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  1. emigran

    What to wear with a fedora....

    Ladies and gentlemen I would certainly agree... just make sure you are wearing one that you think is 'way cool' and you'll be yourself...!!!
  2. emigran

    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    Nik, it's like watching a GE movie... great stuff great post...
  3. emigran

    Just a jacket drawing after watching some cowboy movie on TV

    Awesome bro... I'd buy one...
  4. emigran

    Indiana Jones Raiders Hat Brim Shape

    Penman makes a virtual dead ringer...met a fella in the Post office wearing it ... we exchanged greetings and shared a few hat quips... beautiful job on that hat... color, brim, bash etc... (no afil...)
  5. emigran

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Zombie... you are 100% correct... and that's exactly what I was thinking when I watched it as well ...Cowboy movie Indian drumming is really only a Hollywood Cliché as well... so I was doubly peeved with one movie...!!!
  6. emigran

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Tarzan the Ape Man... Original with Weismuller and O'Sullivan 1932... Quite adventurous for its time with some excellent wildlife footage (Even if Tarzan was using a vine-covered trapeze in some scenes) One thing that drove me CRAZY was the use of Native American drumming rhythms throughout the...
  7. emigran

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Easter Parade 1948 Fred Astaire Judy Garland Ann Miller Peter Lawford and one of my faves, Jules Munshin... the quintessential MGM Technicolor Musical... There aren't but a half dozen lines in between the next stunning song and dance display ... Colors, costumes and comedy strung together...
  8. emigran

    VS high count Montecristi Panama 784wpsi size 7 1/4 (22 5/8")

    As usual, NIk, your collection is most impressive...
  9. emigran

    A Good Deed Indeed!

    In my neighborhood...EVERYONE helps shovel everyone's driveway in winter... It's a lot of fun being outside together
  10. emigran

    21 7/8s'' size hat on a 21 3/4th - 22'' head?

    AND... are you a round/oval/long oval... ??? what shape is your head.... that will impact how a hat not customized for you will sit on yer noggin. for sure,
  11. emigran

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Great thread...
  12. emigran

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    One series whose language always irked me was DEADWOOD... about the old west gunfight days... every other word was M..F...anyone know if that language existed in Dodge City cowboy times etc...
  13. emigran

    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    Niiiiiiice...!!!
  14. emigran

    Your first hat

    Black fur felt center dent stingy brim... wide ribbon with colored feather tuft... freshman college 1966... I believe it was a Dobbs.... bought in Herald Square NYC ( forget the name of that famous shop)... have always worn a hat. Not always a fedora... since I joined here I have 7 "Art...
  15. emigran

    If you could be born in any year

    I was born in '47... don't think I would change it,,, I just missed out on steam rail travel, a regret for me... I would probabley like to have lived in Italy during Michaelangelo times...
  16. emigran

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    "Right On"... Lizzie... Hep cats indeed...
  17. emigran

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    As a musician throughout the 60's and 70's we were always concerned with what was "HIP"... a phrase that derived from the opium smokers who were literally " On the Hip" joint . stoned out of heir gourds... and thus to be hip like a dope smoker... more accurately from the 40's ( before and after...
  18. emigran

    What hat are you waiting for today?

    Waiting for a 50 +yr old Mallory body in Grey/Blue/Green from Art Fawcett finshed as a Strat...the wait is killing me...!!!!!!!!!!!!
  19. emigran

    Anyone else interested in the ancient world?

    Gallia est omni divisum in partes tres... Probably all I can remember from 8 periods a week of Latin in High School and four years of translations in College...!!!. However I'm usually not stumped by vocabulary or spelling...
  20. emigran

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    PeterB: well said... I'd agree that just because a decade begins with a zero is not the mark of something that's changing...

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