Official 5 Panels/ Camp Caps Thread

Ok, here it goes. These are just a few we like, we have a lot more fabrics that we are considering. Let us know what you think of these, which stand out etc. And what do you think of the name, it was just the first thing that came to our mind for the purpose of the image but we quite like it.

Where did you found all of these known fabrics from all the brands on the web ?

Don't blame you guys for cashing in on the trend, but those animal fabrics are such poor quality when it comes to fabrics and they're about as rare as pennies. There's a store 10 blocks down the street from me that has like 75% of the all over prints that I see companies using.

If you're doing limited runs of novelty print hats, for the love of god source your fabrics by hand and use vintage deadstock stuff where you can. These companies that operate by buying the fabrics as cheap as they can online and sending them off to a manufacturer are a joke.

@mproc Thanks, and you mean this fabric?

Raised by Wolves dropped a bunch of new five panels.

http://www.raisedbywolves.ca/shop.html

http://www.raisedbywolves.ca/shop.html

not gonna lie for just basic color camp caps I think 60 bucks is a bit over priced if you ask me.

http://www.raisedbywolves.ca/shop.html

not gonna lie for just basic color camp caps I think 60 bucks is a bit over priced if you ask me.

Free shipping though, so I feel that it is worth it. So really they'd be $45-50 caps. PLUS they make the best fitting caps I've ever tried. Plusx2 they are a Canadian brand, so gotta support RBW.

I´m sorry to say what I´m gonna say, but this is what I think.
Are "crazy" 5-panels "in" yes (you guys have actually created a trend) so, soon you´ll see them more and more untill they burn, and then we will go back to normal.
Are camp caps original? No, not anymore. They were 2 years ago, even 1 year ago. it is soo easy to go and look for fabrics online, and put a matching korduroy or suede peak on it . Every drop I am seeing this days, like the just anounced Moupia animal series uses this formula. I have seen those fabrics already and have browsed trough different fabric retailers.

I still think camps are cool because they are light, they offer good transpiration to the head, and they also have a beautiful shape. There are a lot of cool brands, yes… but they drop only 20 per style each time, and that is nothing for a big market as big as the world.
Thats why they sell so fast. Watch out! Because one day the steep curve of demand will fall down so fast… and it is gonna be a heavy fall. That is why nobody make big amounts of hats. When will this happen? Nobody knows.
Buy a 5-panel because you love them, not because they are "so original" or to resell it again ( that practice is called specullation, by the way) Do not care if others have it or if it is fashion or not. Wear it proud because you like this hats, because you like the colors and because you want to do it.

Who would´t like to create beutiful hats like this.Why not?
The word is born.

Will put some pictures of some more of the fabrics we are thinking of using. Does anyone know how much fabric is approximately needed to make 10 hats, just to cover the crown?

about 1 1/2 yards. 1 yard makes about 7 crowns.

my $0.02 on the online vs. hand sourcing fabrics. I've been to fabric stores and browsed online for fabrics. Most of the prints I was interested in the fabric stores I can easily get the exact same one online but cheaper so why not? Sure you can find some vintage stuff in fabric stores that you can't find online but that goes the other way around too. Anyone can look at some of Moupia's hats and google the fabric they use and be like "pshh, it's so easy to find that fabric!" and somehow people see it as less "rare" or high quality, but Moupia is the one that decided to put that print on a hat, they're the ones that had that idea and without that, people wouldn't be googling "polar bear fabric" or whatever to find that.