What's good enough for Fred Dibnah is good enough for me.

It is a perfect cap for those of us with sparsely populated head hairs.

The Flat Cap is wonderful. It stays put in a wind and when you go inside, fold it, and it fits in a coat pocket. All neat, tidy.

Living in Ireland, I can tell you firsthand that the flatcap tradition is very much alive and well amongst the irish farming community. It would be odd to see a tractor driver without one

I picked up a flat cap at a thrift store. I have a photo of my grandfather wearing one, and it gives me a sense of connection.

I grew up in Ireland 🇮🇪 and my father wore one for most of his life but switched to baseball hats later in life. Rest in peace Jack.

I’m 66 years old just started wearing one love it 😊

I had two. One from an American friend in Japan that didn't want that present from his wife and one handmade by a vendor at the Saturday market in Eugene Oregon. I started wearing one to work and was laughed at and ridiculed. Never one to care about the opinions of others, i continued to wear. Still have them both.

Finally I understand the difference between the Newsie cap and the Flat cap. Thank you.

I started wearing flat caps 40 years ago and almost never go out without one.

As an Irish American, it's a way to show where my ancestors came from. I love it. Wool in winter, cloth in summer.

I’m wearing one right now. We are bringing it back baby!

44 year old southern American here. I moved from a baseball cap to a bucket cap when I was in high school and then from the bucket cap to a flat cap after college. I still wear a flat cap daily!

I love that there's a photo that shows both a horse and his rider wearing matching Flat Caps at 6:45

My Yorkshireman step-dad bought me one as a kid in the 80’s and I rediscovered them about 15 years ago which I wore ‘ironically’ in the trendy urban environment I then lived in given . Now I live in the Scottish Highlands and just wear it as cosy, less childish than a baseball cap and super practical in keeping the wind off my ageing bonce. I love that you can flip it on to your head one handed and there it stays come what may… Great history- thank you!

My great grandfather was a bit of a pack rat. He came to America from Westmeath in 1903. He had one hat, a greyish green plaid flat cap hand made of wool by a relative in Westmeath. Being a packrat, when it got a bit too worn to wear he retired it to his closet and obtained another from that same relative, this time in a solid dark forest green. Some years later he obtained yet another one in a brown plaid from that relative and then he got his last one, a solid grey made by the daughter of that relative around 1950. So in his adult life he owned four. They must have been extremely well made because I have all four and while they all have wear, there are no holes. He died when I was five years old and I expressed an interest in them so he gave them to my mother to hold onto until I was old enough to wear and fully appreciate them. He may very well have had others but I only know of four. An uncle of mine obtained his Irish flat cap in 1970. His was made in a herringbone pattern. He passed away about 20 years ago and nobody wanted his cap so my aunt gave it to me and it too fits. When another aunt visited Ireland she brought back three for me and that was around 18 or so years ago. The only one I have that was not made in Ireland of Irish wool is one cousin got for me from Paris which is nearly identical in style and construction as the three most recent ones I got from Ireland but it is solid black and has the added feature of fold up ear flaps which none of my others have. That was for some years my go to winter hat until I moved to Florida though I still occasionally wear it. It goes quite well with my black suit and overcoat paired with a black scarf. That's about as formal as I get. I'm sure someone in Ireland makes them but I have never seen one from Ireland that was all black. Recently I ordered one through Amazon that is a bit brighter shade of green though not quite a Kelly green. From the oldest to the newest there is little difference in design. I have dozens of hats from various periods. But my favorite is my flat cap. It is the one I feel I look the best in.

Ahh, the bunnet. Very popular in Scotland. Not just Northern England and Ireland.

I have fond memories of my grandfather wearing his to church every Sunday. He had 3 for the 3 different suits he owned. 😊

I was brought up in the wake of Two Tone, by my grandfather in Coventry, who was a very old retired publican of a famous wartime pub who was very old-fashioned even when he was young, so I have been wearing fedoras, trilbies and flat caps ever since I was the only boy in my school during the 1980s to do so, and as a result my nickname of the best part of forty years has always been: 'The Hat'. From that time, I have consistently espoused the opinion that the decline of hat-wearing in England has much to answer for, as if in jest, but actually in sincerest earnest. It has been most gratifying to bear witness to the hat-wearing revival over the years since then, especially amongst the youth. Nonetheless, I unfailingly learn some fascinating new insight into the world of hats every video I watch on this channel. It is content of the highest quality. I doff my hat to you, Sir.

