Just so everyone knows, when I get a good, clear, slow day at work I plan on creating a small Fedora Lounge dictionary based on what I already know and the answers here in this thread for the board.
Until then, what in Hades in a "nap" when referring to hats?
I've read that "velour" is a...
So it appears the hat was quite a deal for my $35. Thanks for the compliments. I'll post the dimensions when I find a ruler tomorrow :) .
I like it a lot too. I've even found myself changing my wardrobe and clothing purchases around it's colors.
Is it safe to assume the hat is beaver...
Alright, so after the loss, gain, loss, and again gain of my online connection, a holiday, and a move later, I can finally post pictures of the my hat. I've not been able to find any pictures of a hat like this anywhere online, so if anyone has anykind of info about the it (original price, era...
Ok, here's another one:
I see the "block" in the picture above, but how is it used? What does "reblocking" mean exactly?
I think for a message board like this a sticky vocabulary thread could be very useful. Has an admin ever thought of creating one? I'm sure most of the long time...
Just what exactly is a "snap brim"? I've read many threads here, searched Yahoo answers and browsed numerous online stores selling fedoras, but I've not seen a single definition for what a "snap brim" is. From the sounds of it, it's a hat with a brim that can either be snapped upward or...
Did they usually print the initials of the owner onto the sweatband? That's pretty neat.
Professional cleaning sounds nice, but like I've said before in a past thread, I'm your stereotypical poor college student. If there's a makeshift soultion to something, I'll go to the ends of the Earth...
Well I went back and put the hat on lay away so I don't feel the sting of spending all that money at once and so I can budget myself a bit better this month. In addition to that, the cashier dropped the price of the hat from $45 to $35! I'm not entirely positive she knew she did it, she didn't...
Thanks for the help, gentlemen.
I'm not really familiar with a lot of the terminology regarding hats, but I think HarpPlayerGene has it right. The outside edge of the brim has no binding. Unlike this:
See the baby blue thing running around the brim's outside edge? The hat I'm...
If you don't have anyone that deals Fedoras where you live that can stretch the hat, try doing a search for local western wear stores. Many of them sell felt cowboy hats and have the tools to tend to them, though they work just as well on fedoras. They should only charge you pocket change to...
At an antique mall across from where I live there's a nice fedora I've been eyeballing that doesn't quite feel like felt. Or at least not the type of felt I've felt. It's a medium brown/tan colored hat with a black ban and a lining that says "Sak's Fifth Avenue". Definitely vintage. Anyways...
I sport a fedora dark grey in color and I recieve between 1-5 compliments daily on it despite what I wear. So I'm going to say grey is a pretty safe color.
Just chiming in to say that I think Laura was a fine mystery, and one that has encouraged me to write my own story that I've spent yars rewriting endlessly. Personally I think the film makers abandoned the opportunity to take the story in a much more interesting direction about 3/4 of the way...
Thanks for the warm welcomes all. It's good to find a place where a guy can find some reliable fashion advice :) .
For anyone who has never seen the movie but like the way it sounds, you can check out it's trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVzHeJ0Z3I
I'm really loving the...
To quote myself from an earlier thread, Brick is a wonderful contemporary noir film that stars modern day high school students who talk in a 1940s type gangster lingo. Strange concept, but executed beautifully, and based on what I've seen on the Moving Pictures board here, it does seem to be a...
I'm very excited about this one.
If you've not seen the director's first movie, Brick, you really should take a look into it. One of my personal facvorite films. It's a wonderful contemporary noir film that stars modern day high school students who talk in a 1940s type gangster lingo...
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