What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[Short Balding Guy]

I would like to share some hats I wore the last 2 days.

Stetson Whippet (green)

Morning cold brew hat was a Stetson Turf Club.

Knox Westlite hat for some yard chores.

Stetson Royal DeLuxe blue fedora.

An early morning walkabout in a

A Mallory was aperfect pairing with cold brewed coffee.

An Emerson fedora was just the ticket for an errand and enjoying more coffee.

I sprayed the underbrush with anti-mosquito chemicals in prep for cutting the lawn later today. A Panama Hats Direct hat was just the ticket.

Cheers, Eric -

 

[steur]

I would like to share some hats I wore the last 2 days.

Stetson Whippet (green)

Morning cold brew hat was a Stetson Turf Club.

Knox Westlite hat for some yard chores.

Stetson Royal DeLuxe blue fedora.

An early morning walkabout in a

A Mallory was aperfect pairing with cold brewed coffee.

An Emerson fedora was just the ticket for an errand and enjoying more coffee.

I sprayed the underbrush with anti-mosquito chemicals in prep for cutting the lawn later today. A Panama Hats Direct hat was just the ticket.

Cheers, Eric -

I don't often comment on your posts, Eric, but there isn't a moment that I'm not in awe of your superb collection. Always a pleasure to see them on display.

 

[GHT]

Sunday has come around again. The hats of the week (about time for a new rotation now I think).

Penumbra panama View attachment 633966

Barbisio
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Mossant
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Knox Twentyfive
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Morreton Velrex (should have given it a brush) View attachment 633970

Dunlap panama
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Knox Twentyfive
Such a millinery treat, Stefan. They are all to be coveted, but it's Sunday, and I have been to church. Me covet? Perish the thought!

This was the hat that I had in mind to wear to church earlier, but given how warm the weather is, I took Tina's sensible advice and donned a Panama, so glad I did.

Tina was right, the Panama sits just right given the colour coordination.

 

[steur]

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Knox Twentyfive
Such a millinery treat, Stefan. They are all to be coveted, but it's Sunday, and I have been to church. Me covet? Perish the thought!
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This was the hat that I had in mind to wear to church earlier, but given how warm the weather is, I took Tina's sensible advice and donned a Panama, so glad I did.
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Tina was right, the Panama sits just right given the colour coordination.

Thank you, Robert. Good idea to wear the panama while the weather permits.

 

[Blare]

I would like to share some hats I wore the last 2 days.

Stetson Whippet (green)

Morning cold brew hat was a Stetson Turf Club.

Knox Westlite hat for some yard chores.

Stetson Royal DeLuxe blue fedora.

An early morning walkabout in a

A Mallory was aperfect pairing with cold brewed coffee.

An Emerson fedora was just the ticket for an errand and enjoying more coffee.

I sprayed the underbrush with anti-mosquito chemicals in prep for cutting the lawn later today. A Panama Hats Direct hat was just the ticket.

Cheers, Eric -

What a lineup, Eric. Every time I think I see the show stopper I scroll down and see another!!

 

[Bill Hughes]

Yeddo boater for services this morning.

 

[Monte]

A vintage JCPenney Big Mac work shirt with gray Agnoulita.

 

[mayserwegener]

Aside from it being a beautiful hat it is also unique as the only Gorasgu homburg we know of.

Stefan, Thank you! Hopefully another materializes. Really enjoyed your weekly array of Soft Felts and Straws. All are fantastic!

 

[steur]

Stefan, Thank you! Hopefully another materializes. Really enjoyed your weekly array of Soft Felts and Straws. All are fantastic!

Thank you, Steve.

 

[VoodooSan]

Sunday has come around again. The hats of the week (about time for a new rotation now I think).

Penumbra panama View attachment 633966

Barbisio
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Mossant
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Knox Twentyfive
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Morreton Velrex (should have given it a brush) View attachment 633970

Dunlap panama
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Another stupendous Sunday selection, Stefan! By sheer chance, the order of the first three matches my rankings for favorites this week: Penumbra, Barbisio, and Mossant. All awesome!!

 

[VoodooSan]

Heading out the door with an older Moose River today. Thought the Sailor Jerry Rum shirt was a good match
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Very nice pairing, Rick.

 

[Crown Royal]

Another mild summer day. Today, I am wearing my Darwin Deluxe Quality fedora. Admittedly, I know very little about this hat brand. The plastic liner tip makes me think it is from the 1950's or 1960's but please chime in if you have better information. I paired it with my Havana shades and yellow guayabera.

 

[VoodooSan]

Great hats being shown this weekend ! I'll jump in with one of my newly acquired hats. Caramel brown Bollman with a shark gill ribbon hatband and as an added attraction it even has a shark fin at the rear of the bow !
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Very nice showing from a brand I'm not familiar with, and that fin is the BOMB!!!!

 

[VoodooSan]

Hello to my new Melegari, it is sold as the "Bruce Willis Fedora" and I asked them to add a wider hatband for a more 30s look, here is the result and I love it. S


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Very nice, sir, and there's nothing wrong with your pics!

 

[VoodooSan]

I would like to share some hats I wore the last 2 days.

Stetson Whippet (green)

Morning cold brew hat was a Stetson Turf Club.

Knox Westlite hat for some yard chores.

Stetson Royal DeLuxe blue fedora.

An early morning walkabout in a

A Mallory was aperfect pairing with cold brewed coffee.

An Emerson fedora was just the ticket for an errand and enjoying more coffee.

I sprayed the underbrush with anti-mosquito chemicals in prep for cutting the lawn later today. A Panama Hats Direct hat was just the ticket.

