What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[VoodooSan]

It’s a great day when @Short Balding Guy is in the house!!

Tripler Milan today…

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Stay well!!

Another beauty, Charlie! Love the band.....

 

[mayserwegener]

Beautiful

Thank you!

 

[Pellie]

A fine looking hat, Marcel.

Thanks Joe, it is!

 

[GHT]

That outfit is just all KINDS of sharp, Robert!!

Such a generous compliment, thank you Mark, much appreciated.

 

[Ent]

Today’s hat.

 

[Edward]

This morning's choice is this Stetson International Lite. Such a pleasure to wear. The unreeded sweatband and super light weight make it easy to forget you have it on your head.
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Nice guitar collection - is that a little blue Simon & Patrick electro acoustic in the corner there?

 

[TimmyV]

Nice guitar collection - is that a little blue Simon & Patrick electro acoustic in the corner there?

Thanks. The blue one that looks like faded denim is an Art & Lutherie out of Canada. That one will flat out RIP !!

 

[TimmyV]

I don't believe I've ever seen an example of that model before, Timmy. It's rather fabulous!!

Thanks Voo. It was a first for me too. Very much like a Play**y in that the felt is very light & malleable.

 

[Judgmentalist]

Optimo Week - day 3

This is the first Optimo I ever bought. I got it on Poshmark, and I paid too much for it. I was so excited to get it. I thought it was going to be a slam dunk, and then we just... didn't care for it out of the box. It was a huge disappointment. My wife said.... "ummm maybe you just aren't a hat guy." I was like "hold my beer". 50 hat's later, I win lol.

If you hook a tape inside the sweatband it has a 3" brim - measured from the ribbon, 2 7/8", which was wide for me at the time. I also just can't get it to snap down into a shape I like. When I snap it down it feels, I don't know, frumpy or something. I think the thin brim ribbon prevents it from taking the shape I want. And, it's a 60, which I thought I needed at the time. In new hats, I can wear a 59. I prefer a 59.5, and bump it a little long if I can get it.

I have since resolved my differences with this hat. I like a clean black hat. The felt is amazing. I wear it brim up and I like it fine, and the 60 doesn't annoy me as much as it once did. If I want to I can put a couple cork strips in it, but I can get by without it.

I plan to bring this one to Optimo later this year and talk about it, at least.

This one might also be their "Manhattan", but if it is I don't know what to call the taupe hat I posted yesterday, because they behave very differently. We shall see.

Optimo black fedora

 

[Edward]

Thanks. The blue one that looks like faded denim is an Art & Lutherie out of Canada. That one will flat out RIP !!

Oh, yes - they're very nice indeed. Nice little machine for blues, if memory serves - handled one a few years ago.

 

[Blare]

Optimo Week - day 3

This is the first Optimo I ever bought. I got it on Poshmark, and I paid too much for it. I was so excited to get it. I thought it was going to be a slam dunk, and then we just... didn't care for it out of the box. It was a huge disappointment. My wife said.... "ummm maybe you just aren't a hat guy." I was like "hold my beer". 50 hat's later, I win lol.

If you hook a tape inside the sweatband it has a 3" brim - measured from the ribbon, 2 7/8", which was wide for me at the time. I also just can't get it to snap down into a shape I like. When I snap it down it feels, I don't know, frumpy or something. I think the thin brim ribbon prevents it from taking the shape I want. And, it's a 60, which I thought I needed at the time. In new hats, I can wear a 59. I prefer a 59.5, and bump it a little long if I can get it.

I have since resolved my differences with this hat. I like a clean black hat. The felt is amazing. I wear it brim up and I like it fine, and the 60 doesn't annoy me as much as it once did. If I want to I can put a couple cork strips in it, but I can get by without it.

I plan to bring this one to Optimo later this year and talk about it, at least.

This one might also be their "Manhattan", but if it is I don't know what to call the taupe hat I posted yesterday, because they behave very differently. We shall see.

Optimo black fedora
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An Optimo WEEK. Quite impressive!!! You and maybe @drmaxtejeda can pull off this feat!

 

[Judgmentalist]

An Optimo WEEK. Quite impressive!!! You and maybe @drmaxtejeda can pull off this feat!

Nah, anybody with poor decision-making skills and maybe a smidge of OCD can do it lol. Impressive isn’t the word I would use. 2/10 would not recommend. : )

In my humble opinion, in most cases you can get better bang for your buck elsewhere. That having been said, I would say the quality of felt and finishing on an Optimo hat rivals anything I’ve seen from a modern hat maker.

When the first one annoyed me, I was pretty much guaranteed to get another out of righteous indignation. A couple of these I got good-to-phenomenal deals on, and I could flip them if I wanted to.

 

[jeffgarf]

Today is another travel day, gone through Sunday. Two beaver hats coming on this trip.
For today, the Borsalino Castoro in deep dark blue (a name I cannot make out from the darkened tag). As would be expected, this is one of the softest hats I own.

 

[RickP]

Has been a couple miserably warm, humid days here in East Texas. Got the Patio roof project finished, Bear the Lab got a good bath and is white again (a soapy squirming 92 lb Lab is a chore), and even smoked up some ribs. Was 80 degrees and 95% humidity at 6am, so one more hot one today, and then we get a weak cool front and a little tropical storm with wind and rain moving up from the gulf tomorrow night. Way too warm for even a modest weight felt. Been giving a couple of the Hemp Stratoliners some wear time on those rare times I was out in the sun.

 

[Judgmentalist]

Today is another travel day, gone through Sunday. Two beaver hats coming on this trip.
For today, the Borsalino Castoro in deep dark blue (a name I cannot make out from the darkened tag). As would be expected, this is one of the softest hats I own.

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I. Love. This. Hat.

 

[GHT]

Today is another travel day, gone through Sunday. Two beaver hats coming on this trip.
For today, the Borsalino Castoro in deep dark blue (a name I cannot make out from the darkened tag). As would be expected, this is one of the softest hats I own.

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What a gem the Borsalino is Jeff. That dark blue colour and the way that the brim cuts across? Pure style.

 

[rogueclimber]

Grays one day

Turned into blacks the next

 

[Blare]

Today is another travel day, gone through Sunday. Two beaver hats coming on this trip.
For today, the Borsalino Castoro in deep dark blue (a name I cannot make out from the darkened tag). As would be expected, this is one of the softest hats I own.

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This hat looks great on you Jeff.

 

[jeffgarf]

This hat looks great on you Jeff.

Thanks, Joe.

 

[Pellie]

Mossant Bayard today!!