Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. The Hatted Professor

    The Late History of John B. Stetson Company, et al Suitors

    Just a point of clarification, as this thread is taking about two different things. First, there is the John B. Stetson Company, which never went out of business (they just stopped manufacturing their own hats) and still owns the Stetson name and other trademarks. They only license the...
  2. The Hatted Professor

    The Dobbs Diner...

    The obvious reasons are the reasons! Especially the color.
  3. The Hatted Professor

    The Dobbs Diner...

    Beautiful! That’s a holy grail of hats for sure!
  4. The Hatted Professor

    Dunlap Drive-In

    May 12, 1935. And yes, those are for tees!
  5. The Hatted Professor

    Dunlap Drive-In

    Very nice. It’s a women’s hat. The cloth sweatband, sized in inches as women’s hats were, the milliner’s code (as opposed to hatter’s code) tag, and the elastic chin string, are the dead-giveaways. But no one else besides you will ever know!
  7. The Hatted Professor

    The Hats Of President John F. Kennedy

    Nice collection, but several inaccuracies. All of the top hats are silk, not beaver. Beaver wasn’t used for hatter’s plush since the 1830s, though there may be few exceptions.. Also, the Cavanagh silk hat was the one JFK wore to his inauguration, not the Dobbs. It was made expressly for him for...
  8. The Hatted Professor

    The Cavanagh Club

    The Carter sweatbands seem to be used by Cavanagh mostly on homburgs, as I have quite a few from the same era with them. I think I only have one non-homburg with one.
  9. The Hatted Professor

    Women's Beaver Hat

    No worries. It's a mistake commonly seen on eBay, with silk hats being labeled by sellers as beaver, when beaver plush hadn't really been used since the 1830s., though nutria plush was used as a silk substitute in the WWI era.
  10. The Hatted Professor

    Women's Beaver Hat

    The manufacturers marketed it as a “silk sailor” hat, definitely silk rather than beaver.
  11. The Hatted Professor

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Y Yes, that's the price. Not the most expensive, as there are also Fifties and One-Hundreds, but not the cheapest, either.
  13. The Hatted Professor

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Just a '60s snap-brim fedora.
  14. The Hatted Professor

    Ask a question, get an answer

    I had the same problem with my straw Milan Stratoliner. I ordered 7 ⅜, and it's too big. Most of the felt Stetsons I got in 2020 and 2021 fit well, though.
  15. The Hatted Professor

    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    Well, crap. I was excited to buy this original pencil drawing, obviously the preliminary sketch for a famous advertisement from 1930, but I just got an email from the seller that they can't find it in their inventory. This would have been the next best thing to having the original painting...
  16. The Hatted Professor

    The Bowler or Derby Hat

    I haven’t bought hats off the ‘Bay for a while but decided to go for this one. I have Cavanagh Derbies but only one in my size, so now I have two. Both are from the ‘40s. However, this one is rather musty and looks like mold or something on the sweatband. The photos didn’t really show this or...
  17. The Hatted Professor

    Does anybody recognize this brand?

    Kentley Headwear Co. appears to be a small company out of Cleveland, OH. The earliest reference I can find is from 1933 and the most recent from 1971. At a guess I'd say they probably didn't manufacture, but used a jobber like Lee or another manufacturer for their hats. There are very few...
  19. The Hatted Professor

    Experimenting on foods.

    My latest:
  20. The Hatted Professor

    Movie hats

    And a nice, fat Cavanagh Edge, to boot
  21. The Hatted Professor

    DECATISING

    Good point. I hadn't run across the word decatising until your video yesterday. I shall simple refer to these felts I have as "aged."
  22. The Hatted Professor

    DECATISING

    Well, mostly it's a self-deprecating joke at me not making hats for almost seven years, thanks to a cranky old lady who drove me nuts as a customer of mine and turned me off of making hats for other people. But it's also a reference to the idea that some hat manufacturers used to let their hat...
  23. The Hatted Professor

    DECATISING

    The last hat bodies I purchased from Winchester have been sitting, untouched, since 2017. I‘d guess they are decatized by now!

Latest posts

Members online

... and 2 more.
Total: 3,490 (members: 52, guests: 3,438)

Forum statistics

Threads
111,196
Messages
3,116,736
Members
55,507
Latest member
SebastianP
Top