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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

RickP

Call Me a Cab
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We had 4" of rain yesterday over about 5 hrs.. Much better here this morning... we can actually see the sun and sky!

Seemed like a good day to trot out a recent cheap auction hat. A not-that-old Royal Stetson Temple. Modest little hat but it should be a decent running around lid. Has a little dry rot in the sweatband, but I should be able to patch and just leave it as is a throw it on and go hat

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RickP

Call Me a Cab
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Got back from coffee and remembered I was going to go to the Courthouse and renew the Tahoe tags. Sun was so nice outside that I switched to a brighter hat... A Flat brim silverbelly 4x Open Road. Cant believe how much dust it had.... thinking I need to find someone to do some a/c duct cleaning badly . looks way better after a good vigorous brushing.

Seemed like a good time to test the difference between the black Ray Bans and the Ambermatics. The black Shooters work really well, but I really like the Old Ambermatics..... people can see my eyes when Im talking to them (less cold and standoffish) , and I dont have to take glasses off when I walk inside

SInce it is summertime, Im thinking its about time to put the darker hats away for a while.

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Steve1857

I'll Lock Up
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Location
Denmark
New to me Borsalino and vintage tie.

It's about to start storming here shortly, so I'll be walking down to my local lounge in an effort to get stranded.
I'll have to survive for a while on Gin Rickeys, but I'll get by.
What ever it takes to help support the local economy.

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Super looking Borsalino. Love that tie!
 

jeffgarf

One Too Many
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1,191
Location
Jerusalem, Israel
A few days ago, I grabbed a hat sold on eBay, advertised as

Vintage Dobbs Black Fedora Hat Genuine Fur Felt Size 7 1/8 Fifth Avenue New York

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It cost me nothing to make a low-ball offer and almost nothing to actually buy it.
I got it in my hands, and it was a bit of a surprise once I got to really see it in the light and clean, reshape and rebash it.
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It's actually a quite nice Dobbs Saville in Navy. Don't know the "vintage" part of it, but it was from before metric sizing. I like this even better than what I thought I was getting and wore it today to show off.
 
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