I'm new here, but have been wearing hats for 20 years. My head size apparently grew from 7-1/8 to 7-5/8 over this period.
I stretched a nice Montechristi Panama and a Biltmore felt fedora using a common hat-streatcher (like this...
Wow - thanks for all the advice. I went with frussell and Woodfluter's recommendation to take the liner completely out. Here in California it doesn't get very cold (awake hours it's never much below 40 degrees in the Winter).
It already feels much better! I figured it wasn't worth the...
I'm bald on the top and just got a Fed IV. My question is the liner has a plastic piece right in the crown area that touches my head and gets all sweaty and hot.
I understand that cutting it out would have my bare head getting the inside crown felt all sweaty and oily, so that's not good...
Okay, I'm joining in ...
Thanks to this wonderful site and this thread, I've ordered a Fed IV. I can see that finding this site is going to end up costing me a few bucks for a while.
I went with Brown as my other felt (a Biltmore I bought new about 20 years ago) is dark green. I may go for...
First Post - New Hat
Hi All:
My name is Mike and I'm 51 and new to this board. I've been wearing hats for about 20 years, and have about a dozen (Biltmore, Tilley, Stetson, Kangol, Barmah, etc.). Since finding this board I've began to have an interest in some nicer hats (pretty easy to do...
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