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  1. PabloElFlamenco

    No comment.

    My oh my, world's gone to pot... fortunately the typos provide an element of stability!
  2. PabloElFlamenco

    I contstantly keep changing bashes on some of my hats...

    I strongly suspect, my dear Mr. Scotty (is that ...on the rocks?) that you are close to the crux of the matter: some kind of neurosis. I knew I was (in youth, I must add) "bashful". Paul
  3. PabloElFlamenco

    I contstantly keep changing bashes on some of my hats...

    :) Why, dear Monbla, I wouldn't want to hurt your Lone Star State sensibilities, and if my choice of words hath been rather coarse, I do verily apologize. On a side note, I agree the word "bash" isn't perhaps the most elegant, and to put a crease -in a hat- sounds like a perfectly civil thing...
  4. PabloElFlamenco

    I contstantly keep changing bashes on some of my hats...

    Steam, steam, steam away... I just finished un-optimoing my artificially optimoed Panama Bob hat. Steam, pull, push... I even found that, by pulling both ends of a section of weave in-between (two) sets of thumb and forefinger (or, is that the index finger?), that section curls upwards...
  5. PabloElFlamenco

    Stetson Austral....THE ORIGINAL

    AND, I went back to look at the second picture in this thread, the unbashed crown, and it struck me how this hat has exactly the same crown as my Stetson campaign hat. Which is nutria, and a real tough hat, which I only wear in winter and when rain is more probable than not...
  7. PabloElFlamenco

    Stetson Austral....THE ORIGINAL

    Totally from (highly fallible) memory, I seem to recall that the (Stetson) No. 1 Quality was just that: No. 1 (and no 3X would improve on that). I must immediately add that a "Clear Nutria", in my mind, is always something very special. I really don't want to open sterile discussions by...
  8. PabloElFlamenco

    My Hat Helped "Sell" My New Glasses

    Brent, those new glasses look far better with a hat than the old ones, which bring nothing whatever in the "looks" department... mind you, this comment is from a near-permanent hat wearer who bought his reading glasses, some years ago, without the slightest attention to the hat factor. Which...
  9. PabloElFlamenco

    How to travel with hats

    Religion like politics (even ... hats!), some people are obsessed! ;-)
  10. PabloElFlamenco

    The Stetson One-Hundred "100"

    That comment points dead to what I was afraid of: they're all different! The more I read about Stetson, Stetson dating, felt, style, price...whatever...the denser the fog seems to get. It's as if, in a certain sense, the "old" (yes, old is the correct and respectful word) history, knowledge...
  11. PabloElFlamenco

    How to travel with hats

    That, in my view, is a brilliant reply, Kabuto.
  13. PabloElFlamenco

    Roosevelt's 1912 Campaign

    And there seems to have been a Canadian in the crowd: 1:00 - 1:05, modified (Canadian style) Montana bash...
  14. PabloElFlamenco

    Your opinion: What Ribbon on my VS?...

    I vote lavender, because of the contrast. The silver, whilst -by all means- nicely done, doesn't provide enough "depth" to the whole form.
  15. PabloElFlamenco

    How to travel with hats

    Personally, I've always limited my travelling to no hat (so I can buy one en-route) or just one hat. But that's no reply to your question. I would try to get a hold of one of those sturdy (plastic, fiber...) travel hat boxes, possibly evev carefully telescoping two hats into one box, after...
  16. PabloElFlamenco

    Famous Fedora Lovers

    Maurice Chevalier, sporting an unusual hat (he's best known wearing a boater) Uploaded with ImageShack.us
  17. PabloElFlamenco

    Famous Fedora Lovers

    Jean Gabin (back in 1937)
  19. PabloElFlamenco

    Famous Fedora Lovers

    Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon
  20. PabloElFlamenco

    Famous Fedora Lovers

    I'll try to post some famous French people wearing a hat... Brigitte Bardot...
  21. PabloElFlamenco

    Tripoli Grand Prix 37/38

    Two days ago, my (formula 1 freak) son and myself laughed out loud at the preposterous notion that those skinny tires of days gone by lasted "three or four laps". Today, at the (fantastic) Spa F-1 race, famous champion driver (survivor of the 1970's horror-days of racing) Jacky Ickx...
  22. PabloElFlamenco

    Source for replacement liners and sweatbands for Vintage Stetons?

    Several of my most sherished, most "valuable" old felts and one of my two Panama hats have been refurbished -out of real necessity, being "wasted"- with a generic sweatband. I've always tried to save the old sweats, or at least cut out any logos imprinted on the old sweats, together with any...
  23. PabloElFlamenco

    Panama Hat Thread

    Here's my wish that you may, one day, be able to visit Cuba; Sir. It's a sad thing to subsist separated from one's earlier life, especially by political questions of one sort or another. ¡Que le vaya bien!

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