HOLY GRAIL? /What fedoras are you pining for?

[Bolero]

What is the CB or Clear Beaver, assuming that is the color ? can anyone show one ?

 

[AndyR]

As much as I enjoy wearing my first and only felt fedora (granddad's), I realized last summer that I'm really addicted to straw. I'd like to get a nice Milan in the spring. I don't like spring and summer at all (winter guy), but the joy of wearing straw seems to get me through those seasons.

 

[buler]

What is the CB or Clear Beaver, assuming that is the color ? can anyone show one ?

Search is your friend. Here is one of many threads on the Stetson 7X Clear Beaver hat (there is also a 5X thread) http://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/stetson-7x-clear-beaver-quality.23059/

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[Frunobulax]

I have 2 7X CB's, one is 50''s model & other is much younger. The youngster feels just like my 100 & they are both from the same period.
The older has been thru a refurb but I would not associate "floppy" with it.

Thanks, good to know. Maybe "floppy" isn't the right word. I want a snap-type brim, not a stiff Western brim, and hopefully a fairly shapeable crown.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

An original Victorian flat top in my size. Perhaps even a modern repo since I haven't gotten around to one of those yet either.

The absolute holy grail for me & one that I would go deep to get would be an original Confederate soldiers slouch hat with provenance, and my great-great grandfathers name inside. I already know it won't be in my size.

 

[rclark]

Thanks, good to know. Maybe "floppy" isn't the right word. I want a snap-type brim, not a stiff Western brim, and hopefully a fairly shapeable crown.

My 100 in Open Road style has a firm brim (not "stiff" per se) and a relatively soft, very moldable crown. It is very nice, I just prefer the hand of the 7XCB (I have one western and one open road), but it very well could be that my 7XCBs are slightly older than my 100. Can't go wrong with either.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

The absolute holy grail for me & one that I would go deep to get would be an original Confederate soldiers slouch hat with provenance, and my great-great grandfathers name inside. I already know it won't be in my size.

This is a BIG BIG hat!!

 

[Bird Lives]

I'm easy...I always wanted a Lock & Co Sandown Trilby....Out of my price range....My wife found me one last Christmas....It still knocks me out...it is so soft and just feels and shapes great....

 

[Hurricane Jack]

This is a BIG BIG hat!!

Somewhat common of a southern planters hat before the war. This particular hat came up at auction a few yrs ago and was linked to General Beauregard as I recall.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Somewhat common of a southern planters hat before the war. This particular hat came up at auction a few yrs ago and was linked to General Beauregard as I recall.

That I don't know but it looks great! I want one!

 

[RJR]

View attachment 41633 I'm easy...I always wanted a Lock & Co Sandown Trilby....Out of my price range....My wife found me one last Christmas....It still knocks me out...it is so soft and just feels and shapes great....

Very nice.

 

[mmbarnes]

Well... A Knox 100 would be the bee's knees.

I also really want a vintage green or blue Whippet.

Finally, (and more reasonably attainable although I have yet to have the luck) a very nice vintage brown bowler.

 

[g.durand]

Stiff or not, I still desire a Stetson 100 with my brim size (and head size).

Joao, I thought of you when I got this one. Later issue (post 1960?) Stetson 100, 3 1/2" brim. The brim is very stiff compared to the older 100 I own, which has a 2 7/8" brim.
I'm looking for that 7X CB Open Road, myself.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Joao, I thought of you when I got this one. Later issue (post 1960?) Stetson 100, 3 1/2" brim. The brim is very stiff compared to the older 100 I own, which has a 2 7/8" brim.
I'm looking for that 7X CB Open Road, myself.

I can't express the felling of this.
A nice thought for me.
Is it a 7 1/4 - 7 3/8?

 

[g.durand]

Joao, it's a large 7 1/2, sorry to say.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Even being a bit too large maybe I could wear it...
But I don't have a 7XCB OR.

 

[Alexander Sommerset]

I've always wanted a Knox 100. But I have never seen one for sale.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Greetings All:
This thread needs a bump!!
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How bout some ideas what hat to pine for??

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

I've always wanted a Knox 100. But I have never seen one for sale.

Ditto!!
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[deadlyhandsome]

At my size, I have a lots on my wish list. A grail hat list would certainly include a Churchill Beaver 100 Vicuna.


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