Wine Sheepskin Leather Cabbie Newsboy Cap Eight Panel VintageWine or maroon is the leather colour that most people do not know they need until they see it on a cap. It sits in the burgundy family without being as straightforwardly formal as a true burgundy, which gives it a warmth and depth that adds a specific character to an outfit rather than simply completing it. Crafted from 100% sheepskin leather in a deep wine colourway with the classic eight panel cabbie newsboy construction. A stitched down brim holds

and the Gladwin Bond side pin adds the traditional badge detail

The handmade construction gives the hat the structural rigidity to hold its three-pointed silhouette correctly without the points drooping or softening through wearing

and writers of the mid-twentieth century: the front and back of the brim turned down slightly

5cm that gives the hat genuine presence and a wide brim at approximately 5cm that provides real coverage without tipping the hat into fedora territory

Every yard of fabric sold under that name is hand-woven by island weavers on the Outer Hebrides of Scotland

The C-crown is the trilby variant that most people who have never thought about trilby hat construction will recognise from photographs of artists

which gives this cap an authority that fabric alternatives simply do not carry

Dark green

and not trying to be anything it is not

where the cap provides all the visual interest the look needs without requiring anything else to support it

cream knitwear

It is the colour that works when the leaves are turning