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How much crown is too much

zetwal

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The line between too little and too much is a fine one indeed! :p

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Chinaski

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Cigarband said:
Is that LBJ standing behind Cal?:D

I'd venture to say no, as Coolidge was president in the early 20's and LBJ assumed command when Kennedy was shot in 1963. Coolidge and the gent behind him appear to be nearly the same age.
 

Lefty

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, as long as there are ladies that dig it, there's no such thing as too much crown.

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Maj.Nick Danger

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It looks like someone is a Calvin Coolidge wannabe lol.
I would never have guessed that Cal was such a screwball. :p I mean that hat has got to be a gag right? It looks as though the felt is about an inch thick, and the whole thing is over-the-top BIG,....
The jacket he's wearing is stylin' though I must say.
 

The Good

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Wow, the hat on the left is tooooo high... He wears it better than I would though! On the other hand, the man on the right has the perfect crown height for his head.

I don´t think it was originally meant for normal head lol


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Is that the skull of a Hun? Funny, apparently they may be some of my ancestors, but that's not to say anything of the large skull; that was cranial deformation put in place from birth! Seems to have been a gruesome process.
 

DRB

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doncarlos, I got a chuckle out of that one :D

I once read that the crown height of your hat should be the same as the distance from your chin to your eyes.
 

1961MJS

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I would never have guessed that Cal was such a screwball. :p I mean that hat has got to be a gag right? It looks as though the felt is about an inch thick, and the whole thing is over-the-top BIG,....
The jacket he's wearing is stylin' though I must say.

Hi

To quote someone else here at FL, Tom Mix thought he was Calvin Coolidge. That hat has a rolled brim, it's not really that thick. That style was popular in his day, cowboys were still cowboys, but there was enough money around (not the depression yet) to blow on a nice drinking hat.

Later
 

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