Ideally partnered with whippets and mufflers in northern England, or football rattles and toothless grins, the flat cap was for many years associated with the TV chimney-clamberer Fred Dibnah who, according to his widow, kept his on the bedpost along with his watch chain and bought three in anticipation of his wedding. But for 2019, for the first time, the cap fits – because alongside herbal teas and home-assistant systems such as the Amazon Echo, the humble flat cap has joined the statistical shopping party. Such outmoded fripperies as three-piece suites, CD players and crockery sets are out. Every year the Office for National Statistics updates the shopping basket with which it tries to sum up Britain’s spending habits.
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