What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[steur]

I wore my vintage Stylemaster for shopping today. My wife wore a Maxim.
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I also went into a hat shop...didn’t buy a hat, but when I asked if they knew where I could get sponge rings for stacking hats, they gave me a bunch of them. Very appreciative, I was.
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Great pics, Gary, but let's be honest: one could see why you'd attract the attention of the CIA And then collecting all of these sponge rings; it's all very suspicious.

 

[steur]

That is just brilliant, Gary. I think you should start writing the screenplay while your dream's still fresh in your mind. I can see "The Dutch Connection", with its array of misfit hat junkies, being just as popular as the Oceans 11 franchise

It's about time for your next dose, Mr. Smith!

 

[steur]

Mallory again for Church.
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Wonderful looking hat, Randall.

Stetson 25 OR. My contribution to stingy brim week.

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You're not trying very hard, are you, Jim? But we'll take it anyway: nice!

Marathon today. I almost didn’t get this one because I didn’t think I’d like the sharkgill bow. I was wrong. View attachment 289167

You were, but you corrected it in time. Cool hat!

 

[Blare]

On the second day of StingyMas we attended a socially distanced outdoor wedding. I went with this beautiful dark blue 1950s Dobbs Twenty that came to me via @jlee562

It is very possible this one did not start its life out as a short brim and at some point had its wider brim with guild edge trimmed and restored with expert care as the brim has wonderful blind stitching possibly in a masterfully attempt to replicate the Cavanagh edge. The brim now checks into Stingyville at 2 inches and sports a 4 3/4 crown as shaped.

 

[Frunobulax]

You're not trying very hard, are you, Jim? But we'll take it anyway: nice!

Hey, it's the least I can do.

And if there is one thing I'm good for, it's doing the least I can do.

 

[steur]

Kicking off StingeMas Stingy Week hoping for a stingy performance for my Miami Dolphins defense against the number one offense and defending Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs. Hehe. Lots of luck

Black Cavanagh with 1 7/8 brim sporting a Cavanagh edge. I stingily covered up the 1 7/8 black grosgrain ribbon with my home made Dolphins colors ribbon held on with a couple magnets. This one I found with my own initials in it an also gifted me a not to stingy Dobbs Guild edge along it it

And as I type this Patrick Mahomes is picked off by Byron Jones... so your telling me there’s a chance!

Who else wants to join @Redfokker and I in the spreading the Stingy Cheer?

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It's all about the proportions, Joe. Nothing wrong with a good stingy; Cavanagh knew that.

Stunning ribbon on the last one.

Thank you!

LEO
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Did Borsalino do all of the signs of the Zodiac?
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Have a good day,
Michael

Unfortunately not, Michael, but they sure did get the LEO right!

Post lunch walkabout through the neighborhood. A VS (silverbelly beaver) gilled fedora that took inspiration from the Adam Pacestter in like felt hue.

Home and filling bird feeders and checking the ice thickness on the lake in a Royal DeLuxe Stetson Turf Club.

Cheers on this cool December Sunday, Eric -

Impeccable as always, Eric.

It's been a few weeks since I've been able to attend services. Today I was able to do so. Chose a Scott & Co bowler.

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Good to see you out and about, Bill. By chance I had a Scott&Co hat coming in today. Very well made hat and your bowler looks like it's quality as well.

A little light through the grey gloom shone today.
So thought it time to bring out the Moores.



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That's a great combination, Steve. Beautiful coat.

Stefan, Thank you! I just realize I forgot the word "hand". Fantastic series of hats from you! I really like seeing them all together.

Thank you, Steve.

 

[steur]

C. G. Wilke "Flamand" possibly late 1920s. "Flamand" is unshorned Velour and in this case some great felt.

"Wilke Hüte" "Awarding Brand Since 1822" "Available In All Better Hat Shops", Print Advertisement (1929)

Just wow, Steve. Love everything about that hat. So nice.

In solidarity with Joe McCarthy of Fedora Lounge fame, I begin my submissions to "Stingy-mas" for this season. Had to go to the store to get what I forgot yesterday (yes, at my age YOU DO have to write it down) so I thought it would be a perfect trip for a "slim-brim" hat. This longhair nap is by Penn-Craft, of England. The brand was a 1930s American brand bought up by Stetson. They sold the name to a British manufacturer (can't remember the name) and they resurrected the brand. This hat was made in 1962. It is also the only hat I have with a feather still in it. It was asking for one...

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Great entry in the stingy brim parade, Mike. Lovely felt on that one. It was Failsworth that held the license.

Grateful to have a continuing concert season right now, unconventional though it may be. Primarily because it gives me opportunity to wear my Texas Hatters silver belly derby and my Optimo Manhattan to work.
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Very nice, Jeff. As much as I like fedoras and I'm sure the Optimo is a great hat, I have to give it to the silverbelly derby though: wonderful.

Adam Romabout this morning.
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Beautiful hat, Dave. I'm a sucker for those ribbons.

 

[Blare]

It's all about the proportions, Joe. Nothing wrong with a good stingy; Cavanagh knew that.

I agree. I tend to feel a lot of the negative attitude toward short brims is that they came back into fashion at a time when quality started to fade. So many of the fine well made stingies of the 60s and especially earlier get lumped in with the crap you may find on the rack at Target today. An unfair comparison. Guilt by association

 

[steur]

My contribution to Stingy-mas, Stingy brim week. Stingy even by bowler standards, a Resistol Twenty soft bowler at 1 1/4 on the sides and 1 3/4 front and back.

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Cool, Randy. I never think of bowlers as either stingy brims or wide brims, but there's loads of variation there too of course.

Post war Dobbs. I think.
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Very nice, Randall. I like those colours and that bow keeper is one of my favourites.

On the second day of Stingymas, I opened my Brimvent calendar to find a nice gray work hat. The Hat City Hat Co. of Danbury Conn. produced some very affordable (low end) hats during the late 1950s. Since I'll be puttering around the house today, I thought that this 2" Stingy would be appropriate for the Stingymas season.

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Likely still a lot better than most of today's factory output, Mike. I like it.

 

[steur]

On the second day of StingyMas we attended a socially distanced outdoor wedding. I went with this beautiful dark blue 1950s Dobbs Twenty that came to me via @jlee562

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It is very possible this one did not start its life out as a short brim and at some point had its wider brim with guild edge trimmed and restored with expert care as the brim has wonderful blind stitching possibly in a masterfully attempt to replicate the Cavanagh edge. The brim now checks into Stingyville at 2 inches and sports a 4 3/4 brim as shaped.

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Excellent hat, Joe. That crown is really impressive.

 

[steur]

Another intermezzo, while Italian week is still going (they'll come later this week).

Echter Rockel Velour

Portis New Slant (lost its liner)

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Another hat and another sticker.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Another intermezzo, while Italian week is still going (they'll come later this week).

Echter Rockel Velour
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Portis New Slant (lost its liner)
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Nice Portis, Stefan. Liners shminers.
Slants shmants. Looks great.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Very nice Dobbs Randall

Thanks, Joe and @steur

 

[Steve1857]

Nice hat, super sticker, Randall. Your vote counted just as it always does in a democracy.

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[steur]

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Nice colour on that hat, Randall.

Nice Portis, Stefan. Liners shminers.
Slants shmants. Looks great.

Thanks, Randall. It's a fine hat even without a liner.

 

[mayserwegener]

Another impressive form Steve. That color and finish have the wow factor!

Mike, Thanks! Your Penn-Craft, of England has a fantastic felt finish! Also a great form!

 

[mayserwegener]

Just wow, Steve. Love everything about that hat. So nice.

Stefan, Thank you! This was a gamble from 2014 that paid off.

 

[alanfgag]

Forty dollars and a feather. No mule.

 

[the_imperialist]

Late 30s Hückel Alpha in inkiest Black.
Made for the French Market in "Czecho-Slovakia"