What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[broll22]

Gray skies provide a fine contrast for my Stratoliner. Really enjoy wearing this one, love the color.

 

[Steve1857]

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Bottom photo channeling @steur, with one eye, as I was first taught in 1971.

Wonderful looking Borsalino from the thin ribbon treatment and colour to the shade of brown, shape, and liner, Charlie.

 

[Steve1857]

An unlined Playboy for some unexpected spring-like weather.

Happy Monday, all.

David
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An unlined Playboy for some unexpected spring-like weather.

Happy Monday, all.

David
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Great looking Playboy, David. Unusual wind cord. Don't recall seeing one with a cord over the ribbon before.

 

[Steve1857]

Gray skies provide a fine contrast for my Stratoliner. Really enjoy wearing this one, love the color.

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Great colour indeed. Kind of Akubra bluegrass green. Nice ribbon, bow, and binding treatment, too.

 

[quikrick]

I've been hanging out in the Beret section lately.
Here I'm sporting a black denim jacket with the Ed Roth's "Big Daddy" RAT FINK.
Oh, and a grey beret.

 

[broll22]

Great colour indeed. Kind of Akubra bluegrass green. Nice ribbon, bow, and binding treatment, too.

Thank you!

 

[Steve1857]

Thank you!

You're most welcome, and welcome to the FL btw.

 

[Blare]

Glad things have taken an upward turn.
I couldn’t imagine how your hat collection could take an upward turn, but you always seem to find a way.

Thank you Gary

Distraction this morning provided for me by this Borsalino thin ribbon… View attachment 407792 View attachment 407793 View attachment 407794 View attachment 407795 View attachment 407796 View attachment 407797
Bottom photo channeling @steur, with one eye, as I was first taught in 1971.

Looks great Charlie.

 

[Blare]

An unlined Playboy for some unexpected spring-like weather.

Happy Monday, all.

David
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Really sharp David

 

[hatsRme]

Thank you Gary

Looks great Charlie.

Thanks, Joe!
Glad to see you back to poking around at least, my friend. We miss your happy face!
Steady as she goes; Be well, chin up, hats as you like them.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Gray skies provide a fine contrast for my Stratoliner. Really enjoy wearing this one, love the color.

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Looks good! There’s a reason Stetson has been making Stratoliners for so long. I’m sorry to see that you’re a size 7 5/8…tough going in the vintage market.

 

[Mighty44]

Really sharp David

Thanks Joe!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Following Charlie’s lead: charcoal grey Borsalino thin ribbon by way of VS:

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Gorgeous black hat, Randall.

Thanks, Perry.
You didn’t ask but here’s a pic of the inside anyway.
I feel led to since @carouselvic finally posted inside pics of one of the many of his outstanding lids.
Plus, it’d be nice if someone could tell me if mine is one of the earliest versions of Vita-Felt or one of the later versions.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

40’s Royal Stetson Vita-Felt this has the corrugated sweatband like a Borsalino


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Wow. Had read somewhere that the Vita-Felts were made to take the place of Borsas during the big war, but didn’t know Stetson would copy a Borsalino so closely. How bout that.

 

[broll22]

Looks good! There’s a reason Stetson has been making Stratoliners for so long. I’m sorry to see that you’re a size 7 5/8…tough going in the vintage market.

Thanks! And I have definitely started to notice that as I search around for vintage hats.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Distraction this morning provided for me by this Borsalino thin ribbon… View attachment 407792 View attachment 407793 View attachment 407794 View attachment 407795 View attachment 407796 View attachment 407797
Bottom photo channeling @steur, with one eye, as I was first taught in 1971.

Nice TAR, there Charlie. And a good one eye, as well!
I don’t try it any more since I cain’t do it right. I had posted that I was trying to channel my inner Robert Mitchum and one of you guys commented and said I had missed him widely, only to end up looking like Daffy Duck when he played a private eye.

Naw they didn’t. Just jokin.
But I felt daffy enough.
Just ain’t got “IT”.

 

[Blare]

Thanks, Joe!
Glad to see you back to poking around at least, my friend. We miss your happy face!
Steady as she goes; Be well, chin up, hats as you like them.

Thank you Charlie. Day by day…. Moving forward.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Thanks, Perry.
You didn’t ask but here’s a pic of the inside anyway.
I feel led to since @carouselvic finally posted inside pics of one of the many of his outstanding lids.
Plus, it’d be nice if someone could tell me if mine is one of the earliest versions of Vita-Felt or one of the later versions. View attachment 407892

Vita-Felts 42-47 if i recall.
B

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Vita-Felts 42-47 if i recall.
B

Thanks, B.
Sorry, I should’ve been more specific.
Was trying to get an estimate of where this hat fell between those years of 42 to 47.
Some Vitas of that period had “Vita-Felt Process” embossed into the sweatband and others had only “Vita-Felt” written on the liner tip. The old thread discussion on which came first wasn’t made clear to me when I read it.
I am not sure, but seems to me that the ones without the word, Process are the earlier versions.
This Vita Homburg that I got a few months ago displays clues of mid 40s hats, where my black one has clues of earlier 40s?
What do you think?