Tiger Cap

A tiger cap sets the animal just above the brim, where it meets the world at eye level. The caps in this collection carry the tiger in many ways: heads embroidered in gold thread, square patches stitched onto trucker caps, a pair of eyes printed across the front, cartoon cubs, and designs drawn from Muay Thai and Chinese art. The shapes vary just as much, from curved-brim baseball caps to flat-brim caps and trucker caps with mesh backs.

Embroidered heads and stitched patches

Embroidery gives a cap a raised texture that catches the light. The Classic Tiger Cap shows how much a few lines can do: a tiger's face outlined in gold thread on a black cap with a curved brim, ears up, stripes sketched across the forehead and around the eyes, with no background at all. Its color options pair the cap with gold or contrasting thread, from Black / Gold and White / Gold to Gray / Gold and Beige / Gold, along with black and white combinations.

Patch caps work differently. On several trucker styles, a square patch with an embroidered tiger head and the word Tiger in capitals sits on the front panel, framed by a mesh back. The combinations change from cap to cap, from white front panels with black mesh and a black brim to a black front with a red brim and beige mesh, each brim lined with rows of contrast stitching.

Camo meets the tiger cap

The Camo Tiger Cap brings both ideas together. Its front panels and brim are printed in a woodland camouflage of olive, brown, beige and cream, the back is a beige mesh, and the square patch on the front shows a tiger leaping forward, claws out and mouth open, under the word Tiger. Besides the camouflage version, it comes in red, blue and navy blue.

The pairing is a natural one. Tiger stripe camo, the military pattern of dark brushstroke stripes associated with the jungles of the Vietnam War, takes its name and its idea from the animal, whose stripes break up its outline in tall grass and forest shade. Whether it truly works is the question behind our article is tiger stripe camo effective, which looks at where the pattern came from, how it hides its wearer and how it compares with other camouflage.

Muay Thai and yin and yang

Some caps borrow from Asian traditions. The Muay Thai Tiger Cap carries a roaring tiger head inside a circular badge, printed in orange and gold on the front, with the words Muay Thai written in Thai script above and in Latin letters below. Muay Thai, the national combat sport of Thailand, is known as the art of eight limbs for its use of fists, elbows, knees and shins, and a fierce, front-facing tiger suits that spirit well. The cap comes in a wide spread of colors, among them navy blue, khaki, orange, black and white.

The Yin Yang Cap is a black flat-brim cap printed with a white tiger crouched above a yin and yang symbol while a dragon coils around it, all set against a warm golden glow. In Chinese tradition the tiger and the dragon are often paired as opposing forces, and in some readings the tiger stands for yin and the dragon for yang, two halves believed to keep each other in balance.

Printed eyes, cubs and bright colors

The Tiger Cap Predator Eyes is all about the stare: a pair of tiger eyes, with the markings around them, printed wide across the front of a white cap in bright blue, as if the animal were watching from under the brim. It also comes in black, yellow and orange. At the gentler end of the range, a cream cap with a flat black brim carries a cartoon tiger cub sitting with its tail curled, and a washed black cap shows a tiger head worked in a bright tribal pattern of yellow, teal, orange and red.

Tiger hat colors and sizing

Color is where the range opens up. Depending on the design, the options run from black, white and navy blue to khaki, green, pink, orange and red, along with two-tone pairings such as Black / Gold or Red and black, and camouflage. The caps come in a single size with no size to choose, so for most designs the color is the only decision, and each product page shows exactly which colors that tiger hat is made in.

Pairing a tiger cap with belts and coats

A cap is often the smallest tiger in an outfit, and it sits well beside bigger ones. A tiger belt carries the theme to the waist, with designs that range from antique gold tones to army camo, a natural match for the camouflage caps. When the weather turns, a tiger coat covers the rest, in striped faux fur or as a long hooded cloak with a tiger printed on its back. For t-shirts, hoodies, jackets and more, the full tiger clothes collection gathers everything in one place.

Questions about the caps

Are the designs embroidered or printed?

Both techniques appear. The Classic Tiger Cap and the patch designs are embroidered, while the Tiger Cap Predator Eyes and the Yin Yang Cap are printed.

Which caps have a mesh back?

The trucker styles, such as the Camo Tiger Cap, pair solid front panels with an open mesh back, the classic trucker shape.

Do the caps come in different sizes?

No. Each design is sold in a single size, so for most caps the only choice to make is the color, listed in the options on each product page.

Gold thread, camo, Thai script or a cartoon cub, every tiger cap here keeps the animal in full view, right at the front.