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For the measures the seller gives, it have more than 3" brim!And, hey, it is one of those western Stetson 100s you were saying you've never seen, too.
Talk about insane prices, look at this one. It looks like someone took a liner out of Stetson Playboy fedora and put it in this Drivers cap and then they cobbled up the sweatband with two different ones. But hey, that makes worth at least a grand doesn't it?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-Stetson...m-7-1-8-/331176344341?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276
fedoralover
OK, I have a gentleman's agreement for you. You promise to stay away from my size 7 1/4 hat auctions and I'll promise to not send the Goons after you.
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- and pulled pork may be pulled right off of flying pigs. Sure sounds like The Promised Land!
Why would a genuine hat lover moan about increasing prices??
1. It means that there is sóme revival of appreciation for well made hats.
2. This and the higher prices mean can be a stimulation for manufacturers to supply that maket with modern made ones.
3. It may lead to a revival of quality hats.
1) I've no interest in a hat revival. I'm perfectly happy being different and the masses are perfectly happy in their ball caps. I'd like it to stay that way.
2) Increased interest would simply mean opening factories in Asia and more low quality hats produced. Neither of these appeal to me.
3) People today care about trends not quality. There will never ever come a period again where hat quality even approaches the past. There are simply way too many obstacles (the state of modern manufacturing, the anti-fur crusaders, the total lack of skilled craftsman, the lack of retail outlets for high priced hats, the disposable product mantra, individualism, etc.). The world has changed and there's no going back.
Since I don't work in the industry, the only thing higher prices means to me is that I can afford less hats.
Anyone brave enough to buck the system and raise pork in a traditional outdoors manner around here will tell you that suckling pigs and "not long after weening" pigs fly off all the time in the clutches of raptors, usually Bald Eagles when fishing gets tough due to the annual freeze up.
Pulled pork indeed!
1) I've no interest in a hat revival. I'm perfectly happy being different and the masses are perfectly happy in their ball caps. I'd like it to stay that way.
2) Increased interest would simply mean opening factories in Asia and more low quality hats produced. Neither of these appeal to me.
3) People today care about trends not quality. There will never ever come a period again where hat quality even approaches the past. There are simply way too many obstacles (the state of modern manufacturing, the anti-fur crusaders, the total lack of skilled craftsman, the lack of retail outlets for high priced hats, the disposable product mantra, individualism, etc.). The world has changed and there's no going back.
Since I don't work in the industry, the only thing higher prices means to me is that I can afford less hats.
OT: Readability wise, Times New Roman is a very good choise for printed text - but a very bad choise for screen-use. Instead one should use one of the fonts, especially designed and intended for screen-use, such as Verdana or Arial.
True.Age, condition, rarity of model, all those matter, certainly, but size is even more important.