Cheers, Eric -

An octet of outstandingly ogle-worthy hats, Eric! Thanks again for sharing such awesome beauties!

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

It has been estimated that by the beginning of the 20th Century, one in every three Chinese men were addicted to opium.

At that time, due to its large Chinese population, close ties to both China and Great Britain (Malaysia was a British colony), and absence of much other industry, Melaka was a hot spot for opium dealing. I have no idea how much opium passed through Melaka on its way from India to China, but it was a lot.

And of course, the locals consumed a great quantity. Large Chinese “Opera Houses” were fronts for brothels and opium dens… but only for the very wealthy. The working class and poor got their fix in far less comfortable settings.

This is Guay Men Guong (not sure the spelling). It means “Hells Gate Bridge” and was so named because on one side of the river were relatively respectable working-class dwellings and on the other side was “Jawa Lane”, an overcrowded and diseased immigrant neighborhood rife with prostitution, gambling and opium. Apparently many Melakan men who had lost everything they owned to one vice or another on Jawa Lane ended their lives on Hells Gate Bridge (hanging themselves, tying rocks around their necks, or, unable to swim, simply jumping in).

The hundred years of circa 1840-1940 has been called by the Chinese government “The Century of Shame” and even as late as the 1980s you could have still heard a Melakan grandmother say to her grandchildren, “You better work hard unless you want to end up like your Uncle Fred - that no good opium addict!”

And the antique stores in town are still replete with opium paraphernalia.

It is not by coincidence that the Japanese chose Hells Gate Bridge as their execution site during the occupation of Melaka in WWII. They also hung the heads of offenders from the bannisters - many of them opium users (a capital offense under the Japanese). The Japanese were cruel overlords throughout Southeast Asia, but they did manage to break the back of wide-scale addiction and after the war the opium trade never regained its choke hold on the Chinese. Today the Malaysian Chinese are incredibly industrious and sober people.

I have lived extensively on both sides of Hells Gate Bridge. Recently the Malaysian government paid stipends for ethnic Malays to open businesses in the area and have now planted Malaysian national flags on the bridge to bolster Malay racial identity in this traditionally Chinese enclave (race in Malaysia is a huge political issue with a long and complex history of its own).

Unfortunately, the struggle for Hells Gate Bridge continues even today, but it remains one of my favorite locations in all of Asia.

Here I am with the Fed IV and yes I did cut vent holes in it (and yes, it is noticeably cooler).

Happy start to your week friends.

 

[VoodooSan]

It has been estimated that by the beginning of the 20th Century, one in every three Chinese men were addicted to opium.

At that time, due to its large Chinese population, close ties to both China and Great Britain (Malaysia was a British colony), and absence of much other industry, Melaka was a hot spot for opium dealing. I have no idea how much opium passed through Melaka on its way from India to China, but it was a lot.

And of course, the locals consumed a great quantity. Large Chinese “Opera Houses” were fronts for brothels and opium dens… but only for the very wealthy. The working class and poor got their fix in far less comfortable settings.

This is Guay Men Guong (not sure the spelling). It means “Hells Gate Bridge” and was so named because on one side of the river were relatively respectable working-class dwellings and on the side was “Jawa Lane”, an overcrowded, diseased, immigrant-filled neighborhood rife with prostitution, gambling and opium. Apparently many Melakan men who had lost everything they owned to one vice or another on Jawa Lane ended their lives on Hells Gate Bridge (hanging themselves, tying rocks around their necks, or, unable to swim, simply jumping in).

The hundred years of circa 1840-1940 has been called by the Chinese government “The Century of Shame” and even as late as the 1980s you could have still heard a Melakan grandmother say to their grandchildren, “You better work hard unless you want to end up like your Uncle Fred - that no good opium addict!”

And the antique stores in town are still replete with opium paraphernalia.

It is not by coincidence that the Japanese chose Hells Gate Bridge as their execution site during the occupation of Melaka in WWII. They also hung the heads of offenders from the bannisters - many of them opium users (a capital offense under the Japanese). The Japanese were cruel overlords throughout Southeast Asia, but they did manage to break the back of wide-scale addiction and after the war the opium trade never regained its choke hold on the Chinese. Today the Malaysian Chinese are incredibly industrious and sober people.

I have lived extensively on both sides of Hells Gate Bridge. Recently the Malaysian government paid stipends for ethnic Malays to open businesses in the area and have now planted Malaysian national flags on the bridge to bolster Malay racial identity in this traditionally Chinese enclave (race in Malaysia is a huge political issue with a long and complex history of its own).

Unfortunately, the struggle for Hells Gate Bridge continues even today, but it remains one of my favorite locations in all of Asia.

Here I am with the Fed IV and yes I did cut vent holes in it (and yes, it is noticeably cooler).

Happy start to your week friends.

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Fascinating stuff, Nathan! Keep it comin'!

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Fascinating stuff, Nathan! Keep it comin'!

Thanks Mark, I’m glad my essays have found an audience. With only one hat to show off, I need to try to make my posts interesting in other ways. Besides, it’s almost impossible to introduce Melaka without talking about its history. Thanks for reading!

 

[RickP]

Heading out this morning with the newly arrived 3x Open Road. This little thing looks almost unworn... Probably my nicest condition ebay hat ever

 

[RickP]

Great hats being shown this weekend ! I'll jump in with one of my newly acquired hats. Caramel brown Bollman with a shark gill ribbon hatband and as an added attraction it even has a shark fin at the rear of the bow !
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What size whisky jug do you use for your pics? 1 gal, 2 gal? Went through the Museum of Appalachia a few years back and Ill swear they had hundreds of jugs from dang near everyone that ever put their juice in a jug! Some really cool looking stoneware. Its makes for a great hat display!