Have you noticed that lately, more and more Big Boys are
wearing the Awo Cap? We can tell you that for free. Just keep
watch and you will see how more and more celebrity guys are now going for the
cap, especially politicians. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo wears
it.
At the recent classy wedding of Segun Awolowo’s daughter,
Seun, a lot of Big Boys wore the Awo Cap,
made popular by the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Its called
the Awo/Tonak Cap. It comes in 3 brands, like the Tonak
Fur Caps, Tonak Stripes and the Tonak Classics.
It also comes in different colours. For Segun Awolowo’s wedding, it came in Purple. Written inside the cap were these words: This
cap was specially made for Olusegun Awolowo on the occasion of his daughter,
Oluwaseun’s traditional wedding 22/4/19. When Awo was
alive, in those good old days all the men of timber and juggernaut wore the Awo
Cap, in support of Awo.
Many of the current Awo Caps are made by Tonak
Hats in London, a company founded in 1799. The
caps were supplied by Imperial Hats, with shops in London
& Lagos. Imperial Hats makes hats for prominent Nigerians. Some
of the celebrity men who wear Awo Cap are politicians like Otunba
Niyi Adebayo, Gov. Kayode Fayemi, Alhaji Lai Mohamed, Gov. El-Rufai, Senator
GOS, Oba Dosumu Akinsiku, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Chief Wale Akinterinwa, Hon.
Adeyemi Alli, Oba Saheed Elegushi, Femi Otedola, Senator Tolu Odebiyi
and many more.
At Tonak, their product range includes a wide
selection of millinery products, primarily felt hats, hat bodies and
knitted headwear, enabling the company to satisfy any customer
requirements from around the world.
According to the company, for all our customers, the TONAK
brand, the traditional Hückel brand and the FEZKO and
Fezco Quality knitted headwear brands are a guarantee of top
quality and market stability.
The beginnings of hat making in Nový Jičín dates
back to 1630 when the town council confirmed the articles of the Hat
Makers’ Guild. Young journeyman Jan Nepomuk Hückel was
admitted to the Nový Jičín Hat Making Guild in 1799 and
founded a hat-making shop.
The product quality followed on from the previous handmade
standard and they soon asserted themselves on Austrian, as
well as international markets. Hückel installed machines in 1865,
becoming the founder of machine factory production of fur felt hats.
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