flat caps

Low-profile brimmed hat

Flat caps are soft, rounded caps with a small stiff brim in front, traditionally made of wool or tweed.

Associated with working-class British and Irish men through the early twentieth century, they've cycled back as fashionable accessories: He wore a flat cap with his weekend tweeds.

Also called newsboy caps or driving caps.

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