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  1. PabloElFlamenco

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

    I'm patiently waiting for this one to arrive http://www.ebay.com/itm/360387499480?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 Judging from the "lay of the land" (I don't know how to say this, I mean the smaller "sub-creases", the depressions in the felt near the "corners"), this might...
  2. PabloElFlamenco

    Making a fedora, criticism is wanted

    I'm impressed, Ian. You're young, and making hatmaking (and ... hatshaping) into a hobby is a most inspiring project, indeed. Who knows, there might be a future in this for you!
  3. PabloElFlamenco

    Fedora Lounge Impact

    Lucky you (lucky me, too!) Gooooood morning, Michigan....
  4. PabloElFlamenco

    Fedora Lounge Impact

    The Lounge has (about) 18509 members, not all into hats. How large would be the impact of that, in a population of, say, 250 million? Does any one really think that, by singling out the (relatively few) really "nice" hats on eBay, I would be the one person buying one of the few really...
  5. PabloElFlamenco

    Making a fedora, criticism is wanted

    Congratulations on making your own hat, a courageous decision. By working on the hat yourself, you're definitely learning about the elements which determine the true "quality", be it (of) the material or the work you put into it, your limits and the appreciation of the work of the professional...
  7. PabloElFlamenco

    Ralph Lauren's idiotic PRE-DISTRESSED fedora

    I wonder how many people are actually buying that ...er...hat (I hesitated in deciding to write it different). This pre-distressed stuff goes against my every grain: I regret those Levis stiff as a board when new. When I buy new, I want to be the person imposing wear and tear on the item...
  8. PabloElFlamenco

    Panama Hat Thread

    I just finished ordering a $99 Cuenca llano in Caballero style from PB. Not for myself, rather for a friend Manuel Gayo who wants to get a hat but doesn't speak a word of Anglo and moreover is stuck up in his 2nd floor apartment in a wheelchair. Rather than hooking him up with one of those...
  9. PabloElFlamenco

    Nice intent, frustrating result...

    I'll make peace with that thought, Trick...you're of course perfectly right, same as Gromulus... They were gone for five whole weeks, both our sons away in a fur'n land, far away. We missed them, and when I saw that 6 foot++ guy with a Seattle Mariners foam hand -they'd been to see a game- and...
  10. PabloElFlamenco

    The Official Stetson Nutria Quality Thread

    Congratulations, Hatsenough. I still consider any "Nutria" very, very special indeed. Hat looks fine, good shape... beautiful (they don't make them like that...ever again).
  11. PabloElFlamenco

    Ancestor hat pics

    Welcome, Chasseur. Now for that second photo you posted, thar's the navy for ye! BTW, those pictures are really, really nice, good saturation, contrast...they weren't taken in Hawaii though, I reckon?
  13. PabloElFlamenco

    Nice intent, frustrating result...

    Tha's right, Terry, they don't think (if at least they'd have bought a hat which fitted THEM, for cryin' out loud!). Well, Saint-Just (good Jean Gabin avatar there!), it's the US 7-1/8 and one of the first things I did was to slip some thickish wool felt strips, both fore as well as aft...
  14. PabloElFlamenco

    Nice intent, frustrating result...

    Both my sons returned yesterday from a 7000 mile drivethrough of the western US. And they thought of me by bringing me a birthday gift: a brand new Stetson (Sovereign) fedora hat. Size 7-1/2. My size is 7-1/8. Bummer! So, after consulting them, and convincing them that there is no way to...
  15. PabloElFlamenco

    Ancestor hat pics

    Great uncle Ernie....looks much like a...chasseur himself, doesn't he? (for those who don't understand "chasseur", it means "hunter"). Absolutely great looking hat there!
  16. PabloElFlamenco

    Ancestor hat pics

    Good question, Zetwal. They're wicker beach chairs, very typical of the (once) very fashionable beach resort of Scheveningen (for instance, the WWI emperor of Germany retired there -in WWI neutral Holland- after that war). There's a few better pictures of them here...
  17. PabloElFlamenco

    Ancestor hat pics

    In name of both my, alas deceased, parents, thank you very much for the comments. Looking back at those days, and knowing how it was, well, they're very, very well dressed. I was born in 1949, by the way, but you can't see me on the picture ;-)
  19. PabloElFlamenco

    Ancestor hat pics

    Here's my parents, in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, either 1948 or 1949. My father was a Belgian artillery NCO, my mom was, like so many girls all over the world, "seamstress".
  20. PabloElFlamenco

    The Social Meanings of Hats

    Would you, Sir (respect intimated) be the Master of the Double Point? BTW (begin off topic) you make a good picture. Splendid hats, to say the least (end off topic). Well aware that anything said about oneself is entirely subjective (that's the very definition), I don't think one could say...
  21. PabloElFlamenco

    The Social Meanings of Hats

    That's a very interesting article, indeed. And, as I'm writing from Belgium a background rather distinct from the USA or England, culturally and social, I clearly noticed writer says "In France, each social class used hats differently" and "The use of hats to blur class boundaries appears to...
  22. PabloElFlamenco

    Seriously?

    Yes, that's ...the terrible state of things, back in 2011...I guess. I once bought a new hat, maybe 2-3 years ago: a $100 (US price) black 6X Justin hat "made by Milano". It's, relatively speaking, a piece of hardcore sugar. When it gets very wet (like in "waterlogged"), I sweat black much...
  23. PabloElFlamenco

    Avatar hats

    Here I'm wearing my Stetson 100. The best hat I own, wear it on special occasions, when I wish to wear the very best... Most of the time, it's safely inside its "Optimo Hats" box (Optimo restored the hat, and enlarged it from 6-7/8 to 1-1/8 but I keep it tensed on a wooden hat-conformer, to...

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