"En Garde! I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style!"
Now this 59Fifty by Applebum, a Japanese streetwear brand, in collaboration with The Wu-Tang Brand is the first cap I bought from overseas.
I am a big Wu-Tang Clan fan and when I saw the cap while hat browsing it lead me to Strictly Fitteds, one of my inspirations for this blog, and this video...
Wanting to know more I visited the Applebum web-store and low and behold there it was the "Shaolin Wu" New Era Cap. There were three styles in this fitted. A black cap with yellow embroidery and a yellow cap with black embroidery...I wore a size 7 3/8 at the time and there wasn't any left in stock, my heart dropped. But a size 7 1/2 was in stock and as its the next size up I thought to hell with it I can shrink it. It never crossed my mind that Applebum may not even ship internationally all I could think was "I want that hat and I want it NOW!"
Luckily they provide worldwide shipping and I became a proud owner of cap that may just have started my obsession with New Era Caps.
And a special edition satin version.
A black cap with gold embroidery and a map on the inside of the cap depicting a stylised Staten Island using the name "Shaolin Environs". It included the clan members names and areas of the isle where they hail.
S/o to Strictly Fitteds, NECtalk.com and all the forum members for the inspiration.