Approximate brim sizes?

[FedoraFan112390]

Was curious as to what the approx brim sizes of my family members favored:

Great Grandpa (Mom's mom's side), 1930s/1940s first photo, and 1963:

Great Grandpa (Mom's dad's dad, on right), 1945:

Great Uncle (Mom's dad's brother), 1945:

Great Uncles, late 1940s:

 

[daizawaguy]

5/8, 3/8, 5/8, 1/2, 1/2 (L) 5/8 (R) is my guess...

 

[Rodkins]

5/8, 3/8, 5/8, 1/2, 1/2 (L) 5/8 (R) is my guess...

I think d-guy got it right with maybe one exception - The second one seems more stingy to me. I'm guessing 2 1/8". But remember, d-guy is the stingy master.
Just in case you don't know, put 2 in front of each fraction to get the brim width in inches.
Mike

 

[Sam Craig]

Mike,

Those are some great pictures.

I don't suppose any of those hats came down to you?

I've got a couple of pics of my grandpas in hats. One is wearing an old, old straw work hat while he acts like he's going to "arkansas" a stuffed phesant ... that is when you illegally shoot one on the ground

The other shows my other grandpa in a shawl collar sweater with a neat 8-panel wool cap

They either didn't wear hats or else they didn't keep pics of them.

These are great, though.

Sam

 

[FedoraFan112390]

Mike,

Those are some great pictures.

I don't suppose any of those hats came down to you?

I've got a couple of pics of my grandpas in hats. One is wearing an old, old straw work hat while he acts like he's going to "arkansas" a stuffed phesant ... that is when you illegally shoot one on the ground

The other shows my other grandpa in a shawl collar sweater with a neat 8-panel wool cap

They either didn't wear hats or else they didn't keep pics of them.

These are great, though.

Sam

Sadly the hats were likely tossed when they died. My family doesn't usually keep things like that--Very rare that any personal effects would be kept. My great grandpa (first one) died in 1964 and the other great grandpa died in 1956. As to my uncles, my family was never that close. And my grandpa never wore ever a hat; a flatcap once for a photo in the 50s but no one remembers him wearing any sort of hat--He is the only family member whose personal effects such as his wallet etc were kept after he died. He was of the generation that didn't wear hats, his brother and brother in law (the men pictured) were older than him.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Sadly the hats were likely tossed when they died. My family doesn't usually keep things like that--Very rare that any personal effects would be kept. My great grandpa (first one) died in 1956 and the other great grandpa died in 1964. As to my uncles, my family was never that close. And my grandpa never wore ever a hat; a flatcap once for a photo in the 50s but no one remembers him wearing any sort of hat--He is the only family member whose personal effects such as his wallet etc were kept after he died. He was of the generation that didn't wear hats, his brother and brother in law (the men pictured) were older than him.

This has been the same story in my family, all the really nice hats went to the great unknown!