It is. Thank you, Edward.Is that a corduroy peacoat? Looks nice. Great colour.
Very nice. Laird have come a long way in recent years with their caps. They used to all be very sleek, very post-1960, but they're getting into some wider, earlier styles now too. Reasonably priced, in general, for a locally made hat.
Exactly so. Early comment from them on this has been promising. It'll be interesting to seed how they evolve the two brands from here, given the plan to keep them separate. Laird were in business quite a few years before they introduced their own limited range of furfelts; I'm wondering whether they'll diversify the two brands by making Laird primarily the caps and keep the brimmed hats for Laird, or give one a more classic feel and make the other more fashion forward... I guess we'll find out in due course. Either way, it's nice that the Christy's brand is going to be kept alive rather than subsumed into something else, and their plans for it sound great - it's not just going to become a badge-engineering exercise that bears little resemblance to the original company.
Oh, that's fun - I hope you're reading this via a Linux OS? ;-)
I love that style of wide ribbon brim binding and matching ribbon in a contrast colour to the hat body. I'm leaning to a custom build in a similar spec next Spring.










