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  1. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    An early spring day always make me reach for an early Stratoliner. This one, without an imprint or embroidered patch inside the crown, might be a first edition. Store likely related to the much loved Seattle store Bernie Utz, which closed its doors several years back. But I'm not sure.
  2. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Mighty fine, Chas!
  3. alanfgag

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

    I am not well versed in MacLachlan but I believe that they made hats under private label as well as under their own brand. Frank Stack was affiliated with Hat Corporation of America for many years before founding a (short lived) company under his own name. Your hat @drmaxtejeda looks to have the...
  4. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Air conditioned Stetson Playboy today. I haven't purchased many hats in recent years but reached for this one when it was shared by our friend Anthony Amodeo.
  5. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    This is all kinds of wonderful.
  6. alanfgag

    PANIZZA paparazzi

    Echoing the praise for this furry beauty. Wonderful.
  7. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Thank you Steve. This modest brim works well snapped down without getting swoopy but I always seem to keep the brim upwards at the end of the day. My signature look, I guess. ;^)
  8. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Thanks back at you... I keep my best stuff in the box underneath the bowl. Not much room for more. I keep telling myself that. Thank goodness for the bowl.
  9. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Stetson Playboy - a lightweight hat from before the U.S. entered WWII.
  10. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Nothing new to share... just some sunshine on a bowl of stuff I wear frequently.
  11. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Beautiful ring and great story. I’ve spent time paging through her impressive collection. Good to hear some news about Michael.
  12. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Longhair finish beaver fur hat from time time ago, in sunshine
  13. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Bonjour mes amis du chapeau... today a nice old European velour purchased from Daniele, originally sold at the venerable Paris store le BHV.
  14. alanfgag

    Hatless

    10 years later…
  15. alanfgag

    Berets, Anyone?

    All is fine by me @Fern... thanks for the thought. Just hibernating.
  16. alanfgag

    1890's-1900's early hat manufacture HAWES (Hawes Von Gal) HAT CO

    Just replied to your post in the Derby thread... congratulations on finding this. Very few hats from Hawes Von Gal appear on the vintage market, though their advertisements are plentiful. Some great new additions to this thread were posted recently by Daveproc. The company clearly went through...
  17. alanfgag

    The Bowler or Derby Hat

    Great find. There is good history in the Hawes Von Gal thread (much of which I've forgotten)... little if anything of the company was seen after WWI. c.1910 as a date for your derby should be a good guess, with a margin to either side of a few years. Definitely a century old.
  18. alanfgag

    Pre 1940s Stetson Westerns

    A couple of great hats… thanks for tagging me as I haven’t had as much time to visit as I’d like. Great that you have a customs stamp for the nutria quality to add context to the LOTXXXX number, which I would have placed in the later 1930s from the sequence, rondel imprint and gold keyhole size...
  19. alanfgag

    Oldest Hat Shops in the US

    It may be hard to maintain this standard of purity... most of the hat brands sold by these shops closed their manufacturing facilities fifty years ago.

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