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  1. Edward

    What to wear with a fedora....

    Yeah, jeans as a default for all occasions is a much more recent thing than we often realise, even moreso here in the UK. As I'm given to understand it from my parents' generation, even in the 60s turning up laces in a pair of jeans could be remarked on. I do remember my school lifting the ban...
  2. Edward

    Engineer boots: hard vs soft toe?

    Yes, it's a different vibe altogether. Give it an earlier, pre-50s look, the soft toe, imo. I'd something I'd like in my next pair - unfortunately trickier to find often these days outside the big money stuff, but they are out there. Completely this on the fit - can't be emphasised enough. My...
  3. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Jinkies cheques, I remember those.... Last time I saw one was an elderly aunt sent me one for a birthday a few years ago. Turned out be quite the challenge to sort it out - I had to take a tube a few stops across town to find a branch of my bank, the local ones all having been shut. I opened my...
  4. Edward

    Bronson Mfg offers on Alli Express -counterfeit? Real?

    I've picked up one or two things on Aliexpress, nothing of great value. Only had a problem with one seller. I ordered a couple of Bog Dong caps in separate orders. One arrived but was a size too small and unwearable. The other delivery was of a vaguely similarish (but different design)...
  5. Edward

    Hats on TV

    Yes, the crown on the original, German hats always looks to me much more derived from something like a Tyrolean / Alpine felt hat, this sort of thing - Which as a rule always seem to me to be markedly more tapered than a fedora or trilby. The English homburg as we now know it always put me in...
  7. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    reminds me of an exercise our Spanish teacher used to do to show how challenging the English language can be for non-native speakers. He wrote the word "Ghoti" on the board and asked us to pronounce it - of course we all got it wrong. Then he walked us through a bunch of English pronunciations...
  8. Edward

    Akubra Campdraft

    I find Akubras vary. Depends how stiff the hat is, really. When I bought mine waaaaay back when, though, as I remember there was a little give, enough to get a vague idea of where I wanted to make my crease with it before I steamed it. BUT it really only was a shallow dip, and I was only going...
  9. Edward

    Akubra Campdraft

    Oh, believe me, this is nothing on the rows I've seen (genuinely) spark out once or twice over the years in the Rocky Horror community over whether we dance the Timewarp or the Time Warp. (The latter is, of course, correct.) ;) I think you're right about it being a 'two words aesthetic' thing...
  10. Edward

    Engineer boots: hard vs soft toe?

    Mostly aesthetic if you just wear them for kicking about. Depends whether you like the higher, round toe, or the lower profile look. If you do buy the former, on a modern boot it's not going to end up looking like the latter. If you're going to be actually wearing them in an environment where...
  11. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I suppose the notion is that 'pre-planning' refers ultimately to "pre-death-planning", as compared to the norm of a funeral being planned after the death has occurred. (Makes a lot of sense to me culturally, as back in Ireland we move fast - 48 hours, is the norm. My grandmother died in 2005...
  13. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The local undertaker to my student job in the 90s - himself long gone now - was quite a character. Billy Murray. Billy used to offer people what he called his "pay now, go later" policy...
  14. Edward

    POTUS shoe

    I imagine too when you're a kid and still figuring out your thing, the idea of spending big money on shoes you might not fit or want to wear in a year or two doesn't appeal.... if they only last a year (my first pairs of DM boots actually lasted me about eighteen months of hard wear, wore...
  15. Edward

    You know you are getting old when:

    I suspect it's one of those things where you had to be a fan and the right age. Cobain's allure, and his legend during his own lifetime struck me as somewhat akin to Jim Morrison, though by all accounts he was never "difficult" in quite the same way as either Morrison could be, nor as nasty as...
  16. Edward

    The best PTSD-movies?

    I'm still hoping that series will come to a streamer I use in due course, it sounded good. The theme of Great War survivors experiencing pronounced PTSD is very much woven throughout Peaky Blinders, most pronouncedly in the earlier series, particularly with the Arthur Shelby character, but...
  17. Edward

    First time buying fedora and introducing myself

    @jlee562 has already answered this very well above, but... yeah. Different shapes per different manufacturers, plus different shapes going in and out of fashion over the decades - wider or narrower brims, more tapered or straighter crowns, all the rest of it. In terms of sizing, I've never...
  19. Edward

    You know you are getting old when:

    Yes, I think that's a big part of it. That and what's fashionable in Hollywood pictures - I mean, my interest in 50s fashion came as much as anything as a logical outgrowth of getting into the music, but with the 30s/40s, it was very much a product of the influence of Hollywood - first and...
  20. Edward

    POTUS shoe

    DMs are something of a victim of market placement politics. For many years, their basic bot - and hence the most iconic one - was the standard 8-hole boot. Originally made in England - then, because they market demanded the boot remain at a certain price, they outsourced production to where...
  21. Edward

    First time buying fedora and introducing myself

    Beyond the pinch you can see on the front, it's just a simple centre-dent up top. The furfelt is noticeably thicker than that of the (very sturdy) Akubra. It's also softer; whereas my Akubras all required steaming, this one I bashed completely dry. not to imply one is better than the other -...
  22. Edward

    First time buying fedora and introducing myself

    Mine is the regular navy - French Navy is a shade or two lighter. I'd say Fench Navy is about the exact midpoint between royal blue and navy. Side by side, it's something akin to comparing a russet brown with those warm, red undertones to a slightly darker chocolate brown. I'm very tempted by...
  23. Edward

    Navy Fedora

    Looking for something else, I stumbled across this old thread from way back when. Some years later - sixteen, to be precise, - in late 2023 I did indeed buy a navy blue fedora. This one came from the Hat Centre in Stamford Hill, London (hatcentre.co.uk). It's become a real favourite very...

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