NEW ORLEANS-- It has been called the newsboy, the Jay Gatsby, the Big Apple, the Ivy, the eight-panel, even the Lundberg Stetson. But the classic flat cap, popular with 19th-century longshoremen and ...

I remember that time, over a decade ago, when you could almost call the flat cap a signature staple of Kyle’s wardrobe. My friend Franz Nicolay—a man known for his hats—had said the same thing ...

I am at Lock & Co. Hatters at 6 St. James's Street in London. The store proudly claims to be the world's oldest hat shop and the world's 34th-oldest family-owned business. It’s also “a Royal warrant ...