There is a great debate we get into on the site all the time. It’s the old one about the pros and cons of vintage apparel/snapbacks/etc vs reproduction product. Some people are very divided either way, some straddle the fence and there are people out there who dont even appreciate the difference between the snapback hats for sale and vintage caps. Here is little insight from our angle: snapbck hats and vintage caps.
When we first started buying vintage hats or retro snapback hats for sale for a local store about three years ago the scene was much different. Snapback Hats were plentiful and cheap. We remember buying cheap snapback hats wholesale for 50 cents at a time. What would be considered amazing $50+ snapback hats in bulk were everywhere we could look and we slowly began picking them up in lots of 15-30 units. People couldn’t believe we really wanted to touch the stuff – they were just happy to see it go. We’re definitely not saying that we were the first ones into vintage snapback hats, but it was a WAY less populated game three years ago.
Slowly but surely, the snapback hats cheap for sale free shipping would move off the shelves and within 6-9 months it was getting harder to keep them in stock. At the time you weren’t seeing on celebs, blogs, etc – but the styles spoke to people. Maybe it was the nostalgia or maybe it was that people were getting over the hype of the 5950 fitted, which had peaked. Whatever the case, they started selling and people started searching them out. Soon a few simple blog posts were getting tons of comments calls and emails into the shop. Soon those calls and emails were piling up.
At the time (and still for the most part), there wasnt a simple, clean site dedicated to vintage snapbacks. As they say – the rest is history. Coming up on our one year anniversary, we have been extremely humbled by the response. We’ve answered thousands of emails, added new features to the site and most importantly sent out thousands of hats. Which, bring up back to the point of this whole post: vintage vs. retro.For that new era caps wholesale on my shopping is hot for you.
As you might have noticed, the demand for snapback hats for sale has skyrocketed in recent months. We are not sure when we’ll see the peak (our guess would be this Summer) but for right now they are the rage. That said, the market is currently undergoing the effects of simple economics: supply and demand. Supply of true vintage product is obviously fixed and as more and more people seek out and sell the product the less and less there is. The customer (and suppliers) are seeing this manifest itself in higher prices and less top quality product. At this point, all the top line vintage product (especially NBA) is pretty much spoken for. People have gotten in there and cleaned up – simple as that. We use our sources to try and keep the stock coming on the site – but the bottom line is that we simply can’t keep supply of vintage product to meet demand. So that’s where retro snapback hats for sale comes into play…
Companies with deep tradition in sport licensing and manufacturing have really latched onto the boom. The playing field is not the same as it used to be though as most manufacturers from the 90′s either went bankrupt or were bought out. The companies and sub-brands like Mitchell & Ness, New Era, Zephyr, Starter etc have dipped back into their catalogs and warmed up the embroidery machines. The results so far have been mixed. There are some god-awful stuff and there are some top quality faithful reproductions. Our belief is that there is a place for reproductions – not simply because we need more snapback hats for sale to sell (though that’s definitely true) but because there is a market of people who either don’t want to pay for true rare vintage or simply can’t find it. Sure, some people are into snapback hats for sale because it’s hot right now, but this is fashion – it moves fast and remember….it’s meant to be FUN.
So, really at the end of this we can see both angles. Do we respect the dude rocking a rare original Starter joint with tags? Most definitely. But we also respect that kid just getting into things who saved up because he wants to rock something clean with his Js. Who’s to say that first retro snapback hat for sale doesn’t spark an interest in true vintage and open them up to all kinds of new things in sports and fashion.
It’s all about knowing where this stuff came from and letting it spark your interest and imagination. Get into it and grow with the snapback hats!

