check this for 2 bux in a junkshop

[dr greg]

Can you dig it? This treasure: "Airbreeze Cabana handwoven" which is exactly 7 1/8 my size, has the price still on the pad inside the crown at 45 shillings which puts it 40 years old at least..it's AS NEW NEVER WORN an old display one for sure..it was the best find on a 350 mile trip out in the boonies hunting up stuff..I love it NOT FOR SALE!!!

 

[Hemingway Jones]

It looks like it is in marvelous shape; an excellent warm weather hat for sure. I especially like the ribbon. -Great find.

 

[Speedster]

Great find. That's a very cool hat.

Speedster

 

[Old Timer]

I have a Sinatra CD where he's wearing a similar hat but in a lighter color. Nice find!

 

[Magus]

Very VERY niiiiice. One like that is on my "hit list" (in a 7.5)

Well done!

 

[dr greg]

frankie

I think I know the photo of Frank you mean, in the studio? This one might have a slightly wider brim, perhaps a more tropical design, and it interestingly must predate the very similar polypropylene ones of the same colour that are fairly common round these parts. I have 4 or 5 on my stall.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

"Bux"?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

"Bux"?

It cost him two male deer. A veritable dowery. Hopefully it's worth it!

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

As in "buxom"?

 

[dr greg]

dowery?

that would be the widow's share in a property, and I ain't dead yet as opposed to a dowry..which is what property a woman brings to a marriage, usually supplied by the father..and my wife thinks my hat fetish is something that has to be put up with as long as it doesn't cost too much, so she definitely brought none with her...

 

[Twitch]

hehehe! I love it when ya steal stuff!!

 

[John in Covina]

2BUX

As in "buxom"?

There has to be two in order to be buxom, otherwise it's not balanced.

 

[Old Timer]

I think I know the photo of Frank you mean, in the studio? This one might have a slightly wider brim, perhaps a more tropical design, and it interestingly must predate the very similar polypropylene ones of the same colour that are fairly common round these parts. I have 4 or 5 on my stall.

That's the one. Frank looks pretty sharp with that hat on and I wanted one for a while, but I don't think the shape of the hat would match my round face shape.

 

[dr greg]

face blocking

yeah I think the rule is that a sharp peak on the crown will even out the arithmetic 'mean' of the face, and conversely a person with a lean face evens up a round block..if my limited knowledge of the correct terms is adequate

 

[jml90]

Reminds me of the hat Connery wore in the golf scene in Goldfinger

 

[dr greg]

close but no cigar

the goldfinger hat has a much smaller brim, to my eye, pretty much
in the same area though, well spotted
http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/james-bond/sean-connery.php?id=020

 

[jml90]

Yes you are right. But, with a smaller brim it'd be a dead ringer