Newsboy Cap

The newsboy cap or newsie cap is a casual-wear cap similar in style to the flat cap. newsboy cap has the same overall shape and stiff peak (visor) in front as a flat cap, but the body of the cap is rounder, fuller, and paneled with a button on top, and often with a button attaching the front to the brim (as the flat cap sometimes has).

History
The style was popular in Europe and North America in the early 20th century among boys and adults. As the name suggests, it was at the time associated with newspaper boys. This gives rise to a misunderstanding. Many newspaper boys and other working boys at the time indeed wore flat caps along with other styles. This style was not, however, worn only by boys.

newsboy caps were very common for North American and European men and boys of all classes during the early 20th century and were almost universal during the 1910s-20s, particularly among the working ‘lower’ classes. A great many photographs of the period show these caps worn not only by newsboys, but by dockworkers, high steel workers, shipwrights, costermongers, farmers, beggars, bandits, artisans, and tradesmen of many types. This is also well attested in novels and films of this period and just after. 8 piece style caps are essentially an offshoot of a Scottish tam o’ shanter.[citation needed]

While they were worn by boys and men of all social classes, they were worn by the ‘upper’ classes primarily for leisure activities, and the style became associated with well-to-do country sportsmen, drivers, and wealthy golfers.

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