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Navy Fedora: What ribbon to choose?
Charcoal I'm a fan of charcoal over black - it seems to have more texture to my eye. -
Hat shops in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area (FL)?
Thanks Genphideaux, I've had a PM from another Lounger who echoes your opinion that qualityhats is a reliable vendor. -
Hat shops in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area (FL)?
Feedback? Any feedback on qualityhats.com as a vendor? They have a discontinued hat, Stetson Hampton that I am considering buying. They do a nice thing of including shipping in the hat price, but only give store credit on returns. -
Cagney - Angels With Dirty Faces hat?
Photogrammetry To find the size of your dream hat, you can try your hand at a little DIY photogrammetry, i.e. photo measuring. I've done it with some success getting dimensions of a boat from a photo. The tools are simple - a pair of dividers (with two sharp points or you can also use a regular... -
The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard
Not bad Last week, one of my students saw me in a C-crown fedora and raincoat and said "Road to Perdition", which I took to be pretty sharp from someone only 21 years old. I said "just watch out for the chopper under my coat" and he didn't know what I was talking about (I meant a Thompson... -
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Photos of hatters tools
Hat size clarification :offtopic: Slightly OT, but Spatterdash, here is my understanding of the gauge: For American hat sizing, your hat size is defined to be the diameter of a circle with the same circumference as your head, so hat size is a sort of approximate diameter (similar to... -
Great hat movie...
Oh Brother, the prequel This thread made me rent and re-watch "O Brother..." It's maybe not well known that "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is the name of the fictitious movie that the picture director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrae) is trying to make in "Sullivan's Travels", which I rented and... -
London Bowler hats
And no brim And no brim to trap smoke - my old fedora (from when I smoked, i.e. in antiquity) has faint but noticeable tobacco staining on the underside of the brim in the front. -
Hat Repair in NYC
A must to avoid I was referred to a hat repair place in NYC called Peter & Irving by a Manhattan retailer. In the process of cleaning & putting in a new band, my vintage Stetson was essentially butchered. He was not apologetic about it at all, and was in fact somewhat threatening. It's still... -
Beater Brotherhood
Well.... The size difference is probably about 2 sizes, so I suppose it could be resized with a new ribbon. But there's some pretty significant moth-chewing, not to mention the holes and staining at the pinch, messed up lining, etc. I think it's a 'memento mori' at this point... -
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Re-blocking Hats - Newbie Q
DIY bashing There's plenty of info here on the forum about re-bashing your own hat - it's good reading, all the different methods that people employ. If it's simply a matter of trying out new bashes, I think you can do it yourself. In the old days in NYC, if you went hat shopping, the guys... -
Beater Brotherhood
Go figure I've been meaning to dig out my first fedora to post here on the beater's page. I bought it at age 15 or 16 for 75 cents at a thrift store in my hometown of Renton, WA. I wore it almost continuously for 10 years and really beat the crap out of it - it's been in a box for the last 20... -
Akubra hat buyers!!!
It's in the newsletter Now that you've bought a hat from Noggintops, you should receive their newsletter, which they send out once a month or so. That's where I learn about the coupon codes. I've been getting them since I bought a hat from them last year, and lately been posting them here at... -
Akubra hat buyers!!!
Don't forget the coupon There's also a coupon code for Noggintops in effect until March 31st that can be added to (well, subtracted from) the sale price - use code 'MARCH08' to take $15 off any order $90 and over. -
My New Homemade Hat Torture Device- Stretcher
More good ideas Thanks for the encouragement - you make good points: that it may be cheaper to buy new, or to buy just the parts, and that rearranging the jaws may work better. I guess the biggest hurdle is getting a properly shaped block to saw in half. Unfortunately I'm probably stuck in... -
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Good looking boaters that won't break the bank?
Agreed My recommendation was for Orvil who works on the water, so wasn't really a boater recommendation. I guess I sort of hijacked the thread, which I'll try to avoid. And amen to the Tilley comment - my wife's father has one he never removes - if I need a quick divorce, I can just start... -
Good looking boaters that won't break the bank?
Thanks Here's me, back to camera, wearing the hat in the skin-on-frame kayak I built during a course last summer; the designer of the boat took the picture. My friend Pat is sitting in a gorgeous Danish flatwater kayak (made from mahogany veneer) that my wife bought for me a couple years... -
Good looking boaters that won't break the bank?
True You make a good point - I tried the boater on about 12 years ago, so maybe I would feel differently nowadays. But it is true that the boater I tried (at a very fancy shop in Princeton NJ) was extremely stiff, like wood, and was not comfortable. Maybe it's time to try them again... -
My New Homemade Hat Torture Device- Stretcher
Good idea Stan - the vise is a good idea - especially as it is attached to a table or bench, it will making working on the hat easy and would be plenty strong enough to stretch the hat without deflecting. I had been thinking of modifying an old-fashioned clamp like this one... -
Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame
Well I can stop at three - really I can....
