Classic Hat Advertising

[mingoslim]

While we are forming our list of "classic" hat makers in another list . . . How about starting a thread posting classic hat "advertisements" we have collected? . . .

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Thread hop!

 

[Aaron Hats]

An old postcard from a New Hampshire hat shop. There's no date on it but it's got to be at least 50 years old.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Thanks for those Hat Life ads!

Interesting to see that high crowns, which had dominated from the mid '20s to the late '30s, went bye-bye in the early '40s.

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[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Fletch]

Not mine...

...but several of these are about to be pulled from the web because an original has been sold or a poster print discontinued. Enjoy.

Dobbs Gamebird, 1951

Dobbs Rainbow, 1952

Stetson Casual, 1946

Stetson Service Hats (store probably in San Antonio, TX), 1917

Portis Bros. (Chicago), ca. 1940
Corbis images marketed as posters by Art.com - now discontinued

Lamson-Hubbard (Boston), ca. 1945

 

[scotrace]

When James Powers gets in here, we'll have to up the bandwidth.

 

[mingoslim]

...but several of these are about to be pulled from the web because an original has been sold or a poster print discontinued. Enjoy.

Dobbs Gamebird, 1951

Dobbs Rainbow, 1952

Stetson Casual, 1946

Stetson Service Hats (store probably in San Antonio, TX), 1917

Portis Bros. (Chicago), ca. 1940

Lamson-Hubbard (Boston), ca. 1945

Nice stuff Fletch . . . Love the Portis ads . . .

 

[vonwotan]

Excellent hats. I love vintage ads / posters. The cigar, liquor and travel ads are great as well. I'll have to track down a few of the old Borso ads that I've seen.

Thread hop!

 

[RBH]

1941 Stratoliner

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and a couple from the newspaper

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[BobHufford]

Old thread needs a bump (unless there is a better place to put these). Was browsing through a March 26th 1945 Life magazine that I forgot I had and ran across these two.

 

[BobHufford]

November 4th 1940 Life Magazine ad for Champ Hats. Sorry for the cell phone pic. No scanner here on the farm.

 

[Frunobulax]

$2.95! I'd love to get my hands on the Champ Book of Great American Fighters. Now that'd be a real find.

 

[buler]

Here is a larger (also merged) advertising thread. http://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/hat-ads.4641/