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  1. JackieMatra

    What hat are you waiting for today?

    Usually things that I purchase from abroad make it through U.S.A. customs within a day or, rarely, two, however, a recent purchase of three hats from England was stuck in customs for just over a week. It was further unusual in that FedEx sent me a curious e-mail, prior to their shipping the...
  2. JackieMatra

    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    Why, oh why, do you cruel people torture Joao so?
  3. JackieMatra

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Hat's allright, but the rest beats it all to heck. That photo should definitely be in the "What are you wearing today?", "Show us your suits", "Show us your overcoats", and other threads.
  4. JackieMatra

    Looking to Buy My First Suit :)

    I'll reinforce your original thought about the trouser length. They are too long for their width at the bottom. If they were wider at the bottom then their length might be fine, but the way they're cut they really need to be a bit shorter.
  5. JackieMatra

    Hat People or B-Wear?

    Correct fit is a problem with headgear that one can not actually try on before purchasing it. This is not just the case with B!Wear caps, but is also the case with considerably more expensive and prestigious headgear. I have tried on about ten different Borsalino hats, for example, all of the...
  7. JackieMatra

    Looking to Buy My First Suit :)

    Cool. That means that you probably tied your shoe laces yourself, as well. (It required a lot of study of illustrated instructions and videos before it finally dawned on me that they both used the precise same knot.) :)
  8. JackieMatra

    Leather Replacement Sweatband

    Bond as FineVintageFedoras on Etsy, has offered both pre-sewn sized, and non sized nor sewn sweatbands, in both standard and vented versions in various colors.
  9. JackieMatra

    Hat People or B-Wear?

    I own nine caps from B!Wear, and am very happy with all of them. They are all very well made, with satin linings and nice soft leather sweatbands. This cap maker is open to customizing caps per your request, within limits. All of the caps that I ordered from him, including one "custom" cap...
  10. JackieMatra

    Akubra Campdraft

    But seriously, even though there is much truth in the posts above, a "secret" that helps considerably is: Get it wetter. Here''s a video of how the "King of the Cowboys" bashed his hats: "NEVER SEEN RARE Video Roy Rogers Showing how to Block Hat" I, myself, have usually used a sink full of...
  11. JackieMatra

    Akubra Campdraft

    I have found hats to be rather like cats. While some are fairly malleable, most tend to do whatever they want, and even though, with a large amount of patience and considerable effort, one can train them to do many things, they will usually do them in their own individual manner, and there are...
  13. JackieMatra

    Need hat advice

    Also the two colors that each of the hats come in have different names and seem to be different shades of brown and gray.
  14. JackieMatra

    What are you wearing today??

    "we are having what they call a "heat" (75 maybe 80 degrees)wave here" My preferred sort of winter weather where you are. Instead of which, what we have, this weekend, where I am is: High - 20 degrees F, Low - 9 degrees F, Wind - 25 mph Ah, well, that's why I was so clever to purchase this...
  15. JackieMatra

    Scott & Co. "Twenty" Homburg 7 1/4 very cool piece

    It came along so opportunely for me, as well. I had just passed on another Scott homburg in light gray, as I already owned a homburg in that color, and I was actively looking at contemporary homburgs in other colors, as I had never encountered anything except black and gray ones in my size among...
  16. JackieMatra

    Scott & Co. "Twenty" Homburg 7 1/4 very cool piece

    I'll take it. I've sent you a message.
  17. JackieMatra

    What are you wearing today??

    Second, however, except for the ribbons, U.S. of A. uniforms are awfully drab. A pair of aviator shades might have given things a bit more pizzaz and kept your fellow from squinting in that SoCal sunshine.
  19. JackieMatra

    Indy's Hat

    I don't see any crown or brim measurements given for their hats. The two sentences below would make me wary as well. Would Indy himself buy a hat like that? He'd have had no such worries with an Akubra. "All our fedoras have a water repellant treatment. They will resist some rain exposure, but...
  20. JackieMatra

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Depends upon the movie, and, one really can't be certain, but the general opinion, which I would agree with, is that they were probably mostly about 2.5", with some as small as 2.375" but unlikely any shorter, and I would hazard that occasionally they might have been as wide as 2.625". The...
  21. JackieMatra

    Bogie's best movie?

    Walter Huston received the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Award for his role in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", the only Academy Award that he received. Humphrey Bogart did not even receive an Academy Award nomination for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". He received his first and...
  22. JackieMatra

    3 Milan 7 1/4 Disney, Resistol, "mystery"

    Thank you for your sympathy. I'm even sorrier.
  23. JackieMatra

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Formally, that should be "The Hatman".

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