Naval Officers Cap

This Royal Navy Officer cap was gifted so not sure of its origin 

The crown is made from waterproof cotton and comes with a plastic peak

It also sports an embodied bullion badge on the front

Galactic Empire Cap

This hat is a novelty representation of an officer's cap in the Star Wars universe. 

The rank of First Order in the Galactic Empire 

The hat was originally purchased to be given away as a gift to a star wars fan, but unfortunately was not of good enough quality, so ended up in my junk hat pile.

Made of poor quality fabric over the foam to provide the shape, glued rather than stitched in places and complete with a badge that spikes through the foam into the forehead, making it almost impossible to wear. Avoid if you see it my recomendation. 

Also, it looks grey in the advert, what came is black. 

Better cosplay star wars hats are available although may cost a bit more would be worth it.

Leather Newsboy Hat

This newsboy style cap was a gift from a group of friends as recognition of the work I was putting into getting things up and running. 

The gift was a total surprise really gave me a boost when I needed it.

The hat was made by Jeff see his website here.

The hat was made from a great looking piece of leather, it is basically a slightly exaggerated newsboy style cap.

Also could be called a Rasta cap, the extra volume in the crown is ideal for dreadlocks.

Star Wars Cap

This hat is designed to look like a Star Wars Imperial officers cap. 

Described as a police officers cap possible to get around copyright or maybe star wars stole the caps from the police service that use them.

Imperial officers of the Galactic Republic were the cannon fodder of Darth Vader, they only lasted a short while before being demoted by light sabre or other deadly means.

I don't have an Imperial officers uniform to go with it so I'm just wearing an oriental jacket with a high collar which is about as close as I can get.

The hat was cheap and one size fits all, so a size too big for my head.

Leather Kepi

 This black leather Kepi was donated.

Leather is not a material usually associated with Kepi's at least ones wanting to be historically accurate, this one, however, was purchased by Larper so the need to authentic was not as important as the look it provided.

Not a very British hat, although they were worn by male uniformed British Rail workers in 1960 to 70;s perhaps we envied French rail at the time. 

Kepi history and facts have been covered in my blog previously, so I won't add any more today other than what's above.

A robust functional leather version of a Kepi.

Green Kepi

This Kepi came out of the £5 box of a trader trying to get shut of old stock

Green Kepi like the blue seems to have been used by the Union army in the American Civil War.

 My quick bit of research says green was associated with units of sharpshooters or foragers.

Looking at photos online its seems to be a reasonable reproduction of the original caps.

Poker Visor

The green eyeshade, poker visor or casino dealers visor.

The green visor started life as protection against the harsh light created by early electric light bulbs in the late 19th early to mid 20th centuries

The visor was worn by accountants, telegraphers, newspaper copy editors and other people who worked in detailed vision intensive occupations to reduce eyestrain. Not sure if it worked although green light is said to be a restful colour. 

The green eyeshade is also associated with gambling as croupiers used to wear them possible for a similar reason as accountants, although they may have also hidden the eyes somewhat making it harder to read people.

This is a cheap fancy dress eyeshade, but still usable.

Railway Conductors Hat

The is railway conductors hat.

What makes this a conductor hat rather than just a military peaked cap is the combination extra height of the crown combined with the peak pointed downwards.

The hat probably would have a had badge on the front with the name of the railway the owner or network it belonged to. 

The pointing down peak perhaps was designed to intimidate or avoid eye contact while checking tickets, pure guesses on my part, similarly pointed down peaked are typical to military drill sergeants.