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tempestbella42 said:....i thought this was another pet thread!!
That's funny. You mean you didn't have a GREEN one? lol lol
tempestbella42 said:....i thought this was another pet thread!!
Feraud said:This is exactly my line of reasoning. You can offer as many colors are you like but how many men are going to wear these hats?
I will guess male consumers in the past were not so different from today and made conservative purchases.
HarpPlayerGene said:That's funny. You mean you didn't have a GREEN one? lol lol
johnnyphi said:According to Mr. Cohen, the owner of Hirsch's, he stopped carrying Stetsons sometime around 1948 because Stetson started requiring stores to purchase several thousand dollars of merchandise annually. He told me that Stetson didn't want to deal with the smaller stores, and that is why he stopped carrying Stetsons. I don't understand Stetson's logic, but that was the hayday of fedoras, so maybe they thought they could live without the small shops.
(Mr. Cohen also told me that Levi's did the same thing. I remember him telling me that he stopped carrying their jeans in the mid 80's because they required him to buy a minimum of $10,000 worth of jeans, per year. )
HATCO said:Hatco was owned by Levis in the early 80s I think...
jimmy the lid said:This thread seems familiar.
A 1940 Stetson ad touts the fact that the Playboy was then available in over 30 shades. I think "shades" -- rather than "colors" -- is a better way to think about it. For example -- I imagine that, at the time of the 1954 "24 Color" ad, there were probably at least 4 "shades" of brown and gray, respectively. Throw in shades of blue, green, and tan and things start to multiply faster than you might think.
Cheers,
JtL
HATCO said:Right now we offer about 34 different colors on our felt hats. I doubt they stocked them though, as back then the vast majority of hats had the shops name foil stamped into the leather sweat band. The stamping needs to be done before the sweatband is attached to the hat. Unless Stetson stocked sanded and flanged hat bodies that only needed to be trimmed with the ribbon and sweatband I imagine an order from a hat shop was made from scratch.
GWD said:I did a quick and dirty scan on the lounge for Whippets and collected them all and put them in an Album. Taking in account for all the different lighting variables, I put them in an order of similar colors. I think 24 is very possible considering the slightly different shades shown here. Also, the different ribbon and binding colors may qualify as color variations too.
Here is the Album.
ScottF said:I didn't see a straw Whippet in there:
Every kind of collector is predictable in one way or another. At least one concern always involves monetary value.GWD said:This wasn't what I had envisioned when I started this thread. But it is interesting nevertheless.
It's also interesting how this thread and the one started by JTL are so very similar in content both going off topic almost immediately talking about the $100.00 hat and its worth in todays dollar.
I don't know what it means but I'm sure it means something about the predictability of vintage hat collectors.
GWD said:I'd like to see the liner and the sweatband on that straw!