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    Dobbs New York Astor Dawn A question: About when would a Dobbs New York Astor Dawn hat date from?
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    The line between stingy brim and full brim?

    At what length would you say a hat is either a stingy brim or a full brimmed fedora? Like where is the line in terms of brim size which separates the two?
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    Which Presidents Wore Hats>?

    An FDR-esque photo of President Lyndon Johnson holding his hat, campaigning in 1964: Truman wearing one of his many hats:
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    Approximate brim sizes?

    Sadly the hats were likely tossed when they died. My family doesn't usually keep things like that--Very rare that any personal effects would be kept. My great grandpa (first one) died in 1964 and the other great grandpa died in 1956. As to my uncles, my family was never that close. And my...
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    Facial Hair

    Truman really just seems like the most average Joe that we ever had as President. He wasn't a lawyer, wasn't even college educated. He just seems like a really "common" sort of man whom was destined for high office.
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    Approximate brim sizes?

    Was curious as to what the approx brim sizes of my family members favored: Great Grandpa (Mom's mom's side), 1930s/1940s first photo, and 1963: Great Grandpa (Mom's dad's dad, on right), 1945: Great Uncle (Mom's dad's brother), 1945: Great Uncles, late 1940s:
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    Facial Hair

    He did indeed. And he was probably one of the biggest hat fans we ever had in the White house. He had a hat for literally EVERY occasion and was very rarely seen without a hat of some kind--Whether it be a homburg, his favorite fedora, a panama hat, a flatcap in the summer, etc. And he still...
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    Facial Hair

    Harry Truman's vacation goatee Thought this was somewhat interesting: On vacation in Key West in late 1948, President Truman briefly grew a goatee and considered keeping it. Thought that was interesting since the late 1940s isn't normally associated with goatees...
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    Question about cap

    I was just asking because around here that sort of hat has a very stereotypical sort of connotation with cab drivers...And I didn't know if it was because cab drivers back then were required to wear one, which would explain my grandpa wearing it, since he didn't normally wear hats or caps of any...
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    Question about cap

    This picture is my grandpa's Hack License (AKA, Taxi Driver License) photo, cropped from the license. It was taken sometime between 1950 and 1951. The hat he's wearing is of course a stereotypical Cabbie hat, but I'm curious if: 1) Was wearing that sort of hat mandatory for Cab drivers back...
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    Vintage Eyeglasses

    I hate that everything today is sexualized. Have a beard? It's a rapist beard. Have a mustache? You're obviously gay or a pedophile. Have "different" eyeglasses? You're obviously a sex offender. It's a very Generation X thing it seems, turning everything they don't like that their parents...
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    Vintage Eyeglasses

    What style of glasses are these:
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    Golden Era Hair Oddities

    The Golden Era is commonly thought of as an era in which men wore their hair clean cut and short. Likewise goes for any time from around 1900 to the mid 1960s. I was curious if we could find some rare pictures of long haired men from between 1900 and the mid 60s. The same goes for facial...
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    Which Presidents Wore Hats>?

    Yes but as I discover new photos and new info which prove JFK did--at times--wear a fedora, I just find it appropriate to clear JFK's name as the "killer" of the hat. The story often goes that because JFK "never wore a hat" or "appeared bareheaded at his Inauguration", the hat died as part of...
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    Which Presidents Wore Hats>?

    Most come from VERY reputable sources: The New York Times, Corbis, Life Magazine, etc. I very much doubt if any of them are photoshopped.
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    Which Presidents Wore Hats>?

    Seems JFK did wear fedoras after all January or February 1960 (on the way to announce his candidacy for President): December 2nd 1960 (on the way to visit Jackie at the hospital): January 20th 1961 (on way to Inauguration): March 26th 1961 (meeting with British PM MacMillan) April 10th...
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    What event would this photograph capture?

    The only problem with it being her first communion is, if let's say she was 7 or 8, that makes my grandpa (the first man standing on the left) around 12-13 years old. Consider that the other photo (of him standing with the black armband) was taken when he was 14. He wasn't a servant so I have no...
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    The Godfather's hats?

    In the film The Godfather, Marlon Brando wears two different fedoras/hats: There's this hat, which he wears while still powerful and healthy as Don, in 1945 in the film: and a battered old fedora when in retirement, in 1955, when he dies: Was wondering if you could tell me what kind of...
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    What event would this photograph capture?

    Are you sure of that? The photo is sometime in the mid-late 1930s, I think. The girl in the photo you refer to was born December 1924. I'm not sure at what age one would've made communion in the 1930s Catholic Church. Also should add--the guy standing most to the left is my grandpa, same guy as...
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    What event would this photograph capture?

    This picture was taken in May 1934. My grandfather is on the left, age 14; an unknown man on his right. As you can see both are well dressed and wearing black armbands. His family was a family of Italian immigrants; my grandfather was a first generation American and our family is Catholic. As...

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