Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say.
That holds true for Stormy Kromer and their iconic wool cap.
It all started with a cap. George “Stormy” Kromer, a semi-pro baseball player and railroad engineer, kept losing his hat on the train. He asked his wife, Ida, to sew an earband on his favorite ball cap to keep his ears warm and the hat snug. It worked.
The result was The Original Stormy Kromer Cap which you can still buy today, over 100 years later.
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