Well, yes, it should be 100% beaver. The liner is meant to tuck under the sweat band, so unless any of that unevenness is showing, I wouldn't worry about it. I think your NOS assessment is correct. More recent versions should have the "Excellent Quality" liner.
50's possibly early 60's 3x OR. A bit of an odd duck, wider sweatband; embroidered liner; oil skin tip liner seem to indicate 50's, but when it arrived, it had a square black paper tag. That thingie was hanging on by a thread and eventually fell out. This one is more of a wearer than a true...
"Belgian Beaver" seems to also have been a Stetson color offering similar to "light sand" according to this ad that was also from Miller Stockman...IIRC I think I pulled this one from a 1935 catalog in the Miller Stockman thread. I saved this ad because it was the closest I could find to my old...
I have no hard data for these conclusions, these are just thoughts of an overthinker:
I feel like since I arrived, the custom maker market has increased its presence in the lounge and in real life. IMHO, it might be worthwhile to delineate the hat forum into vintage and modern. Even if that...
The Puggaree - derived from the Punjabi word for Turban - refers to a pleated cloth wrap that is most often found on straw hats and slouch hats. The origin is apparently a British adaption of what was going on in India during Colonial times...
Industrially grown hemp is not anything anybody would want to use as a cannabis substitute. It makes a pretty nice hat! I prefer the wheat straw used in Milan, but the newer made hemp straw hats are also a good value for their price point.
I am just spitballing here, but I would think you'd want to dye the hat body before it became a finished hat, because a finished hat will have some amount of stiffener applied.
then if you dyed a body, you'd need a block to shape it back uo, or have it professionally reblocked.
I know the...
Lovely! I think you'll find it a surprisingly versatile color. It's in the same family as Optimo's oxblood and a popular color from Winchester called Black Cherry that many members here have had hats made up with. The ribbon is something else too. When they first added that color to the website...
I dunno, I just think of you want to stiffen your hat, buy a hat stiffener. It's not like Kahl and Scout stiffener is hard to track down.
I can't imagine there's any big mystery about scotchguard, spray it on. Others have noted in past threads that it changes the feel of the felt slightly.
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