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Great! These are the lightest hats I have handled. Enjoy it.
Alan, do you have any photos of any "pocket hats" folded up? The middle crease on this one is clearly visible.Great! These are the lightest hats I have handled. Enjoy it.
Alan, do you have any photos of any "pocket hats" folded up? The middle crease on this one is clearly visible.
Very cool Alan! I think I will keep my hat away from the coffin! Weren't those used for American tourists to easily pack their new Italian hat in their luggage for the journey back home?I've purchased quite a few Borsalinos with their triangular coffins... most if not all were 60 years old, brand new and had never lived outside the box. The Pocket Hat was one of these.
This is another:
and another...
It can take quite a bit of work to get them into wearable shape.
Here is the Pocket Hat after smoothing with steam and an iron on a block and flange:
At the end, usually some trace of living in a box remains.
The Pocket Hat with its fabric sweatband is the only one I would roll again. And I have.
Very cool Alan! I think I will keep my hat away from the coffin! Weren't those used for American tourists to easily pack their new Italian hat in their luggage for the journey back home?
Great! These are the lightest hats I have handled. Enjoy it.
damn you Rick Clark !!!!!
(fist in the air looking to the sky)
Very nice score Rick!
Two Borsalino browns - post war to early 1950s. Inside and outside, Curdo (left) and Monlov (right).
Borsalino centerpieces for the wedding ?
... Brilliant !!!!!
Daniele, why is the wind trolley not "Italian style?"
Or am I misunderstanding something?
A special wedding-springtime composition with Borsalino as centrepiece.....not bad