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    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Nick, my wife thinks the jacket suits you perfectly. I agree, and the fit is perfact.
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    Musician's hats

    I'll check it out. I just finished Paul Trynka's biography of Brian Jones. Trynka's thesis is that Jones was largely responsible for the introduction of American blues back into this country's popular culture in the early '60's, and that he was also responsible for the interest in North African...
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    Musician's hats

    This hat always reminded me of one worn by a lady who used to sit in the pew in front of my family's at church every Sunday when I was growing up. I remember spending hours wondering what the aesthetic appeal was of piling vegetables on top of your head. At least the Chiquita Bananas girl was hot.
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    Musician's hats

    Funny, because he was the one you heard least about.
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    Is vintage clothing dangerous? (specifically polyester/synthetic fibers)?

    When I lived in Brooklyn the girls there seemed to have discovered a hair-dye color that had never been seen before (or since) and that was completely unknown in nature. It was a kind of purplish-orange sulfate, and when you saw them in direct sunlight their heads seemed to be emitting dangerous...
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    Advice about my hat

    That's the main thing. I've found, though, that no matter how much I try to impose my will on a hat, the thing usually has a mind of its own and reverts to whatever shape it wants to be. What usually happens is that I get to a sort of compromise with the hat, usually with the hat slightly...
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    Federation 4 Deluxe Picture Request

    You can just Google it and get quite a few shots. In fact, having perused the photos I'm beginning to ask myself why I don't already own one.
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    FS: Akubra Fed IV Imperial - 60CM - Dark Brown

    Same here.
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    What hat are you waiting for today?

    I just settled with Art Fawcett on a burgandy ribbon for my new Milan, so I'm hoping I'll see it in the next week or so. In the meantime, I ordered a pair of boots from Nordstom Rack last Tuesday. They got picked up by UPS on Wednesday and have been sitting in their facility in San Bernardino...
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    Post New Hats Here!

    That looks like the hat I've been searching for. What a beauty!
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    They should have been called the "Peace (or else) Commisison."
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    What hat are you waiting for today?

    What a fantastically great hat! I can't imagine you see these very often. For the last couple of years I've become more and more enamored of fedoras with a Western feel.
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    Mens long hair in the 20s-40s

    I think it's safe to say that, for the most part, and aside from the rare instances noted above, men in the US simply wore their hair very short. Differences were often noted, however, between British and American soldiers in both of the World Wars: the British often wore their hair much longer...
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    Himel Brothers Leather Co.

    I've often been surprised by the difference between the way a jacket looks when not being worn and when worn. A good example is the Pegasus Luftwaffe Marseille: on its own it looks a bit over-the-top, but the shots of it being worn on their website create a very different impression.
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    Himel Brothers Leather Co.

    I've always looked askance a bit at Himel because of the prices, but when I see jackets like these, well, what can you say? The jackets are just out of this world.
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    Akubra Campdraft

    I was thinking the same thing about the straw. The ladies at Hatsdirect offered to see what they could do, but in the meantime I went with a Peters Bros. hemp and now a VS Milan.
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    Dare to Dream: Your "Ultimate" Leather Jacket

    In my mind, that's the archetypal bike.
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    Akubra Campdraft

    When I became interested in the Balmoral recently, I discovered, to my usual annoyance, that they only went up to a 62 (and I wear a 63). So, as two out of three of my Akubras arrived at my door in a size roughly one full size large, I asked the ladies at Hatsdirect if I should just go ahead and...
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    Show me your favorite jacket

    That peacoat looks like the real thing. One of the most comfortable, luxurious-feeling coats I've ever worn was one I got from an Army/Navy in New Jersey back in the '70's. For $40.00, I remember.
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    A better horse A-2 than a Cockpit ?

    Dilaudid, actually.

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