Everyones looking great.
It's been around 90 degrees in my neck of the woods this week. Looks like my nice autumn weather dispersed to everywhere else.
So, I've been hatless all week.
I have a db jacket from the 80s with notched lapels. I like it. It's got a 50s/60s vibe to it.
I've also got a db cashmere overcoat with notched lapels I really dig.
I know 20s-early 50s are the most favorable years in the lounge but in my experience, as long as it's a good quality suit, it's...
It just occurred to me that one of the Dr's from Dr Who wore a Poet. Anyone know what year that was? I'm not much of a Dr Who guy.
But if the Poets were big furry hats until at least 1970, we could maybe narrow down when the more well known incarnation of The Poet came to be.
I'd love to know how the long lost blocks were found too, and how they were lost to begin with.
HJ is the most mysterious yet famous hat brand, I think. I'm down the rabbit hole now...
That's the listing I saw as well last year. Very interesting stuff. Surely there's other vintage and/or strange Poets out there in the world. Odd how no one in the lounge seems to have any examples themselves.
I just did a bunch of lurking on the HJ facebook page. They have says Wilde did wear an HJ. Also, found this, which apparently came from the HJ archives, which is beginning to interest me as much as the Vatican's... 1970 Poet. Similar to the one I found on ebay last year, with one noticeable...
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