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  1. JackieMatra

    Stetson Homburg Royal De Lux St. Regis

    1.Crown height? 2.Brim width? 3.Weight of hat?
  2. JackieMatra

    Fed IV Hat Size: Would you rather shrink? Or stretch?

    Of course. For natural materials to shrink, you have to get them wet and then heat them.
  3. JackieMatra

    Fed IV Hat Size: Would you rather shrink? Or stretch?

    My Fed IV came smaller than all my other Akubras, all of which were a little large for me initially and then quickly shrank down to size. The Fed IV also quickly shrank down to where it was too snug. I've since stretched it out considerably, several times to where it was loose, but it insists on...
  4. JackieMatra

    Anyone know anything about this hatmaker Daquino?

    She said, weeks ago, that she would be on vacation until June 15th.
  5. JackieMatra

    keeping a vintage sweatband supple

    As I said, I wear my hats, so I don't seem to need to do anything to their sweatbands other than wipe them off after perspiring into them. My couple of leather wearing biker acquaintances have told me that they think that most any sort of cooking oil should do for oiling (and cleaning) leather...
  7. JackieMatra

    keeping a vintage sweatband supple

    The usual treatment for leather to keep it in good condition is to oil it, or polish it, in the case of shoes. (Fat/oil is a primary ingredient of shoe polish.) Because the leather, which is no longer part of the formerly living animal from which it was made, no longer produces its own oils...
  8. JackieMatra

    Giant Pith Helmet Thread of Doom

    Silver Spring. Singular. There actually is a spring in the middle of downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, but it's really only large enough for goldfish to swim in.
  9. JackieMatra

    Giant Pith Helmet Thread of Doom

    That film sounds like the classic "Tarzan and His Mate" (1934), generally considered to be the finest of all the very many "Tarzan" films. The special effect crocodile actually behaves quite realistically. The film is also famous for its remarkably realistic lion(ess) scene, its topless women...
  10. JackieMatra

    how to start building a man's wardrobe?

    Here's some nice linen trousers which are fairly high-waisted (certainly considerably higher than most trousers that you'll find off-the-rack, these days) and fairly loose-fitting. Eminently reasonably priced today at 4 pairs for $125. (Which I really hate, as I paid $125 for only three pairs...
  11. JackieMatra

    What are you wearing today??

    Second, but consider a Van Dyke for the fall and winter.
  13. JackieMatra

    Post New Hats Here!

    Thank you very much for the link to this thread. It's very nice to finally have some specific information on the weight of different hats, instead of the usual meaningless "lightweight", "fairly lightweight", "neither too light nor too heavy", "about average", "don't know", etc.. This is...
  14. JackieMatra

    Post New Hats Here!

    Very nice. Now for my dreaded stock hat question that nearly no fedora loungers seem to be able (or willing?) to answer - What does this hat weigh?
  15. JackieMatra

    Question on crowns 1940's and 1950's

    I just push the hat down on my ears to raise the "dome" a bit, push it down around the "dome" with my fingers, and wear it until it dries, which is about an hour for felts and half that time for straws. It always works for me the first time. No repeat treatment has ever been necessary, and my...
  16. JackieMatra

    1920s/early 30s fedoras

    Musicians. Puccini was a composer. Toscanini was a conductor and cellist.
  17. JackieMatra

    Bowler vs Homburg

    Yes, it's a portrait of Oscar Wilde. The word fedora comes from the title of an 1882 play by dramatist Victorien Sardou, Fédora, written for Sarah Bernhardt. The play was first performed in the United States in 1889. Bernhardt played Princess Fédora, the heroine of the play. During the play...
  19. JackieMatra

    Bowler vs Homburg

    "The American-style fedora didn't really arrive in the UK & Ireland until the early thirties" Yet here's a photograph of a famous Irishman wearing a fedora in the 19th century. https://overdressedandovereducated.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/wildefedora.png That aside, the most popular men's...
  20. JackieMatra

    1920s/early 30s fedoras

    Our San Franciscan colleague's lid appears to me to be significantly taller.
  21. JackieMatra

    Bowler vs Homburg

    "Vintage" bowlers seem to be much more plentiful than "vintage" homburgs, but are fairly difficult to find in any color other than black, and are not all that common (as is also true of all hats and apparel) in larger sizes.
  22. JackieMatra

    Bowler vs Homburg

    Bowlers nearly always had narrower (usually about 3/4-7/8") hatbands than homburgs.
  23. JackieMatra

    Bowler vs Homburg

    Both homburgs and bowlers were sometimes made with nearly flat brims, although always with curled bound edges, although this was much more common with homburgs.

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