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How do folks react to your hat wearing?
:D:D:D:D:D One of the best stories EVER!!!!! I had a similar reaction in an antique mall when a police officer kept watching me as I walked around.... I finally went to approach him to see what the problem was.......and HE was one of those cardboard figures....:eek::rolleyes::oops::oops::oops::oops: -
Show Us Your Vintage Hat Store
This is just too cool!!!!! Great information!!!!! LOVE that 1911 poem about the store!!! Good research here!!! That hat is really is a museum piece!!! -
The OLD WAY.......Ephemera, and other stuff...BEFORE 1920
One last comment on the "dust up". When I posted (and indeed when I received the catalog) my interest is always in the styles present and the general history behind the catalog. I have learned (especially with hats) to give little notice to the quality designations of the manufacturers as they... -
The OLD WAY.......Ephemera, and other stuff...BEFORE 1920
Edited for additional content I was a heck of a LOT closer than you!! It DOES have to do with the type of felt after all (not cloth), in this case a finish. With "Castor" being defined as : "a half Beaver Hat" (in an American dictionary) and/or a "beaver/rabbit hat" in other sources and... -
The OLD WAY.......Ephemera, and other stuff...BEFORE 1920
From: a Treatise on Hat Making...1868 "Pumicing or Pouncing. Pouncing is a term for rubbing down the outside of a hat with a piece of pumice stone, sand paper, or emery paper, whereby the hat is made entirely bare, smooth, and fine, resembling a piece of very fine cloth. These are generally... -
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HATTERS, CLEANERS, AND DYERS!!!!!
circa 1880....Love the "Sign of the Glass Hat"!!! -
The OTHER Ways, Advertising and ephemera of the Golden Era from other than Stetson
Circa 1940. Knox Hat Shape display rounds.....These hung on the wall to show customers the hat shape styles.... -
Western, anyone?
September 1933, Now THIS is a HAT!!!!!!!! Marilen Kay will be wearing THIS hat for the opening Night of the World's Congress of Rough Riders and Rodeo at Los Angeles third annual event. -
At the Dog Track... The Whippets
1949 finds Bing Crosby wearing one!!! -
The STETSON WAY, Advertising and ephemera of the Golden Era
1949, Bing Crosby and the Whippet!!!! -
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HATTERS, CLEANERS, AND DYERS!!!!!
1958, Inside John's Hat Shop.......fitting a new hat!:) -
HATTERS, CLEANERS, AND DYERS!!!!!
Unknown date (mid-century) Hatter.....in a can!!!:eek::rolleyes:;) -
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The STETSON WAY, Advertising and ephemera of the Golden Era
1957, This store window display of Troisi Tailors and Haberdashers won first prize of $100 from the Stetson Company, in their store window contest second division (cities with a population less than 100,000). -
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The OLD WAY.......Ephemera, and other stuff...BEFORE 1920
Bob, you may be on to something here.......I know later this was used for a longhair finish felt......this could very well be the answer......finish.......long hair finish...... -
The OLD WAY.......Ephemera, and other stuff...BEFORE 1920
I can see where you come from in the here and now...but I come from the viewpoint of an historical education background where verification, provenance and MUCH is derived from EDUCATED (lots of primary documents, letters and diaries, technical and reference books (of the particular era)... -
The OLD WAY.......Ephemera, and other stuff...BEFORE 1920
YES, they mention "Plushes"....... IN RELATION TO LADIES "Millinery" TRIMMINGS........:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:o_Oo_Oo_Oo_Oo_O What the heck is your problem?!?!?!?!?!?!?o_Oo_Oo_Oo_O PS....They do not mention "beaver" either.......JUST wool and FUR for the men's hats and Straw for... -
The OLD WAY.......Ephemera, and other stuff...BEFORE 1920
Nice research!! But probably does not apply as these are felt hats and not cloth..... I DID find that the definition of Castor besides being a "Half Beaver hat" later morphed into also a "Hat made with Beaver and/or RABBIT (also beaver AND rabbit...so back to the half definition). So that... -
Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
YES....and DAD Does seem to have worn quite a range of sizes!!!!!!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Perhaps he shaved his head once a year for the small sizes and let it grow the rest of the time.....changing up a hat size as needed while it grew back in....:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
