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Practical sizing help and styling guide.
Practical buying guides and sizing help for the makers in our directory.
- How to Measure Your Head for a Flat Cap
A simple, accurate way to measure your head for a scally, newsboy, ivy or flat cap — with a size chart that maps cm and inches to S/M/L/XL.
- How to Style a Flat Cap Without Looking Like a Costume
Five rules for wearing a scally, newsboy or flat cap with modern clothes — fit, angle, fabric pairings, and what not to wear it with.
- Flat Cap Fabrics Explained: Tweed, Wool, Cotton and Leather
A practical guide to Donegal tweed, Harris Tweed, herringbone, melton, waxed cotton, linen, cord and leather flat caps — how each wears and when to buy it.
- How to Spot a Well-Made Flat Cap
What separates a well-made flat cap from a cheap one: panel construction, lining, seams, brim stiffening, blocking, hardware, and how it holds its shape.
- How to Care for a Tweed Cap
How to brush, dry, store and reshape a tweed cap, deal with sweatband staining and moths, and know when it actually needs dry cleaning.
- A History of the Scally Cap
How the flat cap moved from a 1571 English law through working-class Britain and Ireland, Liverpool slang, Boston Irish communities, and Peaky Blinders.