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ECAPCITY July Sneaker Hooks & Custom Color 59Fiftys: Part Two

Part two of our ECAPCITY July update features another round of custom color 59Fiftys which hit their shelves today.

World Baseball Classic
fitteds are picking up steam in various colorways as these 59Fifty customs illustrate below, with team Korea's ligature logo embroidered in white across royal blue, red, and black versions. The state of New Jersey gets some love with a new custom color fitted featuring the state and capital in white and gray embroidery on a solid red fitted, with the moniker 'Garden State' embroidered on back.
New Jersey State New Era Cap
Korean World Baseball Classic New Era Hats

The Colorado Rockies get a black on deep purple two tone 59Fifty featuring their Cooperstown logo. The Minnesota Timberwolves follow suit with a navy crown, blue visor colorway featuring their Hardwood Classics logo in matching red, white, blue, and silver embroidery.
Colorado Rockies Fitted Hat
Minnesota Timberwolves Fitted Hat

Two more custom two tones of the MLB variety for summer, featuring the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros. The Braves get black, silver, and metallic gold embroidery on white and black. The Astros go hard with red and black embroidery on a process blue crown and black visor.
Atlanta Braves New Era Hat
Houston Astros New Era Hat

The San Jose Sharks and New York Rangers get custom NHL two tones in metallic silver on black and hunter green and beige, respectively.
San Jose Sharks Fitted Hat
New York Rangers Fitted

ECAPCITY
has a new 'BULLY' fitted custom in red and black, as well as an Orlando Magic pinstripe two tone hooking to the retro Nike Air Penny II's and III's released  last year.
BULLY Fitted
Orlando Magic Fitted Hat

Last in this sampling of customs feature MLB Cooperstown logo sneaker hooks in the form of the Boston Braves and Baltimore Orioles. Boston gets a graphite gray, black and teal sneaker hook to the Nike Air Max 95 Freshwaters. The Orioles get a light gray, orange and black colorway for Nike Air Max 95 Safety Oranges.
Boston Braves Fitted Hat
Baltimore Orioles Fitted

For more information visit ecapcity.com.

ECAPCITY
5806 Bergenline Ave
West New York, NJ 07093

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ECAPCITY July Sneaker Hooks & Custom Color 59Fiftys: Part One

Part one of our ECAPCITY July releases update covers a wide range of sneaker hooks and custom fitted colorways across multiple leagues. With no apparent wane in demand or popularity these days, two tone fitted variations dominate this round of 59Fiftys as evident by the offerings below.

A white crown, red visor Baltimore Orioles two tone and the Milwaukee Brewers in stone, moss green, and black and white embroidery.
Baltimore Orioles Fitted Hat
Milwaukee Brewers Fitted Hat

Black on purple Arizona Diamondbacks fitted with white, purple, teal, and copper embroidery. Minor League Baseball's Kinston Indians on navy and red.
Arizona Diamondbacks Fitted Hat
Kinston Indians Cap

The New Jersey Devils get a kelly green on light gray custom NHL two tone. Venturing into sneaker hook territory, the Pittsburgh Penguins get a blue on lime colorway hook to the Nike Air force 1 x Air Huarache.
New Jersey Devils Hat
Pittsburgh Penguins Fitted

Yellow visor color combinations continue to be popular, as can be seen on this Detroit Red Wings 5950 in blue and yellow to match the Jordan Laney V's or Jordan Do the Right Thing Spizikes. The NBA's Seattle Supersonics can also be found in red on yellow with white on yellow embroidery.
Detroit Red Wings Hat
Seattle Supersonics Fitted

The Philadelphia Phillies get an MLB 5950 custom colorway to hook to the Jordan Spizikes. The Colorado Avalanche get an NHL custom fitted in red, light gray and black hooking to the Jordan IV's.
Philadelphia Phillies Fitted
Colorado Avalanche Fitted

A black, light gray, and neon green two tone featuring the Tampa Bay Rays hooks quite neatly to DJ Clark Kent's 112 Pack. The Florida Marlins get a hook this time around to the Air Max Griffey 1's.
Tampa Bay Rays Hat
Florida Marlins Fitted

Created to coincide with the Nike Air Force 1 2009 All-Star Game, this Phoenix Suns, Hardwood Classics logo two tone hooks to the Air Force 1 Quickstrikes. The second Suns fitted hooks to the All-Star game Air Force 1's designed by DJ Clark Kent himself.
Phoenix Suns New Era Hats

Stay tuned for Part Two of our ECAPCITY July update.
For more information visit ecapcity.com.

ECAPCITY
5806 Bergenline Ave
West New York, NJ 07093

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July '09 Custom Color 59Fiftys now @ ECAPCITY

ECAPCITY is turning the heat up this summer with over a dozen new custom color 59Fiftys dropping in mid-July.

