Did you get that Adam Doodle?

[feltfan]

Who else was keeping an eye on the
Adam Doodle? It got too expensive for
me (given the precarious nature of stretching
a hat with seams to my hat size).

I am expecting this hat is 1942-1943, an unauthorized
attempt to cash in on Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy,
a movie that featured porkpies, as noted in an earlier
thread here. But I could be wrong.

If the buyer is here, I hope we'll see more pictures.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-WWII-Era-Camel-Felt-Hat-by-Adam-THE-DOODLE_W0QQitemZ160097843161

 

[Dinerman]

I just watched "the wages of fear", and the Americans at the oil well wear hats with seams like this.

 

[besdor]

I've never seen a hat like that before. Is it worth 246.00? I dont think so. But someone must have realy wanted that hat so they overpaid for it.




Steven
www.bencraft.com

 

[feltfan]

It's a pretty cool, relatively unique hat.
I would have happily paid half that, if it
had been in my size.

The Wages of Fear is a fine film. Now you can
see Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" and get the
reference at the beginning. You know there
were two versions of TWoF released, with
two different endings, right? I suppose you
saw it on a DVD with both endings?

 

[Dinerman]

There were two versions of TWoF released, with
two different endings, right? I suppose you
saw it on a DVD with both endings?

hm. . . I only saw one version, where the truck goes careening over the cliff at the very end. What's the other version?

 

[feltfan]

SPOILER! Wages of Fear SPOILER!!!

hm. . . I only saw one version, where the truck goes careening over the cliff at the very end. What's the other version?

Readers who have not seen TWoF have been warned...
Of course there are only two possible endings and both
were made, so you still have to wonder which one you
are seeing.

There is an ending in which he makes it back and
embraces his gal. But the one you saw was the
one distributed.

Okay, now we are very much fftopic:

I hope we get to see more of that Adam Doodle.

 

[Dinerman]

back to the doodle- do you think it's really felt? The cloth on the inside (see how the inside isn't felt) makes me wonder.

 

[feltfan]

back to the doodle- do you think it's really felt? The cloth on the inside (see how the inside isn't felt) makes me wonder.

I wondered about that, too. But the brim edge and the
transition between the brim and the cloth-lined inside
looked a lot like felt to me. The woman who was selling
it was selling some seriously top knotch hats from other makes
and she is a member of the Vintage Fashion Guild or something
like that, so I figured she knew felt from woven cloth.

That fabric inside the crown was another reason I decided
not to bid on it. Definitely limits the prospects for stretching
the hat.

It's an odd hat for sure. Borsalino made a felt hat featuring
squares of felt sewn together. It's actually on the cover of
the "Men's Hats" book from Chronicle Books. It was made for
the African market, back in 1929. That's the only precedence
I could find. A stingy fedora with two tyrolean-style cords around
the crown. Here's a bad reproduction:

 

[mingoslim]

I had one like that . . .

I actually had a hat a lot like that as a kid . . . Four panel, porkpie with cloth interior . . . I only remember because when my parents moved about five years back, I came across it in a trunk. It was pretty musty and a bit mildewed, and it went in the garbage, but now I wonder if I should have eBayed it