Here's a hat that's a double first for me--my first porkpie, and the first time I've ever had, or seen, a vintage hat with this bound and welted brim treatment:
I think it all depends on how well the hat conforms to the shape of the head. With a top hat or bowler, it's essential that the hat be exactly the right sizeand shape or else the hat could pinch and be painful. For a soft hat (i.e. a fedora), there is a certain amount of give or conforming...
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I sent the hat hat out just before the strikes began. The strikes are now in full swing--nobody has any gas for their cars. The gas stations have been blockaded, even supermarkets are running out of things. The postal service seems relatively normal, but the...
I ordered ribbon from these folks a while back. It reached me quickly and it is real hat ribbon--it can be swirled and stretched.
http://www.advintagefedora.de/shop/Hat-Trimmings?XTCsid=2e41hi987t9o461j3hiuf4ven1
If only the danged brim were a quarter of an inch shorter! It's a fantastic hat but it just seems to cowboyish on my head. I am keeping my silverbelly Campdraft, though. I may go off on a safari someday and need an awesome, wide-brimmed hat!
SOLD!
The hat has been spoken for--I'll be putting up more goodies for big heads soon.
I have too many hats (according to my wife[huh]), and I've decided to sell some that get no wear.
First up is a Glen Grey Campdraft size 7 1/2 or 60 cm. Nice hat, but I never got out of the door with...
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Great hat--when can we see a noggin-shot? How would you compare the crown of this one to your other stingy VS hats?
I've been wanting to ask Art for a stingy for a long time...
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