Cervo Rosso Retro Cotton Cap

Cervo Rosso are from Switzerland and they make a whole wardrobe of both cycling performance wear and urban clothing. Their Retro Cotton cap could probably flit quite gaily between the two.

The Retro Cotton Cap is your basic standard issue cycle cap, 100% cotton, elasticated rear, peak, a design that may or may not tickle your aesthetic peccadilloes.

Like most cycle caps, it comes in just the one size, and compared to others it's a little on the small side. Not that it's a tight fit round round the brim, on the contrary, but it sits higher on the skull than most others. The cut of the cap isn't very deep, the rear not reaching as far down the back as normal, making it feel odd under a helmet and a little perchy and insecure if worn on its own.

It's a nice looking cap though. Cervo Rosso means Red Deer in Italian, and there it is, a deer's head in a crest on the cap.

An "Italian Race Stripe" runs over the top of the cap in the familiar green-white-red tricolore pattern, but not if you're looking from the front as pedants will point out, where the stripes run red-white-green which is no flag that they know.

From the rear it's the correct orientation, maybe because you'll be in front of everyone and the last thing they see as you supplesse into the distance is where your national allegiances lie. Yeah, that. Or it's designed to be worn peak backwards, all trendy like. Or it doesn't need overthinking and it's just three colours used to evoke a feeling and a passion.

The Cervo Rosso Retro Cap is your standard issue cycling cap so there's not a lot to say; it's cotton and the design is quite stylish which might trigger a massive desire to have it, or not.

The fact that for a One Size garment it isn't as deep as other caps and will perch high on larger heads might bother some, as might the Italian Tricolore orientation, if you're that sort.

Verdict

One size doesn't really fit all, with a backwards flag, but apart from that we like it.