My grandfather called them “going down the road caps” probably because a lot of sports car drivers wore them. That’s what I called them for years not knowing the flat cap name. I started warring them for cycling because they didn’t blow off easily, shielded my eyes from sun and rain and my Grandfather’s name seen to fit. I did switch to a bike helmet when they became more available but carried my flat cap in a bike bag for when I got off my bicycle. Over all a very practical hat.

I was in Ireland in 2018. They were having a heat wave then. It was all of 80 degrees F. Not having as much hair as I did when I was young, I needed to cover my head. We were in the village of Cong. So we went into the gift shop and I purchased a flat cap. It was a bit warm but it kept the sun off my head. Still have it. It is a very good hat for winters in the northeast. Glad I bought it.

This has been my go to style of cap for years.

My grandson got me one from England, and it’s my favorite hat .

I automatically think of my uncle. He was a faithful wearer of the Flat Cap . He had a everyday one and another that he only wore to Sunday services.Thank you for posting. ❤

I was part of a 70’s pop band. I wore a flat cap and sunglasses 😎

I bought a lovely tweed flat cap to wear when driving my Mazda Miata with the roof open. All I need now is the Miata !

Wore these since my teenage years in Detroit the mid 90s. Loving the fact that there are so many more fabrics available now.

Back in the 1960's my dad wore a train engineer's cap on the farm. But when he and mom were going to town, he wore a flat cap. Always.

Very old Texan here. Sure, I wear Stetson cowboy hats, but I'm equally comfortable in one of my flat hats or newsboy hats. I am somewhat of a hat wearer who has no boundaries. I enjoy many styles. 🤠

I wore various flats during the 70's disco era. Now that i'm over 60 and bald, I got a nice one from Louisiana to wear. Welcome, old friend!

I Love Flat Caps and I like History a lot so I never expected to find a channel like this

From the North of England, I endorse this message!

I grew up in the States but have worn flatcaps and newsboys since I moved to Canada many decades ago. The newsboy has become my favourite cap though I still wear the Ivy. The newsboy worn by Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders did grab my eye.Very practical and yet stylish. It appears that the fedora is having a bit of a resurgence in popularity.

Born and bred in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, reaching a certain age, and following in the footsteps of my late father and grandfathers, I recently felt inclined to buy and wear a flat cap myself. And it feels great...

I've been trying to find a flat cap to try locally. Still looking. Your video was great! Keep up the good work

On a recent trip back to Wales to visit my family, I live in Canada now, they had my dad’s flat cap proudly displayed, along with his Bowler hat. The flat cap was his daily wear. The Bowler for special occasions, funerals as he was a pallbearer when needed at our church. I have just found your Channel and I am enjoying it immensely . I am now looking for a flat cap or a newsboy cap for my self, as I now know the difference. Thanks John.

I wore baseball caps or welding caps for a number of years, and was given my 1st flat cap as a birthday present @30 years ago. My wife, along with a number of other female family friends, all told me that it fit my face and looked much better on me than the others, big surprise I guess as I'm of Irish/English heritage. I've worn nothing but flat caps ever since and have a fairly decent collection, with my main daily wearer being a rather battered leather one. Enjoyed learning the history behind it.

I have a couple…one my wife brought home from Ireland. One of my professors (he’s British) saw me and said, “Ah, a cheese cutter!”

I was wearing mine only the other day. I live on a narrowboat on the UK canals and it's the perfect piece of headgear. My family is also from Ireland, so there's also the familial tradition of wearing them. Great video by the way.

I have a very fine example of a 'baker boy' flat cap ( like the news boy but with a curved peak) in Harris tweed with eight panels from Earland & Sons Leicestershire hatters. I've had it for years and it ages gracefully; it is lovely and warm in cold weather and, being Harris tweed, reasonably waterproof. I've been told it's flattering to my face by more than one lady so naturally I'm delighted with it.

I didn't realise my leather Stetson brand 'flat cap' is actually a Newsboy cap. Thanks for pointing out the difference. The reason I wear (both) is that they're so practical. Being short, the sun visor in my car doesn't come down far enough to shield my eyes from the sun when I'm driving towards it when it's low on the horizon (to and from work). My flat cap does that job. It keeps me head warm, and when I'm out and don't want to wear it, I can fold it up, like a Cornish pasty, and stick it in me pocket. So I call em 'Pastie hats'!

I have one that I bought in Ireland. I love it as a classier version of a billed cap, which I wear daily outside in my working gear. My flat cap is warm, doesn't mess up my hair too badly and looks nice with my fall wool clothes.

I'm really enjoying your series. My wife is a milliner, and she introduced me to the world of hats a couple decades ago. A flat cap is one of my favorites. In Japan, they're called "hunting" caps, and the newsboy caps are called "casquettes". I'm glad you pointed out the difference. Can't wait to see more.

