A little bit of felt history
The main U.S. supplier of dress weight felt bodies (beaver) started making these about 10 years ago. Before that, the choice was wool or rabbit from outside the U.S.. Portugal is still somewhat of a mystery to me as to when they started to produce beaver bodies...
Much of the problem i find with hatters today is that they learn little to nothing about dress hat felts... and when they try to make dress hats which are from our perspective the soft fedora and the homburg, they end up using the wrong materials and making the wrong claims regarding wear...
Portugal Body
Hi Steve,
Could you put me on the list for an evaluation. I can tell the quality in several different ways, probably better than if it was a finished hat. I'll return it to you or pass it on promptly. My address is on the website below. Thanks.
John...
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