What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[TheOldFashioned]

Harvesting Nature's bounty under the bountiful brim of a Sunbody:

 

[mayserwegener]

Georg Gärner Wien possibly later 1920s. I really like the smaller Form of this Wool Stiff Felt and it wears great. Georg Gärner Wien had a few retail stores and there is a factory listed but I don't have any information on their production facilities. I tend to think this Wool Stiff Felt was sourced but I can't tell the manufacturer. My other Georg Gärner Wien Stiff Felt was made by J. Heinr. Ita Wien and is a Fur Felt. I found this Stiff Felt back in 2013.

 

[hambone71]

Sporting a cheap Turner Hats western straw whilst griddling smash burgers on the Blackstone.

 

[Boomerang]

Not sure why I chose this vertigo-inducing angle, but it was chillier than I expected on my lunchtime walk so I was in a hurry to get a picture of the Taupe Fawn Campdraft.

 

[Rmccamey]

Another "perfect " bowler, Steve.

Georg Gärner Wien possibly later 1920s. I really like the smaller Form of this Wool Stiff Felt and it wears great. Georg Gärner Wien had a few retail stores and there is a factory listed but I don't have any information on their production facilities. I tend to think this Wool Stiff Felt was sourced but I can't tell the manufacturer. My other Georg Gärner Wien Stiff Felt was made by J. Heinr. Ita Wien and is a Fur Felt. I found this Stiff Felt back in 2013.

 

[T Jones]

Haha—sorry, that was GREAT work, not. Grey. Are those tire tracks on that thing?

Lol. I figured that's what you actually meant.

They sure look like tire tracks. I don't know those were. I wondered about that myself. I got it cleaned out whatever it was, along with the sweat stains. Some of the staining I left in on purpose to retain some of the hat's history. The Lounger who sent it to me said that it had a story to tell and that was some of what I wanted to preserve. Aside from everything the hat's been through over the years the felt is still solid. It was a tough built hat.

 

[The Shoe]

Stratoliner PB for a Costco run

 

[Pellie]

Mossant in grey......

 

[DaveProc]

Beater Fed IV today while we install battens on the barn addition

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Good morning. A walkabout earlier this morning found me under the brim of a Stetson Stratoliner Premiere. Cadet Blue is striking in person.

I enjoyed my morning coffee whilst wearing a Stetson Playboy. The felt on this hat is terrific.

Morning errand to the grocery store started with me putting on a Stetson Air Light Playboy. It is unique as it has vents, very light weight felt and a bound edge. Home I started getting some black berries picked, cutting some ruhbarb, starting a pie and going back to pick a handful of red raspberries. Breakfast pie is in my future.

It is indeed "Air Light."

Cheers, Eric. -

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Saturday morning under this Whippet while listening to the interview with erstwhile Stetson employee Antony Catalano:
http://phillyimmigration.nunncenter.net/items/show/865

It seems this fellow Catalano and his family all worked for Stetson from a time before the Great Depression up until the end of the Philadelphia factory. This is a fascinating piece of oral history that is worth a bump so new lounge members can hear it.

Thanks to @BobHufford for posting this interview. I’m sure it’s gotten around the forum on numerous threads and been posted by other members, but he’s the one who posted the link that I ran across.

The sweat band on this Whippet is about to deteriorate so I don’t wear it outside anymore.

 

[Mighty44]

Beater Fed IV today while we install bettens on the barn addition
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And reinstalling the facial hair?

 

[Mighty44]

Good morning. A walkabout earlier this morning found me under the brim of a Stetson Stratoliner Premiere. Cadet Blue is striking in person.

I enjoyed my morning coffee whilst wearing a Stetson Playboy. The felt on this hat is terrific.

Morning errand to the grocery store started with me putting on a Stetson Air Light Playboy. It is unique as it has vents, very light weight felt and a bound edge. Home I started getting some black berries picked, cutting some ruhbarb, starting a pie and going back to pick a handful of red raspberries. Breakfast pie is in my future.

It is indeed "Air Light."

Cheers, Eric. -

LOVE that Air Light Playboy!

 

[BobHufford]

Thanks to @BobHufford for posting this interview.

Nathan -- thanks, I also found another Stetson employee's oral history here:

https://nunncenter.net/ohms-spokedb/render.php?cachefile=2017oh270_irw038_ohm.xml

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Nathan -- thanks, I also found another Stetson employee's oral history here:

https://nunncenter.net/ohms-spokedb/render.php?cachefile=2017oh270_irw038_ohm.xml

Oh fantastic, I will definitely have a listen. That Catalano interview did a lot for me - just hearing the voices from those old days is a blast, but hearing them talk about the hat culture and business is a remarkable experience.

Thank you for sharing.

 

[bowlerman]

A few days in western SD — Badlands, Deadwood, Black Elk Peak. First time out of the house with this Bailey I found a few years ago. The new beaded band and new crease helped. Thought it was fitting to wear playing a concert at Outlaw Square in Deadwood.

 

[bowlerman]

Stuck with the wide brims, with this Stetson No. 1 Quality for playing a show back in eastern SD.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

LOVE that Air Light Playboy!

Always, always hard Eric, refraining from commenting each time i see your Cadet Blue Strat and blue Bantam!!
Borsa has a Mirtillo that’s right there for the best of the Lounge blues in my eyes.
Thanks
B

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Always, always hard Eric, refraining from commenting each time i see your Cadet Blue Strat and blue Bantam!!
Borsa has a Mirtillo that’s right there for the best of the Lounge blues in my eyes.
Thanks
B

Thanks sir.

"True power is restraint." Warren Buffett.

Eric -

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Bandera Beaver One Hundred: