Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

[HarpPlayerGene]

 

[ScottF]

I'd say so, that the pinch developed from being taken on and off from the front. There are some porkpie hats that are blocked in a teardrop shape, but this doesn't look like one to me.


The brown sweatband points at '50s. The color liner says late '50s or '60s. The style was relatively short lived, mid-late '50s through the early '60s.

I read in a thread here somewhere that it was a '20s thing, then revived in the late '50s. I was watching some original '10s and '20s footage in the special features part of the 'Michael Collins' dvd, and it showed late teens footage of a hat very similar to the 'Public Enemies' Depp publicity shot, but with a back-bow like this. As usual with fashion, probably caught on in Europe a few years before spreading to the U.S.

 

[ScottF]

:eusa_doh:

:rage:

lol

I never miss a chance to laugh at the misfortune of others when it comes to gambling .

I was laughing out loud reading these responses, even yours! The 'squaring', as expected, has almost all fallen out already - the hat looks really fantastic.

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

I read in a thread here somewhere that it was a '20s thing, then revived in the late '50s. I was watching some original '10s and '20s footage in the special features part of the 'Michael Collins' dvd, and it showed late teens footage of a hat very similar to the 'Public Enemies' Depp publicity shot, but with a back-bow like this. As usual with fashion, probably caught on in Europe a few years before spreading to the U.S.

Interesting. Thanks Scottf, and Dinerman. I might even keep the back-bow after all.

 

[Mr. Paladin]

It looks like a very nice little hat - if my head would fit in a 6 7/8, I would have more hats that Buler.

Yeah, it depends on the hat for me. I wear a 7 but some of the older 6 7/8s seem to fit just fine or with just the slightest stretch.

That is the lousiest deal with that box-pressed hat. Its ok for cigars but I don't think I'd wear that one even with a cattleman's crease!!!

 

[Mr. Paladin]

Uh...Gene...that didn't used to be a HOMBURG...did it?

 

[Lefty]

oh no, I didn't buy that! I stopped at $71.00. I was just shocked at the price.

Whippets, like Stratoliners, go for astronomical prices because of the name. Add a desirable, large size and the price goes even higher. $200 for either model in a 7 3/8 is a recession price. If/When things improve, they'll be back up to around $300.

 

[Lefty]

Uh...Gene...that didn't used to be a HOMBURG...did it?

lol
It's the Shropshire Slasher!

 

[Lefty]

Portis 7 1/2 l.o. only 1 bid takes it for just $75 (not me)

 

[babs]

$206.50 plus 29.95 shipping

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300339717737&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Ok, the desire for Whippet's is now officially a perverse obsession.

Truly! And I'm a newb, but I still know that's silly.. I was watching that one.. When it hit a c-note, I just hung my head low and hit delete.

 

[babs]

... NOT the way to maintain a good feedback rating.
That's just communist, it's so wrong.

 

[Dinerman]

20 seconds of steam and a hat packed in a box like that's good as new. Just flip the brim down all the way around, steam from the top of the brim, and there you go.

 

[ScottF]

20 seconds of steam and a hat packed in a box like that's good as new. Just flip the brim down all the way around, steam from the top of the brim, and there you go.

Thanks Dinerman. I haven't even touched it and the brim is almost back to normal - just one little bend on one corner. I remember reading a post here where someone received a bowler in a flattened box, and he re-steamed it to near perfect.

So if any of you ever buy a hat from me, I'm saving those tiny boxes to ship them in. :eusa_doh:

 

[Garrett]

Nice Pre-1910 Mossant Bowler went without a bid.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130326118053&_trkparms=tab=Watching

 

[Spats McGee]

Please, oh please . . .

Somebody please tell me that this one went to a member of this fine forum.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270443551922&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

[babs]

I was going to jump on that little stingy, then my internet took a nose-dive. I gave a big exclamation of the profane kind, then decided it was divine intervention and since I already had a semi-stingy gray fed.. Back up now I see it went for a sweet price, even with shipping.

 

[rlk]

Nice Pre-1910 Mossant Bowler went without a bid.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130326118053&_trkparms=tab=Watching

Isn't that your size?

 

[Garrett]

Isn't that your size?

Yep! Actually, rlk, I was hoping you would buy it and then sell it to me [huh]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I read in a thread here somewhere that it was a '20s thing, then revived in the late '50s.

Before the '20s, even. Back bows were not uncommon on men's fedoras in 1900.

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[Lefty]

Yep. 1913