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    Post New Hats Here!

    Garrett, that's a stunning hat. Enjoy.
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Al, your travel photos are wonderful. Keep posting them and have a good trip.
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    Eric (Short Balding Guy)

    Eric, you are made out of the right stuff. Clearly, you are growing from this experience in spite of the pain to you both. Please take our collective best wishes and vibes as you heal.
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    Sold

    Christopher Moore is Tom Robbins (my generation cult writer) on steroids. Many of his hilarious books now take place in northern California, with some in San Francisco. "Minty Fresh" is a character in the book A Dirty Job. For FL members in or from northern California (that's me), the...
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    Sold

    Minty Fresh Is your reference to "minty fresh" an illusion to A Dirty Job by Chris Moore?
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    Post New Hats Here!

    Alan, what do your daughters think of the Stetson Boss?
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    The Conversion Corral

    Very nice, Dogman.
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    German & Austrian Hutmachers

    Ausgezeichnet, Manfred. Few stingy brims here.
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    Eric (Short Balding Guy)

    Eric, best wishes to you and your wife. We all miss you, and look forward to hearing about your recoveries and resumption of all things gymnastics and hats.
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    Akubra Campdraft

    Right on, Roger!
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    Re-blocking a hat.

    Great question!
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    Popping Stitches - The Most You've Stretched a Hat

    That's been my experience. But I've seen older sweatbands with tenuous stitching in part, that I would not do this to. For a relatively new hat/sweatband, it's been no problem for me. Maybe I'm just lucky, ha.
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    Popping Stitches - The Most You've Stretched a Hat

    My rule of thumb is plus/minus one half inch for stretching a hat or shrinking the sweatband. For stretching, patience (and sometimes repeated stretching) is essential and I sometimes wet the sweatband before stretching and let it dry well before taking the hat out of the hat jack. I evert the...
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    Akubra Overload

    I have the heritage fawn and the brown, and definitely recommend the fawn. Enjoy.
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    The Conversion Corral

    Wow, Manfred!
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    How did you start wearing hats?

    Alan, please explain, ha. For me it was watching old movies, my father's Dobbs (too small for me) and the need to stay warm in the winter.
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Very nice pix, Alan. Congratulations. David
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    Post New Hats Here!

    I'm not a stingy brim kind of guy, but this one really works, Bond. I'm trying to figure out why, in my eyes (ha), it does. Maybe it has something to do with the curved surfaces in the brim and crown, coupled to that wide ribbon.
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Here, here. Good advice to Alan on a hat that should go in a time capsule.
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    Homburg Nation

    Alan, your memory is astounding!

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