The Dobbs Diner...

[Blare]

Dobbs Twenty project hat:

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This hat needs work, but the bones are good. It needs to have the sweatband re-sewn and a new ribbon. I’d also have it lured. Send me a PM if you are interested in the hat. If you want to use Wolfbrae, I can include it in my next shipment to him and and save you the shipping costs.

Looks like an older guild edge stamp.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Looks like an older guild edge stamp.

Lots of potential here. I hope someone who can restore it to its former glory wants it.

 

[Zombie_61]

Dobbs Twenty project hat...This hat needs work, but the bones are good. It needs to have the sweatband re-sewn and a new ribbon. I’d also have it lured. Send me a PM if you are interested in the hat. If you want to use Wolfbrae, I can include it in my next shipment to him and and save you the shipping costs.

Aww, nuts. I was thinking maybe you were gonna' up-size it for yourself and turn it into a stingy brim. Oh well, unless there's hidden damage somewhere on that felt someone is going to get a great hat!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Aww, nuts. I was thinking maybe you were gonna' up-size it for yourself and turn it into a stingy brim. Oh well, unless there's hidden damage somewhere on that felt someone is going to get a great hat!

My problem, Al, is that I find these great hats in need of refurbishment or repair and I just can’t let them go. I have way too many of these sorts of hats.

 

[Blare]

My problem, Al, is that I find these great hats in need of refurbishment or repair and I just can’t let them go. I have way too many of these sorts of hats.

It sure would look quite smashing with one of Roberts fabulous Wolf Brea liners.

 

[Zombie_61]

My problem, Al, is that I find these great hats in need of refurbishment or repair and I just can’t let them go. I have way too many of these sorts of hats.

I understand it. And it's one of the reasons I've self-imposed the rule to only buy hats for myself, hats that I intend to wear. I already have more than enough "projects" to work on before I die, and hats seemed to be the easiest for me to limit.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I know this is going back 12 years, but do you have an estimate on when Dobbs used the liner in your hat? I looked through the hatter professor but Brad doesn’t show this liner. Thanks!

 

[M Hatman]

I know this is going back 12 years, but do you have an estimate on when Dobbs used the liner in your hat? I looked through the hatter professor but Brad doesn’t show this liner. Thanks!

That looks like a early 40's hat there based on liner AND sweat logo.....but the tip logo was used again in the 70's and 80's.......same size, color etc......but not this hat!
Re-order tags should tell the tale for a closer guesstimate.....

 

[deadlyhandsome]

That looks like a early 40's hat there based on liner AND sweat logo.....but the tip logo was used again in the 70's and 80's.......same size, color etc......but not this hat!
Re-order tags should tell the tale for a closer guesstimate.....

Thanks, Mark. The hat has shipped, but it will be at least a week before I get it. It’s a Dobbs Challenger. The seller’s photos were none too good. Looks like the sweatband stitches have all popped, but I hope the sweatband can be salvaged.

 

[Blare]

I know this is going back 12 years, but do you have an estimate on when Dobbs used the liner in your hat? I looked through the hatter professor but Brad doesn’t show this liner. Thanks!

That looks like a early 40's hat there based on liner AND sweat logo.....but the tip logo was used again in the 70's and 80's.......same size, color etc......but not this hat!
Re-order tags should tell the tale for a closer guesstimate.....

Yeah I think that liner or one similar popped up from 40s to 80s as Mark said. I think I have one that’s prob 60s combined with the sweat though gives this one strong 40s almost 30s vibes

 

[M Hatman]

Thanks, Mark. The hat has shipped, but it will be at least a week before I get it. It’s a Dobbs Challenger. The seller’s photos were none too good. Looks like the sweatband stitches have all popped, but I hope the sweatband can be salvaged.

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I THINK I have an ad for that hat.....will have to look around. It looks to be unreeded which makes for a comfortable hat....,.AND a good possibility for wartime production. I have a couple of wartime books that encourage dealers to sell the customer unreeded sweats to save on production costs "for the war effort". Quite frankly my absolute most comfortable hats ARE the unreeded ones.....

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Dobbs Challenger in inky blue. Fantastic felt and supple reedless leather sweatband that needs to be re-sewn. The brim is 2 3/8” wide. The binding is wider on the bottom like on a homburg before the curl, but I don’t think this is a converted homburg. Interesting.

 

[Robert Heyer]

My summer Dobbs, Optimo and Fedora

 

[Just Daniel]

It makes one appearance there in the post of post WWII liners. Blink and you miss it.

I know this is going back 12 years, but do you have an estimate on when Dobbs used the liner in your hat? I looked through the hatter professor but Brad doesn’t show this liner. Thanks!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

It makes one appearance there in the post of post WWII liners. Blink and you miss it.

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What do you think about the binding being wider on the underside of the brim?

 

[Frunobulax]

What do you think about the binding being wider on the underside of the brim?

It happens. I have a few like that and they certainly were never Hommies.

 

[M Hatman]

What do you think about the binding being wider on the underside of the brim?

Yes........I have several camber hats, generally they will have a deep flange and are meant to be worn brim up, hence the wider binding to the "bottom" or in this case the front of the brim. For us Americans the style diminished after the 30's but was quite popular until then and had a short resurgence in the 50's.....for Europe...well they have always been around and I have a couple of fairly recent German and Italian camber felts.....
Here is a 50's Dobbs Camber with the wider binding to the front (under the brim) that I posted in the WHYWT thread a couple of weeks ago...it is one of my favorites....has a nice relaxed..."I don't care" attitude......

 

[Just Daniel]

Looks like the model type. Have we seen many Dobbs Challengers?

What do you think about the binding being wider on the underside of the brim?

 

[Frunobulax]

Looks like the model type. Have we seen many Dobbs Challengers?

Found this while trying to make a Dodge Challenger joke.

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/dobbs-challenger.17753/

 

[Frunobulax]

Found this while trying to make a Dodge Challenger joke.

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/dobbs-challenger.17753/

Oops, I apologize. I think there may actually be negative information in that thread. I didn't preview the thread before I posted.