vintage caps

[Blackthorn]

Sharecropper boy, South Carolina, 1937, from Shorpy:

 

[tropicalbob]

My father used to say that when he went to Camp Lejeune in 1941 many of the southern guys he served with were issued their first pairs of shoes. I couldn't help thinking of that when I saw this photo.

 

[Blackthorn]

My father used to say that when he went to Camp Lejeune in 1941 many of the southern guys he served with were issued their first pairs of shoes. I couldn't help thinking of that when I saw this photo.

I hadn't thought of that. Good call, Bob.

 

[Blackthorn]

July 1941, Chicago, man watching subway construction, from Shorpy:

 

[Blackthorn]

San Francisco, 1937, from Shorpy:

 

[Gromulus]

Excellent pics Blackthorn!

Where do you get these?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Gibson Gowland with ZaSu Pitts in the film Greed (1924).
ZaSu Pitts' grandson Ralf Reynolds makes and sells his own line of flat caps. I have one of them.

[video=youtube;V67JBn_rYWE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67JBn_rYWE[/video]

 

[RJR]

Yes,Ralf's ZaSu caps are very nice.I have a couple of them.

 

[Blackthorn]

Excellent pics Blackthorn!

Where do you get these?

Thanks, Gromulus! The last few have been from shorpy.com, but I also get them from movies that I have seen or articles I have read on the Net.

 

[Blackthorn]

Gibson Gowland with ZaSu Pitts in the film Greed (1924).
ZaSu Pitts' grandson Ralf Reynolds makes and sells his own line of flat caps. I have one of them.

[video=youtube;V67JBn_rYWE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67JBn_rYWE[/video]

I love that band!

 

[Blackthorn]

Chicago, 1942, washing a train (yeah I know the guy is small in this pic, but hey, he's wearing a flat cap):

 

[Blackthorn]

April 1939. "Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Unemployed young men pause a moment to loiter and watch, and then pass on." From Shorpy:

 

[PapaDoc]

I have been looking for a cap like Lon Chaney is wearing here in the small photo where there is no snap or sew down to the brim. It can be pulled to the side like in this different view of the same hat.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mh7vhdsyagi3iks/f4800cf2d3eb36d98154142cfe4067bb.jpg?dl=0

I hope I did this correctly. My first post

 

[Johnny J]

Welcome to the lounge PapaDoc!
You will need to have the cap custom made.

 

[Blackthorn]

PapaDoc, welcome! FYI, Johnny J makes wonderful custom caps.

 

[Blackthorn]

Riveters in the Belfast shipyards where the Titanic was built:

 

[Stuffsmith]

Incredible pic, thanks Blackthorn! A cap on virtually every head!

 

[RJR]

Papadoc,visit the website of the Hat People-Oregon.

 

[Blackthorn]

Brass foundry workers, Belfast:

 

[herringbonekid]

I have been looking for a cap like Lon Chaney is wearing here in the small photo where there is no snap or sew down to the brim. It can be pulled to the side like in this different view of the same hat.

i think there is a snap there, just further back than normal. you can see a 'pull' in the centre of the underside: