Caps
I've got a writerly question for you guys. If you see a cap that looks like this, what would you call it? It's not a "flat cap" because it's bigger and floppier than that. I've done a Google image search and found a bunch of names, including "newsie cap" and "Gatsby" (though I don't remember anybody wearing a floppy cap in The Great Gatsby, maybe Gatsby wears one in the movie version).
But I want to know what name you guys would use for it, not just what the most widely accepted name is. This is one of those fiddly little things that you never notice till you try to put them into a story. If I wrote a character who wore a cap of this type, I'd need to know how other people think of them, because saying, "...and he put on a muffin cap. Not a beret, you know the kind, it was tweed and had a little brim on the front and a button in the center and it was sort of sewn in wedges..." just isn't going to neatly and unobtrusively call an image to the reader's mind.
In the 1930s version of The Maltese Falcon, Wilmer wears a really ridiculous muffin cap, but unfortunately I can't find an image. (Too bad. He was played by Dwight Frye in that one and was jolly disturbing.)
Edit: I take it back. There's a photo of Wilmer on here, about 2/3 of the way down the page. Feast your eyes.
But I want to know what name you guys would use for it, not just what the most widely accepted name is. This is one of those fiddly little things that you never notice till you try to put them into a story. If I wrote a character who wore a cap of this type, I'd need to know how other people think of them, because saying, "...and he put on a muffin cap. Not a beret, you know the kind, it was tweed and had a little brim on the front and a button in the center and it was sort of sewn in wedges..." just isn't going to neatly and unobtrusively call an image to the reader's mind.
In the 1930s version of The Maltese Falcon, Wilmer wears a really ridiculous muffin cap, but unfortunately I can't find an image. (Too bad. He was played by Dwight Frye in that one and was jolly disturbing.)
Edit: I take it back. There's a photo of Wilmer on here, about 2/3 of the way down the page. Feast your eyes.