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  1. JackieMatra

    Musician's hats

    Anita O'Day at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958, wearing what may well be the most famous women's hat in music history.
  2. JackieMatra

    Musician's hats

    Lester Young shows how to make his signature porkpie hat.
  3. JackieMatra

    Musician's hats

    Charles Mingus
  4. JackieMatra

    Akubra Campdraft

    What color is that, please?
  5. JackieMatra

    Most Over-rated Actress of the Golden Era?

    Marion Davies, literally almost incredibly over-rated on the Internet Movie Data Base, because there exists a group of super-dedicated Marion Davies fanatics who rate all of her movies at a 10/10, probably numerous times each under different user names. Katharine Hepburn. A dozen best actress...
  7. JackieMatra

    Looking For a Formal Fedora

    I can't see where a black suit was ever mentioned by Bungholio. Black overcoat, yes. Black suit, no. The "Blues Brothers" wore black single-breasted two-piece poorly cut suits with smaller brimmed fedoras, paired with dark glasses and skinny black neckties. Bungholio specifically said his suit...
  8. JackieMatra

    Looking For a Formal Fedora

    The most formal hats, as I've heard/read are: All always all black and always with a ribbon bound edge, and never with any feathers or any other adornments except a fairly wide ribbon with a side bow- 1.Silk Top Hat 2.Fur felt Top Hat 3.Fur felt Homburg with a center crease crown and no pinches...
  9. JackieMatra

    Open Crown Stetsons: A Call (Plea) to Retailers!!

    No photographs, I'm afraid, but my 1980s' Open Road has about a 5.25" or possibly even lower open crown while my Campdrafts have at least 5.75" open crowns.
  10. JackieMatra

    Open Crown Stetsons: A Call (Plea) to Retailers!!

    The Akubra Campdraft has a considerably taller crown than Stetson Open Roads and a wider, 2-7/8" versus 2-1/2", brim with a considerably more pronounced flange than the nearly flat Open Road one. My 1980s' Open Road is also over half an ounce lighter in weight than my Campdrafts.
  11. JackieMatra

    Looking For a Formal Fedora

    It would be good to know a bit more about what you mean by "formal fedora". Homburgs are considered to be considerably more "formal" than fedoras. However, I would venture to guess that you would probably want a fedora with a bound brim edge and a fairly wide ribbon. If so, here's a nice one...
  13. JackieMatra

    What did 1910's-20's hikers/climbers brought or wore?

    Big sale on all most of their sweaters, not just turtleneck/polo, http://www.woolovers.us/sale.aspx?gender=m Love these folks, especially their after Xmas sale, which has started earlier than previously with largely lower prices than in earlier years.
  14. JackieMatra

    Akubra Overload

    Found something that I failed to resist, as well. Woomera with a 6.69 inch (!) tall open crown, and a CEO for good measure (only an additional $2 to ship a second hat). Thank you for the heads up, Motorcyclist.
  15. JackieMatra

    Akubra Overload

    Dang. No Campdrafts there. Thanks anyway.
  16. JackieMatra

    Akubra Overload

    Likewise
  17. JackieMatra

    Akubra Campdraft

    Folks here seem to like to think that the Akubra RM is the same hat as the Akubra Campdraft, but I would beg to differ. My RM has a much flatter brim than my Campdrafts and it is considerably lighter in weight, 4.8 oz. in contrast to 5.3 oz. and 5.7 oz. for the Campdrafts. It also is only sold...
  19. JackieMatra

    What did 1910's-20's hikers/climbers brought or wore?

    Here's a few screenshots from the film "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", portraying mountain climbing and hiking in the Austrian Alps prior to WWI, where the male amateur climbers wear neckties, suits with waistcoats, and carry walking sticks, when hiking and climbing while on vacation. Robert Donat...
  20. JackieMatra

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    That is not what he told me. Not in lightweight felt, at least.
  21. JackieMatra

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    But they all seem to have such low crowns and tiny brims.:(
  22. JackieMatra

    What did 1910's-20's hikers/climbers brought or wore?

    The Greer Garson character had finger sandwiches in her bag. I would think that a cigarette lighter would be preferable to matches as you wouldn't have to worry about dampness, although Zippo didn't start manufacturing their "windproof" lighters until about 1936, so I don't know just what sort...
  23. JackieMatra

    What did 1910's-20's hikers/climbers brought or wore?

    Robert Donat and Greer Garson stranded on a mountain by heavy fog while climbing. (The fog is below them.) Depiction of pre-WWI mountain climbing in the Alps in the great classic 1939 film "Goodbye, Mr. Chips".

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