What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[Blare]

Here is the Grey Federation IV. It is quite the changeling.....has some blue tones here...some light looks very dark grey or even a medium grey. Very different from my first model grey Federation which is so dark most of the time it looks black.
Wearing to the shop today today i realized it needed a good brushing, then I re-flanged it as it was getting soft and "swoopy". Then I tightened up the C Crease to a full elongated Teardrop. Hard to photograph...I even elongated the center return crease to match.
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We have been seeing a LOT of rain...even on our "sunny" days so I have been keeping my Akubra's handy.
They are great all weather hats!!!!

I definitely see the blue tones coming through my screen

 

[Blare]

Mallory XV

 

[MikeinRome]

Mallory XV

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Lookin' good rockin' that Mallory!!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Mallory XV

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Very nice, Joe. My recent XV has the same liner, but your sweatband debossing with the tombstone logo makes me think yours is older than mine.

 

[StoryPNW]

It was so grey and rainy here today that a black and white photo felt appropriate. I wore my graphite Banjo Paterson today and then took this picture while taking the dog for a little walk after dinner.

 

[Rmccamey]

Yes, I will. Thank you. Mine is very well made and has a silky smooth felt and finish. I've always thought Penn Craft was Stetson's export line but I'm not sure of my source for such an assertion or whether it was just wishful thinking on my part. Here is an old catalog post from a few years back.

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That vintage cane, vintage as in Michael Caine? Penn-Craft is not a name that I have come across before, checking it out I came across a bowler like your's on E-Bay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/404130893625 You take good care of that fine lid.

Penn-Craft was made by Stetson as a sort of discount line.....

 

[Blare]

Lookin' good rockin' that Mallory!!

Thanks Mike!

Very nice, Joe. My recent XV has the same liner, but your sweatband debossing with the tombstone logo makes me think yours is older than mine.

Thanks Brent. Unfortunately I don’t believe I found any Union labels or other evidence under the hood to narrow it down more.

 

[MikeinRome]

Very nice, Joe. My recent XV has the same liner, but your sweatband debossing with the tombstone logo makes me think yours is older than mine.

Brent, the tombstone logo was used in some hats right up to the time of the Stetson takeover, as shown in these pics of my largest Mallory fedora, which has a post-Stetson 1817 date liner but has a sweatband with the tombstone logo with 1823 date. I've shown this hat previously on the Mallory Mile.

 

[Frunobulax]

Out the door under a Marathon thin ribbon.

 

[fabiovenhorst]

Cap day

 

[hatophile]

Black OR

 

[M Hatman]

Yes, I will. Thank you. Mine is very well made and has a silky smooth felt and finish. I've always thought Penn Craft was Stetson's export line but I'm not sure of my source for such an assertion or whether it was just wishful thinking on my part. Here is an old catalog post from a few years back.






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Yes...you answered your own question as they were sold here as the catalog shows. Now Stetson's idea of a discount hat was entirely different from the other hatters who still were cheaper than even Penn-Craft's.
Penn-Crafts were only a little cheaper than similar hats with the Stetson moniker, and they were quite well made as with all the Stetson's of the time.
So, YES....you have a nice hat!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Brent, the tombstone logo was used in some hats right up to the time of the Stetson takeover, as shown in these pics of my largest Mallory fedora, which has a post-Stetson 1817 date liner but has a sweatband with the tombstone logo with 1823 date. I've shown this hat previously on the Mallory Mile.

Thanks, Mike. There’s always more to learn and so many outliers. It doesn’t help that my memory just doesn’t seem to hold onto some facts.

 

[MikeinRome]

Thanks, Mike. There’s always more to learn and so many outliers. It doesn’t help that my memory just doesn’t seem to hold onto some facts.

I know. There's so many variables and versions for so many hats that you'd have to be a Rain Man to remember them all.

 

[M Hatman]

Wearing this today........

Then I re-worked this as I was not really happy with just the pork-pie crown.....this had a LOT of crown to work with so I went to town so to speak. 4 3/4" in front, 4 1/4" in back.......I THINK I am happy with this now....sort of a modified horse shoe.

 

[alanfgag]

This Stetson Fifteen (3X Beaver) displays some of the wonderful features of pre-war Stetson hats that would not return after WWII. Note the fixed windcord button, the decorative lacing and fine pitched stitches of the sweatband. This lush pine green fedora was sold at Silverwoods in L.A. sometime between 1938 and 1941.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Wearing this today........
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Then I re-worked this as I was not really happy with just the pork-pie crown.....this had a LOT of crown to work with so I went to town so to speak. 4 3/4" in front, 4 1/4" in back.......I THINK I am happy with this now....sort of a modified horse shoe.

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Love the crease, Mark.

 

[Steve1857]

Wearing this today........
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Then I re-worked this as I was not really happy with just the pork-pie crown.....this had a LOT of crown to work with so I went to town so to speak. 4 3/4" in front, 4 1/4" in back.......I THINK I am happy with this now....sort of a modified horse shoe.

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Wow! What a crease. Nice work, Mark!

 

[MikeinRome]

Talking about these old Mallorys made me break out this pre-Stetson Mallory XV or Fifteen, which made it's first appearance on the Lounge back in 2014, by it's previous owner. It took 9 years til any other hats showed up with this same liner, when Blare and Brent both recently acquired examples. However all 3 of these hats are distinctly different from one another.

 

[Blare]

Brent, the tombstone logo was used in some hats right up to the time of the Stetson takeover, as shown in these pics of my largest Mallory fedora, which has a post-Stetson 1817 date liner but has a sweatband with the tombstone logo with 1823 date. I've shown this hat previously on the Mallory Mile.

Thanks, Mike. There’s always more to learn and so many outliers. It doesn’t help that my memory just doesn’t seem to hold onto some facts.

Bit of enigma that one. But as we have seen in many cases hats were assembled using parts of different ages.