Alan: Great looking sombrero! Is the felt fairly substantial and firm? Thank you for your kind comments earlier. Regarding that Silverbelly lid...;)
Ale: Thanks, my friend! Sent you a PM. ;)
Perry: Many thanks for your very kind words!
Jeff: Appreciate your feedback. I...
Unfortunately we have not been back to Monterey since the change in direction. I think that the Concours and Tour d'Elegance, Concorso Italiano as well as the incredible auctions still make it a fantastic week, and hope that we will be able to find the time to attend the festivities in 2012.
Perry: Thanks!
Steve: Great photos! Pebble Beach and the old Laguna Seca track is the center of the universe for gearheads every August. I really miss the old Monterey Historics, but hope the new organizers will continue to make it the defining automotive event of the year. For those...
Lefty: Wonderful pictorial! Always a good thing when adults and kids alike are having fun, and you look SO comfortable in that great Milan.
TCMfan25: Duly noted!
Egghead: That is one disheveled-looking Amanita!
Knockout Borsalino, Perry! Apologies for posting so many photos on the heels of your pic this morning. :yo: I was working on my post and had to step away for a while, and did not realize that you had just posted when I clicked 'submit reply'.
Weekend Hat Parade
In front of the familiar brick wall at Optimo.
Creme, in Classic Weight.
Silverbelly, in Heirloom Weight.
The pure, natural silverbelly fur color is very difficult to capture with the camera.
Montecristi Plantation.
At Ravinia again, to...
Your comment is guilty of that of which you speak! Quite unbecoming, to say the least! This thread is filled with enough emotionally charged responses, and we can all do without further inflammatory remarks. :mad:
Pleasure, Blackthorn. Dating vintage hats with precision is difficult at best, unless they bear specific tags such as the O.P.S.(Office Of Price Stabilization) tag, which would date production between January '51 and April '53.
I believe that by the mid-'50s brim widths began to steadily...
I was hoping you would enlighten us all with your truly encyclpaedic knowledge, Brad!
Did Dobbs continue to use the Twenty moniker into the late '60s and beyond?
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