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When I go on airplanes with a hat it stays on the floor or on my knee for the trip. The overhead will crush it. Why bring a hat and then have to re-block it? It will be expensive, time-consuming and may not come out your way. Heavy bags roll around in the overhead and your hat has zero chance. The "knee" solution is the same one I use for a hat at a movie or concert. Even if there were a public coat rack in the lobby for some function, I wouldn't put my nice hat there. I once had an expensive Borsalino stolen from my church's help the homeless fundraiser when I left it on the hatrack. One alternative is to buy a crushable Borsalino which are sold by retailers. But if you like your Alessandria, the only thing you can do is keep it in your seat space, unless you ask the pilot to wear it.Brent Hutto said:As summer vacation approaches (feels like summer is already here in South Carolina) I'll recall this thread from April...
I'm flying to England for a week in late June and hadn't planned on taking my everyday hat, just the Tilley hat I wear to play golf. The closer it gets to the day the more I'm realizing that I'll feel a little bit lost without my hat. I wear it damn near everywhere and to be that far from home with my bare head showing just seems...off somehow.
It's a big, tall-crowned Borsalino Alessandria with a good-sized brim. So I think actually sitting in a high-backed airliner seat with it on would be awkward. But I'll have suitcase and golf clubs and carrying along some sort of box or can is right out. Other than seated on the plane it'll have to spend most of the time perched atop my head (or in my B&B room when I'm on the golf course).
This is a real newbie question but just how much of a banging or crunching can a hat like this bounce back from. It's made of super light and thin felt and came open crown. So I have to sort of rebash it in minor ways all the time. But I don't think I've ever actually sat on it or had something crush it flat, which I suppose could happen on the plane or on the train. Can I just massage it back into my crappy center-dent shape and be good as new?
I'm tempted to buy a "rollable" fur felt hat but I'm afraid this one has made me a little bit of Borsalino snob. And it's bad enough paying 200+ bucks for a hat I wear 350 days a year, hard to see paying almost that much for a Borsalino rollable one. Plus my Alessandria just fits like a custom-tailored suit, makes me wonder if some other randomly selected "Size 7-3/4" will be as comfy.