Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Wonderful find!
  2. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Many thanks for the kind words. <tipping hat in your direction>
  3. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Birds are nesting everywhere, a sign that it's time to bring out the featherweights... here a charcoal heather Stetson Standard Quality from the mid Depression-era.
  4. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Thank you... something about this hat - maybe the deep crown bash - makes the 4" brim easy to wear. I also bring it out mainly on rainy or snowy days, which helps it look "smart." ;^)
  5. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Aging with grace... this old Stetson is a nice example of taking what nature throws at you and doing your darnedest to keep on course. I purchased this hat on Ebay from our once active member Justin (splintercellsz). I believe he celebrates his 30th birthday today as I hurtle into my seventies.
  7. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Whose hands these are I think I know... Think I've seen it before, but it's the most beautiful straw I've seen a long while.
  8. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Thank you. Graham's work?
  9. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Today, a soft hooray for a little, lightweight Vimenet.
  10. alanfgag

    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    ps... here is a sidexside look at the two mentioned above. The gray Stetson had a dated store sales receipt in the box. https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/side-by-side-hat-comparisons.65983/page-5#post-1534107
  11. alanfgag

    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    Ebay is full of teachers with questionable credentials. This is a style of ribbon brim binding that appeared on homburgs in the mid 1950s - early 1960s. I've owned examples from Stetson and Cavanagh, which likely indicates that many makers active at that time gave the narrow brim binding a try...
  13. alanfgag

    Stetson Medalist History?

    Great find... Vic nails the straw as Livorno (Leghorn). Here is a link to a very similar hat from a similar time period. https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/post-new-hats-here.28145/page-759#post-1277525 The LOTXXXX is similar, marked as a Factory Store Reject behind the sweatband.
  14. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    I think your dating is a good guess. Many tribal communities abandoned the ancient swastika symbol around 1940 in response to its adoption by the Nazi Party in Germany. I hear some weavers have gone back to using the motif in more recent years. The "swirling log" appears in a lot of jewelry from...
  15. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Thinking of spring in Paris as I wear an old black velour sold through le BHV... one of very few hats in my collection that came from a store still in operation today. To me from Daniele Tanto in Italy.
  16. alanfgag

    Berets, Anyone?

    Sun inspired beret for the opening of an exhibition at Burchfield Penney Art Center.
  17. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    A close look at a bracelet by Navajo silversmith Mark Chee (1914-1981).
  19. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    The outdoor photos are quite accurate. It's a very rich Los Angelean hue. I've had this hat for some time. I was told by the seller that the family had kept this hat in its original Stetson box since the owner passed away in 1943. Always have to take these accounts with a grain of salt, but the...
  20. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    The Imperial Stetson... a 3X Beaver hat that would have cost fifteen dollars when it was sold c.1940. A beautiful example of pre-war American hatmaking that would be lost to history moments later.
  21. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Two sculptural pendant pieces by Kenneth Begay (1913-1977)... abstract pieces that seem to suggest mountains as an inspiration to their form. These were made during Begay's association with the White Hogan shop (first in Flagstaff, later Scottsdale) sometime between 1946 and 1964.
  22. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    An early (pre-WWI) American made hat. Hawes Von Gal must have been skilled in promotion - examples of their print advertisements are many and well preserved - but examples of their $3 hats are scarcely seen on the vintage market and soft hats like this one are rarer still. It is beautifully made...
  23. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Thanks. Jackson Heights probably hasn't changed much as the housing/commercial buildings were good quality and densely spaced. We moved from an apartment house to a private house on 75th St. in 1963. The security necessity of metal gates came through after I left for college. Walking around the...

Latest posts

Members online

... and 29 more.
Total: 4,260 (members: 79, guests: 4,181)

Forum statistics

Threads
109,251
Messages
3,077,314
Members
54,183
Latest member
UrbanGraveDave
Top