Managing Hat Collection

[ScottyBlues]

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I doubt my wife would like me to devote that much wall space to my hats.

There's a furniture maker locally, who might be able to make my a cabinet. I'd like something that is about the area of a normal square hat box but about as tall as a chest of drawers. Inside it would have storage shelves for the hats. Each shelf would have an oval hole and vertical risers to properly support the hat. Each hat would extend down through the hole into the hat belo it it, but it would be prevented from touching the hat below.

To get a hat out would require lifting the shelves above, so the shelves would be mounted in tracks that easily slide up. The whole thing would have doors on the front and top so it can be popped open. The doors would have convenient places to hang brushes, etc.

Of course, I'd like to have it cedar lined. Hmm, I like the sound of this!

 

[Rick Blaine]

Here are mine... again

..having 10' ceilings helps...

apologies to those to whom this is a repeat ...rb

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Proof of my criminal ways

I admitted in an earlier post to "hat-stacking" (!!) Here's pix of my arrangement. So far so good but I could see that if I didn't keep rotating them oonto my head each day or so and fiddling with them they could develop problems from pressure of hats on top. I'll keep an eye on it and keep enjoying the collecting craze...
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Main closet stackage

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Wools, A great Panama and a Open Road that's too big for me (HINT)

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Borsalino on the bomber

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Epiphone Stetson hanger

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Should probably be a Stratoliner on the Stratocaster but it's a Dobbs Twenty

 

[ideaguy]

an Open Road that's too big? I'd be interested in too big...give me a shout?
thanks m

 

[ideaguy]

JT- that room looks GREAT!! could you furnish us with a few shots, giving the vast collection it's day in the limelight? I for one would love to see a bunch of your hats-you've got a mighty keen eye, so I'd expect a treat!

and back to original ? about managing a collection- I've come up with a make-do (ad hoc) solution to hanging hats on the wall without getting a dent in the felt after a while-if you use a wooden peg-Shaker style, with the mushroom end, or any other peg for what it's worth, I took a number of cardboard tubes from discarded toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, etc. slipped a bit of polarfleece over the roll, making it soft and very forgiving, and just put that over the peg. Gotta cut them down to size, but cheap, easy, and works.
Have a featherweight fedora that is now fine hanging on a rack, used to have a dent no matter what. Worth a try...

thanks JT - great hats!!

 

[Colby Jack]

I have run out of space. (Got to figure out a way to make more room!)

J.T. ...I alway love seeing that picture!:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Colby Jack]

I've found that I tend to reach for the hat on the rack rather than get one out of a box. I've gathered that some here plan which hats they'll be wearing in the upcoming week and get those out and put away the ones from the week before but I don't plan that far ahead. It doesn't help that I don't get out of the house much these days (not currently employed) and when I do go out I'm usually dressed fairly casually so I just grab what's at hand.

I need to snap a photo of the hat stand I recently bought. I'm not sure where I'm going to keep it as it's a free-standing one designed more for in-store hat display. If I recall correctly it holds 24 hats. Once I get it loaded up I'll have plenty to chose from "what's at hand."

Regards,
Tom

Hmmmmm...let's see a pic of that hat stand!

 

[Colby Jack]

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap This thread is a religious experience!:eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[feltfan]

Anyone win this?

This is a system I've never seen before.
Seems like it'd be best for stiff hats, like bowlers.

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-1920S-SEARS-MODEL-HOME-WROUGHT-IRON-MENS-HAT-RACK_W0QQitemZ180211146176QQihZ008QQcategoryZ37913QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem