Baron Kurtz
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that is truly one of the weirdest things in this thread. Odd in the extreme.
Picked up this mystery hat today:
The Hobo by Dobbs
It didn't sell the first time it was listed, so I bid on it the second time around on a lark. Pretty sure it's NOT a man's hat, though I'm perplexed as to everything else about it. It looks like an unblocked hat body with little shellac that they slapped a label and pin on. Also looks like it's meant to be some kind of traveling hat.
Any ideas on the era? Since I know very little about women's hat styles, my only guess is the '20s, as it seems like a cloche style, something I could imagine on a flapper. I also expect the name Hobo wouldn't have been popular once we got to the Depression. Were hats like this popular in the '50s or '60s?
It says the name is trademarked, but I could find no record of it on uspto.gov, so that was no help.
Brad