This is the Stormy Kromer Watch Cap, a warm knit watch cap cut and sewn from knit. The design traces back to 1903, when railroad engineer George ‘Stormy’ Kromer had his wife Ida modify a ball cap with a snug pull-down band so it would stay put in the wind.
It’s built for cold-weather work and the outdoors — hunting, chores, the ice-fishing shanty, the walk to the truck on a January morning — and it wears just as well around town. The structured wool and tailored fit are why it’s become an Upper Midwest icon.
Stormy Kromer caps are handcrafted in the USA in Ironwood, Michigan by Jacquart Fabric Products, the oldest handcrafted cap maker in the country.
