Rosie Boylan
G'day Loungers! Geez, noone seems to have missed me!
Rosie Boylan is probably Australia's best hatmakers and milliners. She's most well known for her work on Australian film, such as Baz Lurman''s Australia and Moulin Rouge, The Piano and a long list of others.
Rosie made...
Thanks so much Dano. That's very kind of you and I appreciate it. Interestingly, I had a couple of guys in the lift today say "Dude, you look like Dick Tracy! It's fantastic!"
It's always nice when blokes say something positive.
I gotta admit Dano, that I'm not a homburg fan either. This style with its soft, sloping brim puts it in a different category that seems to work quite well.
Soft-brimmed homburg
Any idea what age this old Borsalino is? I think the style, extra-wide unreeded sweat, logo (though they did use that one for quite a while) and the old Rogers Peet logo puts it pre-WWII. But I'm open to suggestions.
Pre War Borsalino
I picked this up recently going cheap as it needed some repair work (its sweat had become detached). Just got it back for the repairers where it was cleaned, blocked and the sweat attached.
It's clearly old and is in the style of a soft-brimmed homburg. We've had...
Many thanks Jimmy. It was certainly an inspiring trip - and I always enjoy a visit to City Hatters. It's exclusively a men's hat shop by the way - in very vintage surrounds. Not many of those left.
'Tis good for the soul!
Welcome to the Bar Association Dreispitz!
The UIA looked like an interesting get-together. Sadly, Australia's distance from practically everywhere makes getting to these things difficult. I wrote an opinion on Collaborative Law recently that has now been adopted as official policy here. It...
Ephraim Tutt's Pilgrimage
I've been touring along Victoria's Great Ocean Road over the last week. Flat caps are all the go when travelling along this beautiful part of Australia's coastline.
Before I got there I made a pilgrimage to what is probably Australia's most famous hat shop - City...
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