Nice ribbon work.
I need more coffee.
P1220155 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
P1220156 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
P1220157 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
P1220165 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Nice! That's my kinda style !23 feels like 10. Nuff said. Borsalino Torino is doing the job for my head, but my ears are suffering.
I think I caught a cold while taking the pictures.
At least I'm sure sneezing a lot for some reason.
Winter be arrived. High of 8 a couple of days next week according to the prognosticators.
Seems to be a lot of nice hat going around today. Hope it's catchy.
Michael
Thanks Wesslyn. Your Dobbs, leather and fancy knit sweater look pretty prime too. And speaking of Jet 707, I wish I was leaving on one.
Man, that looks like some luxuriant felt. What age do you ascribe to it? A great block, crease and condition beauty.Wearing my recently received Hückel... glad I have this jacket to back it.
Thanks for the detailed photos and description of your block making Kuki. Or do you prefer Cristina? How does the foam hold up to steam or ironwork? Or how doesn't it? I need a good open crown block that is fit to my head. Or so I think at least.Hi Michael, Here are some pics of the block, as you can see I first wonkily rough shaped it with a hot wire, it's made of layers some sort of high density isolation foam. I would normally make my blocks out of layers of compressed cork, but it's expensive stuff and requires a lot of elbow grease (although obviously it's more durable), but I had a sheet of this stuff and gave it a go (it's on a layer of cork, but I did not block it so high). The shape of the block is precisely the shape of the resulting block, no bashing required.
The hard work was replicating the shape in a larger size (see last pic), that takes so much more work and time than doing a new shape.
The party was more of a come and try on a hat shindig, directed both at first time hat wearers and also at hat lovers that want to try new styles. It was actually fun for me to see my hats on different kinds of people/heads... I had made some high crown homburgs that I though were a failure but lo and behold they looked awesome on some of the guys who tried them on (and dreadful on others).
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Appreciate the kind words Red!!
John Lofgren Monkey Boots Shinki Horsebuttt - $1,136 The classic monkey boot silhouette in an incredibly rich Shinki russet horse leather. 
Grant Stone Diesel Boot Dark Olive Chromexcel - $395 Goodyear welted, Horween Chromexcel, classic good looks. 
Schott 568 Vandals Jacket - $1,250 The classic Perfecto motorcycle jacket, in a very special limited-edition Schott double rider style. 
Bolero, what is it about Banzai trees that people are constantly trimming them? Do they get out of control that quickly? Always wondered about this
40, blown away by every hat
Alan, ditto
Harv, it is amazing how good you look in caps. I love all your hats and you look great in them, too. But, you look like a character a movie could be built around in that cap!
Stetson today
This one I got from Alan. He took a chance on this one from a questionable ebay listing and passed it on to me last year
