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AMAZING Vintage Photos of Fedoras

Earp

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Oh my gosh !! Heaven!!!

It would be so cool to see this now days. I'd be there every payday! Great photos and captured history. Thanks Marc.
 

budward

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Wow. Thanks for taking the time to make these available for us to enjoy, Mar\c. I could (and just may) spend hours looking at all of them.

Bud
 

deanglen

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Has anyone else noticed how:
a) wide some of those sweatbands are,
b) and how he appears to have pulled them out a ways to emphasize
them,
c) and some of those bashes look like he simply, literally punched the sides of the hats, indenting the ribbons with the crowns?

dean
 

Doh!

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barrowjh said:
Doh! asked about the $1.85 price. Per http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-historical-price-of-gold.htm the price of gold during those years was $21 compared to $681.30 at close Monday, or a multiple of roughly 32.5, so $1.85 times 32.443 would be about $60 today. Those $7-$8 Stetsons would be $227-$260 today. Competition and volume apparently kept prices low relative to today, because if we could find that quality at just $227-$260 today we would be happy campers for sure.

Thanks, Barrow!

The $200+ ones would be out of my price range, but I'd pick up several of the $60 ones.
 

scotrace

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As Worn

Many of the hats pictured do seem "western" compared to the hats we are used to. But here's my grandfather in a hat like many of those pictured, around 1919:

grandpa2.jpg


And in a belted overcoat like a few of those in the shop window:

grandpa8.jpg
 

be_lovely

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Hatbox

I got this awesome hat box for Zig, anyone know the company? The pricetag of the hat was still in the box but no hat.....

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carter

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be_lovely said:
I got this awesome hat box for Zig, anyone know the company? The pricetag of the hat was still in the box but no hat.....

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k52/brandicapped/vintagehatboxlabel.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k52/brandicapped/vintagehatboxtag.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k52/brandicapped/vintagefullhatbox.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

be_lovely, Please let me know if you or Zig ever want to part with that hat box. I actually own a Templeform by Stylepark fedora. Art Fawcett is making a new hat for me inspired by this hat.

If anyone has a box like this to sell or knows of one, please PM me.

Carter
 

mingoslim

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carter said:
be_lovely, Please let me know if you or Zig ever want to part with that hat box. I actually own a Templeform by Stylepark fedora. Art Fawcett is making a new hat for me inspired by this hat.

If anyone has a box like this to sell or knows of one, please PM me.

Carter

Put me on the list for the box as well . . . I have a very nice Templeform Stylepark that I picked up last year on OFAS . . . Got it for a song, and it is a terrific hat. But it did not come with its original box, and I had never seen one before now.
 

nulty

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These pictures slay me every time I look at them. The ghosts that are conjured make an impression..

The Thread Should be a Sticky...

I've been on the scour for a hat from the C.A Weed Co ever since.....
 

be_lovely

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Bloomsburg
carter said:
be_lovely, Please let me know if you or Zig ever want to part with that hat box. I actually own a Templeform by Stylepark fedora. Art Fawcett is making a new hat for me inspired by this hat.

If anyone has a box like this to sell or knows of one, please PM me.

Carter

I never gave him the box because we parted ways, so you are welcome to it.
 

HungaryTom

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Thank you Marc

These photos... and I thought I can stop my wish list of to-be-resurrected styles at a handful hats...:

Magnifique thread!

eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
 

Tony in Tarzana

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TCM showed a silent film from 1909 called "His Last Game" and one of the main characters wore a hat with a Montana crease, only the crease was rotated 45 degrees. You really see some interesting stuff in those old pictures and movies.
 

deanglen

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deanglen said:
Has anyone else noticed how:
a) wide some of those sweatbands are,
b) and how he appears to have pulled them out a ways to emphasize
them,
c) and some of those bashes look like he simply, literally punched the sides of the hats, indenting the ribbons with the crowns?

dean


I'm quoting my own post to bump it to the front to see if anyone else noticed these points in the first few photos Marc posted in this thread and if anyone has any theories why he presented the hats' sweatbands and creases that way.

dean
 

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