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  1. mercuryfelt76

    The Bowler or Derby Hat

    Here's a couple of shots of my new purchase...
  2. mercuryfelt76

    The Bowler or Derby Hat

    Thanks very much guys. I have steamed a few bowler hats in the past and I'm very aware of brim distortion, you wouldn't believe how much of a perfectionist I am. I've got really good at adjusting my brim curl to my taste. I've just never had an extra firm bowler before. I once took a Christys...
  3. mercuryfelt76

    The Bowler or Derby Hat

    I've just managed to find a Lock & Co bowler in a vintage shop, in my size. It's incredibly hard and I need to fit it to my head. I've tried to steam it like any other hat but it's not softening up - do I just have to be patient or are the hard bowlers softened another way? Mayserwegener: fine...
  4. mercuryfelt76

    Homburg Nation

    Here's my G. A. Dunn & Co Ltd "The Jermyn" which has an unbound brim. It looks a bit grey in the picture but it's black.
  5. mercuryfelt76

    Homburg Nation

    Beautiful hat and it suits you.
  7. mercuryfelt76

    If you had a chance to travel through a TIME MACHINE for a WEEK? where would you go?

    I'd like to go back to London before WWI. I'd like to meet Churchill. I'd like to walk the streets of London before they were devastated by WWII and see what my city looked like before the modern architects ruined it. Maybe I'd walk the streets of Whitechapel in 1888 and wait at the known Ripper...
  8. mercuryfelt76

    Toppers Unite

    Thanks Charlie, here's another pic... I'll take some more of the inside too.
  9. mercuryfelt76

    Anti-Anti Baseball Cap League?

    I'd like to make it clear that I like certain baseball caps. I do think it will become a vintage item one day - I have no doubt. But I prefer the look of hats of an earlier historical origin. I feel that despite being born into the modern world I feel like style has evolved but in a machine-made...
  10. mercuryfelt76

    How popular is the fedora in 2011? Are hats seeing a resurgance finally?

    Most British people do dress a lot like Americans already. In fact the hat and suit died out in Britain BEFORE it did in the US. After WWII hats were probably seen as an expensive luxury in a time of food rationing and very quickly became old fashioned much sooner here than in USA.
  11. mercuryfelt76

    How popular is the fedora in 2011? Are hats seeing a resurgance finally?

    Ok so the fine fur felt fedora won't come back into fashion but what I WOULD like to see (and think is possible) is enough people wearing fedoras and vintage clothing that is becomes something of a visible and recognised minority culture not attached to any specific age. There seems to be a lot...
  13. mercuryfelt76

    Akubra Overload

    Nice lid herohat, as stated above, perfect Aussie bash. Hope I see it when I'm next on the road to Delhi ;)
  14. mercuryfelt76

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    RLK - the king of this thread
  15. mercuryfelt76

    Akubra Overload

    Thanks guys, when I get home from work tonight, I'll post some pics.
  16. mercuryfelt76

    Akubra Overload

    I have several Akubras but they're not all fedoras - a lot of bush hats. Are we only posting fedoras on this thread or would my bush hats be welcome too?
  17. mercuryfelt76

    Bow Ties

    Think of a straight tie - people wear them to work out of necessity. So the aesthetics are of no concern in the same way that most people don't think of how smartly they've tied their shoes. Bow ties were a common site in the days before the clip-on. Most people dressed smartly because it was...
  19. mercuryfelt76

    The Curse of Indiana Jones

    It's funny how people recognise the fedora (or anything similar) to be an Indy hat but so many people would swear blind Indy's hat doesn't have a bow. And how many of you have come across people who insist that Indy's hat is made of leather? They don't just think that - they KNOW it and refuse...
  20. mercuryfelt76

    The Curse of Indiana Jones

    I often get people humming the Indy theme tune as I walk past. But I also wear bowlers, homburgs and panamas as well and those hats all come with their lookalike comments too e.g. Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Poirot etc. This is what happens when hats go out of fashion and the public can...
  21. mercuryfelt76

    The Curse of Indiana Jones

    Well I must confess, the hat which started me down this road of hat obsession was my uncle's Akubra. It was sort of silverbelly colour with a tear drop bash - it looks nothing like an Indy hat to the expert but the first thing I thought when I put it on and saw my reflection was "oh, I look like...
  22. mercuryfelt76

    HOLY GRAIL? /What fedoras are you pining for?

    Every time I acquire my current holy grail I realise there's another I've ruled out due to lack of funds. It's always the unobtainable that you pine for the most. My holy grail used to be a mint silk topper in my size and when I finally found an affordable one I realised I still didn't have a...
  23. mercuryfelt76

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    I'll probably get some flack for this but, as well as my collection of classic hats, I also have quite a collection of New Era baseball caps, about 60. My hat collection covers a variety of types of headwear but I'm not sure many people would appreciate photos of baseball caps ;) DJH: Nice lid...

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