Campdraft: Brims up please..

[djgo-cat-go]

I'm contemplating whether I should take my chances on E-bay to score a vintage OpenRoad for top-dollar or buy a reasonable priced Akubra Campdraft. Buying a Campdraft seems more sensible to me at the moment cause my funds are drying up..


I just need one more push in the Campdraft direction so I searched for pictures of fellow-loungers wearing an Akubra Campdraft with the brim up and came up with nothing.. I really would like to see if this style works with the Campdraft, I know it does with an original OR..

So, please, all you Campdrafters who wear this hat brimmed-up once in a while: post a picture..

thanks in advance, waiting in anticipation.

Diego

 

[zetwal]

I'm sure you will get plenty of useful pictures soon. Meanwhile, while you are waiting, I think there may be a couple in the Campdraft thread. Check posts 270 and 342 to see if they apply.

 

[djgo-cat-go]

I'm sure you will get plenty of useful pictures soon. Meanwhile, while you are waiting, I think there may be a couple in the Campdraft thread. Check posts 270 and 342 to see if they apply.

Yep, saw those posts.. is DD Lewis wearing a Campdraft?

 

[Rick Blaine]

Yep, saw those posts.. is DD Lewis wearing a Campdraft?

... brim binding is much wider than a CD or an OR. Likely a custom, eh? Other than that, looks pretty near. Forget about a vintage OR if yer nut is any bigger than 7 1/4 you will pay a king's ransom. Don't neglect the clones too; All the Resitols, the Dobbs Westward, the Mallory Torino et. al.

 

[zetwal]

Since DDL doesn't say outright that he wearing a Campdraft is I really don't know. Still, I thought those two photos may be relevant and of interest to you.

By the way, on the brim up topic, I always loved how JH's hat looks in the picture below. Any ideas what that one could be?

 

[Lefty]

DD Lewis wearing a Campdraft?
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It's not a CD, unless it's very customized, and we never did establish who made it.

 

[frussell]

I'm expecting one

Diego - I've got a Campdraft in Taupe Fawn being re-ribboned by Major Moore, and as soon as Hatsdirect gets one in, a silverbelly Campdraft coming to me. The silverbelly will get the traditional cattleman Open Road crease, and will be worn brim up. I'll post photos when it comes. I've had both, and other than the prestige of having an "original," I've liked my Akubras just as much as the Stetsons, and they are much easier to find in my size. I tend to wear many of my hats "brim up," especially if it's with casual clothes. Frank

 

[RobFedoraField]

pic but not on my head...

I have this stratton

and I've tried it brim up, but it just doesn't work for me. even I can't take myself seriously in it... so when I get time, I'm going to steam the hell out of it (it feels like pressboard) and get it snapped down in the front
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re-reading this... this is kind of a useless post. sorry...

 

[djgo-cat-go]

Forget about a vintage OR if yer nut is any bigger than 7 1/4 you will pay a king's ransom. Don't neglect the clones too; All the Resitols, the Dobbs Westward, the Mallory Torino et. al.

Yep, I've got a melon size 7 1/2 so that pretty much rules out a vintage OpenRoad for me..

 

[djgo-cat-go]

Diego - I've got a Campdraft in Taupe Fawn being re-ribboned by Major Moore, and as soon as Hatsdirect gets one in, a silverbelly Campdraft coming to me. The silverbelly will get the traditional cattleman Open Road crease, and will be worn brim up. I'll post photos when it comes. I've had both, and other than the prestige of having an "original," I've liked my Akubras just as much as the Stetsons, and they are much easier to find in my size. I tend to wear many of my hats "brim up," especially if it's with casual clothes. Frank

Thanks Frank, I'd love to see them both in some noggin'-shots..

 

[Spats McGee]

Yep, I've got a melon size 7 1/2 so that pretty much rules out a vintage OpenRoad for me..

djgo-cat-go, I'm also a 7 1/2, and I would ordinarily agree with you on this. Lately, though (at least in the US), ebay prices seem to have gone a little wonky. I've seen some smaller hats go for outrageous money, and I've seen some larger hats for for pretty reasonable prices. Now, with you in the Netherlands, that may affect your prices & shipping . . . With that said, I've got both an OR from probably the 1980s and a new Campdraft. The CD feels like a bigger hat, with more brim and crown, though I haven't measured either. The CD is taupe fawn and the OR is light gray. I like both, but I think that I wear the CD more often.

 

[RobFedoraField]

brim up

I have this stratton

and I've tried it brim up, but it just doesn't work for me. even I can't take myself seriously in it... so when I get time, I'm going to steam the hell out of it (it feels like pressboard) and get it snapped down in the front
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re-reading this... this is kind of a useless post. sorry...

Hope this helps. I measured it, and it's pretty close to my campdraft's dimensions, and I just can't pull off the Up Brim" I think the "up"s look better on stingy hats.

 

[djgo-cat-go]

Hope this helps. I measured it, and it's pretty close to my campdraft's dimensions, and I just can't pull off the Up Brim" I think the "up"s look better on stingy hats.

You might be right about brims up on stingies, but I actually like the way you wear this hat.. it suits you well.. Thanks for the pictures..

 

[CRH]

Did somebody page a brimologist?

Well, I'm not really a brimologist per say but I do play one on the Fedora Lounge. Maybe I'm just a ham!

 

[Yeps]

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That looks great with the hollywood brim. I need to start saving some money to pick up a campdraft.

 

[indycop]

Not my thing but it's brim up...

 

[CRH]

Not my thing but it's brim up...

So you're not a briminologist? You're just a ham?

I love that "Gently put your weapon onto the ground, sir...NOW!" look!

 

[Chinaski]

You talkin' to me?

 

[indycop]

Actually this was just after hopelessly searching for my xikar cigar cutter that Rex buried or ate...:rage:

 

[St.Ignatz]

Yep, I've got a melon size 7 1/2 so that pretty much rules out a vintage OpenRoad for me..

Be patient grasshopper I found a 7 5/8 LO for about $40 less than new and 20 more than a CD. Vintage 50's and I got grief from loungers for paying so much.
Tom D.