There was a hatter in Norwich, England; Rumsey-Wells, who was a well known maker of a wide variety of cap styles.

Terrific job! Interesting and informative! In my family, these hats are a bit of a family tradition. My 3rd great grandfather, an immigrant to the US from Waterford during the Great Famine, wore more of a newsboy cap while working in a brownstone quarry. His son wore a flat cap. My great grandfather became a Chief of Police and wore a Fadora when not in uniform. My grandfather wore a variety of hats including a flat cap. My dad has been wearing a flat cap for as long as I can remember. So it was only a matter of time before a picked up the family tradition--been wearing a flat cap for the past 3 years and love it. Now I'm trying to get my 23-year-old son to join the fun; so far, no luck there!

It’s one of my favorite too!!!!🤗🤗🤗

My wife and I love your videos.

I have worn both styles for over 50 years! Because of practicallity! Wind? Rain? Driving convertible? Bicycle?…you name it…. IT STAYS ON AND DOES THE JOB!

When I first started wearing one about 40 years ago as a farmworker in the English Midlands it was locally termed as a 'County Cap.'

One of my favorite.

I just realised that it's kind of a thing among older men of Turkish origin in Germany. Makes sense with the Attatürk connection you mentioned!

I remember when fedoras and flat caps were the style in my highschool, in 2010.

My grandfather wore it in Poland since I've remember. Now I live in England and wear a flat cap for last 10 yearz

My first flat cap was when I was 12. My mother bought it from L.L. Bean and the catalogue called it a British touring cap. That’s what I called them for forty years until I recently heard the term flat cap used.

When I lived in England in the 70s and early 80s I never bought a flat cap, nor any cap at all. But in the late 1980s I was working in Rome. It was winter and my hair was thinner and the wind in those street canyons was biting, In a dedicated men's hat shop I bought an Italian made heavy wool navy blue flat cap with earflaps that folded up inside. I'd seen a couple men in the street wearing hats like that and it looked warm. I wore that cap for about 35 winters and then it disappeared last winter.

The horse in the tuxedo is a distinguished gentleman

I live in the US, but bought one in Dublin when I visited a couple of years ago. I like it a lot, and even get compliments when I wear it out and about.

I keep my dear dad's flat cap to remind me of him. He wore it for many years.

I’m gunnA buy one of these when I’m 70

I never thought i could have Enjoy hats so much …. Thanks !

Have both Summer and Winter versions of the Sicilian 'Coppola', which I wear most days here in Sicily. It's both stylish (my opinion anyway) and very much a necessity here. Great presentation. Thanks...! :)

I like flat caps like irish tweed caps. Curly Howard of the three stooges wore a flat cap, its his favorite. He wears it like if he was a little boy back in Brooklyn lol. Thanks for sharing this history of the Flat hats. It was interesting. 😊

I rarely ever wore hats , but I have a leather flat cap that I like to wear. It's nothing special but I often get compliments on it.

15 years ago I wore one in Birmingham and people associated them with Yorkshire because of Last Of The Summer Wine. Now, when I wear one in Yorkshire, people associate it with Birmingham cos of Peaky Blinders.

I have three flat caps at the moment, and have worn them since I was 15. I prefer Harris tweed, but I also have one made from Donegal tweed. They go perfectly with my many tweed jackets, and especially well with my hand-made Yorkshire tweed suit. Living as I do in eastern Poland, my English look stands out a bit, but I've never been called scruffy. Nor have I been accused of being overdressed in tweeds (as the Poles say, "Dressed like a rat at the opening of a canal"). Long live the flat cap!

This is giving me Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun with Flags vibes

My father wore a flat cap and I have started wearing them myself as my hair has deserted me to keep warm in the winter.

I have been wearing since high school. I use it as a caddy when I get hoam!

The industrial working class used them as a portable glove for hot and dirty objects such as hot metal tools. In the original Ulster Defence Force it marked the social divides of the day with the men parading in flat caps, the senior NCOs in bowlers and the officers in soft brimmed hats. In the shipyards the foremen wore bowler hats and the workmen flat caps.

Father Scottish, mother Dutch both called the flat cap a “stoker” hat that was perfect for train and ship stokers feeding the engines coal. The small brim allowed excellent sight and the top protected from hot ashes. My mother dressed me with a stoker pre school, my older brothers wore engineer hats and they both had rode on trains and liked them.

