Not to be confused with a newsboy cap, which are similarly shaped but differently constructed. Flat caps have two seams like a baseball. Newsboy caps have seams like pie slices, like a baseball cap.
Flat caps were worn by the working class while the middle class administrators and professionals wore Bowler hats. The Bowler hat is actually the hat of the Wild West until people worked out that shade hats were more useful, then they wore sombreros and straw hats.
Clothing is mainly in-group out-group social signaling. Hats especially so.
It is a flat cap
Not to be confused with a newsboy cap, which are similarly shaped but differently constructed. Flat caps have two seams like a baseball. Newsboy caps have seams like pie slices, like a baseball cap.
Flat caps were worn by the working class while the middle class administrators and professionals wore Bowler hats. The Bowler hat is actually the hat of the Wild West until people worked out that shade hats were more useful, then they wore sombreros and straw hats.
Clothing is mainly in-group out-group social signaling. Hats especially so.