My first vintage fedora 1940 Borsalino

[SHARPETOYS]

This is my first vintage fedora.i wear a size 7 3/8 and this one is a size 7 1/4 so i'll need to reblock it, so off to Optimo and i'll let them fix her up for me.I was talking with Kevin at Optimo on Vintage hats and he said buying one 1 size to small or 1 size to big and reblocking it should not damage the fur felt.It sure gives me some more options on finding vintage fedora's. I want a light to medium grey next.This vintage hat chasing is alot of fun !!!http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2859655713&category=2998&rd=1

 

[Nathan Flowers]

Sounds like the hat is a good find, but the picture is a 404 not found for me. If you need help posting it, just email me.
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[Fedora]

Reblocking a hat a couple sizes too small or too large has really helpd me in getting vintage hats. If I had my druthers though, I would rather reblock a larger hat down to my size. I have gone both ways and it is just easier for me to downsize. Sometimes a smaller hat wants to revert, crownwise back to what it was. But, if you go only one hat size up in the reblock, you should not have any problems since one hat size is not that much of a difference. Fedora

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Congratulations, Sharpetoys :eusa_clap

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[Dinerman]

Marc- isn't this thread three and a half years old?

 

[WEEGEE]

Time Passages

Congratulations and hows that hat more then three years later ?


Time Passages

Al Stewart & Peter White

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow
All round the day was going down slow
Night like a river beginning to flow
I felt the beat of my mind go
Drifting into time passages
Years go falling in the fading light
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Well I'm not the kind to live in the past
The years run too short and the days too fast
The things you lean on are the things that don't last
Well it's just now and then my line gets cast into these
Time passages
There's something back here that you left behind
Oh time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn
Don't know why you should feel
That there's something to learn
It's just a game that you play

Well the picture is changing
Now you're part of a crowd
They're laughing at something
And the music's loud
A girl comes towards you
You once used to know
You reach out your hand
But you're all alone, in these
Time passages
I know you're in there, you're just out of sight
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight


Year of the Cat

Al Stewart & Peter Wood

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Congratulations and hows that hat more then three years later ?

It's never too late to be nice.

 

[Jerekson]

What exactly is going on here? [huh]

 

[Mr. Lucky]

What exactly is going on here? [huh]

Narrator:
It's just a jump to the left.

All:
And then a step to the right.

Narrator:
Put your hands on your hips.

All:
You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.