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A
flat
cap,also variously called a "cloth cap", "golf cap",
"driving cap", "windsor cap", and others, is a round, soft men's
cap
with a small brim in front and a somewhat stiff peak in the back. The
material is usually
wool
or
tweed.
The style
can be traced
all the
way back
to fourteenth
century
England. In its current style the caps were worn in the nineteenth
century by working-class men, and it was considered casual country wear by
well-to-do English men; hence the alternate name "golf cap". Boys in Great
Britain and North America of all classes wore this cap in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries; the popular image of the cap is its being worn by
"newsboys". Cloth caps were worn by fashionable young men in the 1920s. The
style has remained popular among certain people in Europe and America. Today
it is sometimes associated with old men. Some males began wearing flat caps
backwards in the 1990s.
Gatsby Cap
Deerstalker Hat
(Sherlock)
Beanie Hat
Beret
Welsh Hat
Baseball Caps
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Definition
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