Show us your chocolate, your camel, your browns

[memphislawyer]

I was looking at hats and thinking, well, brown is not so bad a hat color. I tried on a chocolate brown hat at Buckaroo and people there said its coloring was good on me. So I'd love to see pictures of hats with interesting contrasting and complimentary ribbon treatments. Mike had a pecan colored hat that looked great but I dont know if it would work as well on me. Sahara is too light I think.

So, let's see what you got?

 

[bowlerman]

Nice! Hard to imagine we don't have a thread on this already, but I like it.

My chocolate is tired, my camel is poor, my huddled masses of brown are yearning to breathe...

Ok nevermind.

I'll start with this one.
I love the color of my dark chocolate Bat Masterson bowler by Knudsen Hats. I wore it today, and am giving it some long needed woolen love.

 

[DJH]

I'm not a fan of brown hats (I do have a Brown Garrison Indy hat though), but I do rather like this Bates that I owned for a while.

I also have a Pecan from TonyB that i wear often

 

[jlee562]

I don't have many brown hats either.

However, my Dobbs Gay Prince, with suede finish, is one of my favorites:

And while I'm still in the queue for my Adventurebilt, my Christy's Adventurer in sable plays the part of my Indy lid:

 

[splintercellsz]

1930's Stetson Special Homdora (a term I made up for those Homburg→Fedora conversions). Pardon the attire, as I am wearing my Grey Campbell for the day, but put the Stetson on for the photo.

 

[bowlerman]

really sweet contributions already guys! brown is an area in which I need to expand as well. particularly an indie hat... David, you sold that Bates eh? that is a looker!
my closest thing to indie brown is this belamey burg.

 

[alanfgag]

I have oodles of browns... here is the one I wore today:

 

[Cattus Petasatus]

Here's my Fed IV wising it was somewhere other than work (reposted from the still life thread)

And here's my American Hat Co. cowboy converted to fedora.

OK, OK, so this one isn't a fedora, but it is brown (and you've gotta love Christmas presents from your mother-in-law)

 

[casechopper]

Knox superfine

Akubra Fed IV

Tan Miller (probably the Douglas model) - sold today

Akubra Cattleman in, I believe, santone fawn

Lee Western long hair

Taupe Borsalino that I used to have

 

[Brando11]

Akubra Federation- I like this hat far more than I expected. Great curl on the sides and front swoop.

 

[jlee562]

Ahh, seeing that peluche Borso reminded me that I actually have a brown hat on my head right now.

Long hair, heathered brown 1959 Knox Fox Hound.

 

[RBH]

Here is my Beaver Brown Buckaroo....

 

[Thunderball]

Camel Buckaroo with an Art Fawcett bow

Pecan VS

 

[jrbobbyh]

Also try this page in the Art Fawcett thread:

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?13023-Art-Fawcett-VS-Hall-of-Fame/page753

Bobby

 

[randooch]

Okay, so I'm a literalist.

Dobbs Twenty, my wife's Champ, a bitter bar of pure goodness, and, of course, my camel.

 

[Garrett]

:eusa_clap

 

[RBH]

Oh... you mean that camel.

 

[Mystic]

Brown hats were a surprise for me. Never had much in the way of brown attire except for brown coats, shoes and occasional dk. brown sweater. Blue and gray were my primary colors.
My first 2 fur felts were mid-60's Stetson fedoras from the same person. 1 medium gray, 1 dark brown.
To my surprise the brown hat proved to be more versatile than the gray hat and had a richer nicer color than the gray.

I have about 10 or 11 hats in various shades of brown from dark chocolate to pecan to tan. A couple of favorites...

Chocolate Whippet:

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Dark brown Knox:

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Pecan Marathon:

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Resistol Harry Rolnick:

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[MikePotts]

Here's a nice old Lamson Hubbard

that I wear with tweedy stuff

it's one of my favourites - very light too!

 

[memphislawyer]

Some great looking hats. I agree that I think brown may work a lot wider than some other colors. The buckaroo hat in beaver/brown worked very well with my blue suit. I think it works better than black and is more versatile. Camel may work for me also.