Broad Bands

[DOUGLAS]

Dean, I would go for the Park Lane as I think it would be hard for me to find another like it.

 

[scotrace]

Broad Band is cool. Dialup was really slow.

 

[John in Covina]

Some of those hats are just so cool! Excellent pictures for the subject all around.

 

[DOUGLAS]

I like that gray Borsalino BK, very sharp looking.

 

[DOUGLAS]

Duke, you will not be disappointed with this film.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Those are all my wide brim hats, i'm afraid. The whippets and Playboy and some others are not what i would consider wide bands.

That light coloured Borsalino is close behind the Tom 'N' Jerry to be my favourite hat. A little big at 7 1/8 until my hair grows again. Very old, and cleaned up nicely. The felt is wonderful.

bk

 

[DOUGLAS]

One more while the thread is warm.
Knox

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Like it! That up/down sideways brim was popular from the early 1900s until the end of the '20s. Al Capone's famous 1928 mugshot shows his fedora that way.




From 1924. He has your expression, Douglas, though not your facial hair:

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[Dinerman]

that looks great

your beards really coming along too.

 

[deanglen]

Which brim side should be up, or is it personal taste? Great hat Douglas! Nice ad picture, Marc. Where do you find those?


dean

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Which brim side should be up, or is it personal taste?

In the old photos, the right side was up, and the bow side (left side) was down. Today, it's a matter of personal preference: the fashion police aren't giving out tickets, thank goodness.


I find those images on the Web; they usually turn up by accident in my vintage fedora searches.


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[Orgetorix]

Hmm...this look will have to grow on me. Right now it just looks like the hat's on sideways or something.

 

[DOUGLAS]

I tip with my right hand so for me that is the comfortable side. I do not know which is the correct side

 

[deanglen]

Hmm...this look will have to grow on me. Right now it just looks like the hat's on sideways or something.

Me, too!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Dinerman]

Should I draw any conclusions with the hat being next to capone wearing a very similar hat?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Only that the hat was from one of Chicago's best stores, that it's from the '20s, and that its shape and proportions are pretty much identical to the one in Capone's 1928 mugshot. Nonetheless, it almost certainly did not belong to Scarface Al.


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[deanglen]

Marc, is that a replica? If not, does anyone have any idea of the type of hat capone had on in that picture? Borsalino? That bash must be a center dent, but it looks bit pinched, Open Road cattleman's style. I have always loved that hat. Yours is nice too, definitely a "fur" felt.

dean

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Some info here, Dean: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=6413&highlight=Capone


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[Baron Kurtz]

M. Chevalier,

Is that the hat that you sold for a ridiculous, stupendous (dare i say it, ludicrous) amount of bills on eBay a while ago?

bk