Brand Name hat boxes

[johnnycanuck]

The only brand name hat boxes I have are two vintage Stetsons a Biltmore and my custom Art Fawcett's. I have far to many Akubra's but no Akubra hat boxes. Does anyone else think it adds to the shopping experience when you get these kind of extra touches? Or am I just crazy?
Does anyone know of on-line vendors that ship the hats in the brand name boxes?

Johnny

 

[duggap]

I ordered two Borsalinos from Bencraft Hatters and they came in the shipping box type hat box, but they were all imprinted with Borsalino and Bencraft on it and it was black in color. But I am with you, I would love to have a box for every hat.

 

[besdor]

We send all of our Stetson, Dobbs and Biltmore hats in the boxes that they come in. Bailey hasny made any boxes in a while and Borsalino only makes boxes for the Beaver line. So we are required to provide our own box which by the way is much better for the hat. It has a handle an a better nesting ring.


Steven
www.bencrafthats.com

 

[squidkidd]

John Penman ships all of his hats in a box with his logo on it. It's my favorite hat box I own. It's finished in a fabric material that feels like corduroy with the logo done in a rubber-like ink - I agree, makes for quite a nice bonus!

Regards,
Brian

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

Nice to see the Penman box in the traditional round shape. It's a fabulous box!From the 60's most hatmakers (those who continued with hat boxes at all) tended towards square boxes for ease of packing and, with the growth in mail order, to better suit the postal systems I guess.

I gotta say, I'm a fan of hat boxes almost as much as the hats themselves and some of them are real works of art.

 

[jpbales]

that would be a really nice touch to any hat purchase- a unique hat box. I think Akubra has a hat box, but it's just a plain square one with "Akubra" printed on the side. Miller hats has the same thing. I would like to see some nicer boxes as a regular hat business thing. That IS a really nice box with that Penmen, squidkidd :eusa_clap

 

[jpbales]

a complaint about some hat boxes

is that they don't have enough room for the brim of the hat without squishing it in the box. I've found with many hat boxes that you have to flip the brim up in order to get them to fit, which for me (a long oval) sometimes messes with the hat fit. I've also noticed rings left around the brim of the hat from the nesting ring (probably from being fit too snug from the tight fit of the box) and in the case of the Akubra box, the nesting ring is too small for the crown and creates creases or folds or dents (whatever you want to describe it as) in the side of the crown. That Penmen box obviously has plenty of room.
Sorry, it turned from "a complaint" to "some complaints!" :rage:

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

My Akubra hat box

They do lack the gravitas and style of the pre-60's boxes, though admittedly, they do hold the hat well and are excellent for travelling:

 

[bendingoak]

John Penman ships all of his hats in a box with his logo on it. It's my favorite hat box I own. It's finished in a fabric material that feels like corduroy with the logo done in a rubber-like ink - I agree, makes for quite a nice bonus!

Regards,
Brian

Just to be clear squidkidd,

All my rabbit handmade hats and the Adventurebilt henry hats go out in the Penman bengaline hat boxes. My beaver hats go out in the same style but in a leather like finish.

 

[daizawaguy]

We send all of our Stetson, Dobbs and Biltmore hats in the boxes that they come in. Bailey hasny made any boxes in a while and Borsalino only makes boxes for the Beaver line. So we are required to provide our own box which by the way is much better for the hat. It has a handle an a better nesting ring.


Steven
www.bencrafthats.com

And very nice custom boxes these are too, I can testify...

 

[BlackBrim]

Beaver Brand boxes

Bailey hasny made any boxes in a while and Borsalino only makes boxes for the Beaver line.

I once got a western Beaver Brand that came with a box.I bought the western in person at a store. Later I ordered from an online merchant a Beaver Brand Classic and it didn't come with a box. Did Beaver Brand stop making boxes? Are Beaver Brand boxes only included in certain models?

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

My one Beaver Brand hat came in a Levine's hat shop box. It's great as a shipping container, but isn't at all cool or vintage looking. I picked it up in StL.

later

 

[Mobile Vulgus]

I have ended up buying separate boxes for all my hats when they didn't come with one originally. It is a mixed bag of boxes and hats, of course. I have several Dobbs hat boxes but not a single Dobbs hat, for instance. But, I have no place to put all these hats where they would get knocked around, dusty, or manhandled all the time. I have to boxes principally to protect the hats. But I do like having the vintage boxes, too.