Things jump off with two new sneaker hooks to two popular Nike colorways, a Hardwood Classics era San Francisco Warriors two-tone in blue and gray to match the Nike Air Trainer 3's, and a San Jose Sharks two-tone in black and aqua to square up with the Nike SB Tiffany's.
San Francisco Warriors
San Jose Sharks Fitted Hat

In the MLB fitted category, the hot colorways of the season can be found on the Arizona Diamondbacks in yellow and black embroidery on gray, and the Los Angeles Dodgers in scarlet and teal. The Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox get reproductions of vintage fitted colorways and logos from years past, while the Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals represent white crown, contrast visor two-tone variants this time out in metallic gold and deep purple.
Arizona Diamondbacks Fitted Hat
Los Angeles Dodgers Fitted Hat
Kansas City Royals New Era Hat
Chicago White Sox New Era Hat
Atlanta Braves New Era Hat
St. Louis Cardinals

The remaining half dozen, custom color two-tones are comprised of Minor League Baseball, NBA, and NHL 59Fiftys, in an assortment of team and custom color offerings to satisfy the color conscious fitted enthusiast and true fan alike.
Clearwater Threshers New Era
Portland TrailBlazers New Era Hat
Los Angeles Lakers New Era Hat
Toronto Raptors Fitted Hat
Denver Nuggets New Era Hat
New Jersey Devils Hat

For more information visit ecapcity.com.

ECAPCITY
5806 Bergenline Ave
West New York, NJ 07093


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New Sneaker Hooks and Custom Color 59Fiftys in early July @ ECAPCITY

ECAPCITY recently dropped another batch of custom color New Era fitteds in MLB, NBA, NHL, and Minor League flavors to kick off the month of July.

Black and metallic gold custom colorways in two tone and solid color variations are still popular as these two fitteds illustrate. The Toronto Blue Jays get the black and gold two tone with matching embroidery and the custom New Jersey script fitted features gold metallic thread.
Toronto Blue Jays Fitted Hat
NJ Script New Era Fitted Hat

For those looking for fitted colorway hooks to the Nike Freshwater 95's and Volt Air Max Griffey's, ECAPCITY has two Minor League Baseball custom color two tones in the chamber. The Lake County Captains are featured in teal and gray to match the Freshwater 95's, while the Fresno Grizzlies get a color hook to the Griffey's in neon green, blue, and black.
Lake County Captains New Era Hat
Fresno Grizzlies New Era Hat

Hooking to the Nike Air Jordan 1 Pack, and venturing into the over-sized logo look, Minor League Baseball's Kinston Indians feature black, white, and kelly green embroidery on a green and black two tone. The next half dozen 59Fiftys are NHL custom colorways ranging from true team color to browns and oranges on black, burgundy and blue, navy and stone, and silver embroidery on solid black.

Kinston Indians New Era Hat
Chicago Blackhawks New Era Hat

Arizona Diamondbacks Fitted Hat
Chicago Cubs New Era Hat

New York Islanders Fitted
Calgary Flames New Era Hat

Los Angeles Kings New Era Hat
San Francisco Warriors Fitted

The last three in this round feature the NBA's San Francisco Warriors throwback logo in maroon, white and gray, and two more sneaker hooks with the Detroit Redwings in teal and grape to match the Air Jordan 5's, and the Cleveland Indians in red and navy embroidery on a black and navy two tone to hook to the Air Jordan Raptor 7's.

Detroit Red Wings Fitted
Cleveland Indians Fitted

For more information visit ecapcity.com.

ECAPCITY

5806 Bergenline Ave
West New York, NJ 07093


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Pittsburgh Penguins & Milwaukee Brewers Custom 59Fiftys @ Rock-N-Jocks

Rock-N-Jocks has two new NHL and MLB custom colorways hitting the shelves to kick off july.
The first dropped last week and features the Milwaukee Brewers with a custom color treatment in solid hunter green. A light blue, orange, and white embroidered Brewers logo adorns the front, with matching embroidery on back and red top button.


The second release celebrates the 2009 Stanley Cup Champions, the Pittsburgh Penguins, with a two-tone colorway in black and bright yellow. This 59Fifty features black, yellow, and white embroidery on the crown with matching accents, and a bright yellow visor. Both of these custom fitteds are limited in quantity and can be found at rocknjocks.com.

Images: Rock-N-Jocks

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Mitchell & Ness Fall 09 Script Fitted Caps

Mitchell & Ness introduces their new team script caps for Fall 2009 in NBA Harwood Classics, NFL Throwbacks, and NHL Vintage Hockey teams. The 'script' layout has become a staple look amongst sport licensed companies ever since team caps exploded in the late 80's. This new Mitchell & Ness style keeps it standard by doing it up in solid team color wools.  Buttons, front embroidery, and under visors are highlighted in the team's secondary color.  The NBA and NFL caps have team logos in raised embroidery on the left side with the Hockey joints sporting the vintage NHL shield and team logos on the right side. These gems are set to start shipping next month with a full blown release by late August.

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