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Normally, a new hat might make it into the "Post new hats here" or "Show us..." threads. But I think this one deserves a thread of it's own.
See, on Christmas morning I was at my folks' place (still am, actually--I sit here Saturday morning typing this on Mum's new Eee PC!) with my grandmother. Among the boxes going to me included a round box. This was, for some reason, the last gift that I opened.
Now if you can, for a moment, imagine my surprise when I lifted the lid off the box and saw... a hat! I was very surprised, as I hadn't expected any such thing. However, that wasn't all. I pulled it out of the box and noticed that it was a hunter green colour.
'Strange,' thought I, 'another hunter green hat!'
You see, about two or three months ago the owner of my favourite local vintage clothing store had come into a hunter green Knox Tom 'n' Jerry in 7 1/4. It fit both him and myself, but he, knowing my preference for that style of fedora (he likes the fuzzy and stingy-brimmed sort) put in in stock and spent a month or so convincing people that they didn't really want to buy it, in an effort to save it for me. But I disgress.
So from the box I remove this hunter green lid. Then I notice that the brim has several concentric rings of stitching all across the surface of it.
'Strange,' thought I, 'that Knox at the Avalon had this stitching, too!'
Only then did I see the ribbon: green felt of the same material as the body. Then I saw the liner. Only then did it dawn on me that I was looking at the same green hat which someone had bought from the Avalon mere days before I'd gone in to buy it myself.
Turns out, I'd been raving about this hat to my mum, and she'd found the Avalon's number, called up and had it shipped out to her to become one of the most surprising and, I expect, memorable gifts I've ever received!
Art: if you happen to read this post, this is the green hat I was talking about a couple weeks ago when you and Paddy were in town. who says miracles don't happen
A couple pics:
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/f-_4yzGioWF_iITuTAIOzg?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xfFg2HdLdh0/SVWE5Q_Vm-I/AAAAAAAACbk/LnIXECMkrJw/s800/DSCN1635.JPG" /></a>
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/u8w1DBVz5jv1FTSRp-gN8A?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xfFg2HdLdh0/SVWE47B3WDI/AAAAAAAACbc/0TQQ4DOC5Dk/s800/DSCN1629.JPG" /></a>
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2LwD51hUxZErTuiqtVr9aQ?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xfFg2HdLdh0/SVWDwN7b4kI/AAAAAAAACbU/UOCVLBtIem4/s800/DSCN1617.JPG" /></a>
See, on Christmas morning I was at my folks' place (still am, actually--I sit here Saturday morning typing this on Mum's new Eee PC!) with my grandmother. Among the boxes going to me included a round box. This was, for some reason, the last gift that I opened.
Now if you can, for a moment, imagine my surprise when I lifted the lid off the box and saw... a hat! I was very surprised, as I hadn't expected any such thing. However, that wasn't all. I pulled it out of the box and noticed that it was a hunter green colour.
'Strange,' thought I, 'another hunter green hat!'
You see, about two or three months ago the owner of my favourite local vintage clothing store had come into a hunter green Knox Tom 'n' Jerry in 7 1/4. It fit both him and myself, but he, knowing my preference for that style of fedora (he likes the fuzzy and stingy-brimmed sort) put in in stock and spent a month or so convincing people that they didn't really want to buy it, in an effort to save it for me. But I disgress.
So from the box I remove this hunter green lid. Then I notice that the brim has several concentric rings of stitching all across the surface of it.
'Strange,' thought I, 'that Knox at the Avalon had this stitching, too!'
Only then did I see the ribbon: green felt of the same material as the body. Then I saw the liner. Only then did it dawn on me that I was looking at the same green hat which someone had bought from the Avalon mere days before I'd gone in to buy it myself.
Turns out, I'd been raving about this hat to my mum, and she'd found the Avalon's number, called up and had it shipped out to her to become one of the most surprising and, I expect, memorable gifts I've ever received!
Art: if you happen to read this post, this is the green hat I was talking about a couple weeks ago when you and Paddy were in town. who says miracles don't happen
A couple pics:
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/f-_4yzGioWF_iITuTAIOzg?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xfFg2HdLdh0/SVWE5Q_Vm-I/AAAAAAAACbk/LnIXECMkrJw/s800/DSCN1635.JPG" /></a>
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/u8w1DBVz5jv1FTSRp-gN8A?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xfFg2HdLdh0/SVWE47B3WDI/AAAAAAAACbc/0TQQ4DOC5Dk/s800/DSCN1629.JPG" /></a>
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2LwD51hUxZErTuiqtVr9aQ?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xfFg2HdLdh0/SVWDwN7b4kI/AAAAAAAACbU/UOCVLBtIem4/s800/DSCN1617.JPG" /></a>
