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New Panama help needed.
Do they really just use dissolved shellac? Are you talking the over the counter junk they sell at the big name hardware stores, or the actual shellac flakes that you need to mix yourself to get a certain cut? I am assuming you are talking about the premixed stuff from Home Depot or you would... -
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New Panama help needed.
Ok, so I took my chances with steam last night, and it worked out very well, the front brim now stays down the way I wanted it, even if I flip it up it still goes right back down, however it's still very flexible it will still most likely fly up in the wind, though atleast now it should go back... -
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New Panama help needed.
Thanks for all the tips. So it sounds like my choices are take my chances with steam, use a hat stiffener for a felt hat, or just deal with the flapping brim. As far as comparing to felts, I have no real comparison as this is my first hat, this is a recent obsession and since it's summer I... -
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New Panama help needed.
another straw hat ? So I got my first straw hat from Panama Bob, and I love the hat, the only question I have is around steaming it to shape the brim. I've read you can steam it and then shape it as needed, and I'm fairly certain I understand that process, what I am wondering is how well the... -
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hatless :(
Correction on the waiting a few weeks. Got a call from PB today, and they are shipping it out tomorrow. Which in hindsight makes sense, the discounted ones were probably already made and sitting around. -
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hatless :(
Thanks for all the advice! I did some searching and wound up ordering a discounted Caballero from Panama Bob for well under my $100 mark: http://panamas.biz/cuenca/Caballero.jpg Now it just looks like I'll have to sit and wait a few weeks for it to get here :( Does anyone have any experience... -
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hatless :(
Heimes probably looks like my best bet and I may have to cruise over to St. Paul this weekend and check it out! -
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hatless :(
Thanks for checking, I do appreciate it, unfortunately most of that list is baseball caps, though I might have to check out Capital City Hatters and possibly Hats Meow(no websites so I will have to call to see what they have) so neither of those showed up on google(I always forget about the... -
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hatless :(
Thank you all for the advice, on the hats, the SunBody hats look like a good option, and I'm not too concerned if I only get a couple of years out of my first hat. So does anyone know of any local hat stores in the Minneapolis area where I could just go try some on. Even if it's only high... -
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hatless :(
Actually, I kind of expected that response from a bunch of hat aficionado's. I have friends who will spend thousands on suits, but I have never spent anywhere close to that and my suits look just as good, if not better, though a good tailor also helps a lot in that department ;) So I'm going... -
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hatless :(
So I've recently developed an interest in hats and am looking to purchase a hat or two, probably a straw hat initially since summer is here followed by some sort of felt fedora for fall/winter(assuming this recent obsession continues anyway). Unfortunately googling hatters doesn't turn up...
