london: where would you buy a flat cap?

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a flat cap. what i still call "an oliver twist hat" when i can't think if its real name. you know, the paperboy cap. "extra, extra!"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha everyone has gone home but me.

NEW OLIVER TWIST NEWSPAPER BOY ANSWERS!

no, it's not for me.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Have you tried that one place over there?

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

My housemate actually has one! I'll ask where it came from. I would post a picture of me wearing it but I won't because it makes me look like a gay Billy Zane.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I would post a picture of me wearing it ~~but I won't~~ because it makes me look like a gay Billy Zane.

fixed

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

It's one of those things, like turtlenecks, that I have now idea where to go to get one if it, you know, comes up.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha it has now occurred to me that a flat cap and turtleneck sweater is possibly the wrongest sartorial combination ever created (exception as always: Steve McQueen)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

?? No it's not. Or if it is, I spend much of my winter committing sartorial misdeeds.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Speedo + suspenders is worse.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5x_kr3lFrj0A1GCjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsaDc3OWcxBHNlYwNwcm9mBHZ0aWQDSTA2Ml84NA--/SIG=11q7mm639/EXP=1165689188/**http%3a//www.toonopedia.com/andycapp.jpg

no worries you're in good company

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

ascot v. turtleneck?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a turtleneck

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

There really is only one place any discerning cap wearer would go...
http://www.bates-hats.co.uk/tweed_caps.html
They're also one of few places you can still get a decent bowler.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I think it's actually a scarf.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.theinternet.com

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Friday, 8 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha M. White you are obviously the OTHER exception. I need you to live in London so you can tell me where to get these things. I also desperately need a very pale yellow silk handkerchief and it is IMPOSSIBLE. John Lewis, Selfridge's, House of Fraser, Debenham's Brooks Brothers, every random Carnaby street haberdasher - USELESS.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I read this as "where would you buy a cat flap"

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe after Tracer finds that pocket square you can sew him to his sheet.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

There are good ones in Staples Market I think! Also Edinburgh Woolen Mill in Bicester has some so an EWM in London might too.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably Top Man if you get desperate! They're pretty in.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned that site looks like the business but I am not going to pay $100 for a hat, no matter how finely dashed its haber. The newsboy in me recoils.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 December 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Damnit, there's a mid-late 70s album cover I'm thinking of involving skinny dude with turtleneck, jacket and newsboy hat. Can't place it.

Actually, there are probably a good two or three dozen of those.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 9 December 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i expected this thread to be about coffee

― Gem (gem ), Sunday, 10 December 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

people it's called a page boy cap and while it's not as bad as a turtleneck it'll still make you look like at least half a tool.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Sunday, 10 December 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Haven't you worked out that john lewis is invariably the answer to these sorts of questions (M&S too).

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 10 December 2006 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I also desperately need a very pale yellow silk handkerchief and it is IMPOSSIBLE. John Lewis, Selfridge's, House of Fraser, Debenham's Brooks Brothers, every random Carnaby street haberdasher - USELESS.

I was once in a department store, I think it was John Lewis, and a Middle Eastern gentleman was trying to buy satin sheets. The assistant was telling him they didn't stock them and he was asked why and he said there wasn't enough demand for them. Now I want satin sheets.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 10 December 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - I know it's a ridiculous price but let me tell you they are beautiful hats. It's like the first time I put on a pair of Armani suit trousers and the silk inside the leg went below the knee and I just knew was going to blow my budget (i was buying my wedding suit). These hats are the same. And anyway just look how much the bowlers are, you're getting a bargain...

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bates-hats.co.uk/images/black_bowler.jpg

£172 - in case you were wondering - but look - it's the cats pyjamas...

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

baffled that this isn't a gareth thread

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought my Dad a flat cap (and a pipe and slippers) as a hilarious retirement present from ASDA. Now he insists on wearing it to the football and the joke's on me. This was a year ago, but you might get lucky.

They sell satin sheets fairly often on pricedrop and bidup.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I got mine at Uniqlo of all place!

Actual answer: market stalls.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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