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!”
hahaha everyone has gone home but me.
NEW OLIVER TWIST NEWSPAPER BOY ANSWERS!
no, it’s not for me.
Have you tried that one place over there?
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.
I would post a picture of me wearing it but I won’t because it makes me look like a gay Billy Zane.
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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.
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)
?? No it’s not. Or if it is, I spend much of my winter committing sartorial misdeeds.
I think Speedo + suspenders is worse.
no worries you’re in good company
ascot v. turtleneck?
That’s a turtleneck
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.
Dan, I think it’s actually a scarf.
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.
I read this as “where would you buy a cat flap”
Maybe after Tracer finds that pocket square you can sew him to his sheet.
There are good ones in Staples Market I think! Also Edinburgh Woolen Mill in Bicester has some so an EWM in London might too.
Probably Top Man if you get desperate! They’re pretty in.
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.
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.
i expected this thread to be about coffee
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.
Haven’t you worked out that john lewis is invariably the answer to these sorts of questions (M&S too).
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.
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...
£172—in case you were wondering—but look—it’s the cats pyjamas...
baffled that this isn’t a gareth thread
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.
I got mine at Uniqlo of all place!
Actual answer: market stalls.