Hat Store Images

[jimmy the lid]

HutKoenig Regensburg

Great shots -- great vibe! Thanks for posting those!

Cheers,
JtL

 

[Lefty]

Thanks everyone.

Please check out some of the other Buffalo photos that I've posted in The Steamer Trunk.

Lefty...:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

Man -- thanks for putting that all together. Wow! I wish I could teleport myself there right now! Just fantastic.

Cheers,
JtL

 

[billyspew]

I did a trip around the London Hat stores a month or so ago so thought I'd post them up...

First Locks:

Bates around the corner:

Then to Hornets across town (Although ran out of batteries at this stage so only got the one):

Bill

 

[feltfan]

Edit: for some reason my Lock images on Flickr became
dead links. This should work...

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Here is the Lock & Co. store, closed for Boxing Day.
The store where the coke or bowler was invented.

Here is a shot inside:

And from across the street:

Last time I was in the store was many years ago. Already their hats
were nothing special. They don't make their own felt and what they
use isn't great. But the service and feeling of the store made
the visit worthwhile.

 

[Slim Portly]

Some of my pictures from Byrnie Utz in Seattle, including Shawn stretching my Beaver Brand derby to fit my 7 1/4 LO, and steaming and reshaping the dry-bashed teardrop I had put on my brown Dobbs Fifth Avenue homburg.

 

[daizawaguy]

Meiji Dori, Harajuku, Tokyo

 

[daizawaguy]

 

[daizawaguy]

CA4LA

 

[jwalls]

http://www.xoopit.com/s/20um7cjq58enexkcijwh http://www.xoopit.com/s/20um7cjq58ene1e246s8 these topper were ready for delivery by Dave at D bar J Hats to a local hotel for their doormen. just thought you folks might enjoy them.

 

[Ordinary Guy]

Just got back from a trip to New Orleans.... Of course I had to stop in here:

As soon as I entered the store I heard a small voice calling and calling....

I managed to locate where it was coming from and when I opened the lid of the box, I just had to take it home with me.... a NEW BORSALINO is very grateful that I saved it.....lol

 

[univibe88]

Just got back from a trip to New Orleans.... Of course I had to stop in here:


As soon as I entered the store I heard a small voice calling and calling....

I managed to locate where it was coming from and when I opened the lid of the box, I just had to take it home with me.... a NEW BORSALINO is very grateful that I saved it.....lol

I hope you had fun in my home town. Thanks for the pic!

 

[Lefty]

Thanks to Blackthorn for the great photos and review. I thought his post deserved a place in the "candy shop" thread as well.

Last year I bought a Dobbs vintage fedora on Ebay. The seller was very honest about the sweatband needing to be resewn, but it dated from the 1930s and looked pretty good to me in the pics. I bid $125 and won it, but once I got it I was stumped. I really hadn't considered just how bad it would be if the sweatband wasn't attached, or just barely. Although only attached by a few threads, the leather was in pretty good shape. The hat itself had a few small moth holes, but still looked pretty good, especially for a hat that had been made in the thirties. I was scratching my head about how to get it fixed and then I read about Paul's Hat Works in San Francisco. I took the hat up there to them in early December and they never blinked an eye. They looked it over, quoted me a $70 price and I left it with them. Two weeks ago I picked it up...and I have to say, it may be the best money I ever spent for a hat. Here are the pics of the day, and the store:

As you enter the store, take a step or two, turn around and look above the doorway you just came through, there are all these antique hat boxes:

I saw a familiar picture at the top and zoomed in. Yep, it looked like an old friend:

Last year the store was bought by four women who learned from the old owner and are doing excellent work. They are very good at hatmaking and repairing. I only got pics of three of them:

This pic was taken when I dropped my Dobbs off to be repaired in early December. That's it sitting on the counter in front of Abby:

And here's the final product, as modeled by a happy customer:

And a close up of the hat after we got home:

If you live in the bay area of San Francisco and need hat work, or a hat made from scratch, and if you don't like the idea of sending your hat away, or of ordering a hat you haven't tried on, check out Paul's Hat Works.

 

[daizawaguy]

CA4LA Tokyo

 

[Lefty]

Let's see more.

 

[rlk]

HHH 1916

 

[Brad Bowers]

"The Hat That's Right"

I love it!

Brad

 

[Rick Blaine]

Former Knox factory building.

 

[Jauntyone]

This is new; just around the block from the American consulate in Paris is a Bates hat shop. I didn't have time to go in, but I snapped a couple of pics from the exterior. It looks nice!

 

[DRB]

Gus Miller, Batsake Hat Shop in Cincinnati, OH. I was born and raised there.

Nice guy but his accent is so very bad, we have a language breakdown.

 

[zetwal]

Born and raised in a hat store?! Interesting ...