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    Trying out a different bash on my Art hat

    How wide is your brim, Karl. My eye isn't used to the proportions of the crown and the brim looks maybe 2" but I suspect it's really much wider than that.
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    New Hats and Rain

    While I was home for lunch I swapped to the new Christy's hat. Getting between car and various offices, stores and restaurants the rest of the day it did get a little wet several times (although I was using an umbrella during the real heavy rain). The water just kind of beaded up on the the felt...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Well heck, I could write something like that if I had dodgy accoutrement shops, studio apartments with coffee shops, kebab-eries and a bunch of cool hats. It's much harder to work with a suburban brick ranch house, a Civic and one navy blue Christy's snap-brim. Or did you "sex it up" with some...
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    Shelf Purchase or Custom?

    Bespoke. Don't know why I didn't think of that. It's what they call it in suits and shoes. Now I know what I need! Oh, and you could tell him that Conformer thing was the "Automatic Breaker Inner".
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    New Hats and Rain

    Man, I shouldn't have let me wife talk me into switching hats this morning. I've got an umbrella and don't expect to spend the day walking in any real downpours. It's more of those wintry steady soaking 40F drizzles alternating with some heavier showers. Would have been the perfect day to...
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    New Hats and Rain

    Is there a rule that says when you get a new hat, you'll wake up the next morning and see rain pouring down? I am now a two-hat man, having yesterday added a dressy navy blue Christy's Marlborough to my cheap but cheerful dark brown wool-felter. How many people would have worn the new fur...
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    Borsalino Film

    I just dig the "modern" proportions with a bit of taper and somewhere in the 1-7/8" to 2" brim. Unfortunately, my tall noggin and and large-ish build dictate that I really ought to learn to love the "classics". I want to be skinny and wear those 60's styles.
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    Christy’s Marlborough size 61 in Navy - price reduced

    Hat is BOUGHT! I received the Marlborough from Carl today as promised. Quite the spiffy lid I must say. Navy is not the versatile color in the world but the Christy's version is dark enough that it seems to work OK with anything that doesn't totally clash with blue. It makes anything you...
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    Borsalino Film

    Borsolino Claudio If I were shopping in Borsolino's price range I think I'd rather have the dark grey than light and the stingier brim on this beauty... Whaddya think?
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    Borsalino Film

    Oh yes, it'll work. It'll work real good.
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    Shelf Purchase or Custom?

    I think we need two different terms for "custom hats" that are built in a standard shape to a numerical size and "custom hats" that are actually built to match the shape of ones head. In fact, I don't think a generic Long Oval 7-5/8 or whatever is really "custom" at all. For my part, fitting my...
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    Dave Brown Hats

    A question for Art, What proportion of your hat sales do you attribute to the movie connection? You've said you don't make a big deal about having some of your hats used in movies and to me that sound quite understandable. When it comes right down to it, I've got to believe most of your...
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    Dave Brown Hats

    Well I wouldn't buy a hat from someone because he once sold a hat to a movie production. So I suppose I wouldn't not buy a hat from someone because he once didn't sell t hat to a movie production. But I would rather buy a rather expensive custom hat from someone I know and trust than from...
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    Dave Brown Hats

    It seems very odd to me that a hat maker would have anything much to gain by claiming to make hats for a movie. After all, how tall was King Kong?
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    Shelf Purchase or Custom?

    I'm a newcomer like yourself and my advice would be to order a custom hat as soon as: a) you know exactly what you want and b) you know you can't find it off the shelf Personally, I'm a long way from "a" and therefore I have no idea at all about "b". Waiting a few months for a $400 hat to...
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    The Unpinched Fedora

    Oh my. Love the shape of that hat. Don't know if I could wear such a small brim but I'd love to try. And the pinchless crown has great proportions. If it were a shade darker and sans feather it would be absolutely perfect to my eyes.
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    Costumey?

    I believe if you wear it in that spirit then 99% of people will accept it as your own look. Personally I might not wear a combo that my wife found to be too much but having grown up with a mother who made me wear little matching shorts and jackets outfits from the time I was six months old I...
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    Costumey?

    If you are wearing stuff because it makes you look like Bogart in an old movie then by your own intention it is a costume, no? And if you feel like you're dressing a part then people you encounter will pick up on that and react as though you were wearing a costume. On the other hand, if you...
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    Installing or Removing a Hat Liner

    From my dim memory of my ungrad Chem-E Heat Transfer course I would suspect that it's the small layer of "dead air" trapped between liner and felt that offers the noticeable insulation in cool weather. The liner material itself would have almost no insulating effect and a thin layer or felt not...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Nice hat, that's a great look. I'm a newcomer to hats and am still sorting out my preferences. I think this photo is an excellent model of the classic or vintage crown profile. If you're ever going to like a classically proportioned hat, you're going to like that one a lot! For my part, it...

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