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    Cologne and perfume

    H'lo, Tuscany by Aramis, in almost indetectible amounts, every day. Been using it since the '80s. I used to alternate Tuscany with Aramis (but I grew up) and Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme (but I developed an allergic reaction) and Cool Water from Davidoff (but somehow I just lost interest in...
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    Hats at Burlington Coat Factory

    Hey y'all, It'd be horrible if such a lovely couple ever had to divvy up their hats. Don't even joke about it! :) You've been living at the Burlington Coat Factory, haven't you? Your BCF collection is almost as large as the total number of hats on offer at the one north of here a week or...
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    Batsakes Bros (Gus Miller)-blocked Ecuadorian Panama

    Hi, That's one sweet hat, Tom! It's got me looking very closely at Mrs. Panamabob's other hats to see if she's got anything in my size that'd look good on me. :cool2: Have fun in Middletown, where our family lived for a year or two during the 1st Eisenhower Administration. It's probably...
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    Best felt fedora?

    Hi, I guess I should have spoken a little more carefully when I said that fur felt stands up better than wool felt, Leo. Should have said "tends to stand up better" or something along those lines. One or two of the fur felt hats I own wouldn't survive being sat on, I don't expect. Two...
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    Moth protection for Hats

    Howdy, I stand corrected. Sure glad it's still an unusual sight! The very thought of this is giving me the creepy-crawlies. Funny how the usual Halloween or movie monsters aren't as terrifying for me as the idea of an Akubra being munched by a brood of moth larvae. [huh] Cheers (a...
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    Hats at Burlington Coat Factory

    Howdy, Thank you kindly, J.T.! It's a peach of a peach-colored H?ºckel. Actually, while I used to keep a printed list of Alt-XXX codes for various special characters taped to the top of the monitor, I usually cheat nowadays by going into some program that handles the job easily, and then...
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    Hats at Burlington Coat Factory

    Hey folks, For what it's worth, here's a snap of me in a peach-colored H?ºckel fur felt hat bought last weekend at the Burlington Coat Factory in Edmonds Washington. Taken on Friday afternoon when I was looking tired and shaggy. But the hat looks about like it should, and that's what counts...
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    Moth protection for Hats

    Howdy, Dirt & sweat in fabric attracts moths. Cedar & mothballs repel (but *don't* kill) moths. Moths are nocturnal, and the dark of a closet or hat box are certainly night-like. Around here, the next hat-storage project will be to take the hats out of their boxes and their closet...
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    MY WIFE'S AKUBRA

    Hiya, Now *that* is one lovely job! Looks great on your spouse as well. All in all, the results make me feel a bit braver about doing really major surgery on hats, instead of the cautious touch-up and stretching kinds of things I've done so far. Two questions I've got, though: What...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Afternoon, folks -- Today it was a Beaver Brand homburg. Seemed appropriate as a match for a 3-piece suit. In other news, the thread today saw this exchange: lol lol Mr. Lucky, I think that in your old neighborhood in NY, Fadder Flotsky would have told you that you'd better...
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    Need Help! Stylemaster or Federation??

    Howdy, Naah, Indycop, just quit buying Gurkhas and switch over to Parodis or Roi-Tans for a while. :) Cheers, Mark
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    Best felt fedora?

    Hi, and welcome to the Fedora Lounge! Well, it looks like you've got two different questions wrapped up in one here. If the question is what brand of factory-made felt hat is the best value, you'll find that FedLoungers tend to favor three: Akubra, Borsalino, and Stetson. The...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    H'lo y'all, Today it was an ultracheapo (under $10) wool felt c-crown fedora found this past weekend at a nearby Burlington Coat Factory store. Labelled as being made by K-Hats in Ecuador. Sure wish the brim were stiff enough to take a decent snap. Despite that quibble, it's OK for the...
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    Navy blue Stetson

    Hi, That's excellent, Feraud! It even makes the orange jacket look right. Nice to know I'm not the only porkpie-wearer around these parts. Cheers, Mark
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    Hats at Burlington Coat Factory

    H'lo all, Can't do it for a day or so at least, as I've got to organize some body work on the car, arrange a rental for the duration, etc., etc. With luck, maybe on Saturday? Maybe in the What Hat Are You Wearing Today thread -- what do you think? Cheers, Mark
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    Help Yourself Why Don't You? :rolleyes:

    Hello again, [huh] Most of us are newbies here, from what I can tell. We share what we know, or try to puzzle things out, so that the next guy can stand on our shoulders, as it were. It's a social activity, really, that doesn't work well when folks get too ego-involved in having the...
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    Hats at Burlington Coat Factory

    Hi, As it happens, I'm wearing that very model of hat right this second. It's not the best hat in the world, but not the worst either. A Hückel? Yes. That's what the insurance adjuster agrees should happen. The car's street-legal, if just barely, so I'm OK with letting the insurance...
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    Hats at Burlington Coat Factory

    Hi, For what it's worth, the Edmonds WA location of the Burlington Coat Factory does have a few Hückel hats, marked as such, that say they're made of Real Fur Felt. Probably rabbit. They've also got some others that say they were made in Europe. And yet others that are floppy thick wool...
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    Very Excited About This Win!

    Howdy, Whaddaya know, my mother's family were railroaders back 3 or 4 generations too. Worked for the L&N or B&O mostly. There's even a station stop in eastern Kentucky that the railroad named for my great-great grandfather (Bailey's Switch). And I used to be in the Railway Clerks, when I...
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    Very Excited About This Win!

    Hiya, Indeed it was me. The way I look at it, you got a hat that you were totally stoked to win and which looks super on you, while I'll have that much more money to spend on Christmas presents and won't have to re-organize hat storage again. It was a true win-win, man! :cool2: But you...

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