Hey, what about the feather?

[thefedorastore]

mine broke, ( I guess they get brittle) and the only hat store close to me sucks. Anywhere I can buy just the feather?

PM me with a mailing addy and your choice base color of yellow or red, which are what I have available for the public. I will send you one gratis. I have a collection of others, but they are reserved to go with the neckties.

Duane

 

[RedPop4]

My $8.49 ebay Stetson came with a nice looking feather. I saw no reason to remove it.

 

[Benny Holiday]

I'm not entirely sure about the origin of the feather

but I'll shamelessly put the blame on this dude, back in the 12th Century:

(That's Robin Hood for you wise guys out there, not Errol Flynn!

Well, he's as far back as I can think to go to find a man's hat with a feather in it! I suppose the idea's been around a long time.

My fedoras, BTW, are featherless.

 

[Dick Tracy]

No feathers for me, although I have them stored away. My Stetsons all have over 2" brims and came with feathers.

 

[Shanghailander]

I might wear one on a Tyrolean, but only during Oktoberfest.

OK, but every Tyrolean should have some bristles from the tail of a mountain antelope!

 

[thefedorastore]

mine broke, ( I guess they get brittle) and the only hat store close to me sucks. Anywhere I can buy just the feather?

Your feather is on it's way.

 

[Pilgrim]

Every group of feathers I have is bound at the base in a manner very similar to fly tying. I'd wager that any fly tying expert could whip up a feather accent with very little effort.

As for me - all my fedoras with wide ribbons have feathers, even the ones with 2 3/4" brims. The ones without are my Open Roads and Stratoliner, since they don't have a wide enough ribbon to hold a feather in place.

And if I ever change my mind, it takes only a moment to pluck the feather (apt verb, that...) from behind the ribbon.

 

[thefedorastore]

OK, but every Tyrolean should have some bristles from the tail of a mountain antelope!

Is that a bird on the other side of the hat?

 

[Shanghailander]

No, just a feather!

 

[daizawaguy]

 

[Mario]

Hmm...I dunno...I really prefer to devour my hats without the feathers still on them...

 

[GWD]

I have only two hats that I'll wear feather in. Very simple and small, but I feel they add to the look of the hat. The rest of them will never have feathers.

Stingy Mallory

1960's Stetson Bantam

 

[4and1]

The only fedora of mine with a feather is a black on black, and it really needs some color on it. My other hats go featherless and I like them that way.

 

[Big_e]

I like the feather in the hat. Any hat I buy will have a feather in it.
Ernest

 

[Widebrim]

I've got one on my Felt-Lite, and I think it sets off well.

 

[JimWagner]

I recently bought a light gray, almost silverbelly homburg. It came with a feather and I was offered a pearl pin for it, but I didn't take the pin and removed the feather as soon as I got home. I don't have particularly strong feelings about either decoration, but I've just never worn either in any of my hats. Guess I'm just too conservative.

That said, I have a huge gamsbart on my tracht hat that I wore for playing in a German band for 13 years. But that was part of a costume and not street wear.

 

[Aureliano]

Some people's hats look very good with feathers. Mine not and I cannot pull that look off. Mr. Paladin, a fellow lounger said to me once: "feathers are for dusters", !lol lol lol

 

[QMcK]

Whole species of birds are now extinct in Brazil, thanks to ladies' penchant for feathered hats in the 19th and early-to-mid 20th century.

That's not counting the stuffed birds perched whole on ladies' wide-brimmed hats. An early 20th century horror show.

The Huia (of New Zealand) went extinct largely for similar reasons.

I hope that any feathers sold now are from birds which would have bred and killed anyway. Either that or they should be man-made feathers.

 

[daizawaguy]

Either that or they should be man-made feathers.

Right! I support the man-made feather...but NOT on a man-made felt !

 

[High Pockets]

No feathers for me,.......felt hats look great with a nice little accent, but I've discovered feathers are just not my style.