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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

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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.
It is. Thank you, Edward.
 
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The hats of the week. It's Sunday after all.

Vroom&Dreesmann
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Solis oro
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Echter Mayser
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Solis oro
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Barbisio Lontra
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Sools Fifth Avenue
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Peschel
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Stetson OR
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Borsalino Biber
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VoodooSan

I'll Lock Up
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The hats of the week. It's Sunday after all.

Vroom&Dreesmann
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Solis oro
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Solis oro
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Sools Fifth Avenue
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Stetson OR
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Borsalino Biber
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Another day of glorious haberdashery!! I'm going with the Vroom and Dreesmann as #1, the Borsalino Biber as #2, and the Barbisio Lontra as #3. Astounding showing this week, Stefan. Thanks for sharing!
 
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Tonak "Iradon" late 1950s but has an older look. The Felt is fantastic with Seal Velour like finish and it has an interesting Sporty Bow design. This hat is from my May 2016 NOS Czech find.

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Tonak 1799 Bag with photo of J. Hückel ´s Söhne Employees from early 1900s. I received the gift from Tonak when I visited the factory for the Tonak / JHS 220 Years celebration (September 6, 2019). (Clicking on photos might enlarge.)

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VoodooSan

I'll Lock Up
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Tonak "Iradon" late 1950s but has an older look. The Felt is fantastic with Seal Velour like finish and it has an interesting Sporty Bow design. This hat is from my May 2016 NOS Czech find.

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Tonak 1799 Bag with photo of J. Hückel ´s Söhne Employees from early 1900s. I received the gift from Tonak when I visited the factory for the Tonak / JHS 220 Years celebration (September 6, 2019). (Clicking on photos might enlarge.)

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Stone-cold stunning, Steve!!!!!
 
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Sweet Mother of Bobo the Clown!!! That is an ASTOUNDINGLY beautiful hat, HJ!!!!
Thanks Mark. It’s among the thinnest felt hats I have. I would put BSHW right up there with Optimo. Bob Jesse uses nothing but top quality components. He has the ability to clone any rare hat from any era, given the correct components. Proper blocking & accuracy are very important at BSHW.
 
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