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    Hey, That Guy's Got A Nice Hat

    I met my mother for lunch today and parked my Alessandria on the empty chair beside me, as usual (only because my mother finds it offensive to leave it on as I do when dining alone or with my wife). After I finished eating I excused myself to the men's room and told my mom I'd meet her in the...
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    Uh, my first attempt at creasing a Fed IV is LAME!

    Looks a lot like every attempt I've made to get a teardrop crease on my Alessandria. And yeah, some of these hats upon first exposure seem big enough for a basketball to wear. From the front it looks great on you. I think some steam or water and lots of TLC will smooth out that curve along...
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    Uh, my first attempt at creasing a Fed IV is LAME!

    Oh man, that is soooo lame. Wait you haven't showed up the picture yet. Sorry, I jumped the gun there. [huh]
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    The fall of the phone

    Within the EU. If your phone is from an EU provider and you are using it within an EU country the rates will be capped. If you use a USA cell phone in Europe you're still subject to the same rip-offs as always.
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    The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD

    If I may cheapen this thread with another "modern Borsalino" question... What models of Borsalino hats tend to have the lightest felts? My Alessandria is light compared to an Akubra or Christy's hat but by comparison with my Astuccio it is definitely heavier and warmer feeling in the summer...
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    USA Network's "White Collar"???

    And Psych and White Collar have new episodes starting in just two weeks! Not to mention The Closer over on TNT. It'll be nice to have something decent to watch after the Doctor Who current series finishes its run later this month.
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    "Doctor Who," He's Back and it's About Time!

    Well I have the mind of a child (and he's not getting it back any time soon) so that makes sense. I was actually "captivated" as much by young Amelia Pond and her interactions with the 11th Doctor as by Matt Smith in that first episode. But he's grown on me as well. One of these days I'm...
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    FOR SALE! Brown Stingy Brim LEE 7 1/8

    Heckuva nice hat for 45 bucks. Too bad it's not about an inch bigger! It is a lovely color combination that you don't see too often.
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    The fall of the phone

    Or get a really modern miracle that stays sync'd to your MS Exchange server and automatically backed up. I could lose my cell phone and home computer but still be able to look up everything in my address book and calendar from any computer with a browser and E-mail connection. That's...
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    Christys hats and rain

    No, no. It was a brilliant crease and I wouldn't have wanted it any different. I'm just saying that from handling the hat and working on the brim a bit my impression was that the factory teardrop was well and truly set. So my advice would be that buying a Christy's with the "wrong" bash and...
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    Christys hats and rain

    The Christy's Marlborough that I owned briefly came from the factory with a teardrop crease. From the feel of it, I would not have wanted to try and coax it into any other shape. I think it would have required a professional-grade steaming and blocking to change the rather permanent-seeming set...
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    "Doctor Who," He's Back and it's About Time!

    Some of these comments almost make me glad I never saw a single moment of Doctor Who until stumbling across The Eleventh Hour a few weeks ago. Because I must say that Matt Smith's 11 is now "The Doctor" in our household and we think he's great. Admittedly we've still not seen any of the...
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    still wearing fur felt in late June

    jbucklin, Awesome hat, great look. I don't what color that is but they ought to call it "Grey for a guy with a Guild and tortoise-frame shades". 57plymouth, Happy Carolina Day to you too. Our tomatoes are just coming in a few at a time. You must have started them in a hothouse to have...
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    still wearing fur felt in late June

    So what did you wear in that storm Saturday night? Hope it was one of those yellow rubber hats the fishermen wear during a Nor'easter! ;)
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    still wearing fur felt in late June

    I may have to relent before the summer is over but yesterday was 99F with a fair bit of humidity (and horrible air quality--ozone troubles) and I wore my Borsalino Alessandria. It actually gets pretty steamy/sticky if I'm outside for more than a few minutes at a stretch but OTOH I don't spend...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    For this staging of Macbeth they wanted to "involve" the groundlings in the action. At various points witches and ghosts and dead bodies would pop up from holes in the canopy in which no spectators were standing. And the witches and some "extras" crawled around under the canopy goosing the...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    It's not "today" exactly but rather Saturday evening at the Shakespeare's Globe theater, London. Just moments before the actors took the stage for a performance of Macbeth. The hat is my new but now much-abused Astuccio. After being worn for 14 hours in airports and airplanes on Monday...
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    Art's Ribbon Gallery.....

    Love this one Really like this one too although not quite as special (the colors are truly outstanding) The others are fine but most of them aren't quite my cup of tea.
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    How many hats is enough?

    I have a hat that I wear 'most every day. Although it's a bit heavy for summer time. So I bought a second one that's lighter/cooler and can also be rolled for travel. That makes two. Plus a Tilley hat for playing golf. I really do think that's enough. Can't say for sure I wouldn't see a hat I...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Big_e, I wouldn't dare do a boater but the wide ribbon and massive Aviators make it work on you very nicely. Maybe with the right sunglasses I could pull it off one of these summers...

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