Name: McQueen Linen Baker Boy Hat Natural
Brand: &SONS
SKU: MCQ-BBH-NTRL-M
Price: 130.0 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

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MEDIUM: Chest 41” // Waist 32” // Height 5ft 11”

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McQueen Linen Baker Boy Hat

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Introducing

There is a version of Steve McQueen few people picture. Not the King of Cool. Not the highest-paid man in Hollywood. The one who walked away.

In the late seventies McQueen stepped back from the studios. Grew his hair and went in search of something quieter in the California desert. A motorcycle, a work shirt, a linen baker boy cap worn low against the sun.

He was shedding Hollywood. The Stetsons of his Westerns, the trucker caps and faded tees of his days off the lot. Everything he wore, the world watched and copied. So he reached for something different.

The McQueen Baker Boy, cut in linen rather than traditional wool. Lighter on the head, easier through the warm months. Eight panels meeting at a single button, stitch points across the peak to hold its shape. A cap built the way it has always been built, made for the climate he wore it in.

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Size: M 55cm | L 59cm | XL 61cm | XXL 63cm

“When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.”

[Steve McQueen]

Fabric & Features

100% linen outer, breathable and quick to soften with wear
Traditional eight-panel construction for a full, rounded crown
Stitch points across the peak to strengthen the brim and hold its shape
100% cotton lining
Elasticated cord loop for a secure, adjustable fit
Made in Estonia

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The eight-panel cap answers to many names. Cabbie, paddy, newsboy, baker boy. An offshoot of the Scottish tam o' shanter, it was created in Britain and Ireland and carried over the Atlantic with the families who wore it, until it had settled just as deeply into American life. These caps weren't only for boys.

Through the early twentieth century they sat on men of every kind. Dockworkers, shipwrights, farmers, costermongers, tradesmen of every sort. The well-to-do wore them too, out driving or on the golf course or shooting in the country.

By the 1910s and twenties they were close to universal.There lay the appeal for McQueen. A cap for everyone, a cap for anyone. He had worn cowboy hats on screen and built a look the whole world borrowed. This was the one he could put on and disappear under.