Rooster Feathers

[Bugbear]

Well Ted, don't know what I did but I deleted my post (before I posted it), so lets try this again

This afternoon (I just got home from work, so for me its still Thursday - 03/13) my 8-panel "Working Class Chap's Cap" a.k.a "Newsboy" arrived! As soon as I put it on my head it became my favorite hat (& I've got quite a collection too).

I don't have a digital camera (that works) so soon as I can rustle up some pictures I'll be posting them. I might wait until my much anticipated (modern) Mackay box pleat, made by our own Matt Newsome, arrives.
Naw, that'll be a couple months yet I'm sure.
But this cap will definitely go nicely with said kilt

One more thought concerning the Driving /Flat Cap that you favor, and the 8-panel Newsboy that I like. Today I received from Blockbuster.com the film "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" (1920s IRA vs Brits story) that I'm going to watch tomorrow, but I noticed in both the trailer for it, and in watching our copy of "The Secret of Roan Inish" recently that the Flat Cap is very much in evidence and seem's to be truely a very Irish style of hat.
(I'll have to go back and watch "The Quiet Man" and see if this is also the case with it).
Whereas, to my eye anyways, the 8-panel Newsboy seems to be more of an American "gangster" style. I recall a picture of the real Baby Face Nelson wearing one, as did John Dillinger at one time, and in the films this was so too. As matter of fact when in "The Godfather II" they flash back to the Robert DeNiro/early Don Vito scenes you see the 8-panel job alot.
hmmm
Curious, no?

Nothing wrong with the 8-panel hat though. I'm sure I would wear one if I had one.
The flat cap has a simpleness to it that I like. Thanks for reporting that about your newsboy hat BoldHighlander. I guess I do think a bit of Ireland with the hat... I've also read that dock workers in England wore the flat cap too.

Thanks for posting those pics, and don't worry that I can't see them, I'm sure other's will comment on them at some point.

You know, when I first joined up here. I would read through all the comments for the pictures that were posted, but I would post "nice picture" or something like that then one of the other blind members outed me as being blind, so I stopped that. No, he just noticed something in a comment I made and brought it up, so I thought might as well tell up front.

Here's a question to throw out there, which of these styles did the "Waltens," John Boy if I remember correctly, wear? Perhaps other characters.