Recent content by Fern

Yes, I read about those shepherds in the early early posts of this thread. I get the idea about the “basque” style of wearing the beret/txapela/boina from my fave vendor in Bilbao:

How cool, I bet your town had some migration from the old French Basque region. I looked this up online: “Mimizan is not part of the Basque Country. It is located in the Landes region of southwestern France. The Basque Country is a region that straddles the border between France and Spain, and...

“Basking” at work, lol

Repping ‍while

Out and about on VDay!

Berets are the original beanies ⛷️

Looks great on ya! I like that you wear it basque style — centered on your head.

Some of my 11” embalsadas are from La Encartada.

Cool to know house Gorostiaga is distributed all the way down to Madrid. Elosegüi is what I’ve usually seen in the shops.

Has visitado la tienda? Have you visited the shop?

D3I IN THE US4. ️

Being the hat lover that I am, I looked for a thread for real fur hats. Since there wasn’t one, I thought I’d kick things off here and show off some of my Icelandic fur hat collection, and hopefully inspire others to share their favorite for hats too! This one’s a chocolate brown North American...

Nice taste in hats, Alan!

Woot woot! Out and about with a new Gorostiaga tupida in Calista red. First 10.5” brim in my collection. (Coyote fur collar on my bomber jacket, courtesy of Eggert furs, Iceland)

I have two hats that I’d like to trim the brim, but I don’t want to buy the expensive equipment for just two uses. How do I search a hat maker locally that could do this? Anyone know what they’d charge?