Growing up, I thought they were called “roadster caps”, which may have just been something my older brothers came up with. Or maybe they somehow got to roadster from driving cap. Anyway, a couple years ago when I wanted to buy one, I looked online and learned they were called “flat caps”, so that’s what I think of them as now.
Driving cap.
Heh, I put mine on backwards and recite Samuel L Jackson’s Pulp Fiction soliloquy sometimes. Scares babies.
ETA: “soliloquy” is probably the wrong word.
It’s a cheesecutter, of course. What else would you call it?
Newsboy, Kangol, etc. are a different shape than a flat cap, which is what I call the style associated with rural Ireland and England. The flat cap is more ahem flat while the newsboy is bulgy. And the flat never has a button.
Kangol is officially of course a brand who makes many different types of hat, but generically it’s the Sam Jackson special.
Really? When I hear “kangol” as a generic term for a hat, I think 80s rapper headgear like this.
Page boy.
I always called it a “go-fast cap”. Bearded older men driving MG convertibles like to wear them.
Flat cap.
I don’t have one as they don’t suit me.
Peers of my late-teenage children seem to have started referring to a particular style of straight-sided, deep baseball cap (like this) as ‘flat caps’, but this is wrong.
newsboy
Golf cap.
A newsboy is bigger and floppier than a flat cap. I just bought a flat cap for my son and the hatter showed me the different styles of similar hats. I had always called a flat cap a driving cap. Those duckbills are what I always called gangsta hats. Only the bill is flat, so they should call them flat bills, not flat caps. I’ll mention that to the next gangsta I see.
I’ve heard it called driving cap. I’ve never heard the term flat cap until now, although that name does seem to fit it really well.
A flat cap.
I like mine.
Last year when I first wore it I took my tween kids to grab some fast food and they suddenly decided to put on fake British accents and act like we were from the UK. The woman behind the counter smiled and asked if I was British, at which point I had to tell them to knock it off–they really were quite convincing.
So the rest of the day they put on the act wherever we went in public.
Brit cap or sometimes sports car cap. In my clan, most of us don’t wear anything like that except at the wheel of a MG-B or Bug-eyed Sprite. Maybe a Triumph.
Hat.
I don’t think I know a single person that wears hats, so on the off chance that I need to use it as a distinguishing characteristic, “hat” is good enough.
I prefer to dilly, dally, run through an alley, and bump into my old girl Sally from the Valley.
I’ve only ever seen them in tweed… and they were called tweed caps by the people talking about them then.
YMMV
British Cab Driver Hat. My father has taken to wearing one every waking moment at age 55, for reasons known only to him. Good to learn some of the actual parlance, but I doubt I’ll change it up.
I’m a bit embarrassed to say that I totally misread the OP and was getting ready to post:
Cat door.
Then I clicked the link and briefly thought “cat flap is a weird name for a hat”. :smack: