Feathers in your hatbands?

[tinmanzzz]

Some days I feel Like a Nut...

It just depends. Open Roads and other western dress NO. Low Crowns, Usually not. But on Hats like the Stetsonian (BIG HAT), my COMO or my Biltmore Dillinger YES..

 

[Carlisle Blues]

No feather. If I did I would be my father.

 

[Mr. Paladin]

No feather for me either. Not on anything.

 

[avedwards]

Hello,

I would dare say we hat wearers do stick out of a crowd enough, just because of the fact we do wear hats.

Unfortunately, you are right because hardly anyone wears a proper hat these days. That said, hats are more common in places like Austria due to their usefulness when it snows. On skiing holiday in an Austrian village, I was nearly normal looking, as a black fedora is similar to some of the Austrian tracht hats.

Also, I don't always stick out and people often overlook me even when I wear a fedora and a trench coat (maybe it's because I walk quickly and quietly without making eye contact with anyone), so possibly a feather is needed in my case.

 

[MrHughes]

I don't care for the feather either. My dad's fedora always had a bright red feather!

 

[nola89]

I keep my hat pins but no feathers. I feel, like others have said, the feather is too flashy and almost makes the hat a joke rather than the respectable garment (if garment is the word) it is.

I think hat pins are modest and work well to simply identify the maker of the hat.

 

[dostacos]

I took the feather and pin off my Stetson Chatham immediately, I think it looks better that way. I put them on my el-cheapo $17 corduroy fedora to give it a little class, which was modestly successful.

http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/carldelo/Misc hats/?action=view&current=Hatshow015.jpg

I think you hit a home run moving the feather to the other hat, that is the type I would wear a feather in

 

[Imahomer]

NO feathers

 

[carldelo]

I think you hit a home run moving the feather to the other hat, that is the type I would wear a feather in

Thanks, it looks pretty good although I only wore it a couple of times. Recently I gave my nephew the choice of my stingy brims that I don't wear anymore and he picked that one. He liked the idea of the hat posing as something it isn't. I might put a feather in a Tyrolean hat, but then again, I can't really see myself ever buying a Tyrolean hat, so no feathers for me.

 

[Maguire]

I'd prefer to let the hat company make the decision for me. If it comes with a feather, it stays, if it doesn't.. then no feather. If i lose the feather no big deal, but i'm not going to remove it (unless of course, it is ridiculous looking).

 

[KatintheHat]

I have a lot of feathers Cheap, if anybody wants them.

 

[cool hat]

feathers in hats

the vintage hats i've seen from the 30's and 40's don't have feathers in them. I was wandering if feathers came later and on only certain styles of hats such as stingys and porkpie?

 

[avedwards]

I think it is a popular thing on German Tracht hats, but not on other hats like fedoras. There is a thread discussing whether they look good somewhere, but not on whether they are vintage. Personally I think they're not my thing, I prefer something a little more expensive...

...like a £5 note.

 

[scottyrocks]

I had feathers in some of my hats. When I posted a pic of a rebash of one of them, someone thanked me for removing the feather, which I had not put back in yet simply because the hat was still wet when I took the post-bash picture.

Since then, I have removed the feathers from whatever fedoras had them. I decided, after looking at them on my head in the mirror, that the feathers took away from the sense of purposefulness that I like my stuff to have. I did, however, leave this feather on my Shady Brady :

 

[billysmom]

I have a very small red macaw breast feather in the band of my Panama. Of course, I'm female and can get away with a bit of embellishment. But it seemed appropriate to me because many shamans in Ecuador regard the macaw as a powerful totem and use macaw feathers on their altars as spiritual protection. Soooo - perhaps macaw feathers can keep the evil spirits out of Ecuadorian hats???

Sue

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Billysmom -- I am sure they can. Feathers have such a long and colorful history and association with hats, dating back into antiquity.

Nice to be a gal, we don't have to be as fearful of feathers and the guys are.

Odd, though, considering the military history of feathers and hats.

karol

 

[Subvet642]

I won't keep feathers in a felt fedora, but I will in a straw fedora or a porkpie as those seem to me to project a bit more jauntiness.

 

[Feraud]

Being secure in my manhood I say feathers are o.k. lol

I leave feathers in the hats if they are there but never think to add them if they are not.

 

[duggap]

The reason I don't like a feather in my hat is because when the wind hits it, it frays out and never returns to its original shape. Then they don't look so good. Anyway the hats are sharp enough without a feather.

 

[pplepic]

Feathers?

I takes them as they come. I have two hats with feathers and I haven't removed them. The others came to me without, so I haven't added anything. Personally I don't care for those little Stetson pins etc that come with many hats. They go into the funky jewelry box.