Here are two additions of mine, one a really nice unique vintage Meyser (Thanks Stefan!!)......the other, a much newer (80's) maybe Borsalino.....I MUST say the Borsa (the one with my extra wonky crease) is quite a surprise being now one of the thinnest, nicest, felts in my collection......you...
Well, indeed it did BEFORE you changed the ribbon, OR's are thin ribbon. The Dobbs Westward is by origional design an OR clone..........
All that said......your hat looks simply fantastic with the replacement ribbon!
Best,
M
For that much money I am contemplating making you a genuine, authentic, facsimile, (fake) but otherwise real example in the color(s) of your choice.............:eek::rolleyes:;););););););)
Great find Stefan!! That $13.50 price tag puzzles me though.....I have two St Regis Royal Deluxe Homburgs from the 40's......each priced at $12.50. The white tag with the purple puzzles me too........cannot remember seeing one on a Stetson though I do have a couple of those on another brand...
To get back on track.....here is my recently aquired Premier Mink Stratoliner. The pin is an origional TWA DC 3 as came with the strats when they were introduced around 1939-1940.
This hat is an early production from 2014 in which I find the felt nice but just a bit too thick........they made...
This history is wonderful. As to the sweatband stores (mainly hat stores but others who would clean and block hats) kept these in stock all debossed and ready to go to replace sweats. They did not disassemble old stock hats to recover them......too much work. And the sweats after all are the...
Actually even the wealthy businessmen of the past spent more time out doors than one would imagine. My grandfather did not take cabs everywhere and especially when downtown would walk a few blocks from his offices to the Board of Trade Building. Part of it was that even back then walking was...
Here is a very interesting and thoughtfull article on our topic of hat decline.......
Pretty well done and well researched!:eek:
Reading the part about walking outside a lot made me think of the opening credits of the first couple of years of the "Bob Newhart Show", showing images of a hatted...
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