The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Hurricane Jack]

I need a top hat to play Ol’ Kris Kringle.

 

[BobHufford]

Splitting shingles at Wilson Forest Project near Lebanon, Tennessee. 1936.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Prohibition 1920 - 1933 ( exact yr not identified).

 

[Frunobulax]

Prohibition 1920 - 1933 ( exact yr not identified).

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License plate says 1919.

 

[Bamaboots]

License plate says 1919.

Expired tag.

 

[Frunobulax]

Expired tag.

Heh

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Can’t make out their names. Sort of an Old West Outlaws & Gunman’s Reunion, ca 1900.

 

[BobHufford]

I've got to start splitting next year's firewood this weekend. I swear that some of the pieces look like this. My arthritic shoulders are already starting to revolt.

 

[carouselvic]

 

[Zombie_61]

↑ I could be wrong, but I don't think the lady's dress is true Herringbone.

 

[Rmccamey]

A mighty good looking group, indeed.

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[hatsRme]

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Boy, ain’t that the truth.

 

[hatophile]

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Handsome group. They would be appalled at today's dress standards.

 

[BobHufford]

This drifted into my Facebook feed.

Timed or bulb operated photo taken by Charles E. Morris, the man in the suit, on the banks of the Yellowstone River in Montana in approx. 1906.

 

[Rmccamey]

It's interesting that hats worn in many of these old photos have much more organic creases. Lived in, for sure, but they are pretty cool looking hats nonetheless. I, on the other hand, obsess over every small detail of my hats and hardly ever wear my best ones! A modern day problem, I suppose, and a result of being able to easily afford more than one hat.

This drifted into my Facebook feed.

Timed or bulb operated photo taken by Charles E. Morris, the man in the suit, on the banks of the Yellowstone River in Montana in approx. 1906.

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[Mighty44]

It's interesting that hats worn in many of these old photos have much more organic creases. Lived in, for sure, but they are pretty cool looking hats nonetheless. I, on the other hand, obsess over every small detail of my hats and hardly ever wear my best ones! A modern day problem, I suppose, and a result of being able to easily afford more than one hat.

I’m always amazed by that—and how random and asymmetrical most of the bashes look even on well-dressed commuters in the city.

 

[BobHufford]

Snapped this pic of a 1940 theological seminary class (that was in a flea market) as I liked the hats. Excuse the quality.

 

[Zombie_61]

It's interesting that hats worn in many of these old photos have much more organic creases. Lived in, for sure, but they are pretty cool looking hats nonetheless. I, on the other hand, obsess over every small detail of my hats and hardly ever wear my best ones! A modern day problem, I suppose, and a result of being able to easily afford more than one hat.

I’m always amazed by that—and how random and asymmetrical most of the bashes look even on well-dressed commuters in the city.

We have to remember that society decided those men had to wear hats. In modern times we have the freedom to choose whether or not to wear a hat, but for them it was part of their daily "uniform" like their suits (if they were required to wear such). Most of them would rather not have bothered, or at least had the freedom to decide for themselves as we do now, so they didn't particularly care how their hats looked. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that most of them deliberately wore their hats sloppy in hopes that society would decide they were more of an eyesore than proper office wear, and discontinue their daily use.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Daguerreotype, nothing more known.