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  1. JackieMatra

    Movie hats

    That's actually George Bancroft as Marshall Curley Wilcox with the shotgun, along with John Wayne as the Ringo Kid on the far right, and Donald Meek as Samuel Peacock looking out of the stagecoach window. Claire Trevor and Louise Platt are the two women. Thomas Mitchell is not visible in this shot.
  2. JackieMatra

    Is/was there a "color code" for suspenders/braces in corporate US?

    What color braces did Marlene Dietrich wear?
  3. JackieMatra

    Which Brands of Dress Shoes, Old and New, Are Your Top Three?

    Propet and Hitchcock, because they are the only ones that make dress, or any other kind of, shoes in my size.
  4. JackieMatra

    The Thread to Display Your 1940s Suits

    Aha! So these two weren't both expressly tailor-made for you decades before your birth. (The trousers of the blue one would look better a half of an inch longer.)
  5. JackieMatra

    The Thread to Display Your 1930s Suits

    Lovely. How'd you get that tailor-made for you decades before you were born?
  7. JackieMatra

    In hot sunny days oilskin vs straw (that includes palm leaf)

    Agreed. They're warmish. The oil doesn't let water or air through. I have both. No contest. Go with the straw.
  8. JackieMatra

    Hats with soft or supple brims... who makes them?

    Thanks, ... but, Akubra's Regency Fawn is far from my idea of a light color, and that felt doesn't look very thin to me, either, alas.
  9. JackieMatra

    Hats with soft or supple brims... who makes them?

    I am, as well. Borsalino seems to be the only large hat manufacturer that makes lightweight soft fur felt hats, these days, but they don't seem to make any with brims that size in light colors. I've inquired of several "custom" hatters regarding this, but they all only seem to be able to make...
  10. JackieMatra

    Ancestors' hats? Help?

    I want the one in the third photograph, as well. Yowza! I haven't seen many like it anywhere anytime. It's not really possible to tell how tall a hat would be open crown without seeing it bashed from above, but I would guess that even with a very shallow top-crease that hat would have to be at...
  11. JackieMatra

    Akubra Overload

    Conversing with his best friend, I would guess.
  13. JackieMatra

    Approximate height and brim of this hat? (Archie Bunker)?

    I'd guess at about a 2.375" wide brim and the crown bashed down to lower than 4".
  14. JackieMatra

    Akubra Advice

    Of course, a bit of water or steam and a little work, and you can re-shape most any fur felt hat quite considerably to your liking.
  15. JackieMatra

    Akubra Advice

    I certainly wouldn't consider it a city hat, what with its 3.25" wide brim, thin leather band, and vent-holes. but I have no qualms about wearing it casually hereabouts in the suburbs where I dwell, but then, I'm retired and wear and do most whatever I please.
  16. JackieMatra

    Akubra Advice

    The Akubra RM has the same dimensions, crown and brim, uncreased, as the Campdraft, but the RM is sold pre-creased and the Campdraft is sold open-crown. The RM comes in a "mid-brown" color that the Campdraft does not. The RM has a flatter brim than the Campdraft. My RM weighs 4.8 ounces, as...
  17. JackieMatra

    Akubra Advice

    All of the hats that you listed have tapered crowns except for the Cattleman and the Range. I can't imagine what might be wrong with the Cattleman or Range for you, particularly as wider brims are generally recommended for wider face and body types as the wider brims tend to make one look...
  19. JackieMatra

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Esther in the nude.
  20. JackieMatra

    To Feather or Not to Feather?

    Papa was forced to become a hobo because he played the oboe. For as one and all know, the oboe is an ill wind that no one blows good. Woodwind players' in-joke. Sorry, but I just couldn't resist.
  21. JackieMatra

    Who still wears suits these days?

    "Neckties" have also been occasionally worn around the waist instead of a belt, most notably by Fred Astaire when dressed "casually", but also by Cary Grant on at least one occasion on film, and fairly often by women. There are also "hairties" which are worn almost exclusively by women. If you...
  22. JackieMatra

    Movie hats

    Yes, and they all look a mite taller to me with very slightly wider brims, as well.
  23. JackieMatra

    Post New Hats Here!

    For your information and edification, here is an actual statement that I heard from a self-described "life-long substance abuser" about heroin, "Heroin, ... I just don't get. ... You throw up ... and then ... you fall asleep."

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