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Me too. Applied with a sponge.
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Clear acrylic paint?
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At the beginning!I am willing to experiment, but one must know where to start to begin
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Light grey, or maybe silver, would be my guess.
I've got two questions that are probably pretty quick.
1) lacking hat boxes or space for them, how do you store your hats? Felt and straw
2) I would like to change out the hatbands on my new PHD Cuerca Havana from PHD. I have a thin leather but would like to swap it out with some cloth ones or pugs. Any good videos you would suggest?
1) lacking hat boxes or space for them, how do you store your hats? Felt and straw
2) I would like to change out the hatbands on my new PHD Cuerca Havana from PHD. I have a thin leather but would like to swap it out with some cloth ones or pugs. Any good videos you would suggest?
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Several threads on this. This seems to be a pretty active one: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/where-do-you-hang-your-hat.8659/
This should get you started on pugs and hatbands: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/hat-adornments-ribbons-bows-pins-pugs-leather-etc.62249/
That's what I was looking for! I new there'd be a thread on this. The search kept giving me random topics and so I wasn't having much luck.
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There are more, but these seem to be the biggies. Pugs are easy; they just wrap around and fasten to themselves with little clips.
That's what I was seeing. I was looking at the offerings from Village Hat Shop. I like some of the colors. I don't know about the quality but if it works it works.
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Check Etsy and eBay, as well.
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Hi! I want to thank you, for letting me in, I wanted to ask if you know any details about this hat, the tag says In spanish . Made under license
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Emilis
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Actually came across a silver acrylic fabric paint and got it. Here goes nothing..
John the Swede
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Anyone got a clue on the date for this Stetson liner? No other tags or markings.
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Boh
here is the pic
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I took off the ribbon, I can see your point. I'll upload a few files.
Here is the cheesy sweatband, about to come out:
jlee, I can see your point about the poly thread:
I left the ribbon attached at the end point:
Basting stitch is in:
And here's Scott's new sweatband, newly sewn in. I looks krinkled in this picture, but it's actually okay, light was fading, I was in a hurry:
I purchased an awl, but I did not use it, instead I used one of these. Occasionally a pair of pliers was needed to pull the needle through, but it all worked out. Thanks again everyone!
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For anyone who's following this particular lead, it appears there was a hat for offer HERE in 2013 on the FL, and pkyoakum responded 8 years later to crickets that he'd just picked up the same liner on a hat. He then posted his own thread HERE but to no avail. He calls this hat a "Zenith."
The trail ends there.
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Well, if the liner is original it's a Whippet, but not the kind desired by most that will command the Big Bucks. Stetson has continued the Whippet name over the years, but the style changed. As with most fedoras, the brims got shorter and the crowns lower. Newer Whippets look more like the 40s-50s ones. Most of the older Whippets have a 5 1/2" OC and 2 1/2" brim width.
This post in the Whippet thread shows some evolution of the model: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/at-the-dog-track-the-whippets.18602/post-1119072. The entire thread is worthy of your consideration.
It does have confusing markings. I'm not familiar with that particular reorder tag - perhaps it was when they were being made under license in the 70s. Kind of an unusual size tag, as well.
I don't know what the Zenith part refers to, as it appears from one of the other threads you pointed to that Stetson never licensed a "Zenith" hat.