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https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/links-to-important-hat-forum-threads.52584/

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Question from new member about fedoras.
Please, I am new to this forum and to the experience of hat culture and appreciation.
I have a developing interest in fedoras, however I am open to knowledge about hats in general and about other types/styles.
Will anyone suggest web sites, threads, discussion groups, etc to expand my knowledge, experience, and appreciation.
Thank you for your time, help, and consideration.

You’re here. This is the clearinghouse for the information you’re looking for. There isn’t really a shortcut: it takes a lot of time reading lots of threads here.

 

[JakeHacker]

....well, have you dug around this site yet?

Since the answer is essentially the same, I'm quoting myself.

I have only started to look around this site. I found threads on hat tools and DIY hat making, interest however a bit over my experience level.
Thank you for the suggestion. I will check it out.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

^^^new guys:
Welcome.
Google is your friend. Type any topic about hats then type Fedora Lounge at the end and hit search.
The Lounge is your oyster...enjoy the pearls!
B

 

[JakeHacker]

^^^new guys:
Welcome.
Google is your friend. Type any topic about hats then type Fedora Lounge at the end and hit search.
The Lounge is your oyster...enjoy the pearls!
B

Thank you for the tip. Certainly seems like a wealth of topics and information.

 

[Just Daniel]

Hi Jake, welcome to the Lounge.

I tried some of the links on the saved threads above and they crashed on me. Just in case here are two popular threads for pre-40s dress hats.

Pre- 1940s Stetson dress hats.

If you have them, show them here. Also: Pre 1940s Stetson Westerns Pre 1940s (non stetson) dress hats

www.thefedoralounge.com

Pre 1940s dress hats

Please show your (non stetson) hats made in the1930s and prior here. By showing them together, people can get to know what to look for, and how to properly date them. Other threads on early hats and what to look for to identify them as such. Identifying early hats by sweatband. Pre- 1940s...

www.thefedoralounge.com

There are also threads for other brands besides Stetsons, check out Borsalino Brotherhood, Dobbs Diner, and School of Hard Knox through a google site search. Use this text in the google search box to limit the results to the Lounge:

site:thefedoralounge.com

GOOD LUCK! Check out the pics, read a bunch, and keep coming back with questions

…we all started with just one hat.

Daniel

Thank you for the tip. Certainly seems like a wealth of topics and information.

 

[Decalbomb]

Any idea on the value of this hat?
Looks like Russian?

 

[JakeHacker]

Hi Jake, welcome to the Lounge.

I tried some of the links on the saved threads above and they crashed on me. Just in case here are two popular threads for pre-40s dress hats.

Pre- 1940s Stetson dress hats.

If you have them, show them here. Also: Pre 1940s Stetson Westerns Pre 1940s (non stetson) dress hats

www.thefedoralounge.com

Pre 1940s dress hats

Please show your (non stetson) hats made in the1930s and prior here. By showing them together, people can get to know what to look for, and how to properly date them. Other threads on early hats and what to look for to identify them as such. Identifying early hats by sweatband. Pre- 1940s...

www.thefedoralounge.com

There are also threads for other brands besides Stetsons, check out Borsalino Brotherhood, Dobbs Diner, and School of Hard Knox through a google site search. Use this text in the google search box to limit the results to the Lounge:

site:thefedoralounge.com

GOOD LUCK! Check out the pics, read a bunch, and keep coming back with questions

…we all started with just one hat.

Daniel

Thanks.
I also experienced errors upon attempting certain links.
I have received a lot of good tips and advice from the members on this site leading to a wealth of background and information.
Very nice and most appreciated!

 

[JakeHacker]

Hi Jake, welcome to the Lounge.

I tried some of the links on the saved threads above and they crashed on me. Just in case here are two popular threads for pre-40s dress hats.

Pre- 1940s Stetson dress hats.

If you have them, show them here. Also: Pre 1940s Stetson Westerns Pre 1940s (non stetson) dress hats

www.thefedoralounge.com

Pre 1940s dress hats

Please show your (non stetson) hats made in the1930s and prior here. By showing them together, people can get to know what to look for, and how to properly date them. Other threads on early hats and what to look for to identify them as such. Identifying early hats by sweatband. Pre- 1940s...

www.thefedoralounge.com

There are also threads for other brands besides Stetsons, check out Borsalino Brotherhood, Dobbs Diner, and School of Hard Knox through a google site search. Use this text in the google search box to limit the results to the Lounge:

site:thefedoralounge.com

GOOD LUCK! Check out the pics, read a bunch, and keep coming back with questions

…we all started with just one hat.

Daniel

 

[JakeHacker]

Thanks.
I also experienced errors upon attempting certain links.
I have received a lot of good tips and advice from the members on this site leading to a wealth of background and information.
Very nice and most appreciated!

