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Someone should buy this...
Phil, Sounds like you got yourself quite a find there! Matt - I am truly envious...but it couldn't go to a better home. I just got a National Bellas catalog (1931-32) and another huge Ward's catalog, which is also 31-32. Interesting that the term "art deco" is never used - it's...- havershaw
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Someone should buy this...
Oh, there's also an awesome 30s Sears catalog - 892 pages! - which I also can't afford (I'm bidding on too many other things). Someone should snap it up, because it looks beautiful: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=4201743467&rd=1- havershaw
- Post #2
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Someone should buy this...
...because I can't afford it. It's an original Golden Era booklet about men's fashions, what colors you should wear according to your body type, how a suit should be cut on you acording to your body type, all that. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4201571541&category=616...- havershaw
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Borsalino Info
I have a PBBM, which I love. The color on it is fantastic, and Joe Jr.'s brims are second to none. But vintage felt is 100 times better. I don't see a huge or dramatic change in quality from my Akubra (a hat I also love). Optimo felt is pretty close to vintage felt. I love my PBBM, but... -
Montgomery Ward Catalog scans
Here are a couple more. Both are from the Fall/Winter 1937-38 catalog. (The hat page is the second page of hats, which faced the one in my previous post.)- havershaw
- Post #4
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Montgomery Ward Catalog scans
Most of these are from the Montgomery Ward Spring/Summer 1942 catalog. The hat page (badly spliced together by me in PaintShopPro, as it was too big for my scanner) is from the fall/winter 37-38 catalog. I have a whole bunch more scans, but I don't have time right...- havershaw
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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All You Need to Know About Hat Etiquette
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The Palomar
I'm a drummer and pianist originally, but owning a recording studio, you learn a lot about instruments and this is what I learned about Fender basses: The Japanese basses are OK in terms of wood and the presicion of their construction. What's terrible are all of the electronics. A friend of...- havershaw
- Post #18
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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All You Need to Know About Hat Etiquette
2 items: I don't think that straw hat looks good on Bruce, either. Looks like it's smushing his ears down. Just kind of looks a little too big for his head, so I guess for me, it's not so much about not liking the hat style as it is about not liking that particular fit. Art, I think you... -
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Reblocking and Naptha question
Now that it's dry, I have a better idea of what I'm dealing with. It's the damndest thing...kind of a dark grey-brown where the ribbon used to be, and inside the hat...powder grey everywhere else. It's weird. The hat doesn't have the powdery texture it used to, but it still looks splotchy... -
Reblocking and Naptha question
I need a little assistance...I have a Dobbs Forty on the block right now. Now, when I got this hat, it was grey but was covered with some sort of chalky residue, making the hat very splotchy. Almost looked like it was in chalk mine or something (is there such a thing?!?). To my amazement... -
Has anyone seen a liner like this?
I'll guess I'll know something more about the quality when it arrives. It's headed for a reblock etc. anyway, so I guess I'll get to know it pretty well. That Challenger liner is indeed interesting. I've never seen one quite like it before. -
Has anyone seen a liner like this?
..and if so, what does it mean? I just picked this hat up on eBay, pretty cheap, to give the Fedora block a workout: All of the Royal Stetsons I have come with a white or ivory liner, with the same text and font. I never saw one this color, though, and I was curious if it was... -
Got the pure belly beaver hat body
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old photos of guys in hats...
I swiped these from someone's eBay auction, so you may have already seen these...but I thought you all might enjoy.- havershaw
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Optimo Nutria & Beaver Arrived
Wow. Why do I not have an Optimo yet? (Oh, right...the expensive thing...but they're worth it!) That hat looks great on you. I also like the 2 1/2 brims. Even when all I bought was Indy hats, I always cut the brims down a little. I think that brim size looked a lot better with my... -
Canadian Stetsons
Dug up some info. Apparently, the Wolthausen factory, after being purchased by Stetson and changing hands again, closed down in 1971 and the buildings were demolished. You can check it out here (you'll have to scroll down): http://www.brockvillemuseum.com/exhibits.html The museum says... -
Canadian Stetsons
I have an old Stetson Royal Deluxe I just reblocked. It has the same liner as all of my 40s Stetsons (no plastic over the liner), and a decal under the sweatband which is identical to the Philadelphia ones, in terms of size, color and font, which states the size and: JOHN B. STETSON Company... -
Sweatband problem
I'm almost certain that other folks have a more informed take on this than I do, but for what it's worth, I'm guessing it could be a particular type of leather? I have a problem, really only when it gets warm and I sweat, with leather watchbands. I break out in a rash on the inside of my...
