I don't want all of the stress look that Winston posted of his, just some of it, just the shape on the crown is what I want. The stress limit will come from breaking it in.
The left one does have the band but both have the crown shape I'll be trying to duplicate. I tried to get that shape on a Cooper Petty but didn't quite get it to becaue of the preformed crown and trying to re-shape it exactly was unsuccessful.
For the better part of ten years or more, I've been trying to find a fedora like the two in this youtube video or one that I can shape myself. I think hopefully I've found the fedora I just ordered from Akubra Federation IV Deluxe. Here is the video in it's original form so unless you can...
Thanks for that undated info. I couldn't remember how long it took to get my other Akubras, it's been awhile.
I spent three hours deciding...…….on the IV Deluxe, it had the raw edge that I like so well.
This is not my first Akubra, I've had four before but this is my first Akubra Fedora(Federation IV Deluxe (Open Crown). Ordered today, so now I wait patiently for it's arrival. Any one have a time for delivery experience? A week/two weeks/longer ??? Seems to get a "Heritage Fawn" I had to go...
This thread has gone from "stingy" to "peaky" to "ten gals" to "fedora" to "bowler". Let's talk "Pork Pie", it will get some people in the mood for dinner. ;)
A Bowler???? Why, because it looked like a bowling ball or the guy who wore it was a bowler? Name beginnings....maybe a reason for a whole new thread or is there such a thread already?
I remember seeing guys like him hanging out on skid row years ago!!! Seems they all had fedoras....or maybe that was the bread line back during the Depression!!! :D
Newsboy, Gatsby, Big Apple and the new term on the block is Peaky Blinders. Speaking of Peaky Blinders, anyone know when the next season starts, I'm now watching all the previous episodes for the third time?
I was hoping this thread would last a bit longer to pass time but you have brought it to an end.
For that, dinner is on me at Delmonico's if we ever meet up there. Wear your Fedora so I'll recognize you. I'll be the kid in a Peaky Blinders selling Grit outside. Everyone else I'm sure will be in...
Not in the US or GB. It was a French play that eventually went world wide after 1882. I don't think any fashion from France would have made it to the US or GB before it appeared in the US or GB.
From the link to the Stetson catalogue, what we would consider a Fedora, was called a "Flange hat".
Since we've moved on from the description "stingy" to "fedora", the saga continues.:D
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