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. PabloElFlamenco

    BOTH SIDES OF THE TWEED! - Show us your tweed suits, sport coats and pants

    All right...I usually post (sporadically, I add) in the "hats" section, but recently I've developed a taste in "tweed". Oh, I remember I had a Harris tweed jacket, heavy and stiff gray herringbone, and I foolishly "threw it away". So I wanted something to replace it, and bought one jacket a...
  2. PabloElFlamenco

    This is just painful to watch

    I'm from Utopia, myself. Very nice country it could have been, weren't it for the likes of Urope and Alas.
  3. PabloElFlamenco

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Pa (that's me), ma (my wife) and the kids (Nigel 25, Haroun 23) went off to see "Hugo", together, in a family way. 3-D which adds to the film (mostly 3-D adds nothing at all), this is one of the best films I've seen in years, and I like the cinema, seen lotsa good flicks. Shows how, when...
  4. PabloElFlamenco

    Beaver Brand impressions?

    You asked for the color... I have a very good quality large "Beaver Brand" cowboy hat with a partially pencil-rolled brim, and the color looks very similar to this photograph. The color is called "Belgium" (of all things...) Paul (yes, from Belgium...)
  5. PabloElFlamenco

    What's a wind trolley?

    In may earlier this year, I made one myself for my Panama Bob Panama hat; with a piece of string and a small copper-colored safety pin replacing the button; in anticipation of the ferry to a Greek island.
  7. PabloElFlamenco

    It's a different world over here...

    Wow, I'm really charmed by you guys' responses, I didn't expect that! Thanks for the pictures, too, because I don't have any of me 'n my bike 'n my hat (see that "Dutch friend"..her bike's one of those "stately black affairs" these bicycles are proportioned so that ladies could, and can, ride...
  8. PabloElFlamenco

    It's a different world over here...

    Just a general observation: during weekdays, I now live in the Netherlands, in the southern smallish city of Breda. When the weather is good (dry...), I go to work on my bicycle. Holland (another name for this country) mostly has geographic resemblance to a pancake, and many people use the...
  9. PabloElFlamenco

    Oddly inexpensive Borsalinos

    I don't understand the word "ringworm", but it doesn't cost anything to me to try to be helpful: in France, or in the french language, "un Borsalino" refers, generally in fact, to the "Fedora" type hat. So any hat looking roughly like that would invariably be called a "Borsalino". It's a bit...
  10. PabloElFlamenco

    "It isn't a @*$%> cowboy hat"

    Well good for you, Richard. I don't like that @*$%> adjective either. Only one or two of my cowboy hats are @*$%> hats, but not the OR ones, they're more ******* like.
  11. PabloElFlamenco

    "It isn't a @*$%> cowboy hat"

    Hey, Cicero. Yep, I live in Belgium (except just found a job -not as cowboy, though- in Breda, so weekdays I'm in the Netherlands) but then Breda's Brabant, too. Stampede Sam (aka Sam Craig) ...I'm afraid not only the cowboy's gone away over the rainbow. I hope to be invited to join the club...
  13. PabloElFlamenco

    "It isn't a @*$%> cowboy hat"

    I don't get the cowboy remark that often (whereas I'd be proud to be called a cowboy); mostly the other one, you know that Spielberg creation: now that, I don't like.
  14. PabloElFlamenco

    Hat Storage

    I live near an airport, and you should see those "Tiger Moths": classic eat-my-hat beaters! ;-)
  15. PabloElFlamenco

    Hat Storage

    Storage of hats...a difficult matter. Hats, especially if you have more than a few, take up a lot of room, and because of the ever present (imaginary or otherwise) threat from moths, cannot be just kept on a hatrack. How do I keep my hats? Well, it ain't pretty: they're all over the place...
  16. PabloElFlamenco

    How many have you lost to moths? How many rescued?

    I've shot at a moth but I'm sure I missed, because I distinctly saw it flutter away... Hat's got two big holes in it now. (Ok, ok...I never said you have to believe everything I write!)
  17. PabloElFlamenco

    Making my own hats

    Fortino37, I can only guess how it feels to have made your own hat. And, judging from the pictures, they look good. From the photo of the inside (with liner and sweatband of the blue hat), it looks very carefully and well made. There are few hatmakers left in the smartphone world...go get...
  19. PabloElFlamenco

    Show Us Your Dark Side - Shadow and Silhouette Portraits

    Madness? Ahah...try NO hat under those circumstances, then please come back and tell me about it! With the sun all day in my back, and wearing shorts, the sun would burn the back side of my legs, the softer skin in back of the knees. I soon had to change into (long) trousers to avoid that...
  20. PabloElFlamenco

    A question about the panama hat...

    I address this question to those "in the know" about Montecristi and Cuenca crafted hats. I think I pretty much got the informative side of those wonderful hats covered, the meaning of weaves per inch, the desire that the weaves be as consistently "regular" as possible, etc. Sometimes, I...
  21. PabloElFlamenco

    Show Us Your Dark Side - Shadow and Silhouette Portraits

    My entry: the picture was taken by myself during August 2009, walking northwards somewhere on the Spanish "meseta" (I guess not far from Zamora), during my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella (I walked some 500 km from Salamanca). The hat? A wool felt Borsalino (didn't want to...
  22. PabloElFlamenco

    What degree of rake do you prefer?

    In a well shaped, non-tapering crown, I usually go for the medium rake, nothing radical. The non-raking crown resembles the homburg, whereas the strongly raked hat appears in some way "unnatural". But I have at least one instance where, due to the hat not having met expectations, such as a...
  23. PabloElFlamenco

    ADAM ALLEY

    Yes and thanks Short Balding Guy, based on that and other indications, early to middle fifties would appear to be a reasonable assumption. Yesterday evening, watching TV, I played around a bit with the hat, as I often do, shaping it, handling the hat to get a general feel. This hat is one of...

Latest posts

Members online

... and 28 more.
Total: 4,262 (members: 78, guests: 4,184)

Forum statistics

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