I had a guy offer me $250 for this 1940's akubra last week, so i took it out of the sealed plastic box i put it in less than a fortnight ago...moths had got in, dunno how, and butchered it..UNBELIEVABLE..it had been sitting on a hat- rack untouched for the last 3 years at least...seriously WTF...
yeah i could do that but it just doesn't suit me, I'm more a trad town hat person, and given the climate round here, tend to wear fine-weave vintage straws when i find em!
Found this woollen khaki item with a strange placket i've never encountered before. the label's date is faded but the maker is CR Ltd...
it fits me too....!
I was watching a doco on the famous RM Williams on tv the other night , and this old 40's (?) promo for the company had a truck delivering a catalogue to a drover in the outback....the look interested me: this is how Australian 'cowboys' or stockmen as we call them dressed back then...check the...
I was watching THE MISFITS last week, not for the first time either, and it hit me in the eyes like I'd never seen it before, everyone knows Marilyn's famous Lee Rider shot, but guess what jacket Gable wears...
I've got one of those, and i'm not sure why it's called a Stormrider because the blanket lined SR is the original model. A quick dating method AFAIK is if the label is actually embroidered rather than screen printed, then it's pre-80's. They are a good roughwear coat and I sleep in mine when...
back in the 80's a mate of mine paid $400 for a t-shirt, some fancy brand, and i said 'but it's just a t-shirt, no-one's going to know how much it cost by looking at it on you', indeed, he replied, but I WILL
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