Stormy Kromer Women's Swallowtail Jacket

George "Stormy" Kromer was an engineer on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and to see where he was headed, he had to stick his head out the window - into the wind. Mother Nature stole his cap more than once, and as the story goes, he set out to get her back. In 1903, he asked his wife Ida to modify an old baseball cap to help keep it on in windy weather. The all-cloth cap with the soft, canvas visor was a departure from the traditional fedoras of the day, but it was more comfortable and because of it's six-panel fit, it stayed put. Soon other railroad workers wanted one of Stormy Kromer's caps for themselves, and when Ida could no longer keep up with demand, they hired a few employees and Stormy Kromer® was born.