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BARBISIO Brothers
Caro Stefano, commenting on the Barbisio brands released between the 1930s and 1940s is to take a small journey into how the regime's politics were also present in Italian brands in those years. There are at least a dozen brands which through lettering or symbolism openly recall the dictates of...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #628
- Forum: Hats
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
It's almost Christmas, but in Northern Italy the weather is that of a warm Easter. The change was sudden, from temperatures below zero, during the night, the wind brought a completely unseasonable temperature Despite everything, let's start the Italian way of stingy hats Charles Hatters size...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #68,953
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G.B.Borsalino Fu Lazzaro & C. <1936
I've been thinking for a long time, G.B. Borsalino fu Lazzaro, had, in its short life, the best brands of Italian hatmaking. One of the best designs and lettering of that fervent graphic season in Italy at the beginning of the last century. Bravo Stefano!- Daniele Tanto
- Post #474
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BARBISIO Brothers
Some thoughts on your commendable work as a librarian with a penchant for Italian hat brands :) I saw the first Barbisio brand a few years ago on a hat that was in particularly bad shape, then the brand disappeared from the Barbisio hats found on the second-hand market, at least here in Italy...- Daniele Tanto
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
Thank you for your likes and appreciations on the lobbia Borsalino "Mirtillo" I continue with hats from a distant era Ecuyer & Thomas a few years older than the Borsalino. No indication of color or anything else, just the size which is a full 60 or a 6 1/2 for the French and a 7 1/2 in the...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #68,905
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
I look for a hat and I find others, such as a series of homburg or lobbia in the Italian name, sold in Sofia and built between the two wars Every now and then these "finds" from a distant era appear, almost always on the UK market, almost as if Sofia were a suburb of London Borsalino "Trionfo"...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #68,807
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The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD
Yes, this Borsalino is beautiful and probably comes direct from after the First World War, but it is also a real enigma. Lining from a shop in Treviso and sweatband from a shop in Hamburg, both with the Borsalino brand crossed out with an X as if to remove the brand and the paternity of the...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #9,701
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
Yes Joe, that's perfectly true. I found boxes of hats that I hadn't opened since 2020 and they all appeared new :)- Daniele Tanto
- Post #68,805
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
While looking for a hat I found others that I hadn't "seen" for a long time H.D Stevens & Co. - Gordon Street - London, sole agent Ghiacci - Reggio Emilia - Italy, so says the lining. In reality he is a Vanzina, after his entry into the Borsalino orbit, made up as an English hat, but as I...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #68,789
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
Thanks Joe. The Flechet is fine and the shape too. I feeling better more and more :)- Daniele Tanto
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Post New Hats Here!
Alan Ladd as the actor. Naturally :) I think the Bantam is really nice, but it was made in the fifties. I really like the colors combination and good luck for the cleaning. It deserves attention This Mossant as most of that period is fantastic. More I see this "Diplomatique" made by this French...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #53,493
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
After the Panizza Sportsman and its shape of Lord hat and coachman together (thanks for the likes) I had a seasonal illness that kept me away from hats. I return with a hat of the same shape, but to be worn on different occasions Flechet De Luxe - Century in melousine felt, black (Noir) soft...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #68,682
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The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD
Let's talk about Borsalino and a gamble that didn't go entirely well. Introduced on the market as a men's hat size 59 centimeters and considering the color and shape I was enchanted I have bought very few hats of this color, although a few have been of above average quality and now live in the...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #9,696
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Post New Hats Here!
Let's talk about Borsalino and a gamble that didn't go entirely well. Introduced on the market as a men's hat size 59 centimeters and considering the color and shape I was enchanted I have bought very few hats of this color, although a few have been of above average quality and now live in...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #53,459
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Italian brands hats
The Cervo Bantam is fantastic and belongs to one of the last great flashes of quality in Italian hatmaking. I add, in this row, Panizza with the Ediston series (difficult to find) and some Sportsman completed that last season of excellent quality. I wore one a while back that I think is the...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #650
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
The favorite of the week. The others to follow although it was difficult to choose due to too much quality- Daniele Tanto
- Post #68,529
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The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD
No confusion Joe, at all. I perfectly understood the joking tone of your response. Maybe I let the "Borsalino syndrome" take me too seriously, but I still fell for it. Too many words. I swore to cheerfully answer all the "legends with Borsalino as the protagonist", but tonight I didn't...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #9,694
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The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD
Joe, I'm trying to speak, moderately since we're talking about hats, seriously. I try to keep a thread alive with some technical information, some considerations and some news, often historical, regarding Italian hatmaking over the last, abundant, hundred years. When we talk about Borsalino...- Daniele Tanto
- Post #9,692
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The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD
If you need a Borsalino to work in the yard, perhaps it is better to change brand and move towards sturdier and less elegant hats...- Daniele Tanto
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