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To Stretch, or Not to Stretch
I have two Ashlands, one a little over a year old, the other I bought in January. Both have sweats which are leather, but have a plastic feel. I'm sure the sweat on yours is the same thin, treated leather. The older one is brown with a brown sweat, it was a little big to begin with. I padded... -
My Stylemasters finally arrived
That's good to know - it's been a while since I went in there, so I'll have to give it another try sometime. By 'a while', I might mean ten years, now that I think about it - how many would that be in hat-years, I wonder? -
My Stylemasters finally arrived
Boy that carbon looks just like mid-gray to me. And check this out - a separate page on the Akubra site lists different availabe colors for the Stylemaster - wacky: http://www.akubra.com.au/products_fashion.html -
My Stylemasters finally arrived
JEC's suggestion makes sense to me. As far as a center dent, my impression is that you first restore a hat to its open crown state (I would mist with water, not dip) then give it basically a gentle karate-chop with the edge of your hand where you want the dent. Having said that, if JJ will... -
My Stylemasters finally arrived
According to the Akubra site, that generic photo is in fact bluegrass green, but clearly doesn't have a lot to do with Skyvue's hat. The acorn fawn has a ribbon that is a similar tone to the felt, so shouldn't look like that. Too bad to hear about the navy being so dark - I read Benny's... -
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Does somebody still wear these? Boaters
I've seen boaters worn, by half to fully drunken revelers at the Princeton reunions. They sell (or used to) real Italian boaters at a store in town with loud orange and black bands. In spite of the band I sort of wanted one, although I couldn't afford it and it didn't come big enough for my... -
Does somebody still wear these? Boaters
I'd never heard it before this. The dictionary gives a cross-reference to 'fortnight', a contraction of 'fourteen nights'. Funny how one word fades and one remains in common use - I guess the more punchy 'week' consigned 'sennight' to linguistic oblivion. -
Brims - How do you like them
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Does somebody still wear these? Boaters
Logophilically speaking The hats were apparently originally made of sennit straw. Sennit is an interesting old word - it is a spelling variant of the source word 'sinnet'. From the Compact OED (without all the details): sinnet - A nautical term of obscure origin. A kind of flat, braided... -
Movie Opportunity
There's some nice vintage ads on their clothing advice page. Hope you'll post pics afterwards if you manage to sneak in a camera. -
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Sliver Belly
I always assumed it related to the silver belly of a fur animal that the felt came from (e.g. beaver or nutria?) but that's just a guess. The dictionary search engine onelook.com (my go-to source for definitions) actually came up empty on this one. I'd be interested to know the answer as well. -
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A driving cap replacement
Are you kidding? I think Caity is already familiar with the operation of the personal computer, but maybe I'm just not getting the joke... -
Searching for my next hat
It was only indirectly - see posts 11 and 12 which started the discussion. -
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Can anyone tell me what color this Akubra Stylemaster is?
I remember reading somewhere it was bluegrass green. I think I saw that same picture on a different vendor site (an internal Aussie one, I think) that said so. It certainly doesn't look anything like the various pictures I've seen of hats in acorn fawn - check the thread "My new Akubra... -
Searching for my next hat
You dog, scoring all those sweet off-price Stetsons - a plus to living in Texas. I would have suggested my Ashland, as it has a 2-1/4" bound edge, but is over the price limit and appears to be discontinued. BTW if you mean the felt Hampton, those are discontinued too - a nice lid, though... -
hat stretcher sizing?
Most stretchers, and the first 4 shown at the link above only expand in 1 direction, i.e. the long way. So the aspect ratio (length vs width) of the oval increases as the oval gets longer. If you needed to make a hat more long-oval, you could conceivably do it by cranking one of these well out... -
Akubra Campdraft
Sorry, this ole city boy was obviously not paying attention - or as they say in the vernacular - DOH! -
Akubra Campdraft
OK, I'll bite, why did you order two of the same hat? Not that there's anything wrong with that.... ;)
