Simon Collins
New in Town
- Messages
- 11
- Location
- South Western Australia
I have to agree with ya on this one. For that kinda money you can get a GREAT brand new Cuenca or Montecristi from Panama Bob and give it your own sweat stains
.....yes it does seem a bit much....Mind you I just bought my first ever vintage fedora's, a Dobbs for a similar price as the straw, and a worn looking Knox. And yes I know I could've bought something new & shiney for a similar price as the Dobbs. But for me, these stylish bit's of old material have a certain alluring mystique. For one thing they evoke a time period, and a place. The Knox was bought many years ago at a shop in Harrisonburg in old Virginny...and the Dobbs was presumably purchased while Chandler was still swigging the amber nectar and dreaming up fiendish plots filled with loose women and guy's and gun's and...phew!.....and even if that's all a fantasy......for a foolishly romantic Englishman it does'nt get much better than that!.....apart from mooning over my 1974 large headstock Fender Stratocaster.
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