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Rosollino Milano - Qualita Superiore - Beaver Blend
Yesterday... the first day of cooler weather for us here in South Florida gave good occasion to wear my Rosollino Milano
This hat was one of... if not the first... hats I bought a couple years ago when I decided I wanted to start wearing felt hats again. As with most of the hats I got around that time I believe I paid somewhere around 5 bucks for this. At this point I knew literally nothing about felt hats and their quality and brands etc. which is probably a good thing because it’s probably not the kinda had I’d go looking for. This old beat up well worn hat is actually one of my favorites. And interestingly I get more comments and compliments on this hat than really any of my others. Usually things along the lines of that is a great hat it suits you so well... which is odd when it comes from a passerby.
The felt has a velvet/velour texture to it. Very soft. It seems to prefer this slouchy center dent pinch it has. It has an overwelt brim attached with a this single line of stitching. It’s hat band is a multi-hued corded band. The stingy brim is about 1 3/4 on the front. Maybe a tad more on the sides and back. It’s crown at the highest point of how it sits is about 5 inches... 3 3/4 at the lowest.
The inside is mostly unremarkable.... other than being fairly worn. The underside of the 7 1/8 size tag is a union label. The liner is glued in. Did not find any manufacturing tags inside. The does appear to be some type of a resizing tape inside the sweat which would explain why this 7 1/8 doesn’t flop around on my head the way my others do now that I’ve lost some weight. It fits about like a 7.
I’ll end with this story about this hat. About a year ago... I made the mistake of leaving this hat on the passenger side dash of the car. I returned to find one of the kids had knocked it to the floor and stomped it so flat it had the pattern of their sneaker sole emblazoned in the felt. After a few choice words (clearly directed toward myself for leaving it there [emoji6] ). And figuring that’s probably the end of this one. I picked it up and was so pleasantly surprised is my fingers quickly creased it back into its slouchy shame and smoothed the shoe prints right out of the felt.
Best,
Joe
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Great story. That will remain one of your favorites no matter how many high dollar hats you end up with.
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