While I was trying on ascot caps, coppolas, newsboy caps, and even a few panama hats and one skipper cap, I learned that Lock & Co., “home of hats since 1676,” claims to be the originator of ...

For a little background, newsboy hats (also called flat caps, Gatsby caps or baker boy hats) were everywhere in the late '90s and early aughts. Pop stars and It Girls turned them into a street ...