Hat Storage Advice

[Dinerman]

part of my room and my closet.

 

[John in Covina]

Hat storage and fending off larva!

Since I only have a few hats and have boxes for all but one, I like to keep my hats in the box. I also put an aromatic cedar block inside each box, which I attached using sticky velcro tape. This allows me to remove the blocks and sand them when the aromatic quality drops. Sanding will bring back the aromatics by exposing new wood and the volitiles that make up the aromatic.

The use of cedar blocks and/or mothball type products is recomended to keep any larva from your fur felt hats. Just make sure that they do not touch the hats.

Best wishes,

 

[John in Covina]

Table Clip for Hats!

I had suggested this previously, there are a couple of places that make a clip that is for womens handbags.

It clamps onto the table and allows a woman to hang her bag.

It seems to me that there should be a way to take the basic design and modify it to accomedate a mans fedora.

See here:
http://liquidpetal.com/productlist.aspx?GrpID=HBA&sm=1b6
and
http://www.flosaccessories.com/default.aspx?
or
http://www.alibaba.com/productsearch/handbag_hanger.html

The purse hanger looks to fold flat, so you could put it in a jacket pocket.

 

[Sparhawk2k]

That clip is genius! :eusa_clap I can't imagine it'd be that hard to modify. Or even just make one maybe...

 

[olive bleu]

Thanks John.Thats good advice. I love the smell of cedar and i already have some blocks that i use when storing my handknit sweaters.

Love those hatboxes of yours by the way! They are almost as impressive as your hat collection

 

[Bud-n-Texas]

Thanks Dean

I LOVE bud's "wall of Glory", a veritable sea of C-crowns and thin ribbons, and I'm sure that I can even see the Stratoliner pins on some of them! TOO, TOO beautiful! It would also make a grand jigsaw puzzle scene!

dean

You are much to kind. I have added the top shelf since I last posted. I am pretty happy with my hat rack. I used raw sanded cedar boards (1X6) for the back and (1X10) for the shelf.

 

[Aaron Hats]

How about this?

http://www.ruggedbear-online.com/8702u7.html

Clip one end to the table cloth and the other end to your sweatband. When done just stick it in your pocket.

 

[Pilgrim]

Mine are mostly either on shelves (where I can leave the front brim hanging over) or hanging on good old prosaic large nails. I have a strip of wood mounted above the closet door (with nails in it) that holds three hats, and I can get six more on shelves in the closet above the coat rod. The rest are in boxes in an upstairs bedroom.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Good idea

I'll take the pink one.

 

[rick54]

Thanks gents, all good points indeed! Speaking of hat clips, I remember as a small child seeing the clips on the back of pews in a Catholic church. Always got in trouble for snapping them!

I don't like the idea of having to leave my hat in the car either, due to no safe place to put it once inside. Yes, I do think about theft. But I must say that the hotel in question here is the Amway Grand, in Grand Rapids Michigan, and owned by the founders of Amway, Rich DeVos and Jay VanAndel. The cloakroom is directly behind the hostess station, not open to the public, and is impecable as far as cleanliness goes. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a spot of dirt anywhere in the hotel, the whole place is spotless! Each coat and hat are tagged in some way so that she knows which coat and hat goes with which table. So I take it from what you all have described, this treatment is not the norm as far as hotels go. Well, I think I've found a gem then. We'll be returning again tomorrow for breakfast , and I'll pay a little more attention.
Such deserving attention of a hostess is certainly worthy of a generous tip in my book!

 

[bolthead]

Here's mine.....

Here's my hat Rack.I currently have 2 like this but, I'm in the process of making 2 more for myself, as I grew out of the two I recently made. :eusa_doh:

I'm attempting a vertical rack this time around, I hope it works.

 

[linda1137]

Hi there!!!

Take a look on: http://www.phanger.com/

Regards!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Hi there!!!

Take a look on: http://www.phanger.com/

Regards!

spam

 

[VetPsychWars]

Hat Storage

Ran out of closet space, so I got a garment rack and some hanging shelves. Behold!

Loaded up before the cover is in place:

Cover in place:

Rack: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F51A4Y/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Shelves: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F51ADU/ref=oh_details_o03_s01_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Tom

 

[Lotsahats]

Very nice!

 

[RobFedoraField]

Oh, that's nice! What does it hold? 18 or so?

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[VetPsychWars]

24 total.

Tom

 

[TomS]

Great idea!

 

[Tomasso]

Perfect!

 

[Jedwbpm]

Love it

Jeff