I think I have enough hats!

[Pilgrim]

I'm contemplating the fact that there's a limit on how much room I'm willing to give up to hats.

Here's the list:

Open Roads = 4 (tan, grey, grey mist, and a silver belly work hat)
Stratoliners = 2 (tan, charcoal grey)
Borsalino = 1 (midnight blue)
Whippets = 2 (dark brown, light grey)
Other Stetson = 1 (dark green fedora, 2" brim))
Glen Allan = 1 (lovely medium grey fedora)
Stephen L. Stetson = 1 (black, similar to Whippet but felt not as nice)
Bailey Major = 1 (dark grey fedora)
Western = 2 (One black, one taupe inherited from Dad, bought at Olsen Brothers - now out of biz - in Spokane WA)
Straw = 3 (1 inexpensive Panama, one coconut fiber, one tan and black)

And I have 3 or 4 hats I need to sell - a couple of blacks, a grey and a Dark Tan Cavanagh, all with 2" or slightly smaller brims.

The 18 keepers have filled the upper part of our hall closet and one wall in a guest bedroom. Although there are a couple I wouldn't mind upgrading (like the Stephen L. Stetson, as I'd like a different black) I think I have all I need. I have a decent hat in a color to go with anything I wear. Not sure I need anything else!

 

[Topper]

See you have some os the straws already but how about:


Day Wear:
Black Homburg
Grey Topper
Black Bowler
Fez ( @ home)

Evening Wear:
Black Silk Topper
Black Silk Opera
Sleeping Cap ( @ home)

Summer wear:
White "Bombay Bowler" Pith Helmet
Folding Panama
Fedora Panama
Straw Boater

Winter wear:
Ushenka

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Topper, don't forget the embroidered velvet smoking cap with tassel, and the flat topped ('Winston Churchill') bowler. Both are absolutely necessary to life itself.


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[Topper]

Quite right old chap - i said sleeping cap :eusa_doh: meant smoking.... there again after a long day, smoking jacket, and cap, nice glass of congac , cigar sitting in leather armchair will sooo be .....ZZZZZzzzzzz

 

[tonyb]

Should you decide to part with the Stephen L., well, I might well be interested. Some of my hats remain in the stable because they are among the few remaining examples of their kind and somebody has to tend to their care and feeding.
Any Stephen L. Stetson qualifies by the rarity criterion, and one that resembles a Whippet (a good-lookin' hat if ever there was one) would even get worn from time to time, which makes it all the better.
That's a nice array you have there, Pilgrim. Not all that extensive, but nice lids all, by the sounds of it. Sure beats having a large collection of less worthy stuff, eh?

 

[The Wingnut]

'Enough'? What is this 'enough' of which you speak?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Such a relative term.

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[Topper]

Enough... enough .... And after you buy more hats , we want a hat that is like a ..... SHRUBBERY!!!

nee nee nee lol

 

[TaxMan1]

Does the wife think she has enough shoes?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Do you have enough alpine hats?

.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Hang 'em High!

-dixon cannon

 

[Art Fawcett]

ENOUGH

never applies to hats or ladies shoes..one can never have "enough" ( spits after using that word).
instead, may I suggest "room addition?"

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I kept telling myself I had enough hats, too, a couple of years ago. Since that time, I have added a Fedora fedora, an Art Fawcett fedora, a couple of Akubras, and a Seletino or two, not to mention a half-dozen newsboy caps.

I put some older ones in storage, gave away a number of hats, etc., etc.

But, if I ever spot a vintage Borsalino in a second-hand store -- guess what?!

karol

 

[BegintheBeguine]

It's never enough

Heck, I have three motorcycle helmets!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Quite right old chap - i said sleeping cap :eusa_doh: meant smoking....

I dunno, always room for one of these:

humbug

bk

[edit] god i just realised, that really looks like evil Donald Trump playing scrooge. Without his tamed badger, of course.