AMAZING Vintage Photos of Fedoras

[Earp]

Oh my gosh !! Heaven!!!

It would be so cool to see this now days. I'd be there every payday! Great photos and captured history. Thanks Marc.

 

[budward]

Wow. Thanks for taking the time to make these available for us to enjoy, Mar\c. I could (and just may) spend hours looking at all of them.

Bud

 

[ideaguy]

THANK YOU!! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Damon Falzone]

Hey, I've been looking all over the place for that store!

 

[deanglen]

Has anyone else noticed how:
a) wide some of those sweatbands are,
b) and how he appears to have pulled them out a ways to emphasize
them,
c) and some of those bashes look like he simply, literally punched the sides of the hats, indenting the ribbons with the crowns?

dean

 

[Doh!]

Doh! asked about the $1.85 price. Per http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-historical-price-of-gold.htm the price of gold during those years was $21 compared to $681.30 at close Monday, or a multiple of roughly 32.5, so $1.85 times 32.443 would be about $60 today. Those $7-$8 Stetsons would be $227-$260 today. Competition and volume apparently kept prices low relative to today, because if we could find that quality at just $227-$260 today we would be happy campers for sure.

Thanks, Barrow!

The $200+ ones would be out of my price range, but I'd pick up several of the $60 ones.

 

[feltfan]

gasp, gasp

Unbelievable felt. There's one with a heart-shaped side bash.
So crisp and thin. I can't stand it.

Thanks Marc.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Thank you, these pictures are first-rate.

And before we drool over the prices, remember that Henry Ford's famous $5 a day wage for his workers was still several years off.

 

[woodsie]

thanks for posting

Thanks for posting these great photos

 

[ShortClara]

Wow Marc! Just beautiful! *sigh* I'm imagining all the purchasers wearing them!!

 

[scotrace]

As Worn

Many of the hats pictured do seem "western" compared to the hats we are used to. But here's my grandfather in a hat like many of those pictured, around 1919:

And in a belted overcoat like a few of those in the shop window:

 

[be_lovely]

Hatbox

I got this awesome hat box for Zig, anyone know the company? The pricetag of the hat was still in the box but no hat.....

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[carter]

I got this awesome hat box for Zig, anyone know the company? The pricetag of the hat was still in the box but no hat.....

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be_lovely, Please let me know if you or Zig ever want to part with that hat box. I actually own a Templeform by Stylepark fedora. Art Fawcett is making a new hat for me inspired by this hat.

If anyone has a box like this to sell or knows of one, please PM me.

Carter

 

[mingoslim]

be_lovely, Please let me know if you or Zig ever want to part with that hat box. I actually own a Templeform by Stylepark fedora. Art Fawcett is making a new hat for me inspired by this hat.

If anyone has a box like this to sell or knows of one, please PM me.

Carter

Put me on the list for the box as well . . . I have a very nice Templeform Stylepark that I picked up last year on OFAS . . . Got it for a song, and it is a terrific hat. But it did not come with its original box, and I had never seen one before now.

 

[nulty]

These pictures slay me every time I look at them. The ghosts that are conjured make an impression..

The Thread Should be a Sticky...

I've been on the scour for a hat from the C.A Weed Co ever since.....

 

[be_lovely]

be_lovely, Please let me know if you or Zig ever want to part with that hat box. I actually own a Templeform by Stylepark fedora. Art Fawcett is making a new hat for me inspired by this hat.

If anyone has a box like this to sell or knows of one, please PM me.

Carter

I never gave him the box because we parted ways, so you are welcome to it.

 

[Bruneau]

"SMART FRENCH HATS"

Now, that's the kind of French bashing I can handle.

Bruneau

 

[HungaryTom]

Thank you Marc

These photos... and I thought I can stop my wish list of to-be-resurrected styles at a handful hats...:

Magnifique thread!

eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

TCM showed a silent film from 1909 called "His Last Game" and one of the main characters wore a hat with a Montana crease, only the crease was rotated 45 degrees. You really see some interesting stuff in those old pictures and movies.

 

[deanglen]

Has anyone else noticed how:
a) wide some of those sweatbands are,
b) and how he appears to have pulled them out a ways to emphasize
them,
c) and some of those bashes look like he simply, literally punched the sides of the hats, indenting the ribbons with the crowns?

dean

I'm quoting my own post to bump it to the front to see if anyone else noticed these points in the first few photos Marc posted in this thread and if anyone has any theories why he presented the hats' sweatbands and creases that way.

dean