2/12/2024 0 Comments Flat top hatIt seems that this idea of the working man’s hat stuck around for another four hundred years or so because even in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the flat cap was still worn by workers and tradesmen alike. Most notably that of Tradesmen and apprentices. By the time the Act was repealed in 1597 and the less fortunate were no longer forced to wear woollen hats, the Flat Cap had become established as the hat of the working class. This law did not apply to nobility and the wealthy. In 1571 an Act of Parliament designed to help maintain and grow the woollen trade of Great Britain meant all men that were six years old or above, had to wear woollen caps or hats to avoid paying a daily fine of roughly three farthings. The differences between the Flat Cap and a Top or Bowler hat are less subtle. But lacks the roundness, multi panelled construction and button affixed to the top of the Newsboy. It does bear some similarities to the old-fashioned Newsboy hat. Traditionally made from tweed or wool, the Flat Cap is characterised by a thin small, rounded stiff brim situated at the front and a small overhang of fabric attached to this brim. During this time it is likely they were called a Bonnet, but that only lasted for three hundred years until the term Cap came along. The image of a medieval knight doffing his Flat Cap to a fair maiden is humorous to say the least, “Thy Peaked Blindeth’rs” as it were. The history of the Flat Cap can trace its roots back to fourteenth century Northern England.
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