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The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD
Looking good, Goose. The wider band and fairly massive side dents really modernize the look of the hat. I think that suits the navy blue, my taupe Alessandria does fine with the stock narrow ribbon but navy to my eye always better for a big dressier treatment.- Brent Hutto
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Ice Cream !!!!
Me too. If it's real vanilla and not the yellow, eggy kind. This time next week I hope to be dipping into a nice cup of Solley's Farms Ice Cream, locally sourced just a couple miles down the road from where I'll be staying on the English southeast coast.- Brent Hutto
- Post #30
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Strolling in the rain
I reckon I might just find out about fur felt hats in the rain next week. I bought my lovely little Borsalino Astuccio pretty specifically to take with me on this trip as it is foldable/rollable with its grosgrain sweatband. I'll be wearing it for five days in a row in southeast England which is...- Brent Hutto
- Post #55
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
Lark, Here are my two hats, which could hardly feel more different on my head. Borsalino Alessandria in 7-3/4 (taupe) Borsalino Astuccio in 7-5/8 (steel gray) The Alessandria is my everyday hat, at least for three seasons. I like the way it blocks the sun and it feels like sort of being...- Brent Hutto
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Strolling in the rain
When it rains while I'm wearing my hat I don't duck for cover or remove the hat but neither do I seek out chance to get it soaked. I have very effective purpose-built hats for a variety of situations. I have a Tilley hat for keeping the sun off and soaking up sweat during golf or hiking, I...- Brent Hutto
- Post #43
- Forum: Hats
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If you were going to spend 500 on a hat -
Eating Pringles is the equivalent of wearing a beanie...not that there's anything wrong with that...- Brent Hutto
- Post #56
- Forum: Hats
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If you were going to spend 500 on a hat -
I was hoping a stiff hat lover would chime in. That's exactly my point. The most lovely, soft, pliable vintage pure-beaver Borsalino in all of eBay would not seem like much of a "quality hat" to you. And there has never been a Western hat made that is going to seem like a "quality hat"...- Brent Hutto
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If you were going to spend 500 on a hat -
It's a problem I have with pronouncements about "quality" or lack thereof. You have include a large ration of whether it looks like something you want on your head and a heaping helping of does it feel good on your head into any assessment of "quality". A stiff hat, a heavy hat or an ugly...- Brent Hutto
- Post #47
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
My everyday (three seasons at least) Borsalino Alessandria in taupe ...this is the same Principe de Gales pattern shirt as in last week's Astuccio picture.- Brent Hutto
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
And a tip of the hat back at you. Be safe.- Brent Hutto
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Borsalino Astuccio (from Bencraft)
metropd, I would say the felt itself in that photo is very close to how it looks outdoors (at least on my computer screens at home and work it does). It is certainly no lighter than that, not what I think of as "charcoal gray" but yes a fairly dark hat. But the ribbon color is slightly off. I...- Brent Hutto
- Post #27
- Forum: Hats
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Borsalino Astuccio (from Bencraft)
This thread is an interesting one and includes this photo of a Steel Gray Borsalino and its owner...- Brent Hutto
- Post #25
- Forum: Hats
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
Thank you for that. The shirt actually belonged to my late father, he had several that were received as birthday or Christmas gifts during the final year of his life but he never had a chance to wear. My mother handed a couple of them (still in the original boxes) to me a few months after he...- Brent Hutto
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
Borsalino "Astuccio" This is my new summer and/or travel hat, an Astuccio model specific to Bencraft Hats. The color is Steel Gray which as you can see picks up a faint blueish cast from outdoor light, it looks neutral gray indoors.- Brent Hutto
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Borsalino Astuccio (from Bencraft)
OK, about the color. When I hear "steel" or "steel gray" I tend to expect some hint of a bluish cast. On taking my hat out of the box (indoors) yesterday I remarked that there was not a hint of blue about it. Just a neutral gray. After seeing it outdoors in natural light later yesterday I...- Brent Hutto
- Post #19
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Borsalino Astuccio (from Bencraft)
I'll work on getting a photo in indirect mid-day sunlight with my real camera... P.S. I weighed my size 7-5/8 Astuccio. Just 79 grams! That's well under 3 ounces. And I had thought of my 113g Alessandria as feather-light.- Brent Hutto
- Post #18
- Forum: Hats
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Borsalino Astuccio (from Bencraft)
Hard to beat Bencraft's prices of Borsalino hats. I'm in South Carolina and they get hats to me on the third day after I place the order (i.e. I ordered on Monday and it came today, Thursday). In other locations the default shipping wouldn't be as fast, perhaps. FWIW, the fellow I talked to at...- Brent Hutto
- Post #13
- Forum: Hats
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Borsalino Astuccio (from Bencraft)
How do you like the finish on the Viaggio? Isn't it sort of a longhair?- Brent Hutto
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Borsalino Astuccio (from Bencraft)
No, in fact I'm a newcomer to hats these last 6-8 months. Just my Alessandria which as far as I'm equipped to judge is of totally excellent quality. And now the Astuccio which seems to be cut of the same cloth, so to speak, but with the unbound edge and ribbon sweatband it doesn't quite give off...- Brent Hutto
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