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Like Hell It's Your Hat!
Not another "sticky"! It won't work anyway - unless part of making a "sticky" thread is importing the images from authors' photo sites to thefedoralounge.com local storage. Otherwise you'll have a sticky thread full of nothing, after a while. Mine's 3x5 inches, too big in my opinion to be... -
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Jaxon Hats
And a wool felt. Haven't seen either one in person, but it appears they made a fur one and a wool one. -
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How to travel with hats
I took a pretty big hat last airplane trip, and had it on my lap, at my feet etc. Worst thing was a few drops of coffee on it, and it got a little bent up, but you wouldn't know now. A really fragile, uncleanable hat I would worry about, but maybe the swells who wear that kind of stuff should... -
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Fedoras, first decade of the 20th Century
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Any reason to buy a new hat?
I recently bought a nice homburg from a guy who claimed it didn't fit so well, now that he had lost a bunch of weight. Speaking of which, one practical advantage of new hats is that, if you're forced to acquire a hat by mail order, the size of a new hat will be a little more predictable. I... -
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Oh, I never L@@K if I can help it, but "Wow!" is a different matter. I reckon if it isn't worth a "Wow!", it probably doesn't amount to much. -
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Akubra "Bobby" western hat
That's how I'd go about it, but after a quick cruise through that department I have more sympathy for someone who wears 7 3/4. I thought 7 1/2 was bad. One or two interesting options, and I thought I had seen more the last time I looked, but pickings are indeed slim. So given that a 7 3/4... -
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Delon's hat in Le Samourai
Not to my eye. Too wide brim, too narrow ribbon, and I think the brim might be a little too flat even if you were to hack it down to size. Curious that wide ribbons are so scarce among current hats. I have a couple hats with 2 inch ribbons, both of them of fairly recent manufacture - a... -
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Akubra "Bobby" western hat
It will need a reasonably stiff brim, right? To stay in that curl. If it were me, given that in any case the hat will need to be reshaped if it's to look like that, I would indeed go for an old previously owned western. That's easy for me to say, in the US where western hats are more... -
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The modern cowboy hat
Sure, similarities. I still don't get why the Open Road in particular, but I guess that's going to remain a mystery. But, yes, I believe among people who actually wear these western hats, it isn't all the esoteric. If they pay attention to hats at all, they'll be familiar with several... -
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My new Stetson Firenze is stiff as a board
Shape could be reinforced by the brim, right? I mean, assuming that the brim is also on the stiff side. When you push in at the sides (of the crown), the brim probably folds down a little in front? If you aren't steaming the brim so much, that might be something to try. -
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The modern cowboy hat
The visual aspects of the Open Road crown and crease are not typical, they're eccentric. As are bound brims. Open Road Roper Rancher I was thinking the point might have been something like, though these hats and the dozens of other styles that are barely distinguishable don't... -
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still wearing fur felt in late June
Of course it hasn't been all that sweltering hot here in the Pacific Northwest either, but as one who has renounced hair, on a cool day any hat is warmer than no hat at all. A panama wouldn't be my choice on a cold, windy day in the true winter, but in recent "June-uary" weather it has worked... -
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The modern cowboy hat
I don't understand. Stetson Open Road - I don't have one, but its brim is not only narrower, but also bound, right? The crease is somewhat similar to other western creases, but not the same to someone who cares. The ribbon ... OK, that's fairly common, but by no means standard. How about the... -
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Tyrolean conversion?
(Hm, I see the example picture I posted is particularly tapered, which I guess might be challenging to set up with a ribbon.) -
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Tyrolean conversion?
I'm a little "fuzzy" on this type of hat, but as seen occasionally on craigslist etc. they seem to be thick fuzzy felt, short brim fedoras, often green and sporting a "ribbon" made of cords and a big feather. Has anyone tried a dress hat ribbon on one? Of course the felt is going to be a... -
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The modern cowboy hat
Yet the big hat makers offer a fairly wide range of styles, from maybe a half dozen subtle variations on the standard, different "ribbons", to the Gus, center dent, whatever eccentric thing. I'd like to know who's wearing a Gus, and where. My guess is, among the kind of people who normally... -
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Crown and Brim size against head size
And that was comparing "6 7/8 - 7" to 7 1/4, not really radically different sizes. Whatever you think about that, it does seem clear enough that a style of hat with a fixed brim size - as is apparently common - is getting to be a different look if we compare between 6 1/2 and 7 1/2, for example.