Wow, so many beautiful hats.

 

[Zombie_61]

Any idea on the value of this hat?
Looks like Russian?

It does look like a Russian Ushanka, but that seal could also be in one of the Turkic languages spoken in central Asia. Regardless, you can buy a hat like it on Amazon for about $20-40 U.S..

 

[Decalbomb]

It does look like a Russian Ushanka, but that seal could also be in one of the Turkic languages spoken in central Asia. Regardless, you can buy a hat like it on Amazon for about $20-40 U.S..

Ok thank you...

 

[johnnycanuck]

Outside of this forum, if I am looking at hat history, I usually get the proper terms from this site and spread out on a google search. Wikipedia gives a great “high end” overview and I take it from there. Last style of hat I looked up was the Boonie hat. There was a little information on the lounge but a wealth of information on the internet. Enjoy the lounge. It’s a great place to talk about hats.
Welcome to the Lounge.
Johnny

 

[JakeHacker]

Outside of this forum, if I am looking at hat history, I usually get the proper terms from this site and spread out on a google search. Wikipedia gives a great “high end” overview and I take it from there. Last style of hat I looked up was the Boonie hat. There was a little information on the lounge but a wealth of information on the internet. Enjoy the lounge. It’s a great place to talk about hats.
Welcome to the Lounge.
Johnny

Thanks. I find, just for myself, the finest appreciation, and best experience of anything is to be found in the intellect. The background, the knowledge, the understanding of what, how, and why a thing is and came to be arethe better part of that thing. Should you care to share any particular aspects of hat history, to to direct me toward resources of the same, they shall be of benefit.
Thank you again.

 

[belfastboy]

It does look like a Russian Ushanka, but that seal could also be in one of the Turkic languages spoken in central Asia. Regardless, you can buy a hat like it on Amazon for about $20-40 U.S..

If it is Russian ....these days it might be hard to even give it away!

 

[Zombie_61]

If it is Russian ....these days it might be hard to even give it away!

Good call; I hadn't thought of that. On the other hand, if it was made by a private company with no ties to...well, I don't want this to potentially be interpreted as some sort of political comment, so I'll just stop here.

 

[johnnycanuck]

Thanks. I find, just for myself, the finest appreciation, and best experience of anything is to be found in the intellect. The background, the knowledge, the understanding of what, how, and why a thing is and came to be arethe better part of that thing. Should you care to share any particular aspects of hat history, to to direct me toward resources of the same, they shall be of benefit.
Thank you again.

As I say Wikipedia is a great starting point. One disappointing thing I find about fedoras particularly is there is a play the hat was named after. They start showing up in catalogs and fashion shortly afterwards. But there is more of a organic popularity of the hat then a solid start date like the Bowler. A lot of stuff I have read is more modern opinion than anything else. Simply put everyone wore a hat outside the house. It was roughly the 20’s when bowlers/homburgs started to disappear from the “every day man hat” and was replaced with the fedora. It’s easier to look up fedora “models” like the Stetson Whippet or Stetson Playboy than the general term Fedora.

Johnny

 

[jlee562]

 

[JakeHacker]

As I say Wikipedia is a great starting point. One disappointing thing I find about fedoras particularly is there is a play the hat was named after. They start showing up in catalogs and fashion shortly afterwards. But there is more of a organic popularity of the hat then a solid start date like the Bowler. A lot of stuff I have read is more modern opinion than anything else. Simply put everyone wore a hat outside the house. It was roughly the 20’s when bowlers/homburgs started to disappear from the “every day man hat” and was replaced with the fedora. It’s easier to look up fedora “models” like the Stetson Whippet or Stetson Playboy than the general term Fedora.

Johnny

Speaking as a beginner hat person however with a strong tendency toward research; I have found the word "fedora" to have an almost universal application in the common parlance, frequently used as being synonymous with "hat" in general, even on sites I thought would know better. I suppose the nuances of hat anatomy and structure as well as etiquette may be beyond the pale in society at large.
I would think that, as you say, the more organic placement of the acceptance/popularity historically alongside it's modern resurgence would provide a rather considerable body of background material within flexible enough frameworks to be adaptable to almost any interpretation.
Thanks again for the tip and reminder about wikipedia. I have not looked there yet, however I will soon.

 

[JakeHacker]

....well, have you dug around this site yet?

Since the answer is essentially the same, I'm quoting myself.

Yes, I have been taking a glance around, however not in any organized manner.
Many of the lists of links do not seem to work for me. I always get some kind of error code, not certain why, perhaps a problem with the settings on my new phone which is rapidly becoming my go-to browsing device.
Thanks for asking, I will continue to investigate here.