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LoveMyHats2

I’ll Lock Up.
Messages
5,196
Location
Michigan
$375.00 for my Vintage Stratoliner so far is the highest price tag paid, $45.00 for a Open Road that has two small moth bites, I have been very happy with any pricing of hats I have purhased, and more so for the hats purchased from fellow Lounge members! THANKS!
 
Messages
17,477
Location
Maryland
My highest was ~ $400.00. I rarely go over $150 with most in the $60 to $90.00 range. My lowest was ~ $5.00. I wear a 7 1/4 - 7 3/8 , 58 - 59cm so not as many great vintage deals in that size.
 

1961MJS

My Mail is Forwarded Here
Messages
3,370
Location
Norman Oklahoma
Hi

My highest priced hat was the Jaxonbilt Campaign Hat for $370.00. The least expensive was the Olive colored Milan for $35.00 from Hatman Jack on an end of season sale. No Work of Art (yet) or Optimo (not likely) to put my rates up.

Later
 

BR Gordon

One Too Many
Messages
1,152
Location
New Mexico
The lowest price that I have paid was $60 for a 4X Stetson Open Road, on Ebay. The highest priced hat was $670 for a fur felt fedora from Optimo in Chicago.

The above may be incorrect. I have a 900 wpi panama from Art Fawcett that I believe may have cost more than the Optimo, but I don't remember the exact cost.
 

DougC

Practically Family
Messages
643
Location
San Antonio
!950s Open Road--$25.00 in Gruene, Texas antique store. Borsalino Alessandria (sorry, I probably misspelled that)--$250.00 at Meyer the Hatter.
 

-30-

A-List Customer
Messages
443
Location
TORONTO, CANADA
"some expensive purchases out there. And some great bargains."
QUOTE: countryclubjoe.

The hat which is described below was worn approximately 6 weeks. (Until I bought the Leon Drexler.)

"The second same day purchase (August) was a black Borsalino, model unknown; rabitt/hare no doubt.
The raw edge brim is 2.75" with a silken 1.5" black band.
A leather sweat and sateen liner finishes it off. (Not reeded.)
Few comments due to the fact that I never wear the hat now because of it's flawed quality issues.
Bought at retail, cost was $380.00 + tax."

The Bosalino is unlikely to be seen on my head again; that Is a Very Expensive Hat.


Regards,
-30-
 
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Chasseur

Call Me a Cab
Messages
2,494
Location
Hawaii
Hmm... I have a 60 or 7 1/2 head so the "steals" are few and far between.

For fedoras I got a good deal on a 1940s Dobbs 20 with the guild edge and wind trolley because it was dirty/dusty and the seller throught it was just a beater. I brushed it off and steamed it to reshape it and its a nice hat. Actually, it was a rare 7 5/8 and was a steal and I got it for a little less than $100.

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Cheapest vintage was a Champ 1950s tapered one (with wind trolley!)I picked up for only $50 or so. Its not my favorite hat but works very well with 1950s suits:
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Most expensive a rebuilt grey Borsalino at about $200 but its my nicest fedora so well worth it.
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If we move away from Fedoras I got a couple of great deals on two vintage silk plush top hats (one American with original leather case the other French I picked up in a French flea shop for less than $50!) but getting them re-sized and refurbished is not cheap...
 
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GHT

I'll Lock Up
Messages
9,775
Location
New Forest
When you have what's known as a double crown, you will find most hats are too small. That's why I use a milliner in Edinburgh to hand make my hats. Seven and three quarters, or sixty three in metric. My hats are around £90, but having a crash helmet made to go with the WW2 Harley was, by ratio, dearer than the bike.
My wife texted me last Saturday from a vintage fair, where she and her friend do the retro hairstyles. There was a fedora, in it's original box, with a 1940's receipt, (didn't have my reading glasses to see it properly,) they wanted £38 for it, in mint condition. Too small!!! Again.
 

Grizzly Adams

A-List Customer
Messages
364
Location
New Mexico
Hmm... I have a 60 or 7 1/2 head so the "steals" are few and far between.

For fedoras I got a good deal on a 1940s Dobbs 20 with the guild edge and wind trolley because it was dirty/dusty and the seller throught it was just a beater. I brushed it off and steamed it to reshape it and its a nice hat. Actually, it was a rare 7 5/8 and was a steal and I got it for a little less than $100.

403697199.jpg


403697180.jpg


Cheapest vintage was a Champ 1950s tapered one (with wind trolley!)I picked up for only $50 or so. Its not my favorite hat but works very well with 1950s suits:
399172987.jpg


405414385.jpg


Most expensive a rebuilt grey Borsalino at about $200 but its my nicest fedora so well worth it.
401993305.jpg


401468046.jpg


If we move away from Fedoras I got a couple of great deals on two vintage silk plush top hats (one American with original leather case the other French I picked up in a French flea shop for less than $50!) but getting them re-sized and refurbished is not cheap...

Good looking hats, and suits. I assume you are still a "working unit," and these are business attire?
 

Chasseur

Call Me a Cab
Messages
2,494
Location
Hawaii
Oh I get it, sorry I've not heard that expression before.
But yes I am working, but since I work at a university in Hawaii there is not suit and tie requirement, I just like collecting nice clothes. Or as I say here, I'm part of the fight the flower movement (aka the anti-Aloha shirt group). ;)
 
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