I'm from the US and I wear both a flat cap and a newsboy cap unusual wear the newsboy cap when it's really sunny out cause of the wide viser and the flap cap when it isn't to sunny but I like them both just the same

Yikes, give me a flat cap over a Newsboy cap any day! *SO* evocative

My grandfather was a dairy herdsman in England from the 1930s through to the late 1980s and I spent much time in an agricultural environment as a child as a result of his work. He always wore a flat cap, as did my father and uncle. In old photos I can see that my great grandfather, also a dairy herdsman, also wore one. As a child in the 70s and 80s, I dont think I ever saw an agricultural worker in the south of England that wasn’t wearing one at work. My grandfather’s flat caps were usually brown tweed, often in a dog-toothed check pattern. He wore a smart looking one to church and a slightly more worn one on the farm. When his Sunday cap started to look a bit old, and his work cap started to wear out, the church cap was demoted to everyday use and a new, smarter, cap would be purchased for church. After he retired he still wore a smart flat cap to church or when going out somewhere, with his older one being used as a gardening hat. I own two, which I wear quite a bit. One is grey tweed, the other a brown dog-tooth check much like the one my grandfather wore.

I have a few flat caps and wear one whenever it's not too hot, which is most of the time here in England. My favourite is a Christy's Radnor which I bought back in 1975, though it is worn and holey.

My grandfather an engineer wore one basically to keep his hair clean at work , the cap was filthy with oil. And going back to then people didn't get bathed or showers as often so it would make sense to have a covering for your hair when worn with overalls meaning only your hands and face will need cleaning.

I really enjoy your videos. They are informative, clean, and nicely presented. Good job! Another perk, for me, is that I watch both, the english and french versions. I went to a french school for a few years, as a child, in Montreal. It's amazing how much I still remember, but don't have the opportunity to speak french very often, as I live in western Canada now. Watching the french version is helping me retain french as a second language. Merci bien. Continuer!

Brian Johnson lended alot to its popularity.

In Boston, we call it a "skully cap". I have inherited my G. Grandfathers corderoy cap from around 1903. I only wear it on special occasions.

We called them "Jeff caps" in Philly. Everyone wore them.

I have worn one for over 50 years!

I love these hats. I wear one nearly exclusively. In America I don’t think most know the history so thanks for that. I feel a lot of connection to my forbears the more I learn about them. I know I’m part Scot at least. Wearing the hat actually gives me the feel of an old world intellectual and sometimes an American hipster from mid 20th century somehow.

Pretty sure rural workers soon gave way to concertgoers at Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys shows as the premier wearer of flat caps.

My father wore them when his USAF position had us stationed near London 1960-1965. All the men wore them. Now I've got 5 or 6 in different colors and fabrics. My favorites are in black and brown leather. Very protective when taking a smack to the head by a low hanging branch or whatever.

Still worn with affection and great utility by us in Yorkshire.

As a teen, we called them “college stud hats”. I own a scottish-made woolen one gifted to me by my brother

In some parts of the US the baseball cap fills the role of flat cap. Baseball caps are known as farmer's caps and trucker's caps in some rural areas. They are ideal for scanning fields in the sun or protecting your eyes while driving a tractor. When I see myself wearing one, I see a farmer. All I need is a Pioneer or DeKalb logo to fill out the look. City people understand them differently.

Brian Johnson of AC/DC is who I always relate to this hat, enjoyable clip!

Your changing outfits cracks me up. Now you're upper class.

I love this channel. Even though I only wear women's hats.

Here in Alberta there's a chain of grocery stores known as Freson Bros. and the flat cap is part of the employee outfit.

The famous bunnet 😊

I was adamantly against wearing any type of hat until about 10-15 years ago, mainly because I wanted to keep my hair (at least that was my justification for it) and hats generally do not look good on me. Then I was introduced to the flat cap by my wife. It is the only hat that looks good on me, and it has gotten to the point where it feels weird not having it on. Also, coming from the rural working class, this video just reinforced why it is a right fit for me. Thank you. :)

I almost never go out without mine.

Great video. I used to wear hats when i was younger, when I was a traveller. The flat cap was my favorite.

I wear a flat cap most days and sometimes in Wales, it is called a dai cap.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I have some that are quite warm in the winter time.

This youtube suggestion is proof that our phones are always listening. As a keen wearer of many different styles of hats, I’m pleased that only two weeks ago, I bought my first flat cap. It’s not been off my noggin since. 😄 May I suggest the Welsh Hat as a possible for a video?

My flat cap is made of lovely harris tweed, its also got a curse on it, i go all 'northern' when i put it on, great vlog JC keep em coming!

Andy Cap. Purchased one in London and wore it for a year in school

Yes. I have one. Bought in the Dales with hardly visible blue lines.