Does every cap sit on your ears?
It is not your head. It is the one measurement the industry never took.
Sound familiar
Three signs a cap was never patterned for your head.
It sits on your ears.
Not on your head. However tight you pull the strap.
Your ears push out.
The surplus depth has to go somewhere, and they are what is in the way.
There is air above your crown.
The cap never touches the top of your head. It rests on your ears instead.
Why it happens
Every cap has two measurements. The industry publishes one.
The girth runs around your head above the ears, and a strap adjusts it. The depth runs from the bottom edge of the cap to the top of the crown. Nothing adjusts that one — so if a cap is deeper than your head is tall, the surplus goes over your ears.
Same head, same girth — the only thing that changes is the depth. That is the measurement we pattern from.
The cap that actually fits.
The evidence
What the standard actually measures.
EN 13402-3 is the European standard that governs clothing sizes, headwear included. It gives headwear exactly one controlling measurement: head girth, taken above the ears. There is no vertical head measurement in it at all.
So the depth of a cap is not standardised, not published and not compared. Every maker picks one, and nobody tells you which. That is not something a strap can correct — it is why your cap sits where it sits.
Who we are
We could not wear a cap either.
Every cap sat on our ears, however hard we pulled the strap. And everyone said the same thing: you just do not have a cap head.
We believed that for years. Until we looked into how caps are actually made, and found that the whole industry measures one thing — the girth. Nobody measures the depth. The measurement that decides whether a cap sits on your head or hangs on your ears.
So we did it ourselves. We pattern from the depth, and give the girth what it deserves: a buckle.
— Sjoerd & Gerben