What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[Jon Crow]

Very handsome hat, gorgeous jacket, beautiful dog. Trifecta!!!!

Cheers fer all, the doggo Merlin usually gets all the attention

 

[RickP]

Rain stopped for a while so I headed out back with a modern Whippett and a new to me older Peterson 307. Burning some Boswell Countryside light English today

 

[Frunobulax]

Dobbs Gay Prince

 

[Daniele Tanto]

Daniele, Looks Great! Also Great Weather in Verona!

Thanks Steve. Verona now has a decent temperature. Last weeks are really cold. Your Gazela is fantastic, as always

That is one gorgeous hat, Daniele! And the scarf and coat pairing are ::chef's kiss::

Thanks so much! You are always in the right hats wave

Nice hat! Suits you very well and i love the coat too!!

Thanks marcel. You last Panizza is superb. One of the best I saw in the last months

Still Spectacular, Daniele!

Thanks Charlie. Hope you are doing well.

Many thanks to you all for your words and likes

 

[Randall Renshaw]

Nuther twofer.
An All time fav, late 40s blue heather Knox FoxHound featuring spiral brim stitching.
And an early 40s vented Playboy.

 

[DonR]

Swapped out for the comedy show tonight. Got this light briwn Stetson The Boss Raw Edge with The Fray the other day.

 

[mayserwegener]

Thanks Steve. Verona now has a decent temperature. Last weeks are really cold. Your Gazela is fantastic, as always

Daniele, Thank you! Here it's been cold for a while. Looking forward to Spring.

 

[StoryPNW]

I just got a brim flange from Randall Alan this week and was able to fix the brim one of my 3X ORs, its not perfect but it was defintiely a little wonky before. I have been wearing it a lot since then.

 

[VoodooSan]

Nuther twofer.
An All time fav, late 40s blue heather Knox FoxHound featuring spiral brim stitching.
And an early 40s vented Playboy.
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The Playboy is very nice, but that Knox is MAGNIFICENT!!!!

 

[VoodooSan]

Swapped out for the comedy show tonight. Got this light briwn Stetson The Boss Raw Edge with The Fray the other day.

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SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!

 

[VoodooSan]

I just got a brim flange from Randall Alan this week and was able to fix the brim one of my 3X ORs, its not perfect but it was defintiely a little wonky before. I have been wearing it a lot since then.
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Looks AWESOME, Simeon!!!

 

[StoryPNW]

Looks AWESOME, Simeon!!!

Thank you!

 

[Rollin Rains]

Thanks for this comment. When I first decided not to send this hat back to Gannon to rework, the choice was motivated largely by looking at early 20th Century hat photos and noticing how many of those hats had a lot of side-to-side taper. I wanted to have something that reflected those times and I'm really glad you picked up on that.

Here is the final bash. I'm quite happy with it. Very small changes to the one I posted the other day, but I notice them and like this much better.

BTW, what was the name of the documentary?

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It turned out great!

The documentary I was referring to is called "America in Color - The 1930s". I found it on YouTube.
I have included a few still shots from the video.
The second still is from around the 9:30 mark.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

The Playboy is very nice, but that Knox is MAGNIFICENT!!!!

Thanks, Voomanchoo!

 

[GHT]

My original choice of hat was the Gamble & Gunn in royal blue, but the silver/grey one that is also from them balances the blue and gives the hat appeal. So Tina tells me. After church this morning we are visiting a showroom to look at Motorhomes, then we are off to lunch at one of our favourite watering holes, a country inn, name of: The New Queen. It's a special treat for my lady.

 

[steur]

It's been a while since I showed you a hat. I follow FL developments carefully and enjoy the new arrivals of new hat lovers and new headgear.
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Today I show you one of my favorite colors from Borsalino in a hat that arrived in a bargain a few days ago
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I'm sure I have this color in other Borsalinos, but its attraction is irresistible.
Borsalino Augusta in Mirtillo - Blueberry color
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The size is 6 or 59 centimeters here in the EU, in the US the size is 7 3/8 although a little tight. Made in 1976
Premium quality felt with short fur finish.
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Have a nice day all of you

Good to see you, Daniele. Hard to beat a nice Borsalino mirtillo. Cool looking coat as well.

Tonak "Gazela" possibly early to mid 1950s. Very nice form and finish. I found this Soft Felt back in 2013.

Tonak 1945 - 1989 from NOVÝ JIČÍN - Town of Chimneys, September 7 - 29, 2019, Radek Polách
Realization: Municipal Cultural Center Nový Jičín, contributory organization Museum of Nový Jičín, contributory organization State District Archive Nový Jičín.

The end of the Second World War brought not only a new composition of the management of the hat factory in Nový Jičiná, but also new intentions connected with the renewed Czechoslovak Republic. The October decree of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, Edvard Beneš, meant the merger of three Nový Jičín hatter companies into one, including the Janyška factory in Walachia. On May 27, 1946, the National Administration of the Johann Hückel's Sóhne factory, a hat factory, requested that the company be deleted from the Commercial Register of the Regional Court in Nový Jičín. The change was to be made in connection with the presidential decree with the assets to the company: Hat factories, national enterprise. As of June 4, 1946, the erasure was carried out by Johann Hückel's Sóhne officially ceased to exist. After the takeover of power in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 by the Communist Party headed by Klement Gottwald, the hatter's factories were linked to a dozen smaller factories in Bohemia and Moravia under the Act on Further Nationalization. Thus, a total of 24 plants were incorporated into the TONAK company. In 1949, the national hat production company Otavan, based in Katowice, was established. All factories in the Czech Republic were assigned to him from the national company TONAK. The race in Nový Jičín was named TONAK 1, the race in Valašské Meziria TONAK 2 and the Prague race was named TONAK 3. In NovýJičín, the individual races were also numbered. By these changes, the TONAK factory in Nový Jičín became the main pillar of the production of felt hats throughout Czechoslovakia. The national company TONAK has taken care of the training of new employees from the very beginning. After the war and the expulsion of the German population, there were very few specialists left in Nový Jičín and the management had to use the professional capacities of the former Czech factory Janyška in Valašské Menne. workers. In 1963, it grew into a corporate technical school of hat-making technology, which was led by the then-skilled employees of the hat factory.

Significant changes occurred in 1967. At that time, the reconstruction of the entire hat shop in Nový Jičín began. In the course of this, the factory was looked at by the Minister of Industry and Trade Božena Machačová-Dostálová, who supported further development of hat production. In 1969 the hat factory in Nový Jičín processed 19 million animal skins a year, with only one million being imported. Almost 74,510 production at that time was intended for export to know more than fifty countries around the world. During the normalization period, TONAK has been relatively stable during the normalization period. when production and employment made the hat factory one of the most important economic elements of the whole Nový Jičín region. However, this era brought with it a number of other factors, which meant particularly paralyzing direct contacts with the new fashion guilty of Western European countries. The main component of sales were still mass-produced hat products for the countries of the socialist sector. Further changes occurred after 1989.

Beautiful example of early Tonak, Steve. Nice generous proportions.

Dobbs Fifteen I’ve had a long minute.
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Mighty fine Dobbs, Randall. Great colours.

Heading out to see our granddaughter in a grade school play. Wearing a Stetson 3X LD

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A beauty, Don.

 

[steur]

Once again on the Venice Pier
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A Busted Hat (@Darrell2688 )

Whoa, is it the camera angle or is that indeed a massive crown on that hat? Looks great though, Rob.