The Paso Fino baseball cap is live for preorder right now, $65, one size, adjustable. Preorders ship at the end of August 2026, which is roughly two weeks from the day I'm writing this. And I want to be plain about what preorder means here: there are zero of these sitting on a shelf today. You order now, and your cap ships to you at the end of the month.
If you read the July post on what it takes to make one cap, you already know the backstory: a photo of a horse at my cousin's wedding in Colombia, then about six months of work between that photo and today. What I would not explain back then was why I kept saying this cap was built differently. That post ended with a flag idea and a promise that you would see what it turned into at launch. So, here it is.
What the finished cap actually looks like
Tan cotton, with the details in royal blue. The horse patch sits on the front with star details right next to it, and the Colombian flag is stitched on the back, a shout out to where the picture was taken. The finished cap looks fantastic. The patch looks great, and the whole thing came together the way I hoped it would back when I was picking the blue off that photo.
What I meant by built differently
I kept this vague in July on purpose, because the answer only lands once you can actually see the cap. It comes down to two firsts. This is the first Places Moments cap I've ever used a flag on, and it's the first one with designs sitting next to the patch on the front instead of the patch standing alone.
Every cap before this one, Côte, Dirty Martini, Nixon, Ovals, followed the same rule: one patch, front and center, and nothing else. The Paso Fino breaks that twice, once with the stars up front and once with the flag on the back. They're small moves, but they change how the cap reads in person, and I hadn't done either of them until now.
Why tan with royal blue (I wasn't sure either)
I picked the blue because of the background of the picture with the horse. Royal blue against the tan felt like it would pop and look like a really nice detail. That was the theory anyway.
I'll be honest though. I wasn't sure about the blue and the tan together until I saw it in person. Then I was like, oh, it works. That's what the month of samples I wrote about in July is actually for. Some color calls you can make from a screen, and some you have to hold in your hands first.
What Paso Fino actually means
Paso Fino essentially means fine step. Graceful step, graceful footwork, that type of thing. It's a ceremonial horse, kind of a show horse, and it has this really cool gait, this step that it does. That's the type of horse in the picture from the wedding.
That's why the name fit. The way a Paso Fino moves is refined, and refined is what I was going for with the details here, the stars next to the patch, the flag, the blue on tan. I want you to connect those two things yourself, so I'll stop there instead of overselling a horse metaphor.
When it ships, and how the preorder works
The Paso Fino is a preorder. It ships at the end of August 2026, about two weeks out from today, and shipping inside the US is free like always. There's no stack of these waiting in a warehouse. You order, and at the end of the month it goes out to you.
And no, I'm not nervous about this one. The response so far has been very positive, and the only real doubt I ever had was the tan and blue question, which the sample settled.
If preorder isn't your thing and you want a cap on your head this week, Côte, Dirty Martini, Nixon, and Ovals are all in stock right now in the baseball cap collection, same $65, same one size fit.
This post, though, is about the Paso Fino, and I'll keep the close short because I already spent six months on the long version. The preorder is live today. Order it, you're going to love it.
