The new cream baseball cap in our lineup is the Ovals Baseball Cap in Cream: our Ovals design, patch and details in their original Forte Green, on the exact off-white cotton the Côte cap is known for. It's live for preorder now, one size with an adjustable snapback, $65, and it ships as soon as the 2026 run arrives. That's the short version. The long version is a product decision I can hand you in one sentence, so let me do that.
Why this cap exists
If you ask me why we made a cream Ovals, the honest answer fits in one sentence: the Ovals hat is very popular, and the light colored Côte hat is very popular, so I figured why not combine it.
That's genuinely the whole story. No trend report, no mood board. We sell designs as named drops, so the read is clean: order by order, you see which designs people keep choosing and which colors they keep choosing. For a long stretch now, the Ovals design has been one answer and the Côte's light cotton has been the other. The obvious move sat there long enough that ignoring it started to feel stubborn. So we put the design people already buy in the color people already buy.
The color names tell you the whole idea
We name every color we put on a cap. The red on the Dirty Martini is Indian Creek Red, the blue on the Nixon is Nacional Blue. And when a name shows up on a second cap, it means the color is the same, not close. So read the two names on this preorder, because they carry the whole idea: the cream is Isla Crema, and the green is Forte Green.
Isla Crema is the exact off-white of the Côte baseball cap (Côte is French for coast, pronounced like "coat"). Forte Green is the green of the original Ovals cap. This preorder is literally the Ovals design wearing the Côte's color. Both of those caps are in stock right now at $65, so if you already own either one, you can look at your own shelf and know exactly what you're getting.
What's on the cap itself
Every design we release starts with a real place and a real moment, and this patch is a clean example of what that means. It began as a hand-painted oil painting of the view out an oval airplane window on a work trip, sea and coastline past the wing. That painting became the stitched patch on the front, with OVALS above it. Down the wearer's right side, raised in rubber, it reads "I'll Still Be Late." The Crown Gate logo sits at the back.
The rest is straightforward: soft full-panel cotton, a structured crown, a curved brim, and an adjustable snapback closure. One size, which in practice means it fits about a 59 cm (23 1/4 in) head. And it's $65, the same price as the two caps it comes from.
Can you actually wear an off-white cap?
This is the hesitation I take seriously, because it's the real tradeoff of the color: light cotton shows a mark sooner than dark cotton does, and plenty of people picture that first mark and talk themselves out of the cap entirely. The answer is not to baby it. We already wrote a full guide on how to clean an embroidered hat without ruining the patch, and every rule in it applies here: skip the washing machine, skip the heat, work spot by spot with a wet rag, and let it air dry slow.
A mark on cream cotton is not the end of the cap. Caught early, it comes out with exactly that routine. The only version of this cap I'd genuinely call ruined is the one that never leaves the closet because someone was scared to wear it.
Where the preorder stands
Plainly: there are zero of these on hand today. When you order, you're claiming one out of the 2026 production run, and it ships as soon as the 2026 run arrives. I'm not going to dress that up with a date I can't stand behind.
If you'd rather have something on your head this week, the original Ovals and the Côte are both in stock, and each one is half of this idea anyway. And if the combination is the version you want, you can preorder the Ovals Baseball Cap in Cream today.
