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Akubra Overload
I am confused by “…… Angler with a different name ….. “ What name? -
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Advice Please - Stretching 1950’s Stetson 7 x Clear Beaver
I do believe there are still folks in the Amazonian Forests who specialize in that very thing. -
Photographs Of Hats Fresh From Surviving The Elements
That’s the one. I’m not sure what’s going on with the video link. YouTube may have tinkered with something. I was somewhat mistaken about the water coming straight down. But in any event, his head stayed relatively dry. -
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Photographs Of Hats Fresh From Surviving The Elements
The guy in the video with the garden hose didn’t take in any significant water through the vents, but there was no significant wind. https://www.youtube.com/ -
Akubra Overload
When I received my Territory, I was surprised by the thickness of the felt, compared with my two Boss. -
Photographs Of Hats Fresh From Surviving The Elements
I haven’t had a chance to wear my Territory in a real deluge yet, but I assume it would be good, as long as wind didn‘t blow water in the vents. -
Hat making?? Learning Millinery..
When you finish the block, would you be willing to post a photo, for our edification? -
Hat making?? Learning Millinery..
If this is the first time she has had a hat which fit, I dare say she will be back. -
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87Degree heat test Straw Stetson 5000x straw vs Akubra
Fascinating. Please keep going. Is the Akubra vented? -
H’oly Grail Westerns and Fedoras
A hat that you can’t/won’t wear in the rain does not strike me as a useful hat. -
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H’oly Grail Westerns and Fedoras
You may find those forms of address already spoken for. i‘m not sure a pronoun and a form of address are the same thing. -
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H’oly Grail Westerns and Fedoras
What did the mercury processing do to the felt? How are they different? -
H’oly Grail Westerns and Fedoras
On the other hand, some of us unenlightened folks just buy a hat, jam it on our head, and wear it until it disintegrates. Then we buy another hat and start again. To each his own. (do we dare say “his” these days? -
Show us their hats!
Some have portrayed it as part of a general social decline, and the accompanying reduction of standards for appearance in public. -
Indicators of a low quality hat:
Since you alluded to “knowing one’s place” word once reached me that my boss had remarked to a third party that I “didn’t seem to be as servile” as most in my position. Evidently I didn’t know my place. This was more than 60 years ago, and I haven’t forgotten it. (He’s dead now) -
Hat distressing
Going way back to the beginning of the thread, the best way to distress a hat is to wear and use it. The result will be worlds above anything done with powders, etc.
