Taupe Ribbed Knit Beanie
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Taupe Slouchy Ribbed Knit Beanie with Fleece Lining
A ribbed knit beanie with a slouched crown and a turned band at the brow, lined with a dense pile and finished with a small patch at the side.
Knitted and lined in small lots, so each shade runs shallow.
The first cold morning, at head height
The first properly cold morning of the year puts everybody outdoors in whatever came to hand. A hat is worn at eye level, which is the one place on a person other people cannot help looking at, and the difference between a stretched one and a ribbed one with a turned band carries right across a crossing.
What the band does is give the face a line to sit inside, so the hat reads as part of what you are wearing rather than as something grabbed off a hook. The slouch at the crown falls back instead of standing up on its own. People who would never comment on a coat will ask where the hat came from.
It is the smallest thing you put on and the first one anybody sees.
Ribbed knit over a dense pile
The body is knitted in a rib that holds its own shape, and the crown is cut long enough to slouch back rather than cap the head closely. At the brow the band is turned, which doubles the knit along the edge that meets the forehead.
Inside, the lining is a dense pile, so the hand going in meets something soft rather than bare knit. A small patch sits at the side, set low enough to read only when somebody is standing beside you rather than in front of you.
What the knit and the lining do
- A ribbed knit body
- A slouched crown
- A turned band at the brow
- A dense pile lining
- A small patch at the side
The shades the band comes in
Khaki, Red, Grey, Black and Blue are the shades offered, and the turned band and the side patch are worked the same way in all of them.
What travels with it
Take more than one piece and a complimentary gift travels with the order, picked here and not charged to you.
| Piece | Beanies |
|---|---|
| Material | Fleece |
| Inside | Lined |
| Crown | Slouched |
| Brow | Turned band |
| Patch | Small, at the side |
| Colours | Khaki, Red, Grey, Black, Blue |
Lined knitwear comes in shallow lots
A pile lining has to be set into a knitted crown one hat at a time, so these come through in shallow lots rather than on a standing order. Cold weather empties the darker shades first, and a return of the same run is not guaranteed.
If the weather has turned, take it now. Fourteen days from delivery is enough to try it indoors and send it back unworn if the shade is not the one you pictured.
