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  1. JimWagner

    If You Could Keep But Only One Of Your Lids...

    Guess I'd keep my Akubra Camp Draft. And I'd cheat and keep a panama.
  2. JimWagner

    Repurposing vintage items, where to draw the line

    I always wanted a Leica IIIg, but I've seen exactly what you've seen in the pricing.
  3. JimWagner

    Tarnish prevention

    Hagerty makes cloth silver storage bags that I've had pretty good luck with. Just google Hagerty silver storage bags.
  4. JimWagner

    Fedora on a Segway....

    .. or dorkiness.
  5. JimWagner

    Repurposing vintage items, where to draw the line

    Come and get it. :p
  7. JimWagner

    Repurposing vintage items, where to draw the line

    Let me see if I understand this line of reasoning. I bought my house in 1977. It was 4 years old at the time. The builders had installed green shag and gold shag in the various rooms. I never got around to replacing it except in the family room and one bedroom that became a hobby room where...
  8. JimWagner

    Repurposing vintage items, where to draw the line

    Consider this. More vintage items today are being scrapped and recycled than cut up and used for another purpose. They are worth more as recycled raw materials than as whatever they were manufactured as. How do you feel about that?
  9. JimWagner

    Stetson Fashion Collection 1940s Stratoliner Fur Felt Fedora Hat

    I'm not usually that lucky. But lightening has to hit somewhere.
  10. JimWagner

    Stetson Fashion Collection 1940s Stratoliner Fur Felt Fedora Hat

    I'm in for a Silverbelly Statoliner. Interestingly, I got distracted while on the FedoraStore web site and when I came back to my pc about 20 minutes later a window had popped offering me a 10% discount, which I was only too happy to take advantage of.
  11. JimWagner

    Putting on and Taking off your Fedora

    I put on and take off my felt hats by the crown most of the time and always have. Gently. I've had some of my hats more than 20 years and I haven't had any problems with doing so. Straws, like others have stated, I handle by the brims. Their crowns are really too delicate for handling much...
  13. JimWagner

    Unfortunate food, fortunately forgotten

    I suppose that if you looked hard enough you could find (or make) just about anything people used to eat. But some things just need to be left to the past. For example, my dad used to cook breakfast on the weekends when I was a kid and he liked to serve up (shudder) such things as scrambled...
  14. JimWagner

    Bicycle Helmet?!

    Then consider this. When you are riding against traffic you leave the oncoming drivers very little choice about what to do to avoid hitting you if there isn't enough room for you and the approaching vehicles. When you are traveling in the same direction (the legally mandated direction) the...
  15. JimWagner

    Shantung "straw" hats

    Maybe it's because of what they're coated with sealing them up, but my Shantung hats don't breath particularly well. Makes them hotter to wear than natural panamas, at least the coarser weave panamas.
  16. JimWagner

    The International Wool Felt Consortium

    Case in point, a Stetson wool felt I picked up a few months ago from Dillards.
  17. JimWagner

    Are suits for work on the way out?

    Not at all arguing with that, but... I've experienced a number of instances where I've been walking through stores while wearing a suit and had to fend off multiple customers who apparently thought I worked there. I guess that I was not wearing a name tag didn't register.
  19. JimWagner

    The International Wool Felt Consortium

    It seems most of us own a few wool hat shaped objects that are worn when we don't want to risk undue damage to real hats. It's doubtful that you'll find anyone who owns a decent fur felt that would say they prefer wool and wish they hadn't bought the fur felt.
  20. JimWagner

    Opinion requested - windowpane blazer

    Sorry, but it looks like it's made from a blanket to me.
  21. JimWagner

    Are suits for work on the way out?

    I haven't worn a suit to work in over 25 years. Having to wear a suit at work is more the exception than the rule these days and the decline is not a recent phenomenon. There are certain professions, especially those where meeting the customer or public is part of the normal day to day, where...
  22. JimWagner

    Panama in a Homburg block?

    I do have a white Dobbs Eldorado myself with a white band and I like it just fine. But, if I had suits as sharp as Jack's I think I'd want a better hat than the Dobbs to really complete the look. The Dobbs would be a little like hanging furry dice from the rear view mirror in a Rolls.
  23. JimWagner

    Do you see your Indy hats as "formal" or "casual" hats?

    Agreed, even though there are at least some scenes in the IJ movies where he is wearing that (cleaned up) brown hat with suits.

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