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  1. suitedcboy

    Post New Hats Here!

    From Webster's Dictionary 134th edition, printed Dec 2009: Perfect hat crease: 1. the shaping of a hat so as to achieve balanced proportionality, 2. The act of shaping hats leaving the most esthetically pleasing shape making others desirous of such hats. See also Jimmy the Lid. Wow...
  2. suitedcboy

    My son's first hat.

    Hurray! Another one won over to the brim-shaded side! (not to be confused with the dark side)
  3. suitedcboy

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    You certainly classed up the place! I can only think that the producers disallowed it because you were setting the bar far too high for any of the other on-air persons to ever reach. Bravo to you! Merry Christmas to all.
  4. suitedcboy

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    The Whippet needed another trip to church. Gotta love them Whippets!
  5. suitedcboy

    Post New Hats Here!

    I like it! Since it didn't come to live with me I am glad it got a caring home. That is a great lid and one I hadn't heard of before. Is that a private label made by one of the big boys or ??
  7. suitedcboy

    The Resistol Roundup

    RLK, I saw that one and saw the hand-written "$295" on the tag. I think the price write-in was much more recent. I remember seeing 125's in the early seventies and they were priced at $125. That was a premium hat at that time and one I handled not too many years back had a great feel to the...
  8. suitedcboy

    FEDORAS IN SELF DEFENCE

    That defensive weapon hat was wool. Hard to love and hard to penetrate with a sword or knife.
  9. suitedcboy

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Wore my sole true Whippet today.
  10. suitedcboy

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Thanks to you all for the compliments. I regularly log into this site and find photos that amaze me. From observations made here I discovered wider bound brims were my favored style fedora.
  11. suitedcboy

    common size in mens fedoras.

    A few years back when a friend of mine was opening a western store, I looked through his hat catalogs and paperwork. The suggestions in one of the books for stocking hats listed suggested order quantities and 7 1/8 and 7 1/4 were the highest numbers. Hats are of course unisex and the numbers...
  13. suitedcboy

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    The cold drizzly day required cover provided by my Knox Superfine for church.
  14. suitedcboy

    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    That VS whippet clone is terrific! If I had that I'd probably sleep sitting up 'cause I would not want to take it off!
  15. suitedcboy

    Brim shaping?

    I have an elongated long oval noggin and the shaping of the brims of my hats is limited by that. Most all of my fedoras end up with the "snap" of the front of brim being far forward and the brim having a horizontal area just at break to crown and the snap being more of a curl. A couple of examples:
  16. suitedcboy

    Has anyone ever had a bespoke fedora made from Baron hats?

    I agree with the others. From what I see of their website, Baron seems to be too focused on "gimmick" hats. I would fear that they might not be able to satisfy you for a hat that really pays homage to fedoras of the golden age. The western weight beaver felt will hold the styling they bash into...
  17. suitedcboy

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

  19. suitedcboy

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    /QUOTE] I have yet to see a Whippet that isn't striking but this one has such unusual coloring.... WOW!!!! With the number of really well preserved Whippets around I have to think the original purchasers must have known they were special and took very good care of them and wore them for...
  20. suitedcboy

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

    "As an aside, the cuttin' horse folks are in town for a couple of weeks for their annual Futurity. Now, there's a group that dresses Western with class!" I attended the second round cutting this evening and there were plenty of hatted heads there. There are a lot of beaver dams missing their...
  21. suitedcboy

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

    Get it? Anyone here get this small but seemingly new Whippet? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300363580399&ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT Or this superb Knox? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310179911983&ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT
  22. suitedcboy

    Fedoras in History

    Copied from Fort Worth CBS station web 11-4-09: The $16.50 gray fedora worn by Dallas strip club owner Jack Ruby when he fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 is for sale. Heritage Auctions scheduled an auction Saturday for the Cavanagh fedora. President John F. Kennedy was slain on Nov. 22...
  23. suitedcboy

    Hat Matching Suit?

    Cagney is wearing a back bow fedora. I have seen those here posted by members and on Ebay but I couldn't recall ever having seen one on a movie or on someone in person.

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