My first non-Indy...

[Wild Root]

I like it!

Ok, you know what this reminds me of? I've seen many guys in old movies from the 40's and 50's with different looking blocks... this totally reminds me of a look that would be seen in some what of a "Noir" film. Don't look Australian in any way, for it to look that way it would need one side of the brim flipped up and a pleated ribbon.

Reason some guys don't like it is because it's different or unusual to their eye.... I like it, it's different! Good job!

=WR=

 

[Marc]

Thanks for the honest replies gents!

I'll write a little trevia, to tell why the hat looks the way it does: The hat was made entirely from scratch using Portugal pure beaver felt. My collegue wanted it as stiff and thick as humanly possible. I had this body left over from the several sample batches I ordered when looking for the right thickness and amount of stiffness for the Indy Fedora I make and he liked it. Only he wanted the crown as low as humanly possible... I made a couple of prototypes with a rawbody I have to "play" with and showed them to the man, just to hear "too high" again and again. Finally I figured that the only way to get the crown down to the desired size, is by making the middle bump higher in order to be able to still have a head inside. He liked it, so I started working on his hat.

Finally after the body was pounced and creased and the sweatband was sewn in, I showed him a couple of vintage ribbons, that Steve has been kind enough to send to me. He picked the one shown at an instance. After showing long discussions and a couple of prototype bows, he picked the one that made it on the final hat. I gave the final hat to him this morning and he was extremely happy with it.

Now, do I like it? Not really. I don't like low crowned hats very much at all. Would I wear it? - Nope. If someone gave it to me, I'd reblock it and make a Fedora out of it (though it's just to thick and stiff to ever make a good Fedora in my book). But my collegue likes it the way it is. And it's him who'll be wearing it.

Regards,

Marc

 

[Wild Root]

I'd call it a fedora... just a fedora with a special block. If he loves low crowns, you should make him a pork-pie like Buster Keaton's!

 

[dr greg]

australian view

I like it and it doesn't look like a classic Aussie block to me, I'd be putting beads of silicon or small iron ons inside those corners tho, because in my experience they'll wear very quickly
BTW 'pleated' hat bands for Digger's hats are known as Puggarees

 

[Marc]

Now THAT is a low crown!!! Jeez, where's the place for the sweatband?

Regards,

Marc

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

I'd call it a fedora... just a fedora with a special block. If he loves low crowns, you should make him a pork-pie like Buster Keaton's!

That's no pork pie, that's a Moon Pie! lol

 

[scotrace]

It's Wally's hat

 

[Fedora]

This hat looks to me like tipical Indy fedora.

It looks nothing like an Indy fedora. All that it shares is the color. Fedora