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    Raw Montecristi hat source

    A couple of years ago I had a crappy experience getting a nice hat from Equador. I found out that one of our local hatters used to finish hats for Brent Black. I want to purchase a couple of unfinished hats and have them blocked and finished here. Does anyone have any experience with unfinished...
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    Gone Country?

    Hey Johnny, Did you ever get that hat?
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    The many Virtues of the Bow Tie (Send Pics)

    I picked up a couple of new Bows on my trip to Sea Island Ga a few weeks ago. I'll post some pics soon.
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    Panama Hats Direct feedback and a funny cowboy hat story

    I think for my next hat I'll get a hat blank from Montechristi and have an Open Road made here.
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    Panama Hats Direct feedback and a funny cowboy hat story

    I've got 4 Open Roads now. I wear them quite a bit. I got my 21 year old son an well worn vintage O-R copy at an antique store in Austin. He is in school in NY NY. He says every time he wears it someone gives him some snide comment or a Yee-Ha. He gets a kick out of it... I have been in some hat...
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    Panama Hats Direct feedback and a funny cowboy hat story

    I have discussed this with my Hatter. He is ready to go. I'm going to wait a couple of months. Christmas and a pair of college tuitions have curtailed my toy budget... I'll try Panama Bob next time, everyone here seems to speak highly of him.
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    Panama Hats Direct feedback and a funny cowboy hat story

    End of this episode... I took the hat to Johnnys Custom Hatters (who used to finish hats for Brent Black). He stretched it for me. I've worn it twice and it has not shrunk back to the smaller size (as is my usual experience with stretching). He straightened out the wavy brim and made it look...
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    Panama Hats Direct feedback and a funny cowboy hat story

    It came :eusa_doh: I got the hat New Years Eve. It's evenly and finely woven. Hard to count the WPI even with trifocals and a magnifying glass. No lining this time and a thicker but unembossed sweatband. The hatbands do not look like they spent their life on a dirt floor like the first...
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    Panama Hats Direct feedback and a funny cowboy hat story

    Finally Shipped On 11-19 the finished hat was due in to PHD ready to ship next week. When I didn't hear anything I wrote again... Apparently Casey finishes the hats... That took a while... I got an e-mail that it had shipped with the comment "I hope you like this one". Somehow it sounds like...
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    Austin vintage hat hotspots

    I walked by a womens resale shop on So Co. I can't remember the name. There was a sign in the window. Visit our new mens resale shop on S 1st... Never made it though...
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    Austin vintage hat hotspots

    Thanks. I checked out Uncomon Objects. I've been in there many times, just never paid attention to the name... All of the hats I liked, that fit, were pricey... I bought my son an old Resistol Open Road type hat. He said he needed a hat to take to Tokyo next semester... I was really sad to hear...
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    Shirts with Changable Collars

    While in College in San Antonio I bought a few shirts that came with 2 collars. I think I got them at Frost Brothers. Whoever it was they only had them one season. If you bought a shirt with patterned fabric you got a matching collar and a white one. If you bought white you got different white...
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    Austin vintage hat hotspots

    Uncle Verne Have you ever been in the Boot/Western Store a couple blocks south of Vespayo (sp?) on South Congress. I've never bought any footwear in Mexico that didn't fall apart way too soon or stink, but they have some way cool retro looking, drugstore cowboy boots, hecho in Mexico. I can't...
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    Austin vintage hat hotspots

    I'll check this thread before I hit S Congress Friday. If there are any other suggestions on hats as well as food, fun etc. go ahead & post. Saturday I think I'm playing one of the Barton Creek Courses with the kids and will not have much time. I guess bringing my family there will help...
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    The many Virtues of the Bow Tie (Send Pics)

    The tie pictured at the beginning is my least Fave... I forgot to pack any ties for our Thanksgiving trip to see my Daughter in DC last year. Those of you with kids know that any kid visit, home or away, invariably results in a beggathon and ultimately in a shopping trip.... Of course when you...
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    The many Virtues of the Bow Tie (Send Pics)

    I occasionally use the Four In Hand (FIH). It really looks great with the right tie... So many are just a hair thick or wide in the section where the knot is to look right IMO. I guess one might experiment with each new tie to see which knot looks best. but usually when you are putting on your...
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    Panama Hats Direct feedback and a funny cowboy hat story

    Newsflash! PHD answered my 2nd e-mail. The hat is due into their shop next week, ready to ship...
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    Austin vintage hat hotspots

    Thanks! I'm heading out in the morning, I'll check it out. I've been several resale shops on S Congress but never paid much attention to the names... The kids always want to eat @ Guerras, The wife @ Vespayo (sp?). so we end up wandering around that area. Lots of fun shops... We also have to...
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    The many Virtues of the Bow Tie (Send Pics)

    I used to try to make the four in hand more symmetrical,,, as you wear them they tend to kind of shoot your tie farther & farther to the side... I was always checking & adjusting. Drove me nuts. I guess I need symmetry. I'm a double windsdor guy. I always know my tie is pointing straight down...
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    Gone Country?

    did you grow up in big D???

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