German & Austrian Hutmachers

[steur]

Oh man!!!!!!!!! so many emotions!

Thank you, Bobby.

 

[the_imperialist]

Took a gamble, but alas, it turned out too small (why do sellers never wait the size?)

Estimated 30s Hückel Foulaed Soleil. wonderfully soft medium hair length velour, dry creases easily. I love thr bow treatment.

 

[Rmccamey]

I usually ask them to find the tag under the sweat to confirm the size. Most non-hat people don't know where those tags are.

Took a gamble, but alas, it turned out too small (why do sellers never wait the size?)

Estimated 30s Hückel Foulaed Soleil. wonderfully soft medium hair length velour, dry creases easily. I love thr bow treatment.

 

[Pellie]

I usually ask them to find the tag under the sweat to confirm the size. Most non-hat people don't know where those tags are.

I ask the same indeed.

 

[Pellie]

Took a gamble, but alas, it turned out too small (why do sellers never wait the size?)

Estimated 30s Hückel Foulaed Soleil. wonderfully soft medium hair length velour, dry creases easily. I love thr bow treatment.

Maybe you can pass this one to Stefan @steur , i thinks he has a size 56.

 

[steur]

Took a gamble, but alas, it turned out too small (why do sellers never wait the size?)

Estimated 30s Hückel Foulaed Soleil. wonderfully soft medium hair length velour, dry creases easily. I love thr bow treatment.

That's a wonderful hat, Wayne. Too bad about the size. We've all been there. I do the same as Randy and Marcel do: I ask sellers to look underneath the sweat.

 

[steur]

VEB Luckenwalder Hutfabrik Elegant fedora in a grey colour called Nickel. Size 56 with the bound brim at almost 6 cm and the crown at 9,5cm at the center dent.

 

[Nikolaus23]

I just bought two Szaszi hats. This one is a grey fedora with a black band. As I live in Vienna I thought I contact the current Szaszi owner Shapira (with the expansive hats). In short: I visited him for nearly one hour, he was really very very nice and cleaned and steamed both hats (the second is a Homburg), he even showed me some of his ready-to-wear/buy hats. They start from 450 to about 800/1000 euros. As most of you are very longer and deeper into Austrian hats than me: If you ever visit Vienna ask for an appointment - his workplace is more than fallen out of time and incredible.
Both my hats are made about 1975. You can find some of them on Austrian classified - but hardly older ones before ww2 or even 50/60is.