Hello Plures! Welcome to the Lounge!
You are going to enjoy your journey of vintage hats.
Looks like a Borsalino to me but I am not a expert.
Historically-wise, I don't think Mussolini is the type of man to steam his hat and flattened the brim......
I started on a Panama Pork pie, then a fedora I bought in Bavaria and then a boater. :-)
I think fedoras and boaters are mine.
Hats are addictive and really beware, you might never get rid of it! :D
I would say popularity of the straw boater was gone by the 1950s. 1920s was a real era for the boater, you couldn't see anyone WITHOUT a boater. WOW. You go down Fifth Avenue and see around 30 boaters on display and there were TOO many of them. Now, there are really hard to find, those real...
Hello FedoraLounge Community!
It seems like a quite a few members here are struggling or have even given up posting pictures on the Fedoralounge. Some even pay to post pictures. I was a VBulletin Forum member since 2012 on another forum faraway that you cannot imagine, so I would like to share...
I just watched a bit of Jeeves & Wooster, Laurie & Fry Version.
You can watch great amounts of amazing clothing styles and amazing hats (fedoras, boaters and more).
Love it as Jeeves hates Bertie's fashion...... Sad thing he hates Bertie wearing a boater, which I think is blasphemy.
I would firstly sanitize in the sun for a day or two. (You wouldn't know what wonders the sun does for killing germs) and then, I would personally flush in soapy lukewarm water solution. Then, after drying it in the sun and finishing it off with a hair dryer, I would get one of these...
As a child, I only used a music ipod and an old battered and slow Macbook which I still operate for 5 years now. Trusty Apple :) I learnt how to operate a typewriter at the age of 13, pretty uncommon for a child these days. Olympia Deluxe Typewriter, very nice machine it is. I collect old...
Well, plans are starting to finalise.
I plan to start production of Rustic straw boaters in May 2017. May experiment with a bit of flower edged plait (the ones Olney use) and a Luton Rail Plait (could be the next generation plait for boaters......)
I have found people/dealers/salesman who have...
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