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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

CRH

Call Me a Cab
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Fish Pond palm leaf. This one arrived with a perfectly flat brim but it's got a heavy duty wire for noodling around. It looks like all these palm leaf hats are made and branded in the same factory in Mexico. ?
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It has been a minute since I have shared on TFL. On occasion I have tuned in and enjoyed the hat parade. Thanks for all those who have shared.

Below is a few hats I have worn the past couple of weeks.

VS Stratoliner inspired (sage beaver felt)

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Gannon Wanderer (black beaver)

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Stetson ******* (blue-gray)

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Stetson Stratoliner (cadet blue)

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Stetson Vogue (forest green)

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Stetson Strtoliner (green)

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Mallory Eight-fifty

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Stetson ******* (silverbelly)

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Manor Club

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Akubra Campdraft

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Stetson Royal DeLuxe Stratoliner

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VS Wanderer (Art-lite dove felt)

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Cheers, Eric -
Where to even begin? Glad to see you posting again, Eric. The parade of stellar hats is always an inspiration.
 
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Continued hat pics-

Manson

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Stetson Stratoliner (sage)

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Gannon ******* (silverbelly)

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VS Wanderer

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VS Stratoliner inspired (dove felt)

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First straw of the year was an Optimo made monitcristo.

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VS Execuive (inspired by the Adam pacesetter)

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VS Executive (inspired by the Adam Pacesetter).

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Stetson *******

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Marathon

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Stetson Vita Felt *******

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Cheers all hat folks, Eric -
All of them fantastic. Eric. The Manson and the Optimo stand out to me of this batch.
 
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Back in 2011 I had an odd run of luck, coming across 3 old Stetson western hats within a few days... all with the same Real Nutria Fur mark, 7" crown 4" brim and wonderfully soft and furry black felt. The lot number on each was also close, suggesting a manufacture date on each circa 1925. I haven't seen another since. I sold the 7 1/8 as it was a little large and kept the other two.

Pulling one out as the hat of the day today I went back to look up the year I purchased it and found some photos I had forgotten. The sheepskin sweatband is very soft and supple so it was easy to explore behind the sweatband. I had no reason to remember the personal ownership scrawl at the time but since, Woodstock Vermont - a lovely town of 3000 folks - has become the home of my older daughter, her husband and my two grandkids. That's a lot of hat synergy coming together.

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I would likely not wear it, but come on; who wouldn't want a hat like that? What a thing!
 
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TimmyV

One Too Many
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Backwoods, Kentucky
Sunday, so it's time for the hats of the week.

Ursus
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Sools (by Fléchet)
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Tirard Mercure
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Borsalino China
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Brummel's Frivol
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Borsalino Deliaspo Muflone
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Dalton
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Knox 25
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Once again you show us an amazing array of hats ! If I had to choose a favorite I would have to go with the Borsalino Deliaspo Muflone !
 
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Once again you show us an amazing array of hats ! If I had to choose a favorite I would have to go with the Borsalino Deliaspo Muflone !
Thank you, Timmy.

Today I'm wearing one of my personal favorites...this Moss Green Stetson Bantam originally sold by M. Schwartz Company, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Very similar to a ******* but with slightly smaller dimensions. I worked my tail off yesterday so today I'm gonna be lazy and do absolutely nothing. Lol.
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Really like the proportions on this one. And it's unlined, which I think is a bonus.
 

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