That’s a great looking hat.
Steven
Thank you, sir
That’s a great looking hat.
Steven
Super, super color!!The second of the three recently purchased hats from Stefan, a Brummel's Fedora. This Belgian company had some links to Borsalino and there are a lot of features on this one that attest to that.
There's a great feel to the felt, and the overall shape is quite wide looking. View attachment 215892 View attachment 215893 View attachment 215894 View attachment 215895
Awesome soft tone. She’s a keeper!The second of the three recently purchased hats from Stefan, a Brummel's Fedora. This Belgian company had some links to Borsalino and there are a lot of features on this one that attest to that.
There's a great feel to the felt, and the overall shape is quite wide looking. View attachment 215892 View attachment 215893 View attachment 215894 View attachment 215895
Super, super color!!
B
Awesome soft tone. She’s a keeper!
Sweet, sweet, sweet, and suh-weeet!
That is one great posse of Westerns, Greg. Nice finds.
That’s a great looking hat. All of yours look great but the Marathon is my favorite.
Happy man in Alabam.
B
Thank you, Jim.
I appreciate that, Steve.
Thank you. Yes, sir. There is a lot to like about the Marathon. Unique color. More Strat like than anything on my rack and I usually lean more towards OR dimensions but I really like the 2 5/8” brim and the campaign bow. It’s probably the best felt out of this bunch of hats.
Quite so, B.
Some of the things I wanted to mention about the Shady Oaks. I’ve read some posts that suggest that these hats differ from an OR of the same era by about an 1/8” in crown height and brim width. The Shady Oaks measures 2/ 7/8 x 5 7/8 as best I can measure it. My 50’s RD OR brim measures the same but the crown is 5 5/8. Side by side, with the crowns open, it appears the Shady oaks may have had a bit straighter blocking. This could also be me seeing things with them too close to compare.
One note of interest to me was the sweat. The Stetson logo is nothing more than a surface print though the sweat is very high quality and unusual in the sense that it appears to be an unreded sweat, though not like one I’ve seen before. Upon close inspection you realize there is no reed or ferrule to hold the ends. It is a thin piece of fabric that the sweat is sewn to and that fabric is sewn to the hat. There are no sew holes through the felt, just as it is on an unreeded sweat. My point is; I’ve checked as closely as I can and find no evidence of any sort of reed but every hat with an unseeded sweat that I’ve held was leather sewn directly to felt.
This is a first for me. Perhaps some of you will enlighten me. The Marathon has a very similar sweat.
If it's what I'm thinking, it's akin to one I picked up a while back. I think Alan referred to it as a fabric reed.
Thank you, Jim.
The second of the three recently purchased hats from Stefan, a Brummel's Fedora. This Belgian company had some links to Borsalino and there are a lot of features on this one that attest to that.
There's a great feel to the felt, and the overall shape is quite wide looking. View attachment 215892 View attachment 215893 View attachment 215894 View attachment 215895
Plenty of thumbs up my friend.
Interesting observations indeed about the Amon SO, Greg.Thank you, Jim.
I appreciate that, Steve.
Thank you. Yes, sir. There is a lot to like about the Marathon. Unique color. More Strat like than anything on my rack and I usually lean more towards OR dimensions but I really like the 2 5/8” brim and the campaign bow. It’s probably the best felt out of this bunch of hats.
Quite so, B.
Some of the things I wanted to mention about the Shady Oaks. I’ve read some posts that suggest that these hats differ from an OR of the same era by about an 1/8” in crown height and brim width. The Shady Oaks measures 2/ 7/8 x 5 7/8 as best I can measure it. My 50’s RD OR brim measures the same but the crown is 5 5/8. Side by side, with the crowns open, it appears the Shady oaks may have had a bit straighter blocking. This could also be me seeing things with them too close to compare.
One note of interest to me was the sweat. The Stetson logo is nothing more than a surface print though the sweat is very high quality and unusual in the sense that it appears to be an unreded sweat, though not like one I’ve seen before. Upon close inspection you realize there is no reed or ferrule to hold the ends. It is a thin piece of fabric that the sweat is sewn to and that fabric is sewn to the hat. There are no sew holes through the felt, just as it is on an unreeded sweat. My point is; I’ve checked as closely as I can and find no evidence of any sort of reed but every hat with an unseeded sweat that I’ve held was leather sewn directly to felt.
This is a first for me. Perhaps some of you will enlighten me. The Marathon has a very similar sweat.
My first fedora. i got this from poshmark. it has a bump in the left side pinch likely from being hung on a hook. has anybody here made their own hat rack?
Ha.. that’s very cool right thereWhat a new hat day! Pretty cool to see that Raymond Reddington used to be a thin ribbon guy.
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Serious hat Steve!The second of the three recently purchased hats from Stefan, a Brummel's Fedora. This Belgian company had some links to Borsalino and there are a lot of features on this one that attest to that.
There's a great feel to the felt, and the overall shape is quite wide looking. View attachment 215892 View attachment 215893 View attachment 215894 View attachment 215895
The second of the three recently purchased hats from Stefan, a Brummel's Fedora. This Belgian company had some links to Borsalino and there are a lot of features on this one that attest to that.
There's a great feel to the felt, and the overall shape is quite wide looking. View attachment 215892 View attachment 215893 View attachment 215894 View attachment 215895
My first fedora. i got this from poshmark. it has a bump in the left side pinch likely from being hung on a hook. has anybody here made their own hat rack?