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  1. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    I'd have said a new Stetsonian, except for the bound brim and the color. Two big buts, and it's priced at over $200. I think that's it pretty much a custom-made, (if it's possible for the hatter to obtain a hat body in a "non-western" weight that's tall enough), or an old pre-post-WW2 hat, for...
  2. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    Both have raw edges rather than overwelt brim edges, and both have too low a crown. (Just look at the photographs that I posted earlier in this thread, from "The Natural", where Redford's hats can be seen from the front, both sides, and from the top.)
  3. JackieMatra

    Do milans provide enough protection for baldies?

    For what little it may be worth, all of my Akubra, Christys of London, and another brand allegedly "natural" and unbleached hemp hats are a considerably darker "straw" color than that very light near white colored hat of Nyah's from PB.
  4. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

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  5. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    "Brick and mortar" hat stores in Maryland that I'm familiar with. Hippodrome Hatters in downtown Baltimore. "Hipster" hats, and not much else, even of that, there, the only time that I visited. Nothing seen on their website was in stock. The Hat Box in Reistertown, just across the Baltimore...
  7. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    That would be horrible. I never particularly cared for those bumps or warts or whatever, on the right side of his face. It would be much better if half of us looked like Paul Newman. Redford turned 48 the year that "The Natural" was released. Hardly what most people would call "young".
  8. JackieMatra

    Do milans provide enough protection for baldies?

    EverythingAustralian usually has the lowest prices, but you have to wait about three months to get most hats from them, which would mean that ordering from them would be too late to get a hat this summer. AustralianGear and HatsDirect seem to almost always have everything shown on their websites...
  9. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    Just don't wear the rest of the outfit with a Robert Redford mask. Besides, it's from such an old movie that no one under the age of 50 is likely to have ever heard of it, much less seen it, or remember much of anything about it.
  10. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    Roy's first hat is certainly "worn" and "relaxed". Not all that difficult to get that sort of a "look" in a new hat. It just takes a little dirt and effort. There are many custom hatters that will do the same for you, for a price, to compensate them for their knowledge, skill, effort, and...
  11. JackieMatra

    Any idea what the hat weave is?

    No opinions, yet? I'd try posting higher resolution photographs in the Panama Hat thread. There are usually a lot of experts hanging around there.
  13. JackieMatra

    Do milans provide enough protection for baldies?

    Perhaps, however, I make it a point of avoiding people who provide little or no information on their websites, as I've found that these folks often tend to rely on heavy handed salesmanship to appeal to some of their prospective customers' snobbishness in equating perceived exclusivity and...
  14. JackieMatra

    Do milans provide enough protection for baldies?

    Is this the "Peter Brothers" that you all are talking about? http://www.pbhats.com/index.html If so, then how is it that you know anything about what their hats look like or their prices, as the website hasn't shown any of this information for, at least, over a year? As they themselves say...
  15. JackieMatra

    Do milans provide enough protection for baldies?

    Akubra makes nice hemp hats with leather sweatbands. The Akubra Range, Reef, Plantation, and Byron hats all have 3" and wider brims. The Range and Reef are both the same hat, except that the Range has a vented crown. The Planter and Byron are both the same hat, except for the different hatbands...
  16. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    Those "online joke" photographs usually show two completely different hats, as you noted, a (1930s) fedora and a (contemporary) trilby. They are not fair comparisons. They are meant to amuse unobservant undistinguishing sophomoric adolescent types.
  17. JackieMatra

    Do milans provide enough protection for baldies?

    Warning. So-called "milan" hats, these days, are usually made of synthetic material, although not necessarily, quite unlike originally when they were all natural fiber. Make certain as to what you are getting before buying a "milan" hat.
  19. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    "Fedoras" from the 1930s generally had much taller crowns than later hats, with very little tapering of the crown , from the bottom, upwards. Post-WW2 hats usually had lower crowns, hardly ever exceeding 5.5" uncreased, usually with considerable taper. The hats worn by Roy Hobbes and other...
  20. JackieMatra

    Do milans provide enough protection for baldies?

    The sun moves, as well as hat-wearers, so the angle of the sunlight constantly changes. Any decent straw hat, without large openings between the "straws" (natural or synthetic) should keep the top of your head safe from sunburn, although I would strongly recommend getting, at least, a 3" wide...
  21. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    Roy Hobbes' hats appear to have overwelt brim edges. Nearly all ready-made hats, nowadays, are made with either raw or bound brim edges. I know of only three ready-made hats with 5.75"+/= pre-creased crowns, the Akubra Campdraft, the Christys of London Adventurer-Poet, and the Stetson...
  22. JackieMatra

    I need some HAT help!!!!

    Robert Redford, as Roy Hobbes, wears two different hats in the film, "The Natural". There is the "old" perspiration-stained hat that he wears upon his initial arrival in the major leagues to play for the New York Knights. Then there is the "new" hat that he wears from the time that he...
  23. JackieMatra

    Patrick Macnee THE AVENGER Died today

    Patrick Macnee, in his role as John Steed in "The Avengers", was most likely the most reknowned bowler-wearing personage ever, even more so than Charlie Chaplin. Patrick Macnee as John Steed with Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale Patrick Macnee as John Steed with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel...

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