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[ThreeInchBrim]

Hello,

this is my first post and I want to introduce myself after I've read here occasionally. My name is Alexander, I finished an intense search for the "perfect" hats for me, now I'd like to share my encounters and experiences and get new informations about fedora hats.

I am no afficionado of the well-known hi-class brands such as Borsalino. I've learned that the hat itself counts and when it's made in a good way, it's the right one. I can tell what I experienced on my search for my hats. I was disappointed in Cologne (Flemming), overwhelmed in Ljubljana (Pajk) and very pleased by Tonak hats. I like panama and straw fedoras, too, but I don't collect them.

As a free handout for everyone to my beginning I can tell you with private mail where to buy an original and ancient Hückel 1799 fur felt hat, great shape but with french size 4 1/2 much too small for me, priced only 5 Euro without shipping. If it would fit I would have bought it.

 

[Michael R.]

Welcome ThreeInchBrim to The Lounge ! I'm a French 6 ... too big myself . Maybe one of the guys will jump that have small noggins .

 

[ThreeInchBrim]

It looks great, anyway. I wear size 61, so I got no chance to get into this.

 

[Michael R.]

It looks great, anyway. I wear size 61, so I got no chance to get into this.

Yeah , I'm 59 (actually 58.5) . Nice Hat !

 

[ThreeInchBrim]

This one is my recent buy, it is a Tonak hat. It is similar to the Stetson Stratoliner but with center dent crown not a teardrop. Borsalino makes a similar one called Bogart, too. To my luck the company made a sell-out so they offer these for 29 Euro instead of 117. In a very dark anthracite grey it is my noblest hat now. I bought the same, in black, some months ago at the bay, but with a narrower ribbon. The material is something stiff but pure fur felt. My hatter made a leather sweatband into this one. To my opinion a great thing and most likely the same quality as the old original Hückel hats.

 

[emigran]

Welcome, Pilgrim... search away...!!!

 

[RJR]

Welcome!

 

[guillaumeb]

This one is my recent buy, it is a Tonak hat. It is similar to the Stetson Stratoliner but with center dent crown not a teardrop. Borsalino makes a similar one called Bogart, too. To my luck the company made a sell-out so they offer these for 29 Euro instead of 117. In a very dark anthracite grey it is my noblest hat now. I bought the same, in black, some months ago at the bay, but with a narrower ribbon. The material is something stiff but pure fur felt. My hatter made a leather sweatband into this one. To my opinion a great thing and most likely the same quality as the old original Hückel hats.

Hum how can you be notified about such sell-out ?

 

[tropicalbob]

Welcome, Threeinchbrim. Anyone from a country that can produce Robert Musil, Robert Walser, W.G. Sebald, and Senta Berger can't be all bad.