The Open Road Guild

[DanielJones]

Got it!

Love this hat. It became my instant favorite next to my Adam Premier. It took it's shape rather quickly and with very little steaming.

I think this will have to be the hat of choice for our Disneyland trip here soon.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

It must be leftover from when you were a kid. Remember ordering stuff from comics? It took forever too.

I waited forever for the x-ray glasses and the tough guy leather wrist cuff.:lol

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Visigoth]

Okay, this is making me heartsick. I tried to bid on this Dobbs Fifty -- a classy Open Road if I've ever seen one -- and they wouldn't let me put in a bid, because my address is in Mexico. And it went for *13.00*.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320005282418

I'm trying the sour grapes angle: perhaps it's a stiff cowboy hat, and I wouldn't like it?

 

[Rick Blaine]

If it makes ya' feel any better

Okay, this is making me heartsick. I tried to bid on this Dobbs Fifty -- a classy Open Road if I've ever seen one -- and they wouldn't let me put in a bid, because my address is in Mexico. And it went for *13.00*.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320005282418

I'm trying the sour grapes angle: perhaps it's a stiff cowboy hat, and I wouldn't like it?

I watched that one fail to make its reserve the first time it was up, and this time I was watching, but just decided to let it go...
...besides, aren't you a 7 1/2?
...the seller stated an inner circumfrence of 22 1/8"... that is why I (at 23") thought better of persuing it... also that brim was 3 1/4" if it was an inch!

 

[Visigoth]

Sigh... I'm 7 1/4. Would have fit me nicely. Do you mean that the brim is on the wide side for an Open Road?

 

[Rick Blaine]

Sigh... I'm 7 1/4. Would have fit me nicely.

Nuts! :eusa_doh: Yeah, ya' might've made it work at that...

Do you mean that the brim is on the wide side for an Open Road?

Yeah ... looks that way to me.
Speaking for myself... I could't be trusted to successfully cut down a brim. I would screw it up!

 

[tonyb]

Sure looks wider than an OR's brim to me, and the edge isn't bound. But, you know, that doesn't mean I'd kick it out of my collection.

 

[ideaguy]

Tony-

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[ideaguy]

Tony-

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[Tony in Tarzana]

Latest one (for now)

This is a 3X Beaver O.R. that seems to be from a transitional period. It still has the translucent fabric between the sweat and the liner, but the liner isn't sewn in. It isn't glued, either, but it appears to be held in with several short squares of tape. Not Scotch tape or masking tape, but some sort of kraft paper.

Anyhow, what do you think? Brim up or down? The thin, relatively soft felt with the bound edge seem happy either way.



Hey, what's that? It Tony actually smiling in that first shot? (actually I was laughing as I clicked the button... I'll have to remember that technique.)

 

[tonyb]

I vote brim up, Tarzana. Seems to work better with that crown treatment. Some of mine, with the fedora pinch crowns, I wear with the brim "pulled" down in front--not snapped, but just sorta dipped. Anyone know what that brim shape is called?

 

[jamespowers]

This is a 3X Beaver O.R. that seems to be from a transitional period. It still has the translucent fabric between the sweat and the liner, but the liner isn't sewn in. It isn't glued, either, but it appears to be held in with several short squares of tape. Not Scotch tape or masking tape, but some sort of kraft paper.

Anyhow, what do you think? Brim up or down? The thin, relatively soft felt with the bound edge seem happy either way.

I say brim down.
Check that liner for needle holes. Some hatters just put that kraft tape in to hold the liner in instead of actually sewing in back in after they finished cleaning a hat. I have several that have that done to them. The good nes is that it was never glued and it can be sewn back in anytime you want.
As an aside, no offense intended but why does your avatar remind me of this guy?:

[huh]

Regards,

J

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

No offence taken, Victor Buono was a wonderful actor. A real style icon for larger guys.

Yeah, I'm going with brim up, except when the sun's in my eyes. The soft felt with the bound edge lends itself to being flipped up and down easily.

 

[jamespowers]

I keep thinking of him as King Tut in the Batman series but he did many more things. He was quite a talented actor.

Regards,

J

 

[GentlemanFarmer]

Brim down

Tony, Tony, Tony. You lose "Mysterious" with the brim up. Keep the brim down.

tonyb - I don't "snap" my Open Road brim, just down. How about "semi-snap".

 

[Magus]

Open Road...Magus Style

Well gang...here she is.

A little cleaning, some time over the steaming tea kettle...and **bling** the Open Road "Magus Style". When I first got it I was worried that I might have a constant urge to say "What we have herrre is a failllure to comuuunicte." Instead I find myself wanting to buy a zoot suit. Its a sweet one for sure.

Enjoy,
M

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Well, Magus, that's the beauty of having more than one Open Road. I may have four, counting one that may be an OR but it hasn't shown up yet. The one I'm wearing in the picture came with a perfect cattleman's crease, so that's how it'll stay. The others? Who knows?

 

[Magus]

I'm after an older vintage Blue Grey model...then thats it for me (in the OR dept.)

 

[jamespowers]

I'm after an older vintage Blue Grey model...then thats it for me (in the OR dept.)

Sure, that's what I said:

And this is only half of it.

Regards,

J

 

[tonyb]

tonyb - I don't "snap" my Open Road brim, just down. How about "semi-snap".

That'll work for me. I kinda like those brims to swoop down a bit starting at around the temples and then back up just a tad at the front. Maybe that ain't the best way to descibe it, but I imagine you get the gist.