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Akubra Campdraft
Don't over think it. The right answer is what looks good on your head, not any specific measurements. Akin to your question on "appropriate" vintage height, we can't tell you how much space to leave because your head is not our heads. Some of these things you just have to figure out for... -
First time buying fedora and introducing myself
DIfferent hat blocks. Since most hats are sold these days with blocked in creases, it kinda gets lost that older open crown hats had varying degrees of taper and variations on the roundness/flatness of the top of the crown, which was determined by the individual block. Common examples include... -
Rollable Panama
At first I bought a hat case, which I still use sometimes, but it's about as convenient as you would imagine an additional carry on bag would be. I've since grown an appreciation for the shantung faux Panama hat. I have a ventilated OR that is relatively stiff (certainly more so than a natural... -
Akubra Campdraft
If you're just using steam and your hands, it would be much easier to go from a center dent to a teardrop. It's not so much about plausibility per se, but there will be a "ghost crease" from the teardrop that will be more severe the tighter you pinch the crease (not just 'the pinch' in front)... -
First time buying fedora and introducing myself
I've been rewatching Boardwalk Empire these past few days, and there are a lot of vintage hats in that show. I can't attest that they all are, but I have for sure spotted the blue and gold Royal and/or Royal Deluxe Stetson liner on a few hats. I think one of Nucky's Homburgs was a Dobbs too. -
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First time buying fedora and introducing myself
Ok, let's clarify. Are you looking to buy a vintage hat? Or a custom? Or a modern off the rack hat? For the first: There's no such thing as a singular "appropriate crown height" for a vintage hat. They were sold open crown and creased to suit the individual. As I said, I can't think of any... -
First time buying fedora and introducing myself
A 3" brim would probably be fine proportional to your build. I'm short and thin and wear 3"+ western style hats all the time. But 3" is not a typical fedora brim width in any decade. I can't think of any off the top of my head anyways. -
Dating Your Hat (A Place to Discuss the Age of Your Vintage Hat)
Plastic tip liner too. While some hats that are guesstimated to be 50's hats have the plastic tip liners, that would have been the latter part of the decade transitioning through to the 60's away from the onion skin. Paired with a black sweat, definitely not 50's. The style is a little more yee... -
Derby, Western, Fedora...a Venerable Legend, THE Stetson 3X...BEFORE 1970!!!!
Doesn't say Open Road because it's not. There's debate about whether the 3ply band OR as listed in some prewar catalogs ever existed in reality, but that would have been a 30's/40's hat. -
New member needs help please
I'm not the expert on European hats, but I don't think this is wool or modern. Those long hair finishes are usually rabbit felt, IIRC and we don't see them like this anymore with such a melange of colors. Black sweatband on US hats was common in the 60s/70s, though not sure about Europe. Stamped... -
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Stetson Open Road vs Akubra Campdraft
Historically the OR has been produced in many felt grades up to and including 100% beaver. The Pure OR is currently in production and is 100% beaver...though I would not recommend at the price they're asking. What now? The RD is listed as fur felt. Stetson does not disclose their fur felt... -
Hat making?? Learning Millinery..
Last I checked, GMB was selling ribbon from T.W. Bracher, which is who Herbert Johnson sources from. They sell full spools online as well. https://tw-bracher.co.uk/product/galloon-ribbon/ -
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Send it to a hatter. A tailor might technically be able to do it, but if they are not practiced at it, the sweat band might not sit well inside the crown and/or the reed might not bell out as optimally. Also, cleanly joining the ends of the sweat is not a trivial task if one has never done it... -
Derby, Western, Fedora...a Venerable Legend, THE Stetson 3X...BEFORE 1970!!!!
Many thanks to @Bamaboots for tipping me off to this one. It was ending while I was on vacation, so I threw out what I thought was a modest bid (because I might have also impulsively ordered a ukulele) and didn't try any last second shenanigans, but turns out I was the lone bidder so it went for... -
Ask a question, get an answer
More commonly found on earlier Stetsons. -
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A gifted Vintage Stetson hat
Except I was not making a general point, I was addressing your posts. Yes, that would be fine if someone did that. But that's not what you did. You keep asking about a particular hat - escalating to hijacking someone else's thread - and keep getting told that nobody knows anything about it. When... -
A gifted Vintage Stetson hat
You asked, nobody knows. You keep asking, who do you expect is going to research it for you? -
Fedoras afield
Spent some family time in Maui with my trusty shantung OR. I still ultimately prefer a woven straw, but just as a practical matter, this hat works out quite well. Won't be crushed by the xray and water repellant for those Maui showers. -
Borsalino fedora, qualita supremore?
Contemporary hat buyers get caught up too much in beaver content, methinks. The vast majority of factory hats were not 100% beaver. To consider Stetson, just considering the surviving samples around here (which of course is not necessarily a representative sample in a historical context), we... -
A gifted Vintage Stetson hat
There is a limit to what we can know. It's simply impossible to curate a historic list of hat names for every model Stetson ever produced. If you'd like to prove me wrong however, the forum would greatly appreciate your efforts. If you can't find it in the catalog pages listed here, why are you...
