Stetson Playboy and Barcelona

[Dinerman]

I've got my fingers crossed on these, because they are exactly my thing. No size listed, only the one picture, and a meager listing full of misspellings. I'm praying they are either 7-1/8 or 7-1/4, and not 6-5/8 or anything like that. I only found the listing with 20 minutes left on it, so I didn't have time to ask the seller for the size, but figured that for 11.50 total, I'd take the gamble.

According to the listing, the light grey one (the one on the left) is a stetson Playboy, and the other one's a Barcelona.

 

[DanielJones]

Good luck with that Dinerman. If they are what you hope you got a steal. We'll keep our collective fingers crossed.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Baron Kurtz]

man, if that one on the left is a Playboy, and it's a size 7 with a greater than 2" brim, i want it! What a wonderful colour (assuming the colour is accurate).

Are the caveats getting on your nerves yet?

bk

 

[Dinerman]

man, if that one on the left is a Playboy, and it's a size 7 with a greater than 2" brim, i want it! What a wonderful colour (assuming the colour is accurate).

Well- I sincerely hope it's not a size 7
I hope it has a brim greater than 2" (pretty sure it does)
and I hope it's that color, because I like that color.

 

[DOUGLAS]

I was looking at those. The cream colored hat looks great. Congrats Dman!! I am sure if they don't work out for you I'm sure you will be able to release them here easily

 

[Baron Kurtz]

btw the one on the left is definitely the playboy (ribbon is unmistakable). that bim looks pretty stingy from here. Hope not, but seems that way . . .

bk

 

[Dinerman]

Playboy air-light

Jeez- talk about fast shipping.
And it fits!
It's the lightest weight hat I own.
Ventilated crown
"air-light" designation on the sweat
crazy thin sweat, sewn directly to the felt
stitching around the edge of the raw edge brim.
Reverse taper.
2-1/8 inch brim
5-1/2 inch crown

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Show and tell with the Barcelona, please.

.

 

[Dinerman]

It's a size 7,so it doesn't fit me. Also seems pretty new.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

man, don't sweat into that sweatband before you've had some leather conditioner on it! Looks pretty fragile. I've made this mistake - the really thin sweats just disintegrate when the sweat dries . . .

bk

 

[Dinerman]

Baron- will do.

I'll be damned if I can find another playboy anywhere on the lounge with these specs, or this sweatband logo. I've also never seen a stetson with a royal blue sweatband ribbon.

 

[Dinerman]

Here's all the undersweat info.
1-3/4 SOFTLW (1-3/4 inch sweat, soft, light weight)?
And enough 7-1/8 tags to choke a horse with.

 

[Dinerman]

Looks like the air-light designation lasted from 1934 to 1937. So I guess this would be the first generation of stetson playboys.
The ads say that it weighs 2 oz. sounds about right.

 

[Pilgrim]

Dinerman - at home I have a grey Playboy with about a 2" brim - I don't think it's 2.25", but not sure. I'll look it over (may not be tonight) and see if there are similarities.

 

[cooncatbob]

Well- I sincerely hope it's not a size 7
I hope it has a brim greater than 2" (pretty sure it does)
and I hope it's that color, because I like that color.

The Adam I got last week was a 7 and I stretched it out to 7 1/4. It's trying to spring back on me a bit but yesterday I reapplied lexol to both sides of the sweat band and put it back on the stretcher.
Bob.

 

[Dinerman]

The Adam I got last week was a 7 and I stretched it out to 7 1/4. It's trying to spring back on me a bit but yesterday I reapplied lexol to both sides of the sweat band and put it back on the stretcher.
Bob.

I don't think the Barcelona is worth stretching, and the Stetson doesn't need it.

 

[vonwotan]

Dinerman, that Playboy really is something! Great find.

 

[Dinerman]

Well- I wore it today. Hardly noticed it, it was so light. The brim turns down enough (unlike '60s stingies) to shade the eyes.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Looks like the air-light designation lasted from 1934 to 1937. So I guess this would be the first generation of stetson playboys.
The ads say that it weighs 2 oz. sounds about right.

Well that looks like the just-pre-Royal-Royal-deluxe etc designations so your timing sounds about right. As a side note, that hat book we discussed a couple days ago has ahat from 1950 sitting on a scale, and it weighs just on 2 Oz.

bk

 

[DBFedora]

Looks great, Dinerman. Love the tie, too!:fedora: