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tuco1963

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hi gang
im in the mood for a diffrent kinda hat.
im searching for an aussie digger hat.
my question is does anyone have one and what are theyre opions of them hat wise?
my guess is that its not a hat to wear on the town but i want one to wear while sitting around a bon fire getting my drink on.
also prefrences between army issue wool and akubra fur felt
 

fedoracentric

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Digger hat...

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tuco1963

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on ebay they have zebra skin hat bands am i really blown out or would this rock on a digger hat?
ive given this great thought withen the last 7 beers and have gotten a clearer vision of what im wanting
its a safari hat
 

GHT

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Why, was the: "Items that make you cringe," thread closed? Just curious, so as to avoid whatever mistakes caused it's closure.
 

Brad Bowers

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Department store house brand. The National Clothing Company had a flagship store in Rochester. Lee or somebody llke that probably made the hats for them.

Brad

EDIT: What Alan said. :)
 

Turk394

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The Fedora Chronicals has this to say about the Dunlap Hats:
Dunlap
Robert Dunlap received his first job at the age of 12 in 1857 as a general office boy for Charles Knox of Knox Hats in New York. Soon the boy graduated to the ranks of the hat salesmen, and several years later was still selling Knox hats, his salary having risen to $12 weekly. Ambitious, he asked for $15, and when Knox refused the raise the angry, Dunlap left to start his own business. Thus began the famed Dunlap hat company, founded by a onetime Knox errand boy.

By the late 1890s Dunlap Hats was known for the quality of its high end “formal” hats, such as top hats and bowlers. In deed, Dunlap succeeded in turning out the blackest derbies ever known, the Dunlap hat eventually outsold the Knox in Manhattan. For many a year small hat-makers held up their spring lines until they could see and imitate the Dunlap derby and the Knox felt.

As for Knox-Dunlap competition, both the Knox and the Dunlap businesses declined in the second decade of the 20th century and in 1918 Dunlap was acquired by Knox, though hats under the Dunlap name continued to be produced.
 

Lefty

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In an effort to keep those who are dumping false and baseless information all over the efforts of others in such threads as the "think tank" thread, here's a summary of Stetson quality designations:

Stetson once made great hats.

That changed by the end of the 60s.

Now they make hats like this,
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which are really no different from hats like this.
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If you're going to kill threads, please kill the etiquette thread, the "agreement" thread, and any other threads created and propagated by those who rise from the bowels of the Observation Bar and "weather where you live" thread - all of which members are on my ignore list, save for the bartender I can't block.
 

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