New member from Italy.

[riccardo]

Good evening,
i'm a new enter, i'm from Italy... i see that you,in America, are more interested than our about hats...wearing...(sorry for my english).
I love the hats, the hat lifestyle,i have three hats,a Borsalino "Country";
a Panizza "Kanguroo"; a Stetson "Ojus" a beautiful straw hat. Now i am waiting for a Montecristi Panama Hat from Montecristi grade "super fino", i have bought it at "Panama hats direct" and i'mm very ansious to put it on my head!
Now i try to send this my message..and see you,all, later. HI!

 

[Brad Bowers]

Welcome, Riccardo! I just love the increasing international flavor the Lounge is taking on. Don't apologize for your English. It is better than most of our Italian. I have a Borsalino from the 1940s that I just love. It's my favorite hat.

I've never heard of Panizza. Post some photos of your hats so we can all enjoy them!

Brad

 

[riccardo]

Something about "PANIZZA"

Hi Brad,
I can't post my Panizza hat's photo becouse i haven't got any, but in the future i'll try to do it.
Anyhow...Panizza is an Italian old hatter firm, now you can search its web site with GOOGLE: i don't remember the exact address.
And then, here are 11,00 P.M., i am going to sleep!!
Hi Brad, enjoy your Borsalino, visit Panizza site.
Have a nice day!
Riccardo.

 

[riccardo]

Panizza web site.

...ok ok...here is the address:
www.panizzacappelli.it
there is a nice videocatalogue in english version...
good night!
Riccardo.

 

[Canadave]

Benvenuto riccardo, it's nice to have you here. Like Brad says, don't worry about your English...we can understand you perfectly. You're talking about hats!

David

 

[Johnnysan]

Caio, Riccardo!

Welcome to the Fedora Lounge. Where do you live in Italy? I have family in Milan and Padova. One of my favorite hats belonged to my grandfather who brought it with him from Italy, but who died here before I was born. It was made by Adolpho Pioppi in Verona. Benvenuto!
:cheers1:

 

[Victor]

Welcome Riccardo!
My mother was born in Livorno and her father used to love his Borsalinos. Good to have you here and happy to see a fellow Italian.

 

[Biltmore Bob]

I spent a little line in Siggonella, Catania, and Taormina (Sicily).

 

[BellyTank]

Welcome Riccardo!

Heritage...
...my GreatX3 Grandfather was from Sicily... Caselli... sold violins
in Auckland, NZ.
...forgeddaboudit...
B
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[Canyon]

Ricardo, welcome to The Fedora Lounge!

 

[riccardo]

...how many Italian...

hi boys,
ok, i'm from Sicily (Sicilia) very near Sigonella, i'm 50 km on the south of it.
Sicilian old men are well known as "uomini con la coppola" in english... "men that wear a cap..." cap=coppola!!
Cap/coppola is weared from 70 80 years ago...a lot of old man wear it until today...(my english...)
In heart of Sicily there are a lot of man that wear coppola winter and summer...a very nice thing to see.

Bye.
Riccardo.

 

[BellyTank]

Ahhh.... a Sicillian- so... is Casselli (spelling? s/ss) quite a 'Sicillian' name?
my limited research points to 'yes' on that one but you're from there...
I've tried to research my family on my GX3 Granddads side but not found much.

Hope you have fun here and we can talk about more than Sicilly... he-he...
...eventually-

B
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[riccardo]

...your granddad...

Hi Belly,
i don't understand very good what you had wrote, i'm very limited...
you can search your family root in Palermo...Caselli is, in Palermo, the surname of an important (very important) magistrate.
Good luck!!
See you.
Riccardo.

 

[BellyTank]

That was pretty much it Riccardo- thanks-
B
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