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Today feels like summer - a reminder to get a wear in on this duplex offering from Dunlap/HCA before straw season is fully upon us. The Sizor style adjustable sweatband suggests this hat was made around 1940 for the Hat Corporation of America brands.

Likely no more willpower but perhaps less room. ;^)

Today, an unusual WWII era hat made and sold in what is now the Czech Republic... one from an incredible collection of NOS hats that @mayserwegener came across in 2015. The felt might be a wool/hare mix - it is heavy and thick - and the overall finish and materials feel spartan as one might...

Back at you for that wonderful white label Lee.

A simple but stately RSD with triple stitched wafer edge.

One of the lightest of the lights... sharp!

Travelin' hat... Dobbs Cross Country "heather mix" ... likely 1930s.

Love the combination of the sassy upswing bow and the even sassier off-center placement. A lot of style to that one.

Here is a lightweight (64 grams - 2.25 ounces) Borsalino Pocket Hat. It seems many of the hats made for the tourist market in the 1950s never made it out of the coffin shaped boxes in which they were interred for the journey homeward. Every one I've found over the years had never been worn but...

I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure these are the only two grey heather bowlers that I have come across. I remember Daniele saying that the Borsalino would be somewhat of a dandy's hat in Italy. I think they've landed at a good home. ;^) Maybe a wager on the Kentucky Derby this weekend is in order?

Today is a good day for a spring fling... a top ten favorite from my hat room. Enjoy!

Thanks Joe… happy that this thread still attracts great contributions after so many years.

A new arrival yesterday provides some company in the stiff hat department for my pre-war Borsalino gray heather bombetta. The Stetson is an exciting addition for me and likely earlier than 1920.

Stetson gray heather derby... from the LOTXXXX number I would suggest c.1920 or perhaps a little earlier.

I have slimmed down to one or two new hats a year... but this gray heather derby, suggested by a good hat friend, made me hit the button. From the imperfect but suggestive LOTXXXX imprint, I would estimate c.1920 or a little earlier.