What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[Short Balding Guy]

Gorgeous lid. Looks like an incredible weave too. I like the fullness of the liner and the netting. Seems unusual for a montecristi, no? More common on boaters? Very cool.

Thanks Jeff. I have seen very few panama hats with this type of liner. The liner, the weave, the entirety of the hat is dynamite. I take it off and set it before me and I am captured by different details all the time. As to boaters I do not own any and have seen them on some posted "oldster" boaters on the forum, but never handled one.

Eric -

 

[Short Balding Guy]

View attachment 249602 been wearing more straws in the high heat and humidity. This ultrafino montecristi has been getting a lot of wear.

Glorious looking Monti. Heat and humidity morning, noon and evening have me surrendering to straw of late.

Jeff, interesting shirt promoting a Scarlatti marathon. The very same fellow who wrote 555 keyboard sonatas. A prodigious amount of the sonatas were written for harpsicord, which while is usually not a fav of mine,still finds me enjoying his bold harmonic audacity in using dissonance, different modulations and keys. I am not sure I could attend and have focused listening to the some 30+ hours of a Scarlatti marathon.

Cheers.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Churchill One Hundred today

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Figured as much: not much chance of any famous last words if you're shot in the throat. Don't know the books I have to confess: any reason why he didn't expect to see Aramis again?

Yes, definitely. Aramis was a Catholic Priest, and got to be the General of the Jesuits, but was a bad person, even if he was very loyal to the other three. He even manipulated and lied to Porthos to betray the King Louis XIV, which cost Porthos his life.
Athis and Porthos were good and honorable people, and had already died.
Aramis escaped France and was made duque de Alameda by the Spanish king.

 

[Steve1857]

View attachment 249600 40s Wormser is my choice today. It may rain as you can see. I’ll change it out with a beater I’m taking along if it does. Have to go measure up a new room addition job.

well, thanks, Steve. You are quite the caricature incarnated in flesh and made for great art work...in a really super cool way!

Thanks, Randall. I know I have some special features that make me desirable for artists
Great 40s Wormser today. I always admire them whenever they're posted. My collection lacks one. Just so folks know ;-)

 

[mayserwegener]

Nice example of early Tonak, Steve. All the Hückel quality was still there then.

Stefan, Thanks! The felt is great but a drop off in components but that is time and East Block adjusted.

 

[mayserwegener]

It ticks all the boxes, Steve. Outstanding hat!

Stefan, Thanks again! Fantastic duo from you with Borsalino "Ghiaccio" and "Dobbs"!

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Stetson 3X:

 

[steur]

Yes, definitely. Aramis was a Catholic Priest, and got to be the General of the Jesuits, but was a bad person, even if he was very loyal to the other three. He even manipulated and lied to Porthos to betray the King Louis XIV, which cost Porthos his life.
Athis and Porthos were good and honorable people, and had already died.
Aramis escaped France and was made duque de Alameda by the Spanish king.

Ah, that explains it (a bit). I really should give the books a try someday.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Ah, that explains it (a bit). I really should give the books a try someday.

It is a long read. First, The Three Musketeers, then, Twenty Years Later, and finally, the Viscount of Bragelonne.
All of them long, full books. My favorite is Twenty Years Later. Lots of adventure.

 

[johnnycanuck]

Wife said we were taking a break from bird rescue so I broke out my VS custome in green.

Then there was a lost post about a little yellow budgie. So it’s Akubra Cattleman again.

Have a great safe day everyone, and remember Domesticated pets belong in your house!.
Johnny

 

[Michael A]

Got out on the bike today under this old straw with the John Deere colors on the ribbon.
IMG_5468 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
IMG_5466 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Had to wear it low and view the world through the green visor, but it only blew off once. Ha ha.
IMG_5462 by Michael A2012, on Flickr

Have a good evening all,
Michael

 

[Blare]

Your drawing deserves pride of place on any wall, Randall. I'm the one who's flattered.
I've been extra flattered this year as two of my students deemed me worthy enough for their artistic talents. I received these two pictures as end of school presents.
If this carries on, I might have to hold an exhibition

What an honor Steve!

 

[Blare]

View attachment 249600 40s Wormser is my choice today. It may rain as you can see. I’ll change it out with a beater I’m taking along if it does. Have to go measure up a new room addition job.

well, thanks, Steve. You are quite the caricature incarnated in flesh and made for great art work...in a really super cool way!

Looking great Randall!

 

[Blare]

Wife said we were taking a break from bird rescue so I broke out my VS custome in green.
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Then there was a lost post about a little yellow budgie. So it’s Akubra Cattleman again. View attachment 249680
Have a great safe day everyone, and remember Domesticated pets belong in your house!.
Johnny

You must have tagged me in Johnny. My neighbor came knocking on my door. Said they had rescued a baby pigeon that fell out of its nest the day before (NOT Domesticated) They had cared for it in their house last night and they had Set it in the backyard to get some sun and “see if the parents came for it” I guess it had took off running under the fence into my yard. Apparently she didn’t want my dogs to eat it... or a snake.. I guess. So now it was me running around the back yard with a pillowcase or something she handed me chasing down this essentially tiny chicken. I was able to grab it and pass her back through the hole in the fence. Crisis averted.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Borsalino Panama:

 

[Blare]

Adam Mainliner Silverbelly

When my 60s Dobbs Westward Silverbelly showed up last week I immediately drew comparisons in my mind to my late 1960s Adam Mainliner. So I decided I would pull that one out and see how these two OR/Strat clones match up. Man are these two hats similar. The dimensions As you might expect are almost identical with 2 1/2 brims and around 5 inch crowns as shaped. Both with 3/8 thin Grosgrain ribbons and matching 1/8 binding. The Dobbs is ever so slightly more tan in color and it does have a thicker sweatband. Comparing the felt. The Dobbs is a bit thicker and more dense whereas the Adam felt is thinner and shapes a tad bit easier. My guess is the Dobbs May have been a bit of a ‘higher Level’ hat in comparison to this Adam as the Dobbs does have a wind trolley. Though for me I think I prefer the softer crown of the Adam even though the Dobbs May be a slightly ‘better quality’ felt. I Like the blockier look on the Adam crown. However all and all it’s splitting hairs. Separately you would not go wrong with either of these.

 

[Bushman]

Stetson 10X vented...

 

[mayserwegener]

Mayser "Spezial" possibly just post WWII or early 1940s.

This address was listed in the 1939 Gelsenkirchen City Address Book. The shop moved to a new location post WWII.

Mayser Advertising Stand, possibly mid 1950s.

Made by Josef Preissler Pforzheim (founded 1907)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Ah, that explains it (a bit). I really should give the books a try someday.

Longest read I have ever accomplished except for the 3,000 page, 1.3 million word trilogy of the Civil War by Shelby Foote.

Still too hot for anything but hemp when I went out before dark to pick up a half gallon bucket of Irish beef stew curbside. A bucket should last me a couple of days.

Unfortunately this bottle of Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey didn't.