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    Hats coming back in a big way?

    If I hadn't just bought a Alessandria I'd get one of those. It's almost big enough for my head!
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    Christy's of London

    It is almost certain that the pictures vary 10x more than the hats. It is literally impossible to distinguish tint or tones in web photos.
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    Vintage Wallet NIB with extra goodies - - SOLD - -

    I'll take it! PM sent...
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    Hat etiquette for *today*

    Maybe they just don't like the looks of your head. :p Just kidding, I'm sure your head is fine. It's just your hat is even finer!
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    Navy Blue Christy's Marlborough (Size 61/62-ish)

    I bought this hat here on the Lounge classifieds a few weeks ago. Here is the original for-sale post by carldelo which has the photos he took of the hat. It is a lovely hat, very dressy looking to my eye being navy with matching navy ribbon. Factory blocked into a nice teardrop. Unlike Carl...
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    Hat size versus acceptability.

    Absolutely. The shorter the brim and the shorter and more tapered the crown the more people will generally like it. There's a good reason mass market hats have gotten smaller in the crown and brim over the years. My preference would be to wear something with a 2"-ish brim and something more...
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    The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD

    I snapped this cellphone photo yesterday when I saw Bill's hat. Sort of like twins, maybe his is "Taupe" as well.
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    Milestone Hats

    The only milestone I've ever celebrated with a hat purchase was arrival of the first winter after the last hair departed the top of my head. :eusa_doh:
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    The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD

    So far I've been wearing my (new, modern) Alessandria for a week. I think the count is something like six complements, three or four "what's up with the hat?" questions and one group of people I walked past on the sidewalk who were snickering at something and I had the impression it was the hat...
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    Fedora Lounge classifieds

    Well good. I thought maybe I had missed the point when I pick up that nice navy blue Christy's Marlborough off the classifieds a few weeks back.:o
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    Fedora Lounge classifieds

    So basically the Lounge classifieds serve as an advertisement for the fact that an item is headed to eBay? [huh]
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    30s stingy brim

    I know nothing about fashion but in the photo it's hard to imagine a 2-3/4" brim looking better than that stingy...given that guy's small face, the way his jacket is constructed and the collar on his shirt. If I were a Photoshop maven I'd try superimposing a big old "30's style" fedora on him...
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    Post New Hats Here!

    I like the look of that diamond-with-cross approach and that one seems within my means. In fact, when I first pulled the hat out of the box I put a quickie diamond crease in it and liked it a lot except for the touching my head thing so that should be very practical. I just want to add one...
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    Post New Hats Here!

    I was definitely seeking ideas. It's all going to come down to either getting a teardrop or similar "bump" directly over the high point of my head or learning to live with the hat's liner touching my head. A teardrop that will hold in that thin Borsalino felt is currently beyond my abilities...
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    fur felt hat shrinkage, brim too?

    I don't think it necessarily has anything to do with Nuke's shrinking hat but yesterday when I took a first look at my big ol' Borsalino Alessandria in the mirror I couldn't believe such a massive crown would actually be wearable, day in and day out. Then an hour later I put my tapered Christy's...
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    Christy's of London

    Do the problematic Christy's hats tend to be the foldable ones and the "get it right" ones tend to be the plain old fur felts? Or was that just this one case...
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    Post New Hats Here!

    OK, today isn't going to be a day with any "natural light" around here... Instead, I've tried to get some slightly better flash snapshots of my second attempt at a crease/pinch combination that I like on the Alessandria. The first shot is an overall look. It is somewhere between Dinerman's...
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    Post New Hats Here!

    New (Modern) Borsalino Alessandria in "Taupe" Here's an awful snapshot of my brand-new taupe Alessandria. My first try at a dry "bash" is somewhere in the diamond/teardrop range with a very minimal of front pinch. The hat comes open crown and I have very little hat experience, my previous...
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    Navy fur felt fedora for ~$100?

    I only paid $80 for a Christy's "Marlborough" in a lovely, saturated, not-too-dark navy blue shade. It's marked as a 62cm but fits my round, more or less 7-5/8 head perfectly with small felt spacers fore and aft. For a 7-5/8 long oval it should be absolutely ideal. Mine was second-hand, although...
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    The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD

    Photos can mislead as to color but based on the way it looks on my screen that is the most attractive color for a hat I've seen yet. The whole package, including given the binding/ribbon color that matches it so well. The new Borsalino hat that's on its way to me right now is called "Taupe"...

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