Hoarding Hats

[DrSpeed]

No worries

I suppose there are still enough hats out there for all of us. Vintage and new.

 

[tonyb]

Exactly.
It's not just a voice in my head, but involves me sitting at my desk humming.

You'll never call me on actually, literally, ironically, or the like.
I call people on those like Dirty Hairy calls scumbags on crime.

Perhaps the theory of inverse proportionality is applicable here.

 

[Lefty]

Perhaps the theory of inverse proportionality is applicable here.

You may be right.
As I call out more people, I've noticed that the big DH has taken a break from killing.

 

[Woodfluter]

Actually, I don't think I hoard hats at all.

If I won't wear them much over a year's time, I'll sell them. Probably offer them here first to assure they go to someone who will appreciate them.

But I like variety and choices. I also like having something of a quality that isn't available from current manufacturers. If I buy something vintage, you can be sure I'll fix it up and wear it. If and when I pass it along, it is very likely to be in better condition than if I had never taken it under my protection.

Language is interesting and can reflect the cast of our thoughts. In Irish or Scottish Gaelic, one speaks of possessions in the fashion of "the hat that is by me" rather than "my hat". You don't really own anything, you just have it in your care for a while. You will pass away, and what is by you might too, or it might outlast you. I have musical instruments...and hats too...that will live with someone else when I'm gone and make fine music or adorn other heads, and that is good.

I think that seeing people like us wearing good hats, and enthusiastic to explain why they are good, will increase the demand for quality. In the short term, beneficial for folks like Art and Panama Bob and Ken. In the long term, there will be lots of options. The wheel turns and we have been largely hatless for a half century. That too will change in time, and an open appreciation for the quality of yesteryear helps that along. My perspective anyway.

- Bill

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I can't imagine someone would have much use for a dozen hats that are almost exactly the same.

Do you have more than one pair of pants? Shirts? Socks? Shoes? Underwear? Why? You can only wear one at a time - I can't imagine why you need more than one. Why are you hoarding pants, shirts, socks, shoes and underwear and depriving someone else?

I'm being facetious, but who's to say what's a modest selection of hats and what's an unreasonable hoard that's depriving someone? I think I'd like a Faberge egg, and if it weren't for those gosh-darn Forbeses both hoarding them AND the cash I would need to buy one... :rage:

 

[bolthead]

So I would be delighted to have a second or third identical hat
to my favorite brown Cavanagh fedora or my Clear Nutria or my
rolled up Borsalino from 1955. When I saw a pair of 50s Stetson
Soveriegn Ambassador fedoras in brown and grey on eBay, I was
delighted to be able to buy both and have that superb hat in two
colors.

These hats are just going to be harder to find as the years go by.
My size is rare to begin with. I'll get 'em if I see 'em. You are also
welcome to look and buy. If you get there first and have the cash,
be my guest.
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Very well said felty......:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Stoney]

I try to make sure they are all very different from one another before I ad to the collection.

lol lol lol

You're killing me.

 

[Feraud]

If hoarding a few extra lids are wrong I do not want to be right.

 

[carldelo]

Superstition alert

I try to make sure they are all very different from one another before I ad to the collection.

Hey Matt, please take those hats off the bed! Don't you know that's bad luck? My mother would let you hear it if she saw that. Just looking at that pic gave me the heebie-jeebies, right after I stopped laughing, of course....

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Hey Matt, please take those hats off the bed! Don't you know that's bad luck? My mother would let you hear it if she saw that. Just looking at that pic gave me the heebie-jeebies, right after I stopped laughing, of course....

But if Matt had all those gorgeous hats on his bed, and fate intervened, Charlie Noodles might proven to a bit of a point when the flood...wait - tidal wave of said hats hits the open market...

 

[Bingles]

You Sir,
do not have (nor understand) the heart of a collector.
The point of a collecion is not anything to do with what you have use for.
Ask a snow dome collector how often they 'use' their snow domes.
a spoon collector how often they stir their tea
collecting something is taking a step away from logic I'm afraid

I do not have much use for more than three or four hats (OK, I probably only need one), but I own more than that and I am not anywhere near as HardCore as most members of this here lounge.

Telling a collector he doesn't need what he is collecting is like umm,
telling a fish he doesn't need a bicycle?

perhaps?

That said, I feel for you in your sorrow at having lost several ebay auctions (I am guessing) but geting the hat involves wanting it (not needing it) and having enough cash to follow through with your desire,
any way good luck in your next bid.

Amen to that! And I LOVE the bio line ADHD!