Today was a day in north-eastern Italy with a sneaky light as I walked in the early afternoon.
A pale pink-yellow appeared in the clouds after a gray morning
The hat is a rarity because it is branded Albertini "Argo", a hat factory founded in 1817 among the first known in Italy on Lake...
The hats were not always high class, for the less wealthy classes there were medium quality hats at an affordable price
They are the most difficult to find because many have gone to the point of total consumption
This belongs to that class of almost indestructible hats suitable for every day...
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Take note where the hat factories were in the Biella area.
Barbisio, Cappellificio Cervo, Grosso Valz and others within a two kilometer radius :)
Monday morning of the new year. Pale sun and winter temperature. Happy New Year to all of you
Morning walk with a Flechet Century to accompany me into the new year
It kept me company a few years ago on a beautiful New Year's Eve in Rome
Flechet De Luxe - Century - Fabriqué Spécialement pour...
A semi-holiday day in a particular week between holidays and anniversaries.
I took the opportunity to take a walk in my studio, as well as storing hats :)
I was accompanied by a "modern" G.B. Borsalino fu Lazzaro ready for the US market, size is 7 1/2, never arrived at its destination...
Another stingy for these last days of 2023.
The weather is grey, humid and not very wintry
Charles Hatters - High Quality size 61 cm. or 7 in the old French size and 7 5/8 in the US.
Twin brother in proportions and shape of the C.H. color "Bismuto" worn a few days ago.
This has a unique...
Today Saint Stephen, the appendage of Christmas, rests after the great lunches and dinners of the previous days
Today's hat, for the stingy series at Christmas and surroundings, is a Flechet Pilote Impermeable made in France
Fabriqué Specialément pour Chapellerie Meer - Strasbourg.
The size...
Today a preview of a magnificent Barbisio lobbia. More to come
Un augurio di buon Natale a tutti voi e alle vostre famiglie da parte nostra
Monica, Daniele, Davide e Ginevra
Yesterday we talked about the very interesting research work carried out by Stefan regarding the brands of Italian hatters in their long history.
Let's celebrate early this morning with a Strà Barbisio. Size 60, equivalent to a 7 1/2 in the US.
Light felt hat, "Bolivia" color with pleated bow...
Caro Stefano, commenting on the Barbisio brands released between the 1930s and 1940s is to take a small journey into how the regime's politics were also present in Italian brands in those years.
There are at least a dozen brands which through lettering or symbolism openly recall the dictates of...
It's almost Christmas, but in Northern Italy the weather is that of a warm Easter.
The change was sudden, from temperatures below zero, during the night, the wind brought a completely unseasonable temperature
Despite everything, let's start the Italian way of stingy hats
Charles Hatters size...
I've been thinking for a long time, G.B. Borsalino fu Lazzaro, had, in its short life, the best brands of Italian hatmaking.
One of the best designs and lettering of that fervent graphic season in Italy at the beginning of the last century.
Bravo Stefano!
Some thoughts on your commendable work as a librarian with a penchant for Italian hat brands :)
I saw the first Barbisio brand a few years ago on a hat that was in particularly bad shape, then the brand disappeared from the Barbisio hats found on the second-hand market, at least here in Italy...
Thank you for your likes and appreciations on the lobbia Borsalino "Mirtillo"
I continue with hats from a distant era
Ecuyer & Thomas a few years older than the Borsalino.
No indication of color or anything else, just the size which is a full 60 or a 6 1/2 for the French and a 7 1/2 in the...
I look for a hat and I find others, such as a series of homburg or lobbia in the Italian name, sold in Sofia and built between the two wars
Every now and then these "finds" from a distant era appear, almost always on the UK market, almost as if Sofia were a suburb of London
Borsalino "Trionfo"...
Yes, this Borsalino is beautiful and probably comes direct from after the First World War, but it is also a real enigma.
Lining from a shop in Treviso and sweatband from a shop in Hamburg, both with the Borsalino brand crossed out with an X as if to remove the brand and the paternity of the...
While looking for a hat I found others that I hadn't "seen" for a long time
H.D Stevens & Co. - Gordon Street - London, sole agent Ghiacci - Reggio Emilia - Italy, so says the lining.
In reality he is a Vanzina, after his entry into the Borsalino orbit, made up as an English hat, but as I...
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