colour: see swatches - please state code number

Tweed Flat Tweed Flat Tweed Flat
4960 4734 3398

 

Fabric: Wool

Size: M, L, XL

Price: £37

Code: Please check according to colour

 

 

 

Flat Caps

 

The flat cap, also known as a Scally cap, or Cheesecutter is a rounded shallow cap with a small stiff brim at the front. There are some slightly different variations of the cap, including a deeper ‘fashion’ style, Riding Cap, Driving Cap (with fold down ear warmers), and Golf Cap. While the shape of all of these caps is recognisable, the subtle differences are primarily the length of coverage at the back of the cap, the width and depth of the head and the length of the peak. Fashionable at the moment are the Long Peaked Flat cap which is narrower on the head with a deeper fitting back.


A slight variation to the traditional flat cap, is the Bond cap, which is flat on top, but has a large round head, and is wider than the Cheesecutter, with a protruding peak.


As with all ”rules”, there are exceptions, and these primarily come down to Italian tinkering with certain aspects, creating a wider fit around the cap, and rounding off some of the sharper edges to create a softer fit flat cap, with a deeper fit to the head of the cap.


Flat caps are synonymous the English country look, and generally found in Tweeds of wool or cashmere, but can also be made of linen, cotton and silk cloth for summer with air vents and occasionally leather trim. The flat cap is really a year round essential, warm in the winter and cooling in the summer.


The popularity of the flat cap remains strong with fans of English country clothing, the English ‘Country Set’. Princes William and Harry have often been seen in Tweed Caps around the Polo fields and has been a staple for Chap the tweed cap has made a big come back as a must have fashion accessory, pioneered by Vivienne Westwood and worn by many, in and around town.


The style can be traced back to 14th century Britain, Italy and Ireland, when it was more likely to be called a ‘Bonnet’, until it was replaced (except in Scotland) by 'cap' sometime before 1700. When Irish and English immigrants came to the United States, they took the flat cap with them. This style of cap is also referred to in some parts of England as a 'Cheesecutter' because of its wedge shape.


A 1571 Act of Parliament to stimulate domestic wool consumption and general trade decreed that on Sundays and holidays, all males over 6 years of age, except for the nobility and persons of degree, were to wear caps of wool manufacture on force of a fine (3/4d per day). The Bill was not repealed until 1597, and by this time, the flat cap had become firmly entrenched in England as a recognized mark of common birth; a burgher, tradesman, apprentice or artisan. The early style of flat cap survives as the Tudor Bonnet, worn in some of the older academic institutions on official occasions.


The stereotype of the flat cap as purely 'working class' was never correct. They were frequently worn in the country, but not in town, by middle and upper-class men for their practicality. It is undoubtedly classless, and there lies its strength. A ‘Toff’ can be a ‘Chap’ as well without losing face."


Flat caps gained popularity with more fashionable young men in the 1920s. The image of Berty Wooster in his plus fours and tweeds cap is a memorable one. Many country gentlemen would wear their cap as a practical accessory to plus fours or twos.


The British workman is no longer stereotyped as wearing a flat cap, so in the twenty-first century, it has gained an increasingly upper class image.