Description
Kromer Welding Cap
Please note there are loads of different patterns available.
The picture shown is for illustration purpose only.
We will send whichever pattern we have available in the size you require (It’s Likely to be a crazy design)
Genuine Milwaukee Kromer caps.
Flame retardent and available in a range of sizes.
Welding is quite a masculine business yet the American all cotton Milwaukee Kromer cap was really invented by a women.
In 1903 After losing his cap repeatedly on the windy locomotive where he worked, George “Stormy” Kromer asked his wife, Ida, to stitch a new-fashioned baseball cap with a higher crown, a pull-down earband to keep it snug, and a soft, cloth visor.
A year later the six-panel cap was so unlike the popular fedora, all of Mr. Kromer’s fellow engineers wanted one.
In 1909 After selling 1,200 caps out of a factory in Milwaukee, the Kromers opened up their own shop in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. It consisted of three women and a run-down brick building.
