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Hat and Rehat

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It’s fairly modern, some sort of poly, poorly tacked ribbon, a bit dirty, too small for me and they stapled the price to the front brim ... but I couldn’t just LEAVE it there at the thrift store.

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Another hat rescue. It watms one's heart.

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Steve1857

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Hat and Rehat

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This arrived yesterday. Do to some confusion in communication, this hat was made to the specifications of my last hat rather than the specs I wanted.

Now I need to decide wether to send it back or to keep it. Either way I’m going forward with my original hat.

VS beaver fur felt in blue smoke.

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The photos of the hat in indirect light are the most accurate for color.


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Elephant binding and ribbon?

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Hat and Rehat

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“Elephant binding?” I’m not sure what you mean here.


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One source I found for true vintage grosgrain online, with the largest selection I had seen, and ended my searching, seemed very precise with the name designations of each color. This led me to believe they were being true to the vintage names given to each of the many hues. One color was a light grey which they called elephant, noting in parenthesis that it had a bit of pink in it.
I probably wouldnt have noted that, but I had already purchased vintage ribbon elsewhere in a package deal of five colors in five 10 yard rolls (which turned out to be the saw edged Petersham), and a light grey with a subtle lavender tint, which comes out more or less depending on the adjacent color, numbered among my rolls in +- 5/8". I'm not dead certain, but am pretty well convinced that the grey I have is the color called elephant by the other supplier.
I've shared pictures of my ex Forest Service silverbelly Western, which now wears a skinny (ish 5/8") ribbon. That's the color I mean, which looks the same as your ribbon against the light smoke.
I was asking you partly to confirm my conclusion about my own ribbon, which I purchased under a generic description, light grey. If VS identified the color as elephant it would go a long way toward affirming me.

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Trying out a reserved subdued stingy brim of my own:

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This is a hat that just makes me smile. I haven’t even brushed it yet; I just couldn’t wait to try it on. The fit is quite nice and I’m considering another.


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Well, erm, sometimes it's a good thing to be colourblind:). The style does look good on you though, Brent.
 

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