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This Bushwick Resident Makes Hats Modeled After the Brooklyn Excelsiors

The modern day baseball cap is modeled after a style first worn by the 1860s baseball team the Brooklyn Excelsiors. Ironically, though the style is everywhere, very few are made in Brooklyn anymore.

This Bushwick Resident Makes Hats Modeled After the Brooklyn Excelsiors
Papa Originals founder Raphael Faccarello.

This Bushwick Resident Makes Hats Modeled After the Brooklyn Excelsiors

The modern day baseball cap is modeled after a style first worn by the 1860s baseball team the Brooklyn Excelsiors. Ironically, though the style is everywhere, very few are made in Brooklyn anymore.

This Bushwick Resident Makes Hats Modeled After the Brooklyn Excelsiors

Raphael Faccarello is a hat guy. These days, he’s a hat guy by trade, but it wasn’t always that way: he used to just be a person who couldn’t find a decent American-made cap at a reasonable price. So he designed his own and found a local milliner to help him create it.

He doesn’t have a design background, but he knew what…

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