Cap Fashion, Williamsburg’s Hat

Caps, A return to artisan craftsmanship has hit Williamsburg New beautiful Cap, Brooklyn, hard, from the butchers at Marlow & Sons restaurant (where discarded skins are now turned into leather handbags, too) to the Mast Brothers’ small-scale chocolate factory. Now Molly Yestadt of Yestadt Millinery is, ahem, throwing her hat into the ring. Her newly launched atelier on South 6th Street is giving customers a chance to see her handiwork in action. “Initially, the concept was to have a workshop that could be visited by appointment only,” says Yestadt. But, the hats on view in the floor-to-ceiling shelving that dominates the Harlequin-themed space aren’t solely for display. Yestadt Millinery’s ground-floor abode—built at the turn of the century and entirely transformed thanks to a heavy dose of “elbow grease, blood, and sweat”—will likewise double as a custom hat shop. The idea is “to come, to work with us, and let us guide you through the process so as to make it something special and wonderful,” says Yestadt, who has crafted caps for the runways of Vena Cava, Thom Browne, and Marc Jacobs and found fans in Rihanna and Leighton Meester.

Solar Energy Red Cap

Do you remember those caps that had a hole where you put a small solar panel, very uncomfortable and ugly? Well, the 2C Light caplight is a solution: it stores solar power in a much more aesthetic way.

You can spend the day in the sun, while the integrated nickel battery is recharged through a flexible solar panel placed on the visor of the cap. When the sun hides and the night comes, you press a small switch on the visor and two powerful LEDs will illuminate the road.

The creators of the 2C Light caplight spent 3 years by investigating and developing it before being able to sell it commercially, and it seems that it will be a lot of help for people that stay outdoors during the day. The LEDs are placed in an angle that allows you to see up to two meters ahead during the night, but it doesn’t blind you or the person who is seeing your face.

The cap was designed in New Zealand and, at the moment, its distribution area is very small. The creators are selling it for 35 dollars approximately (online), and there are 3 available designs.