{"id":11684,"date":"2022-05-18T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=product&p=11684"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:24:33","slug":"civilian-common-working-cap","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/product\/civilian-common-working-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Common Working Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here again is a popular cap we first made some thirty years ago and are happy to reintroduce to our online customers. (Please see the original photo of such a cap worn by the fellow on the left on our website title pages for this section. Click “Shop” and the title and photos will come up) This is one of the most common simple utility caps of the 1840-1880 period. The top, made in a variety of available materials during the period, is a straight-sided “pillbox” pattern, made in two pieces with a stiff interior head band. The visor is in the curved front type, similar to the army’s McDowell pattern, and made of stout dark brown leather with a plain cut edge. Each cap is lined in appropriate period material, the jean wool in natural muslin and the plain wool in brown cotton. Individuals from all walks of life are seen in this cap throughout the period, personalized to their careful, or careless approach to fashion. Flattened and crushed, puffed up with stuffing, pulled down in front down in back or down on the side or simply rounded by plastering down over the noggin. They are seen in photos with side buttons and leather chin straps, with faux ornamental visor straps and buttons and with nothing at all. They are shipped with side buttons and chin strap, BUT NOT ATTACHED, leaving it to your preference<\/em>. That way you can do so if you wish to, remove the buckle, or leave it off altogether as desired. (Sorry, we cannot sew them on for you at order, we simply do not have the time once our seamstresses and men are done making them and on to the next scheduled item run. There are various methods to attach the chin strap, the easiest involves simply<\/em> putting the buckle on the front half of the two piece strap if desired, putting the button shanks through the pre-cut holes and whip stitching the buttons to each side of the cap in the position desired. Please contact us if you need further explanation or information on alternative methods. An inability to do this or locate a person who can do it for you is not a misrepresentation of the product. Shipping for a return based on this issue is the responsibility of the purchaser) The side buttons included are a domed pewter shank button for the jean wool and matching cloth covered tin backed with brass loop shank with the wool caps.\u00a0 The sweat band is machine sewn in and made of thin brown leather. (some of our common work caps may feature a pieced sweatband. This feature we observed on an original period hat. Presumably done to cut wastage and reduce cost for the expensive thin finish leather used to make them. May have been a replacement, either way likely for the same reason.) These caps are seen in pre-war and wartime period photos, posed and otherwise, worn by tradesman of all sorts, boatman, dock workers, teamsters, militia, soldiers of both sides, ruffian and respectable, sportsmen and outdoorsmen as well – hunters, fisherman, even “base-ball” teams.\u00a0 The caps come labeled for Baldwin and Randall of St. Louis, a documented pre-war and wartime dealer. We are offering four sizes 7, 7 1\/4, and 7 1\/2 and 7 3\/4. (these translate into a circumference of the head measurement of 22″, 22 3\/4″, 23 1\/2″, and 24 1\/4″ respectively. This is considered a tight measurement not a loose-fitting measurement. Please<\/em> do not be assumptive, measure your head at the position you wish to wear the cap and order accordingly<\/span>) In addition to gray wool and hand indigo dyed jean wool, we are also now offering this cap in dark brown wool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here again is a popular cap we first made some thirty years ago and are happy to reintroduce to our online customers. (Please see the original photo of such a cap worn by the fellow on the left on our website title pages for this section. Click “Shop” and the title and photos will come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[33],"product_tag":[],"giftcard-category":[],"class_list":["post-11684","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-coats-vests-trousers-and-hats","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"giftcard-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sutleroffortscott.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/giftcard-category?post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}